Muhlenberg College Hosts Area Teens For Media Project
Muhlenberg College will host Kids Access Media Project (KAMP), a two-week intensive program to engage community youth in digital storytelling projects that will give them hands-on experience with a range of digital media and software and involve them in research on community topics that impact their lives.Thursday, July 6, 2006 01:59 PM
KAMP is made possible by generous funding from the Fowler Family Charitable Gift Program, Air Products and Chemicals Inc. and FLSmidth Inc.
The program's goal is to develop new media and technology skills, enhance basic literacy skills, and to guide youth as they put these skills into practice making media. This process aims to build and confirm their personal and social identities as agents of community change.
KAMP is a collaboration between Muhlenberg College and Congregations United for Neighborhood Action (CUNA), helping CUNA youth discover digital media to document their community through their own eyes and voices.
During KAMP, participants will research and produce their own short documentary videos about the community issues they care about most. They will use digital storytelling tools of photography and narrative writing to document and represent their experiences, their lives, and the social issues that affect their lives.
Organized by Lora Taub-Pervizpour and Kate Ranieri, professors in the College's Media & Communication Department, KAMP will use the technology and space resources of that department, located in Walson Hall. Muhlenberg College students with digital storytelling and documentary research experience will serve as KAMP mentors.
KAMP begins on July 31 and concludes on August 10 with a public screening of the youth documentaries. Location and time to be announced.
