Workshops

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.

During Spring of 2008, (on a reduced budget) the Digital Literacy Project organized two workshops in collaboration with the Sense Project at Head and Hands and James Lyng High School. In addition to workshops we also did a series of discussions on youth and new media in collaboration with University of the Streets

Video 2: James Lyng High School
During this workshop, James Lyng students and Matthew Santoro created a short PSA on Bullying.

The Sense Project Video Workshop
In this intensive workshop, participants in the Sense Project, a peer-led sex education program developed by Head and Hands made a short video called Cameron's Condoms. Cameron's Condoms is a talk show spoof with an important message, how to practice safer sex, and how *not* to tell your partner you may have accidentally given her an STD.

University of the Streets comes to the ALCC
In 2008 the DLP was involved in coordinating a series of public conversations on youth and media with University of the Streets. Not familiar with UoS? Check out University of the Streets.

LTHH and Tyndale St.George: Beat-making 101.

Participants at the Tyndale after school program will learn to record their vocals and then beat production basics using a loop making program. This workshop was produced in collaboration with Literacy Through Hip-Hop Montreal

YPP - Digital Scrap-booking

Members of the Head and Hands Young Parents Program will be learning digital photo and photo manipulation techniques on Photoshop while working on a Scrapbook project in which they reflect on their dreams.

Jeunesse 2000-Head and Hands-Video

Lights, camera and action! Three young women from the J2K drop in center decided that they wanted to create a video on smoking cigarettes, or more why you shouldn't smoke.

James Lyng High School - Aisle 666

Students from James Lyng Highschool will be producing a horror movie set at th eAtwater Library and featuring a ghostly book. This workshopw as produced in Collaboration with CUTV - Concordia University Television Station.

Westmount high School - "The early Bird" web animation

Students from Westmount High School will be making an web based aniumation using a variation of Flash animation software.

Padua Youth Empowerment Project - Web Design

For the workshops with the DLP, six YEP participants are making a website that will display other works such as writing video, and audio, that they are producing during other parts of their program.

Co-op Collective Vision - Video Production

The Collective Vision Video workshop series took place on Saturdays from 3:30 – 5:00pm and was open to grade 4 - 6 students in the west-end interested in learning more about how video is shot, edited and produced. The class is working together to produce a short work, which will be finished at the end of May. This workshop was developed and taught by Erik Chevrier of Collective Vision.