Call for Teachers

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Call for junior teachers

This was sent to Polytechnic undergraduates in anticipation of the July KC pilot project.

Kids Connect seeks [interns | student mentors | {junior/assistant} teachers] for our first pilot program this July. We will be teaching improvisational theater, digital storytelling, audio/visual performance and online, virtual collaboration to 15 students aged 13 to 17. This is an excellent opportunity to teach and to learn these skills from leading artists in these fields.

Description: Kids Connect is a series of summer workshops providing teens the opportunity to learn cutting edge skills in media, arts and technology. Participants will connect and create with other teens in New York and Amsterdam via audio/visual and streaming Internet technologies within the online virtual world of Second Life.

Kids Connect invites students to turn consumer technologies such as computers, video cameras, and MP3 players into creative tools. Guided by artists and educators from the fields of improvisation, sound, video, and performance, they will learn skills like VJ-ing, soundscaping, and digital storytelling. The final project will be a networked performance between youth in New York and Amsterdam.

New York< >Nieuw Amsterdam will be the theme of the workshops -- exploring New York’s Dutch heritage, (the city was known as "Nieuw Amsterdam" in the 17th century) and the connection between historical and contemporary culture in New York and Amsterdam. Through digital storytelling and streaming video and audio, youth from two cities will experience each others' lives in rich detail and surprising points of view.


requirements:

  • experience with both Mac and Windows computers
  • working knowledge of instant messaging, HTML, wikis, search engines
  • familiarity with digital video cameras, digital still cameras, MP3 players
  • familiarity with image editing software (Photoshop or other), video editing software (iMovie, Final Cut, Avid), sound editing software (Garage Band, Sound Edit, Audacity, or other)

desirable:

  • experience in the visual and/or performing arts
  • Second Life building and scripting skills
  • videography and webcasting experience
  • audio/visual performance skills (live music, VJ-ing, etc)
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