[Imc-outreach] membership fee is in your mailbox (fwd)

[Jane Andrew]

This sounds awesome!  I would love to help coordinate
this.  

Jane


--- faith swords <faith at ucimc.org> wrote:

> Hey everyone,
> 
> David Porreca, one of our members, teaches at Uni
> and he is interested in 
> having a kind of how-to workshop for the students
> there this summer. Below 
> is his vision and contact info.
> 
> I am really interested in working on this, but my
> focus at the IMC isn't 
> on creating media, so I am hoping that people from
> groups who DO do that 
> would be willing to jump in.
> 
> What do you think?
> 
> --Faith
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 23:55:35 -0600
> From: David Porreca <dporreca at uiuc.edu>
> To: faith at imsahp.cu.groogroo.com
> Subject: membership fee is in your mailbox
> 
> Faith,
> 
> Thanks for the reminder.
> 
> I went to the UCIMC office in Urbana today
> (Thursday) around 3 p.m. It was 
> closed, so I put a small envelope in the mailbox
> outside. The envelope contains 
> a check for $100 made out to UCIMC. I hope that
> helps.
> 
> On a completely different matter . . .
> 
> What do you think about UCIMC being involved in a
> summer journalism workshop 
> for high school kids? University Laboratory High
> School (Uni High), where I 
> work, is always interested in outreach programs. I'm
> sure the school would 
> grant permission to hold the workshop here in our
> classrooms and computer labs. 
> I also think I could get funding from the school to
> pay for basic expenses.
> 
> I'm thinking of a four- or five-day workshop in
> which kids would learn how to 
> do indy journalism (i.e., real journalism, the kind
> without fear or favor), and 
> tips on how to put that into practice at their
> schools.  The week would 
> culminate in putting together a special project of
> some kind (probably Web- or 
> print-based, but it could also be broadcast).  If
> people like Bob McChesney are 
> around, perhaps they could come and talk to the kids
> as well.
> 
> Do you think this idea has any potential? As I see
> it, the UCIMC staff would be 
> the backbone of the workshop. I would like to be
> involved as well; for what 
> it's worth, I can offer the "fruits" of having spent
> the last 10 years working 
> with high school kids. Perhaps we could get a few U
> of I profs, such as Bob or 
> Dan Schiller (whose daughter Lucy is a Uni High
> student) or Leon Dash or John 
> Fountain, to make cameo appearances.
> 
> If the UCIMC thinks this idea is worth pursuing, I
> would be glad to discuss it 
> further at your convenience. If we began advertising
> the workshop among C-U 
> area high schools by February, we should be able to
> attract at least a dozen or 
> so kids, which is a big enough number to make it
> worthwhile, in my opinion.
> 
> Any way, I just wanted to toss the idea your way.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Dave Porreca
> 2444-8578
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