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Creating a New Pedagogical Space for Global Dialogue to Occur
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Hometown:: Evanston

School / Work Affiliation: Open Youth Networks Director

About Me:: I taught media arts at Evanston High School for three years and now run a non-profit that trains youth in web 2.0, digital media and socially-motivated P2P production so that they can mobilize their own communities around issues they care about. We work with youth globally as well. This summer youth in Barbados will be creating online cinema in a virtual contact zone beginning July 23 2007.

Blog:: http://www.youthlab.net

Website:: http://openyouthnetworks.org

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Google My Maps has Serious Educational Potential

I am absolutely mad about Google MyMaps. Check out the collectively authored map my YouthLAB groups did in Chicago and Barbados at www.youthlab.net! They researched the slave routes, the Barbados youth located the African countries and regions where their ancestors came from and placemarked those. They even added in diary journal entries from enslaved passengers across the Middle Passage.

Then they incorporated their own family migrations, located their neighborhoods, embedded photos a… Continue

Posted on August 24th, 2007 at 9:13am — No Comments (Add)

YouthLAB Launches and You Are Invited to Participate

Beginning July 23rd, I am launching YouthLAB and would love for you to check in at our site which is www.youthlab.net. We are doing online collaborative cinema and global exchange. I think it contributes to the growing knowledge about the power of WEB 2.0 to spark learning, civic engagement and cross-cultural understanding using their own digital native cultures.

Please read more below and check in to the site - www.youthlab.net

We are beginning to learn what it means to ha… Continue

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Working with Youth Right Now in Barbados in Wb 2.0

Check out what youth in Barbados are posting on our website www.youthlab.net as we create videos, google maps and digital photos on the living legacies of slavery. You can also begin to see their Flickr photos.

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A Network of Peers - How Cool!

I just joined Ning yesterday and am already loving it. i feel like I am connecting immediately with smart and fascinating people who are passionate about the same things I am - youth, teaching, technology and making the world a better place! It's so energizing to connect with all of you.

In a few days I will be in Barbados working with youth there. We will be posting to our blog at www.youthlab.net beginning on Tuesday or Wednesday next week. i hope you can check it out. Youth LAB (List… Continue

Posted on July 5th, 2007 at 10:58am — No Comments (Add)

Using Google My Maps to Merge Past, Present and Future

In a few days I head to Barbados where my colleague Mela Berger and I will train eight youth how to use digital tools and web 2.0. The focus of the work they produce is the legacy of the transatlantic slave trade during the 200th anniversary of Britain's abolition.

Among many of the tools they will be learning, I am particularly excited about using Google My maps to trace the Middle Passage and other routes that brought slaves to Barbados and then on to other sites in the Caribbean, So… Continue

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At 8:01am on June 22nd, 2008, Daniel Bassill said…: Hi Mindy, I lead Cabrini Connections, Tutor/Mentor Connection, based in Chicago and on the Internet. I hope we can connect you and your students with what we're doing. Visit http://mappingforjustice.blogspot.com to see some examples of how we're using maps to draw attention to tutor/mentor programs in high poverty neighborhoods. If youth groups are learning to use maps to tell stories, this would be a great project for them to tell the story of neighborhoods like Howard Street, or parts of Evanston, where kids might benefit from non-school tutoring/mentoring and learning opportunities.

At 8:15pm on July 5th, 2007, Kathleen Tyner said…: Mindy, as always,you've found a great community of good folks and I"m looking forward to seeing more of you terrific student video and hearing about your work in Barbados. I'm off to Portugal and will let y'all know what's going on there when I get back. What a great site!

At 2:04pm on July 5th, 2007, Meg Ormiston said…: Mindy, Good to meet you, I can't wait to look at what your students created! My teachers the last two weeks created some amazing video examples.
http://techcamp.ning.com/video Your work sounds very interesting, I look forward to reading more!

At 1:04pm on July 5th, 2007, Steve Hargadon said…: Glad to have you here!

At 7:11am on July 5th, 2007, Skip Zilla said…: Mindy, rather than giving you my introduction to Worldchanging take a look at their website. Also, take a look at related links that I have put on my CR2.0 member page. You may see other possibilities there for engaging your students.

At 6:43am on July 5th, 2007, Mindy Faber said…: Skip, thank you for your very insightful response. What you say resonates deeply with me and I was very pleased that this particular student "got it" so well and translated it into a video that speaks to his peers. I don't know the World changing Activity. Can you share it with me?

At 10:28pm on July 4th, 2007, Skip Zilla said…: Thanks for sending me "The Hidden Cost of Cashmere" video. Although the technical skills evident in its production are impressive to me, I'm actually gladder that students are linking the remote and sometimes global effects, locally unsuspected, of the consumption of a commodity used to make a product they buy. A few centuries ago, the commodities were sugar, tea, and tobacco. Their acquisition from regions globally distant from Western European local markets to supply their ever growing daily consumption by commoners had disastrous consequences on first indigenous, later enslaved African peoples. I suppose it could be said that this in a nutshell was "how the West was won." It's important work you're doing. Today's pervaders of globalization to supply a growing demand for cheaper products cannot be allowed to spout their disinformation that everybody benefits from the trading system. Short of genuine, historical transparency in trade relations among peoples, the kind of investigating your students are doing can uncover for them the way in which the world they live in works. And possible see new ways to act to counter social injustice and unsustainable exploitation of the earth's resources.

Have you introduced your students to the "Worldchanging" perspective and activity? It would seem that they are already headed in that direction.

Thanks again for showing me the video.

Skip

At 6:45pm on July 4th, 2007, Skip Zilla said…: Welcome to CR20, Mindy.

You're doing some great work connecting kids across borders on social issues. I'm looking forward to seeing the cinema they make.

Thanks for joining CR2.0,

Skip

At 6:23am on July 4th, 2007, Hans Feldmeier said…: My best regards from Germany, Mindy! Welcome!
You are invited to join my group DigiSkills (digital teaching methods) on Classroom 2.0 as well. At the moment, the group with most members.

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