[youthradioleaders] Mapping Main Street!

[Ann Heppermann]

Hi All!

Ann Heppermann here, with some very exciting news!  Mapping Main Street, the
collaborative multimedia project funded by AIR's MQ2, is getting ready to
launch in a few weeks.  Right now, you can catch our beta site

www.mappingmainstreet.org.

One thing that Kara Oehler (MMS co-creator along with Jesse Shapins and
James Burns) are developing are more partnerships with youth and educational
programs. Right now we're going to be collaborating with Radio Rookies's
Short Wave program in September/October to document the Main Street in
Queens.  We'll be doing audio, video and blog posting.

My thought, as an educator myself, was that MMS could be a great tool for
teaching in today's multimedia landscape because MMS can be used to teach
audio, video and writing.  I'd love to know what your thoughts are.  Right
now, are primary push for the public is to document through
photography/Fickr.  We're hoping to open up to more audio and video
submissions after we launch in a few weeks and moving into September.

Here is the "participate" page on our beta site

http://mappingmainstreet.org/participate/index.html

I'd love to know if you guys think if we should do more curricula
development with MMS; if the site could easily be incorporated into
educational programs, or any other ideas/comments suggestions you have.

Hope everyone is having a wonderful summer!

Ann
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