Revision of Geo Girls: Citizen Journalism from Thu, 01/31/2008 - 6:24pm

Submitted by LESGC on Thu, 01/31/2008 - 6:24pm.

Session info

Start: Mar 2 2008 - 2:45pm
End: Mar 2 2008 - 4:15pm
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The Lower Eastside Girls Club
Short Description: 

The Lower Eastside Girls Club will present their new Citizen Journalism site: Geo Girls, (www.girlville.info/geo) a location based website using Google Earth Pro, Picasa, text, and web video. This is a teaching tool we have designed to enable students to explore, document, and present neighborhood issues block by block. Participants in this workshop will actually create a Geo Girls page, featuring the Grassroots Media Conference.

Presenter One Name: 
T. Renée Laster
Presenter One Info: 

T. Renée Laster is a full time staff member at the Lower Eastside Girls Club. She teaches the technology and media programs and manages the podcasting website, Girls On Air! (http://www.girlsclubworldwide.org/wp). T. Renée is also the source behind the scenes of Geo Girls.

Presenter Two Name: 
Amber J. Grof
Presenter Two Info: 

Amber J. Grof is co-manager of Girls On Air! She is also a member of the leadership program called Cascading Leadership. Amber is a high school senior at City As A School.

Presenter Three Name: 
Dave Pentecost
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Presenter Four Name: 
Lyn Pentecost
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