Posts tagged with "education"
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Conversation with Scotty Iseri, Creator of “The Digits” and CAAM Fellow
2010 CAAM Fellow Scotty Iseri created “The Digits“, an interactive web series and app designed for children aged 7-11 to learn math, while combining live action comedy and gameplay. As the “greatest unknown band in the galaxy”, The Digits turns players into learners, as they make their way to the Intergalactic Battle of the Bands [...]
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APA Educational Resources – At a Discount!
CAAM provides a wealth of resources for schools, community organizations and companies interested in learning more about Asian American history and stories. This month in particular, students, teachers, professors, libraries and institutions across the US remember the challenges and celebrate the achievements that define our history: Asian Pacific American history. Despite the challenges our communities [...]
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Himalayan Youth Voices Project at CAAM
The Himalayan (Bhutanese, Nepalese & Tibetan) community in the Bay area and nationally has been growing but there isn’t much visibility or authentic representations of these groups in the media. To counter that scarcity of images by and about the Himalayan community, CAAM started the Himalayan Youth Voices Project in partnership with grassroots organization Sahayeta and funding from the Asian Pacific Fund.
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SFIAAFF ’11 Replay: The Power of Play: Art, Social Issues & Education in Games panel
In the Power of Play: Art, Social Issues & Education in Games, panelists showcase their current work and discuss how games can be used to inform and educate on social issues.
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WHATEVER IT TAKES: We Finished the Film!
It’s hard to believe, but I can finally announce that WHATEVER IT TAKES has been completed! At times, I never thought my film would be done. There was always another scene to shoot, another rough cut to edit, another technical detail to manage. But through it all we persevered, and now we are ready to show our film to the world.
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WHATEVER IT TAKES: This Is Real Life
Last month, something happened which reminded me that I’m not just making a film. In documentary, we’re not just dealing with footage that we shot a few months ago; we’re dealing with individuals whose lives continue evolve. This is real life, and sometimes things change for the better, sometimes for the worse. In this case, it was definitely the latter…
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WHATEVER IT TAKES: A Strong Vision
Right before you start a documentary film, before you shoot a second of footage, what do you have? You might know who your main characters will be, but you have no idea of how they will “perform” on camera. You might know the history behind your project, but who knows how you’ll portray it. What we do have, of course, is a vision of what the film can be. This latter vision was the genesis for my documentary WHATEVER IT TAKES.
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NMC fellow LeValdo focuses on funding for tribal schools
National Minority Consortia fellow, Rhonda LeValdo, reports from Haskell Indian Nations University in Lawrence, Kansas focusing on the presidential race and how federal funding for education impacts many students on campus.
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WHATEVER IT TAKES: Almost There
So I need to apologize again for the long absence between blog posts here… As you might imagine, things have been incredibly busy as we get to the very end of the film. Right now, we are consumed with three major tasks: finishing the edit, crafting the animation, and choosing a composer.
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WHATEVER IT TAKES: There Can Only Be One
What’s more interesting in a documentary? A story about one person or many? If you capture the lives of four or five individuals, it seems like you would have an interesting mix of narrative threads to follow. But if you follow just one person around, you might not get enough action to fill out your film.
