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The Octavia Lab at the LA Public Library Joins the YOUmedia Learning Labs Network
Press contact: Bob Jobinmedia@nwp.org Berkeley, CA, May 25, 2022 — Joining a network of colleagues across the country, the YOUmedia Learning Labs Network is thrilled to extend affiliate status to The Octavia Lab based at the Los Angeles Public Library. The YOUmedia model was developed in 2011 with support from the John D. and Catherine T.…
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Looking back and imagining forward: The YOUmedia Network in 2020
Last year marked a global pandemic, political violence and racial reckoning that impacted how we work and live. As a community of practice, we and our young people were first overwhelmed by a year-long pandemic and polarizing rhetoric surrounding science, followed by nationwide protests against racialized state violence, systematized from our country’s 400-year legacy of…
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Announcing the Final Two Resources from the Capturing Connected Learning in Libraries Project
For the past four years, the Capturing Connected Learning in Libraries (CCLL) project has partnered with libraries across the country in support of their ability to evaluate their connected learning programs and spaces. Through frequent meetings, consultations, and workshops, the CCLL team has learned about each library’s unique evaluation needs and either directed library staff to already…
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Capturing Connected Learning in Libraries Case Study Series Wraps Up With Practical Lessons Learned
Authored by Amanda Wortman, published originally for the Connected Learning Alliance As the Capturing Connected Learning in Libraries (CCLL) project comes to a close, we are excited to share the final installment in our series of case studies, created based on the evaluation work we’ve done with our partner libraries. In our final case study, Partnering with Future…
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Why A Makerspace Popped Up in a Museum
Most people wouldn’t think of science as quirky, but if they’d witnessed a posse of orange, papier-maché robotic pumpkins racing down the hall at the Science Museum of Virginia (SMV), in Richmond, Virginia, they might re-think that image. Over the past several years, libraries, museums and community centers around the country have opened “makerspaces” where…
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Introducing the Teen Hangout at the Loveland Public Library
The Teen Hangout at the Loveland Public Library has been operating since February 2012. Teens enjoy access to new technologies, making friends, learning life skills, pursuing areas of interest, connecting to community services, and having a leadership role within the library. All services, including 3D-printing and snacks, are drop-in and free of charge. Right now,…
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Kansas City Digital Media Lab
In 2012, the Kansas City Public Library (KCPL) received a YOUmedia planning grant offered through the MacArthur Foundation and Institute of Museum and Library Services to design a YOUmedia Learning Lab program. After some consideration and discussion, KCPL decided that a mobile lab would be a great starting point for bringing HOMAGO-centered programs to youth…
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Teen 365 Helps Teens Create Pathways to Happy and Successful Adulthoods
Teen 365 is a year-round program for youth ages 12–18 that supports the vision and mission of Pima County Public Library services to young adults by ensuring that all YA programs support teens in developing skills, connections, and opportunities to create a successful and happy adulthood. The program has a holistic framework that addresses all…
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Fail and Try Again: Maker Jawn at the Free Library gets Philadelphians of all stripes involved in the maker movement
Antony, a 12-year-old seventh grader at Conwell Middle School in Port Richmond, has encountered a few unexpected barriers in testing his hypothesis. “There are several flaws,” he says about the experiment he just built, a full water bottle with two straws hot glued into it, one of which is topped with a cardboard square. “But…
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10 Connected Learning Lesson Plans from the Remake Learning Network
Ten members of Remake Learning, a network of innovative educators and organizations in Pittsburgh, have created a collection of lesson plans at Educator Innovator’s The Current capturing their original and engaging connected learning work. For me, one of the greatest joys of teaching is the chance to learn from other educators: the opportunity to peek under the…
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Why Libraries Are More Important Now Than Ever
It’s almost 4 p.m. on a November Monday, and a very un-library-like scene is unfolding inside Chicago’s Harold Washington Library teen center. Rap and pop music bump from a set of speakers, as teenagers released from schools around the city funnel into the center and settle in for the afternoon. Some gather around the TV…
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“A public library saved me from the depressing isolation of cyber school”
Cyber schooling was not among my top choices for the dream high school experience. It was the last resort after my mother and I discovered we could not afford to return to Orlando, Florida, and it was too late to enroll in Pittsburgh-area schools. I immediately despised the idea of being alone in the house…
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Understanding the Post-Emergent Phase of a Makerspace
Creating and starting a makerspace is an exciting venture; you build a team and purchase new equipment. There are a lot of resources (people and articles) that describe how emergent makerspaces can get off the ground. Once your makerspace has been open for a few years, you begin to experience challenges that are distinctly different…
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The Story of Science Museums in the YOUmedia Network
Three staff from science museums in the YOUmedia Network gathered in New York to do some professional development around what YOUmedia looks like in a science center. Matt Baker from The MiX (Science Museum of Virginia), David Wells from Maker Space (New York Hall of Science), and Matt Chilbert from TechHive (Lawrence Hall of Science)…
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Maker Programs Strive to Reach All Students
Through training and outreach, maker programs aim for greater diversity among future innovators. The maker movement is everywhere it seems. Kids tinkering with sewing machines or laser cutters, designing their own cookie cutters to “print” in a 3D-printer at libraries, museums, maker camps, or classrooms across the country. “Maker-educators” are mashing together technology with traditional…
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Moving Past Start-Up: Supporting Library Makerspaces Over Time
A group of YOUmedia makerspaces band together to innovate and support library makerspaces facing the opportunities and challenges distinctive to the middle, “post-emergent” years. The start-up phase of any project is often the most heady—long hours, innovative breakthroughs, visionaries with big ideas. But it is often the next stage—the maturing and growth phase—that makes or…
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Norfolk Public Library Joins the YOUmedia Learning Labs Network
Berkeley, CA, May 23, 2017 — Joining a network of colleagues across the country, the YOUmedia Learning Labs Network extends affiliate status to the youth program at the Norfolk Public Library, making the program the thirty-first lab in the YOUmedia Learning Labs Network. The YOUmedia model was developed in 2011 with support from the John…
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Six community crates will help bring the library to young learners
The Billings Public Library loves to have students in for a visit. But it also wants students — and their teachers — to be able to bring the library into the classroom. A $20,000 grant from Phillips 66 to the Billings Public Library Foundation will enable just that, beginning this summer. A library committee used…
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Librarians Lead the Way to Digital Literacy
Librarians have been on the front lines of information literacy for years, putting them in a prime position to help youth learn to navigate a complex and growing world of digital information and news. Unfettered access to information and news is essential for learning—but it can also be a hazard when learners lack the right…
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‘Read Brave’ Fosters Passionate Reading and Intergenerational Dialogue
Read Brave is a city-wide one book project in Saint Paul, Minnesota, facilitated by a small but passionate group from the Saint Paul Public Library’s Createch program, part of the YOUmedia Learning Labs Network. Marika Staloch, one of the facilitators, recently spoke with K-Fai Steele, of the YOUmedia Network and the National Writing Project. You…
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Why the School Library Is the Perfect Place for Maker Education
“Libraries are all about inquiry,” says Valerie Jopeck, a former librarian and current education specialist for a large public school district in Virginia. But in this case, Jopeck is not talking about just online research or reading about animal behavior or electrical engineering. Instead, Jopeck and her colleagues are talking about a new kind…
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Meet the Mentor: Sienna Cittadino, The Labs @ CLP
When I first hopped off the 57 in Hazelwood, I didn’t have anything in my backpack except paper and drawing pencils. I was heading to my first day, and first Labs Workshop, at Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh – Hazelwood. Hazelwood was one of two new weekly locations for Labs programming—the other being CLP – Beechview—and…
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Nashville Library Gives Incarcerated Teens the Freedom to Create
How a local public library in Nashville is using digital media to help teens see themselves as readers, and much more. It began with a simple library lending program. When funding for the library at the Woodland Hills Development Center in Nashville, Tennessee, was slashed in 2015, the staff there reached out to their local…
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YOUmedia radio interview: Meet the Mentor
An interview with Jeff Hodges, mentor at YOUmedia Chicago. Jeff talks about HOMAGO, his approach towards working with teens, some anecdotes and stories, and his personal creative practice and how that overlaps with and enriches his teaching style. “[At] YOUmedia, we use real people, real mentors… They use their real-world experiences to connect with the…
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Youth Voices Count with ‘Letters to the Next President 2.0’
Librarians, informal educators, and teachers are using Letters to the Next President 2.0 to engage their students with civic and political issues, and to amplify their students’ voices on the issues that matter to them. Nothing feels normal this election season, and teaching the election is no different. Like all of us, students, especially teens,…
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Implementing Connected Learning and Twenty-First-Century Skill Development in Programming
Professional development training at Studio NPL at the Nashville Public Library focuses on the planning and designing of programs that are centered around connected learning, and the YALSA Future of Library Services for and with Teens report. “If staff are excited about the evolution of teen services in libraries, then there are more opportunities to…
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Making a Platform for Empowerment at the NYSCI Maker Space
Students learn in an environment that is conducive to building a sense of autonomy at the New York Hall of Science (NYSCI) Maker Space, a lab in the YOUmedia Network, by approaching problem-solving with the “I Can Mentality.” Also, an argument is made for educators to get comfortable being learners. “We need to set up…
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Where Librarians, Educators, and Media Mentors Go Online to Learn
At the YOUmedia Community of Practice site, Learning Labs practitioners from around the country share resources and expertise, and work toward improving their own practice. At libraries and museums around the country, there are dedicated spaces for teenagers to plunge into digital learning projects as varied as audio recording and robotics. When the Institute of Museum and…
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Building Privacy Literacy at the Library
As longtime advocates for civil liberties, librarians are uniquely positioned to teach today’s teens about digital privacy. In the summer of 2013, National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden leaked documents revealing the federal government’s pervasive surveillance program. The revelations pushed privacy concerns into the national conversation, causing adults to reconsider their digital behavior and vulnerability.…
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Hang Out, Mess Around, Geek Out—Studio NPL Puts Pro-Grade Media In The Hands Of Youth
An initiative to fill community spaces with programs using innovative equipment, software, and professionals is teaching youth how to learn by immersing them in digital arts. Libraries have changed since my childhood in the 1980s. It’s unlikely I’ll ever again hear the soft hiss of a microfiche viewer speeding through decades of newsprint. Card catalogs might…
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Hitting the Library Circuit with Mobile Making
In an effort to reach more patrons and spread innovation, librarians are taking their digital learning and staff development programs on the road. The Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh offers everything you would expect at a library: books, computers, story time for the little ones. But a few of its branches have become destinations for teenagers…
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How One School District in Ohio Transformed an Empty High School into a Digital Space for Teens
For nearly a century, a beautiful domed building on the south side of Springfield, Ohio, housed a high school. But after a tobacco settlement left the state with additional education funding in 2008, the Springfield City School District (SCSD) made some needed infrastructure improvements. The two high schools were consolidated on the north side of…
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What Libraries Offer the Maker Movement
At the Millvale Community Library in Pennsylvania, toddlers and kids gather weekly to work on creative projects. On those days the library morphs into a “makerspace,” overflowing with sewing supplies, circuitry, yarn, and electronics. The young visitors are encouraged to tinker with the materials and create anything they dream up, be it an animated video…
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YOUmedia Alumni Give Back to Program with Spirited Summer Festival
Lollapalooza might be known for bringing hordes of young people outdoors to celebrate summer in Chicago, but June’s Teens in the Park Fest (TIP Fest) gave it a run for its money. TIP Fest was one part free concert, one part open house for Chicago’s array of summer youth programs. “It was a fun event…
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Learning Labs Put 3D Printing Skills to the Test to Improve Lives for Veterans in Virginia
When you think of a team that has won $20,000 in a Make-a-thon for prosthetics and assistive technology, you wouldn’t expect that the team consisted of three teens, an educator, and an engineer. You also wouldn’t expect that they would immediately release their ideas as an open-source project, enabling doctors, researchers, and industrial designers to…
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In San Francisco, Teens Design a Living Room for High-Tech Learning at the Public Library
When teens enter The Mix at the San Francisco Public Library, 19-year-old Dayra Banales is quick to step up and offer a tour, walking visitors past a row of new computers and through studios filled with video and audio equipment. She knows just about every inch of the space—after all, she helped design it. The…
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Making the Case for a Makeathon
TechHive is the YOUmedia Learning Lab based out of the Lawrence Hall of Science in Berkeley, California. During the last weekend in May, TechHive’s staff and teen interns collaborated to plan, develop, raise funds for, and run a Makeathon. The idea for this event came from a shared desire to experiment with an alternative to…
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Miami Teens #ShareTheLove With Nonviolence Campaign and Concert
Seventeen-year-old Arbie Nickerson has a packed schedule. On top of producing music, working at a preschool, and finishing his sophomore year of high school, he also produces his own weekly radio show through an online platform called Spreaker. But Nickerson took on another challenge last fall, when he joined a group of teens from YOUmedia…
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Philly Teens Prep for College Through Making and Badging
The summer before freshman year at college can be tricky—filled with anticipation, transitions, and sometimes nerves. For teens participating in a college preparation program at the Free Library of Philadelphia last summer, it was also filled with making, film production, and creating a set of badges for younger kids. With a grant from the Philadelphia…
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Empowering Mentors, Empowering Youth: Remembering Brother Mike
“Mentorship to me at its core is about love, you loving what you do enough to pass that knowledge on to the next person” – Brother Mike Hawkins The typical mentor at a YOUmedia Learning Lab has an active creative practice. These mentor/artists include video producers, rappers, poets, fashion designers, illustrators, and more, and often…
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Learning Labs in Libraries and Museums: Transformative Spaces for Teens, New Report out now!
The Learning Labs in Libraries and Museums program is a joint effort of the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation to support the creation of innovative teen spaces at libraries and museums and to unite these sites in a national network. The Learning Labs Report…
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The Free Library of Philadelphia’s Maker Jawn Initiative Receives IMLS Leadership Grant
The Free Library of Philadelphia’s Maker Jawn Initiative has been awarded a National Leadership Grant for multi-generational Makerspaces in North Philadelphia, where we have been focusing our efforts as a YOUmedia Learning Lab, creating scalable space for youth programming. The Free Library initiative is one of only 31 projects chosen nationwide to receive a National…
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Rocking Positive Culture: Introducing YOUmedia Hartford!
On Tuesday, October 7, 2014 YOUmedia Hartford at Hartford Public Library officially opened its doors. The Library was part of a cohort in 2009 created by Chicago Public Library and the MacArthur Foundation that included the Miami-Dade Public Library, the Hirschhorn Museum in Washington, D.C, and DreamYard in the Bronx, NY. YOUmedia Hartford is the last…
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ARTLAB+ Teens Invited to White House Game Jam
On September 6th and 7th, 2014, ARTLAB+ teens were invited to participate in the White House Game Jam in Washington DC. Within gaming circles, a “game jam” is when designers gather to plan, design, and create games in a short period of time. This event was organized by the White House Office of Science and…
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Connecting Youth Interests Via Libraries
Chicago Public Library and Los Angeles Public Library (LAPL) featured in a DML Central post focusing on public libraries providing connected learning opportunities by offering innovative programs to young patrons. View full article… “Examples of innovative projects, tapping into the power of the Internet, include the Chicago Public Library, which offers a free Maker Lab,…
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Reinventing libraries for ‘hanging out, messing around and geeking out’
YOUmedia Chicago and the Nashville Public Library Learning Lab were featured on CNN. The article focused on reinventing libraries and the Learning Labs’ encouragement of teens to hang out, mess around, and geek out. View full article… “On the third floor of the Nashville Public Library downtown branch, past the hushed rows of monochrome bookshelves and solid…
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Lynn Public Library Room Puts Teens in Control
Quaranteen, the teen tech lab at Lynn Public Library in Lynn, Massachusetts, was featured in The Daily Item, a local news outlet. The article focused on teen leadership, as well as the ability for these teens to pursue their interests while at Quaranteen. “When a friend asked Meegan Robertson two years ago if she wanted…
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YOUmedia Teens Make Their Creative Mark
Youth from YOUmedia Chicago were featured on the Educator Innovator Blog. The article focused on YOUmedia Chicago as a site as well as the opportunity that YOUmedia provides for youth to pursue their own interests. “When Chancellor Bennett was suspended during his senior year at Jones College Prep in 2011, few would have guessed that…
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Capturing the Folklife Festival: An ARTLAB+ Student Perspective
ARTLAB+ at the Smithsonian Hirshhorn Museum in D.C. was featured in a Smithsonian Folklife Festival article about the Festival. The students created three videos that documented the meaning and culture of the three programs featured at the Festival: The Will To Adorn: African American Diversity, Style, and Identity; Hungarian Heritage: Roots to Revival; and One World, Many Voices: Endangered…
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Students Show Off TechHive Projects at Lawrence Hall of Science
High school interns from the TechHive lab at UC Berkeley’s Lawrence Hall of Science were featured in this article in Contra Costa Times. The 27 students displayed the various projects they worked on with engineering students from UC Berkekely and Lawrence Hall staff. “A project known as the bike simulator gives a stationary cyclist the feeling…
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“Take it and Make it Big”: Growing Partnerships with Libraries and Community-Based Organizations in St. Paul
In an article in Youth Media Reporter, the Createch program is credited for changing the ways in which the community in the city of St. Paul, Minnesota collaborates to improve digital media literacy. It focuses on the purpose of the Createch spaces in three St. Paul Public Library (SPPL) branches and one St. Paul Parks…
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Exploring Imagination through Games with OMSI and Multnomah County Libraries
The first Rockwood Library Game Camp, created through the partnership between OMSI (Oregon Museum of Science and Industry) and Multnomah County Libraries, was featured in an article by Pamplin Media. From December 30 to January 4, the organizations hosted a games education camp for underprivileged Portland youth. “’This was a good entry point for learning…
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An Hour of Code Leaves Youth Begging for More
From Miami through the Midwest, YOUMedia sites and Learning Labs hosted Hour of Code workshops that left participants hungry for more. Whether their events drew eight teens or more than 400, organizers credited advance preparation and engaging tutorials with sparking teens’ interest in mastering the languages that power the games and media they love. “It was awesome. I loved it and…
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Logging into Libraries: TechArt Program in Las Vegas Help Teens Develop Multimedia Skills
The TechArt Studio Program was mentioned in the Las Vegas Review-Journal, emphasizing how the program gets teenagers into libraries and connected with the available multimedia technology. “’I’m absolutely in love with this program,’ said Kim Clanton-Green, manager of the Sahara West Library and project manager for the TechArt Studio program. ‘We take technology and we…
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What’s Behind the Creative Impulse?
This article appeared originally at Remake Learning, a blog of the Kids + Creativity Network in Pittsburgh We’ve been pondering exactly why the “creativity” piece of our Kids+Creativity Network is so important. There’s plenty of neuroscience that delves into how the churning gears of our brains come up with divergent ideas and, on the other hand, what stifles…
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Amy Eshleman on the Evolution of YOUmedia and Libraries
This piece first appeared on Pittsburgh’s Remake Learning site. We sat down with Amy Eshleman, who led the Chicago Public Library team that created YOUmedia and has been integral to Learning Labs from their start in 2012. She is the program leader for education at the Urban Libraries Council and is helping to spearhead the expansion of…
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Left Brain, Meet Right Brain: Art in STEM
A lot has happened since President Obama declared a national impetus to improve STEM learning, which focuses on science, technology, engineering, and math, in July of 2012. Since plans for a “master teacher corps” were put into motion, another movement began—one that is about more than just proverbial “hot air,” too. STEAM education, a revamped version of STEM,…
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Why Mentors Are Critical to YOUmedia
The success of a Learning Lab environment turns on effective mentoring. As evident in the three-year evaluation report of Chicago’s YOUmedia, relatable mentors are the linchpin in teen engagement. But why? Tené Gray, director of Chicago’s Digital Youth Network (DYN), the prototype for Chicago’s YOUmedia, and K-Fai Steele, teen programming specialist at the Free Library of Philadelphia, a Learning Lab, explained why…
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Chicago Summer of Learning: Turning an Entire City into a Classroom
Collaboration can be complicated. Any coordinated effort with several moving parts is inherently complex. But what if those moving parts include hundreds of youth programs, thousands of young people, and a legion of community and civic organizations? There’s not really a word to describe it—because it had never happened before. This past summer was a…
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What Do Raspberry Pi and Learning to Code Have in Common? (Hint: 1975)
Think about your laptop, iPad, or smartphone. Are they toys, or something used for entertainment? Maybe they’re appliances, with internal components that work when you push a button without your knowing why. What about when a child thinks of computers—does he or she see a toy, an appliance, or something else? Some experts have argued…
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Are Youth as Digitally Savvy as We Think?
In today’s digitally saturated climate, when toddlers are using iPads and new technologies are finding their way into classrooms, it may be easy to assume that today’s kids are what learning and technology expert Marc Prensky described as “digital natives” in his provocative 2001 paper “Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants.” “Today’s students are no longer the people our educational system…
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New Report Details the Successes and Opportunities of Chicago’s YOUmedia
Mentorship, digital tools, and adaptable interest-driven learning are the recipe for YOUmedia success. Since opening the first YOUmedia space in Chicago’s Harold Washington Library Center (HWLC) in 2009, organizers from the Digital Youth Network, MacArthur Foundation, and the Chicago Public Library have worked to empower youth using digital media tools and mentorship. The informal, yet…
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Reflections on Creating a Learning Lab
Here is a very informative presentation by Ryan Hill, in which he reflects on the creation of the ARTLAB+ space and its connection to the Smithsonian, the Hirshhorn, and the principles of Connected Learning. Please note that there are audio clips embedded in most slides. You can double click the speaker icon, if watching this in slide…
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ARTLAB+ Presents: Installing “Belief+Doubt”
This short film, documenting the installation of a Barbara Kruger piece in the Hirshhorn’s lower lobby, was created by a production team of teens from ARTLAB+.
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Huffington Post teen blog by DreamYard participant, Gabbie Bowen
During DreamYard’s Fashion Week program, Gabbie Bowen, a DreamYard photo/video participant, created a mini Fashion Week documentary. The HIVE then asked DreamYard if Gabbie would be interested in writing a piece for HIVE NYC for the Huffington Post’s teen blog section. It’s a dedicated space on HuffPo that features stories from students exploring the intersection…
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DreamYard’s Out of School Programs Received the National Arts & Humanities Youth Program Awards 2012
“Chosen from a pool of more than 350 nominations and 50 finalists, DreamYard was one of 12 after-school and out-of-school programs across the country to receive the award, which is a once in a life-time award and the highest honor such programs can receive in the United States.” Click here to read the whole story.…
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New Grants Help 12 Museums and Libraries Plan and Design New Learning Labs
WASHINGTON, D.C. – On November 8, 2012, the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation today announced the second round of winners of a national competition to design 21st century Learning Labs in museums and libraries around the country. The 12 winners—five museums and seven libraries—will…
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DreamYard Ribbon Cutting event photos
Our Ribbon Cutting event for the YOUmedia expansion of the DreamYard Art Center took place on Oct. 23, 2012. We were honored to have Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz, members of our community and Hive NYC, and representatives from IMLS, ULC and our funders: JPMorgan Chase Foundation, John D. and Catherine J. MacArthur Foundation, and…
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ARTLAB+ Sound Booth Certification
Hello All, Attatched is some information about how we run the sound booth in the Artlab. It is a certification program that entitles the teens to use the sound booth un accompanied and also gives them ability to really level up by working with other teens in the space as an engineer / producer. soundboothcertificationmentorsheet.pdf…
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Youth-run Design and Research at the Free Library of Philadelphia, Summer 2012
From July to August 2012, 35 teens from Philadelphia worked at the Free Library to give their voice to what sort of environment and programs the library should offer for youth in Philly. 35 youth ages 14-19 served as Teen Programming Assistants for the Free Library of Philadelphia’s 2012 Summer Literacy and Leadership Program—a program…
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Team Columbus Update – Learning Labs Partnership
The Learning Labs planning project is a collaborative effort between the Columbus Metropolitan Library, the Columbus Museum of Art, the Wexner Center for the Arts, the Center for Science & Industry (COSI) and WOSU Public Media. In January 2012, a planning team was created to facilitate the development of a system of learning labs for…
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Matthew Byrd on Misogyny in Video Games
YOUmedia Chicago teen, and Library of Games regular Matthew Byrd wrote a great, thought-provoking piece on misogyny in video games for Huffington Post Teen. Click here to read the essay.
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Dream I. Y.: DreamYard’s Middle School Maker Program
Dream I. Y. was DreamYard’s pilot maker program for 7th and 8th graders that ran over the course of 14 weeks, Mondays, 4PM – 6PM in the Spring of 2012. The Dream I. Y. staff consisted of two teaching artists (one with maker tool expertise, the other with a visual arts background) and a college-aged…
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YOUmedia Miami Programming
YOUmedia Miami featured on South Florida’s Channel 7 Television segment, “Parent to Parent.”
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YOUmedia Miami Staff
Marlon Moore-Project Coordinator (Full-time) (Responsible for coordinating visiting tours of YOUmedia Miami, tracking successful completion of program benchmarks, program scheduling, community outreach, compiling reports and managing all YOUmedia Staff). Librarian (Full-time) (Responsible for connecting teens to YOUmedia Collection, managing Mentors and compiling reports). Luis Palencia-Technical Assistant (Part-time) (Solves software/hardware issues in YOUmedia…
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YOUmedia Miami Space
Pictures of the YOUmedia Miami space at the North Dade Regional Library in Miami, Florida.
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YOUmedia turns teens into DIY rock stars
“Enter Harold Washington Library from the State Street entrance and you might just think you’ve gone in the wrong building. You’ll find the room filled with teenagers listening to booming music and glued to laptop screens. You’re in the right place – you’ve just found YOUmedia, a whole new take on library culture.” Read more…
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Library of Games Podcast Extrasode: Interview with Katie Salen
In our final Chicago Humanities Festival Interview we talk to Katie Salen the founder Katie Salen is professor in the College of Computing and Digital Media at DePaul University, and former director of the Center for Transformative Media at Parsons The New School for Design, a research center in New York focused on emerging trends…