This fall, Streetside is kicking off an exciting new project called Digital Teachers. Streetside is training teachers at four
KIPP Schools in San Francisco and the East Bay to make digital storytelling part of their everyday teaching practice.
Each school is getting a very cool mobile lab, with Apple MacBook computers, scanners, digital cameras, and software like Photoshop and iMovie. This summer, teachers learned how to make their own digital stories on the equipment. And this year, with the help of Streetside Digital Teachers Coach Erika Padilla-Morales, they'll teach their own students to make digital stories.
Teachers have generated some amazing curriculum ideas. A sampling:
A social studies lesson in which students make movies about the way ancient Roman inventions influence our lives today;
A language arts lesson in which students write and make movies about problems and solutions in their communities;
A social studies lesson in which students make real estate ads for homes in ancient Mesopotamia.
We can't wait to see what the brilliant students of KIPP come up with! At the end of the year, Streetside and KIPP will be teaming up for screenings of student work in San Francisco and the East Bay. Stay tuned!
Streetside has been helping youth tell their stories through digital storytelling for about three years now. Read about our other program,
Tech Tales. And for more information about digital storytelling, check out the pioneers of the form:
The Center for Digital Storytelling.
