Out of School Examples

Community Information Agents Online (CIAO)
http://www.flint.lib.mi.us/flintprofiles/about.html
Creator:  Community Information Agents Online (CIAO)
Notes:  Six children in the CIAO (Community Information Agents Online) program spent 6 weeks in the summer of 2000 learning video publishing for the net. The youth built Web sites for the Urban Gardens program, the Neighborhood Roundtable and two library branches. Partners in the project included the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, School of Information and the Kellogg Foundation.

Listen Up!
http://www.listenup.org/
Creator:  Listen Up!
Notes:  Features more than 150 youth-produced video messages. "It's a Phat ride through youth media." (bring a QuickTime player.)

Media Workshop's Summer Tech Camp
http://www.mediaworkshop.org/techcamp/groupb/
Creator:  Media Workshop
Notes:  Through a combination of field trips in New York and Internet research, all Web production, including content, was created by the kids (ages 10-13) who participated in Media Workshop's summer program (2000). For a complete overview of the program, visit http://www.mediaworkshop.org/techcamp.

Phillips Community Television
http://phillipscommunitytv.org/
Creator:  Phillips Community Television
Notes:  Youth in the Phillips Community Television (PCTV) program created this Web site. The site provides information on the organization's programs, including video clips from "Our Turn," a cable tv show sharing young people's view on public issues in Minneapolis. PCTV, a media literacy education and audiovisual production organization, helps youth, ages 9 - 18 make their own television programs, magazines, photography exhibits and personal projects focusing on youth and community issues.

Spaghetti Book Club
http://www.spaghettibookclub.org/
Creator:  Spaghetti Book Club
Notes:  Book reviews by kids for kids. "The Spaghetti Book Club is a literacy program that integrates reading, writing art and technology by teaching kids how to write book reviews and then publishing them on the web. The Spaghetti Book Club provides an opportunity for students to reflect on the books they are reading and share their opinions and reactions with friends, family members, and kids around the world."

Street Level Youth Media
http://streetlevel.iit.edu/
Creator:  Street Level Youth Media
Notes:  A variety of multi-media projects from youth who have participated in the Street Level Youth media programs in Chicago. Includes "CHi-dentified [a] project [that] gave youth across the city the chance to look at their identity in the context of American history, specifically the history of slavery and the African people," personal Web sites created by youth, testimonials on life in Chicago, "Chiksite, An all-girls collaboration on what it means to be a women in cyberspace," and more.

Web Kids Camp 2000
http://www.hpl.lib.tx.us/youth/web_kids.html
Creator:  Houston Public Library, Houston Education Resource Network (HERN)
Notes:  Web Kids Camp 2000 was an intensive seven-week web page building camp for the youth of Houston. Each student was given the task of building a homepage for their own company. Some preferred to do their page about their own hobbies or interests.