We Media 2005 Inspired Student Media

I wanted to share this note we just received from John Schott, chairman of cinema and media studies at Carleton College. John attended We Media 2005 at The Associated Press as a We Media Fellowship recipient:

I was spurred on, in part, to offer a We Media course at Carleton College after attending your excellent conference last fall. I thought you might be interested to see some of the fruits of the effort.

Students–most of whom were no media makers–read widely on The Personal Media Revolution, using our class notebook of links.

Highlights of their work includes a group podcast on personal media.

Although not as accomplished as many others, I particularly liked the podcast by Khanh Nguyen. He’s a freshman from a smallish town in Vietnam, in the country only five months …before finding himself in a We Media class where he published his voice and image to the world. You’ll find his touching post down a few clicks on the page.

And a group videocast on their own digital lives.

Plus other individual projects.

Thanks again!

Small sigh of satisfaction – this is why the team here at the Media Center gets up in the morning… 🙂