DUSTY news 07/15/07
Anne and Nikoline:

The Individual Civic Engagement Award -- Faculty went to Glynda Hull, professor of education, for helping establish Digital Underground Storytelling for Youth (DUSTY), an afterschool program that teaches multimedia skills to low-income youth.

Alicia Keys arranged for 80 Digital Underground Storytelling for Youth (D.U.S.T.Y) participants to attend her dress rehearsal and the “Meet and Greet” on Tuesday, May 24th at the Paramount in Oakland. Last year, Alicia also provided 80 concert tickets to the D.U.S.T.Y program. Digital Underground Storytelling for Youth is a technology and literacy program that combines writing and digital media. It is collaboration among the Oakland Technology and Education Center, the University of Berkeley’s Graduate School of Education, and Allen Temple Baptist Church. D.U.S.T.Y youth participants are currently producing their own compilation CD and DVD. The program teaching digital storytelling has added advanced film production, giving youth the opportunity to be their own movie directors, merging their written words with their voices, music images, video music, and digital stories. D.U.S.T.Y offers after-school programs in digital story telling, digital music creation, and advanced film production.
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Mary:
Here is the Castlemont check-in and the CAL class check-in:

Castlemont: Currently at Castlemont we are doing some low-key tutoring on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and doing regular programming on Mondays and Wednesdays.

The following is the schedule for Site Coordinators at Castlemont:
Mondays: Mark Nelson and Morgan Hogarth ( undergrad assistant)
Tuesdays: Mary Soltis
Wednesdays: Morgan Hogarth (will help the instructors)
Thursdays: Mark Nelson and Mary Soltis

Mark is creating individualized sign-in sheets for all Castlemont DUSTY students to help monitor their attendance, progress, and any needs they may have with their work. This will be a bit different than how we have done sign-ins in the past. More to come very soon :).

EDU 140AC (CAL class): Yesterday (Tuesday) was the first day of class, and we had 105 students attend (approximately seven did not show). So it looks as if we will have approximately 100 tutors (give or take) to work at the various DUSTY sites. I will start signing students up for the sites, so that they will be ready for the training that the instructors are providing in the about a week and a half.

IF ANYONE would like to come to the class and give a short "presentation" (Brooklyn, Tre, Sonia, and Michael are already scheduled), let me know and we will schedule you into the syllabus. This is a good way for the undergrad/tutors to have a face with a name and know who will be at the various sites.

Kofi-Charu Nat Turner (Cole Check-In)
The students are anxiously awaiting the arrival of the tutors. I have made contact with the classroom teachers of the six graders so there will be clear channels of communication between them and the tutors. Tutors will know what students have for homework each day and will be able to assist the students in completing it. I am planning to pair students who are in the same classes with specific tutors so they can develop a deeper mentoring relationship.

Over the past week three girls have gone through the process of writing a song, typing it, rehearsing it, and having it recorded. Almost half of the students have successfully completed this process.

We are establishing a good working relationship with the folks at MOCHA/Project Yield. We have been allotted space to store our things and access to the computers, printers, and copy machine in the office they use which should all aid our work.

Sonia:
Students have the opportunity to showcase their completed works on the YO! Television show that airs Sunday mornings on the WB. Instructors should inform Sonia when she could have a representative from the TV show come out and review students work to air on the show. Work can include music, digital stories, and video. There is also opportunity to have an article written about the DUSTY program in South Bound Magazine. If instructors know of a student that is into journalism and a student that is into photography they could team up and write the article. They could send the work to me and I will in turn send it to the chief editor of the magazine for the next issue. I have also met and visited ME TV. Mount Eden High TV who has offered to partner with the DUSTY program to report our upcoming activities. They have a production class complete with all the television equipment necessary. The possibilities are endless.

• Melissa Logan of Lacie
• Zigi Lowenberg, Academic Marketing Manager of Peachpit Publishing Group