With Intel, mobile digital arts developed twenty Activity Guides that will be used in Intel Computer Clubhouses, a network of drop-in centers in the United States and abroad. The Computer Clubhouse Network emerged out of work that was being done at MIT and the Boston Museum of Science and now serves thousands of young people who wouldn't otherwise have access to computers and software. Click here to learn more about the Activity Guide Library...
With Nokia and the International Youth Foundation, mobile digital arts has developed curricula, programs and workshops as part of the Make a Connection Program. Make a Connection programs are on five continents and help young people develop entrepreneurial and life skills, become more effective and confident in the workplace, and promote and develop community-based organizations. For example, mobile digital arts recently designed and implemented a program in South Africa to help recent college graduates create digital portfolios about their career aspirations that included a short movie about themselves, an online resume, and a website to showcase all of these elements. In addition mobile digital arts trained Make a Connection professionals to host and conduct digital storytelling workshops themselves.
Also with the International Youth Foundation, mobile digital arts, along with the Pearson Foundation, hosted a workshop for twenty exceptional youth leaders from around the world as part of Youth Action Net. During this workshop, participants created short movies to document the work they have done in their own countries to raise political awareness, bring books to underserved communities, combat AIDS, and many other outstanding community-based enterprises.
In Dallas, mobile digital arts is working with the first US-based Make A Connection program called Make a Connection Thru Art (along with Big Thought) that brings arts education to schools without any existing programs.mobile digital arts' programs will enable young people to document their experiences with short movies using a program called Adobe Premiere. mobile digital arts is helping to extend the Make a Connection Thru Art program more widely in Texas and California schools by working with teachers in other subject areas to develop digital arts curricula in the classroom.
In Mexico City, the mobile digital arts is working with young documentary filmmakers in a Make a Connection program aimed at highlighting issues that affect local communities.
mobile digital arts develops its own programs and curriculum, and uses the Pearson Community Digital Arts Library (which it co-developed with Pearson and Intel). Each program in the Digital Arts Library provides a simple, project-based structure that young people can explore on their own or in workshop teams. Click here to learn more...
Youth-Focused Program Development
mobile digital arts has been working in conjunction with the Pearson Foundation, the non-profit arm of Pearson PLC, the world's largest educational publisher. Pearson's textbooks and other educational materials are ubiquitous in K-12 and higher education institutions across the country. Most recently, mobile digital arts has been involved in a variety of projects with the Pearson Foundation:
