Programs « The LAMP

Each module within a track will be tailored to the age group for which it will be presented. All modules can flexibly accommodate ages 5-18, as well as parent, educator and family workshops. To host a workshop, please send us an email, and be sure to look at our LAMP Rate Card for hosts.

Make a Commercial/Break a Commercial

(youth, families)

You see hundreds of advertisements every day—now you can make your own! As you write, edit and shoot your own original commercial, you’ll learn how different persuasive techniques are used in advertising. You’ll also break down how people, products and ideas are represented, learning how to distinguish fact from fiction in commercials.

Watch “Talking Back: Bratz Commercials”

What’s in the News?

(youth, families) There are exciting things happening all around you, and now it’s your chance to decide what is newsworthy and what is not. Publish your very own newspaper to discover how and why news items are made.

News on TV/Video

(youth, families)

Learn about broadcast TV and other forms of video news as you create your own video news story. You choose what to report and how to report it when you learn what goes on behind the scenes in newsgathering and news production.

Watch “LAMP Kids News Show @ PS 107 – starring Nataelle, Lucas, Kristina and Christopher”

Reporting and Podcasting

(youth, families) Reporting the news changes when it is heard and not seen! Find out how when you produce your own news podcast.

Video Poem

(youth)

Explore how sounds and images work together when you make a video poem. Use your original artwork and writing to learn how they can be edited together to make a piece of multimedia art.

Watch “Mammals v. Robots: Video Poem at Prospect Park YMCA”

Making Pictures, Telling Stories

(youth) Learn the basics of storytelling, editing and images when you take photographs that tell a visual story. You know what order the pictures should be in—but when others look at them, what story do they see? How does changing the order change the story?

Documentary and Non-fiction Video

(youth)

Using a subject of your choice, write and shoot your own short documentary video. Explore the different ways that documentaries can be used, along with some basic video editing techniques.

Watch “Answer with Action – Trashing God’s Living Room”

Put Yourself On the Web

(youth, parents, families) Explore the many ways you can present yourself on the Internet through social networking websites and blogs. Learn what to include (and what not to include) in an online profile, and how to build your own blog.

Living Digital

(youth) Learn how to make smart choices on the Internet when we discuss issues such as how to maintain privacy and security, Internet etiquette, games on the web, learning on the web, viral videos and more.

LAMPcamp

(youth)

The LAMP can build a one- or two-week camp experience for youth in various age groups: 5-7, 8-10, middle school, and teenagers. Full-day camp programs have participants exploring video, podcasting, news, neighborhood media scavenger hunts, and digital media. As appropriate, participants focus on various media-related themes: gender, nutrition, sustainability, health and wellness.

Watch “LAMPcamp 2009″

All of the tracks listed above—news, advertising and video–can be tailored as family-focused workshops. In addition we offer:

Family Media Scavenger Hunt

(families)

Families gather in a popular neighborhood location, get their maps and their guides, then travel as family units into different parts of the neighborhood. The goal? Noticing, exploring, and recording all of the media messages and technologies that surround them which perhaps they hadn’t noticed before. It’s an eye-opening experience.

View the “1st Annual Family Media Scavenger Hunt” Flickr album.

Family Video Workshop

(families)

The whole family comes together to make a video memory. Shoot and edit a video of parents and children interviewing each other, sharing favorite memories and stories, or doing whatever the family likes to do together. Families will create a lasting record to be enjoyed now and forever.

Watch “The LAMP Family Videos – Ramos Family”

Family Digital Media Workshop

(families) Parents and children together explore how they use digital media and how they talk about it and use it at home for school, work and social networking. Families consider the different uses of these media and establish appropriate, realistic house rules for media use.

Professional Development

(educators)

The LAMP offers professional development workshops for teachers and other leaders interested in learning how to implement media literacy components into their classroom or community. Workshops range from those which focus on foundational media literacy skills to those which focus on specific media literacy skills in advertising, news and digital media.

View the “Digital Remix Workshop with MOUSE and The LAMP” Flickr album.