Mindy Faber

56, Female

Evanston

United States

Profile Information:

School / Work Affiliation
Open Youth Networks Director
Blog
http://www.youthlab.net
Website
http://openyouthnetworks.org
Skype Account
youthlab_chicago
About Me
I taught media arts at Evanston High School for three years and founded a non-profit that trains youth in web 2.0, digital media and socially-motivated P2P production so that they can mobilize their own communities around issues they care about. We work with youth globally as well. In 2007 youth in Barbados created online cinema in a virtual contact zone with Chicago teens.
I now work as Academic Manager at
Columbia College Dept of Interactive Arts and media. www.iam.colum.edu

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  • Kathleen Tyner

    Mindy, as always,you've found a great community of good folks and I"m looking forward to seeing more of you terrific student video and hearing about your work in Barbados. I'm off to Portugal and will let y'all know what's going on there when I get back. What a great site!

    Jul 5, 2007

  • Daniel Bassill

    Hi Mindy, I lead Cabrini Connections, Tutor/Mentor Connection, based in Chicago and on the Internet. I hope we can connect you and your students with what we're doing. Visit http://mappingforjustice.blogspot.com to see some examples of how we're using maps to draw attention to tutor/mentor programs in high poverty neighborhoods. If youth groups are learning to use maps to tell stories, this would be a great project for them to tell the story of neighborhoods like Howard Street, or parts of Evanston, where kids might benefit from non-school tutoring/mentoring and learning opportunities.

    Jun 22, 2008

  • Jack

    Hi Mindy. I was wondering if your students would be interested in participating in a nationwide SAT Vocab Video Contest @ MIT university. If not, perhaps you have some educator contacts you could direct me to. You can view contest details at BrainyFlix.com Please let me know. Thanks!

    Jan 30, 2009