Video is changing as more and more people have the ability to be creators. This provides unlimited potential for new ideas and methods in video, a prospect that is exciting to me as someone who works daily in the fields of old and new media. Last weekend the Open Video Conference hosted by FIT brought [...]
Iraq Tech Training
“Saddam tried to use the indictment of Bill Clinton over the Monica Lewinsky scandal to show how shameful and perverse the United States is. The message that Iraqis heard was that in America, no one is above the law. Not even the President.” ~Anes (trainee) I recently returned from a trip to Erbil, Iraq, a [...]
“Big Brother” vs. Little Brother Book Covers
On the border of Thailand and Burma/Myanmar, I met Aung Zaw, who told me about risking his life to document human rights abuses performed by the government of Myanmar. His hope was that this information could help to defend his people. At the end of our talk, he asked if we could become Facebook friends. [...]
Reimagining Learning with the Roebling Platform
What is education in the 21st century? How do we prepare kids for the future when our teachers are unprepared? And what about the underserved children living on the margins of society, whether the tens of thousands of newly resettled refugees from Burma, Somalia and Iraq, or youth from districts that spend more money on [...]
