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The Groovy Little Youth Media Sourcebook

Created in 2001, The Groovy Little Youth Media Sourcebook: Strategies & Techniques from the Listen Up! Network provides tips, ideas, methods, and activities that Listen Up! Network members find particularly useful in creating and facilitating successful youth media programs.

Excerpt: Training Strategies: Methods and Techniques to Facilitate
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Excerpt: Teaching Activities: Building Trust, Brainstorming & Production Exercises
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Excerpt: Finding Collaborators and Partners: Do it With Others!
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Excerpt: Community Engagement & Exhibition: Strategies for Orchestrating Community Presentations
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Online Resources:

Listen Up! Production Tools
BAVC Next Generation
Making Movies: Ideas for Short Videos
Current TV Producer Resources
Designing Video Programs for Youth: Creative Expression and Achieving Goals
Video in the Classroom (KQED: Education & Learning)
Teaching Youth Media: A Critical Guide to Literacy, Video Production and Social Change
On TV - Teaching with Video, Discoveryschool.com
Youth Media Reporter - Professional journal that serves educators, practitioners, professionals and academics in the youth media field.
United Nations Alliance of Civilizations - Media Literacy Clearinghouse.
YouthLearn - Comprehensive services and resources for using technology to create exciting learning environments.