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Youth participants from CFAD created four videos over the course of the workshop series. Two of the videos are featured below. Special thanks to video artist Erin Corbett for her creativity, energy and enthusiasm and to all the amazing and talented youth from CFAD.

Participants from RECLAIM Literacy Council who took part in last fall's video workshops returned to
the library for a second, intensive program. Workshops took place over three full Saturdays during
the month of February, participants focused on building narratives with their footage.

Cote-des-Neiges Black Community Association, Net 4 Life

Youth participants from the Cote-des-Neiges Black Community Association’s Net 4 Life Program learned about and created their own personal blogs. The goal of the workshop series was to teach participants the skills to express themselves in an online environment.

The DLP is back in action with a full schedule of workshops! We've grown our programming to include several new partnerships and events!

Partner organizations include CFAD, Head and Hands Young Parents Program, Y des Femmes, James Lyng High School, Cote-des-Neiges Black Community Association, RECLAIM Literacy Council and Innovation Jeunes.

Read more below for project descriptions!

Check out the article written by the Gazette's Mike Boone about the Digital Literacy Project!

Atwater Library updates its original vocation from 1828 for the digital world

We're nearing the end of the Fall 2009 work shop series! Thursday December 10, 2009 the Digital Literacy Project will be having it's Wrap Party to celebrate a season of effort and achievement! Come and check out web design and video projects by DLP participants from RECLAIM, James Lyng High School, W.O.R.D and Project 10.

Details:
The Digital Literacy Project welcomes participants, volunteers, workshop facilitators, friends and partners from the past, present and future to attend! The DLP Wrap Party is a kid friendly event. Refreshments will be served.

Time: Thursday, December 10, 4:00pm-6:00pm.

Location:
Atwater Library, 1200 Atwater Ave. (métro Atwater)
The party will be upstairs in the auditorium.

This fall's series of Digital Literacy workshops are fast approaching! The DLP will be working with both new and returning youth and literacy organizations this October and November, on a variety of exciting new media projects.

This spring the peer educators of Head and Hands Sense Project worked with previous Diglital Literacy Project coordinator Miriam Verburg to create an awesome documentary that looks at attitudes towards sex education and sexual health. We will continue working with Head and Hands this fall, this time in connection with Jeunesse 2000, the youth programming and Drop-In Centre.

We're also excited to continue working with students from James Lyng High School. James Lyng High School. Students will work with Lynn Worrell, a video and multimedia artist on a video project. Lynn has a great relationship with James Lyng having done a number of previous projects with them, including a project on hip-hop and literacy.

The volunteers from W.O.R.D (Writing Our Rhymes Down), an organization which teaches literacy through hip hop, will be participating in a web design workshop with facilitator Jon Lebensold, where they will gain valuable skills that can be integrated into W.O.R.D's curriculum, as well as create and construct and independently maintain an official website for W.O.R.D. Montreal.

The DLP is excited to be working with Project 10 for the first time! Youth from Project 10's drop-in program will be participating in an exciting web design workshop, facilitated by Montreal web designer Angela Gabereau. The workshops will focus on basic web design and management skills, with the end goal of conducting a much needed revamp of Project 10's website!

Reclaim Literacy has been tutoring adult learners at the Atwater Library for several years. Earlier this year, Reclaim members participated in 'Making Oral History Digital: Oral Stories and Literacy', an audio recording workshop series. Reclaim will again be working with the Digital Literacy project this fall, this time putting their stories to moving images in a video workshop by Eric Craven.