Mindy Faber's Blog – July 2007 Archive (3)

Check out what youth in Barbados are posting on our website www.youthlab.net as we create videos, google maps and digital photos on the living legacies of slavery. You can also begin to see their Flickr photos.

I just joined Ning yesterday and am already loving it. i feel like I am connecting immediately with smart and fascinating people who are passionate about the same things I am - youth, teaching, technology and making the world a better place! It's so energizing to connect with all of you.



In a few days I will be in Barbados working with youth there. We will be posting to our blog at www.youthlab.net beginning on Tuesday or Wednesday next week. i hope you can check it out. Youth LAB… Continue

In a few days I head to Barbados where my colleague Mela Berger and I will train eight youth how to use digital tools and web 2.0. The focus of the work they produce is the legacy of the transatlantic slave trade during the 200th anniversary of Britain's abolition.



Among many of the tools they will be learning, I am particularly excited about using Google My maps to trace the Middle Passage and other routes that brought slaves to Barbados and then on to other sites in the Caribbean,… Continue