Geo Girls: Citizen Journalism

Submitted by LESGC on Thu, 01/31/2008 - 6:24pm
Short Description: 

The Lower Eastside Girls Club (LESGC) is a diverse organization with girls representing many backgrounds and cultures. The diverse nature of our organization is represented in all of our programs and workshops. The Lower Eastside Girls Club will present their new Citizen Journalism site: Geo Girls, (www.girlville.info/geo) a location based website using Google Earth Pro, Picasa, text, and web video. This is a teaching tool we have designed to enable students to explore, document, and present neighborhood issues block by block. Participants in this workshop will actually create a Geo Girls page, featuring the Grassroots Media Conference.

Presenters
Presenter One Name: 
T. Renée Laster
Presenter One Info: 

T. Renée Laster is a full time staff member at the LESGC, teaches the technology & media programs, and manages the podcasting website, Girls On Air! (www.girlsclubworldwide.org/wp). She is also the source behind the scenes of Geo Girls (www.girlville.info/geo).

Presenter Two Name: 
Amber J. Grof
Presenter Two Info: 

Amber J. Grof is co-manager of Girls On Air! She is also a member of the leadership program called Cascading Leadership. Amber is a high school senior at City As A School.

Presenter Three Name: 
Dave Pentecost
Presenter Four Name: 
Lyn Pentecost