2013-2014 iEARN-Uganda Adobe Youth Voices (AYV) Face-to-Face Workshop Report (Tues 3rd – Mon 9th) Sept 2013
Fig. 1: Participants of the F2F AYV Workshop
Report made by: Kakinda Daniel, iEARN-Uganda AYV Country Coordinator 1
INTRODUCTION IEARN-Uganda conducted a 6-day residential face-to-face workshop for Adobe Youth Voices (AYV) educators in preparation for the 2013-2014 AYV project cycle with financial support from iEARN-USA. Participants included twenty (20) new AYV educators from 12 new AYV sites and five (5) returning AYV educators. The workshop was facilitated by Kakinda Daniel (iEARN-Uganda AYV coordinator), Henry Sempangi Sanyulye (AYV lead educator), Joel Bato (AYV lead educator) and Allan Kakinda (AYV lead educator). Great thanks to Adobe Foundation and iEARN-USA for the funding and software donation both of which were received in time for the Workshop. WORKSHOP OBJECTIVES The workshop objectives included:
To provide participants with a full overview of the philosophy of the Adobe Youth Voices and what’s expected of them, their sites and their youth artists as part of the program. To enable participants to gain a clearer understanding of the various media forms and formats in which youth work can be created by viewing and analyzing local and international media created by AYV youth artists. To enable participants learn about the steps and stages of facilitating effective youth media making practice; planning, production, post-production, revision and exhibition.. To build participants capacity to use Adobe Photoshop Element 11 and Adobe Premiere 11 which their youth will be using to produce their media projects. To inspire educators to actively participate in the Adobe Youth Voices through inspiration talks by AYV lead educators and returning AYV educators. To introduce participants to the online AYV course. To introduce participants to project-based learning and how it is used in Adobe Youth Voices in particular.
WORKSHOP ACTIVITIES The workshop objectives were achieved through carefully designed workshop activities using a range of training methodologies including brainstorming, small group discussion, facilitator exposition, minds-on and hands-on activities and participant reflections. (i)
HANDS-ON ACTIVITIES
Hands-on activities were led by Henry Sempangi Sanyulye (AYV lead educator) and included:
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Individual installation of Adobe Photoshop elements 11 and Adobe Premiere Elements 11. Guided exploration and discovery of the tools of Photoshop Elements’ organizer and photo Editor. Participants Learned: o How to Change the settings of the Adobe Photoshop elements welcome screen o How to use the organizer section to organize media files for editing in the photo and video editors section. This included; importing, tagging, creating events, creating slideshows, adding locations to the media files and using Instant fix panel to enhance the media file like photos. o How to use Photoshop for Graphics designing and Photo editing. o How to use the three new Adobe Photoshop elements 11 workspaces which included; The Quick Workspace, The Guided Workspace for easy photo editing and The Expert Workspace. Creating photo stories using Photoshop by participants doing the List Poem Activity. Guided exploration of the tools of Adobe Premiere Elements 11 Participants learned: o How to Import media into Adobe Premiere elements 11 using the Organizer after creating shot-lists. o Quick Editing using the Quick Workspace. o Editing using the expert workspace o Using the timeline o Adding Narrations and background music to the Media o Animating media files using the effect control panel o Adding text to the media o Rendering or exporting media where they also learned the different media codec and file formats Doing a video story in Premiere Elements of the issue they are concerned with from their List Poem.
The hands-on activities were aimed at building and enhancing the AYV educators’ capacity in using Adobe Photoshop 11 and Adobe Premiere Elements 11 in the media post-production stage.
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Fig.2: Participants doing one of the Hands-on activities
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GENERATING IDEAS FOR THE MEDIA
This session was led by Henry Sempangi (AYV lead educator) and Kakinda Daniel (iEARNUganda AYV coordinator).
Participants were taken through a number of ways they can use with their youth artists to generate ideas for the media which included expert source, KWH brainstorming and webbing and the inspiration methods among others. The expert source method was used to generate ideas for an instructional media on the biological and medical aspects on teenage pregnancy. Uganda has one of the highest teenage pregnancy rates in the world. 24% of girls in Uganda aged (15-19) years are either pregnant or have had a child before. After listening to a presentation on pregnancy by a medical person, one group of participants was tasked to develop a media plan and a script on teenage pregnancy. Another group was tasked to produce a media plan and a script of an instructional media of jewelry from beads. Uganda has a very high unemployment rate with 83% of the youth (18-24) years unemployed.
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Fig. 3: Group working on media plan and script for instructional media on Jewelry from beads
Participants used the KWH brainstorming method and webbing to develop ideas for a media on injustice.
Fig. 4: Participants using the KWH Brainstorming method
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MEDIA FORMAT EXPOSITION
Media exposition was led by Kakinda Daniel (iEARN-Uganda AYV coordinator). Participants watched youth media produced by some Uganda AYV sites and some international AYV sites. AYV youth media from Uganda included: The Power is in Your Hands (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6jM7OZfy28) The Gained Hope (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g46xWf_vNQM) I Have Something To Say (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dir5r6A_D8g ) Race Against Time and the Making of Race Against Time (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bq9S5Kuet4M) AYV youth media from international sites included:
The Truth by iEARN-China (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpbJESmHWvo ) Consumerism by iEARN-Argentina (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ItZbr8C6iA ) Differences Can Make the World’s Greatest Portrait by iEARN-Brasil (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDGfmpPpt-E ) Discrimination by iEARN-Bahrain (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bI-Wwf1r5Gk ) One Plays, Another Pays by iEARN-Pakistan (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gx5lEwgaVqc )
The media exposition was aimed at giving the educators an insight in the possible media formats that can be used by their youth artists to air their voices and the range of social issues young people care about. Participants were tasked to identify the audience(s) for the different AYV youth media and the key messages to the different audiences. (iv)
INSPIRATIONAL SESSIONS
There were two inspirational sessions in the workshop; Employability Skills and Role of ICT and AYV in Achieving Personal Dreams. (a) Employability skills This session was led by Kakinda Daniel and was aimed at helping the educators reflect on the current Uganda teacher-centred educational system and why it is partly to blame for producing non-employable graduates and the need to use project-based learning if the educational system is to produce employable graduates.
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Employability skills are those skills needed to make an individual employable; getting, keeping and doing well on a job. Through interactive discussions, participants identified the following employability skills: Communication skills (listening, verbal and written) Numeracy skills Team-working skills Negotiation skills Problem-solving skills Planning and organizational skills Valuing diversity and difference Learning skills Self-management Initiative and enterprise skills Participants noted that apart from giving the youth a voice, Adobe Youth Voices (AYV) goes a long way in developing employability skills in the educators and the youth.
(b) Role of ICT and AYV in Achieving Personal Dreams Kakinda Daniel led the workshop participants through a dreaming session where each participant was identifying or re-defining his/her personal dream. The session included: What is a personal dream? Why do we need to have a personal dream? How to identify a personal dream? Steps taken in achieving a personal dream. Daniel noted in particular that personal dreams are a long term projection of the kind of life one would like to live in 10, 20, 30 etc. years’ time. Personal dreams must be well defined and should cover different aspects of one’s life; career, education, family, financial, spiritual etc. Personal dreams provide the internal driving force that enables one to overcome any obstacles in one’s life. Daniel cautioned the educators that achieving their personal dreams was not a simple task. It requires a lot of: Dedication Determination Sacrifice Perseverance Hard work Proper planning Going an extra mile
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Kakinda informed the educators that his personal dream is to become “A Responsible, Committed, Reliable, Honest, Humble, Inspirational and Internationally Exposed Professional Educator”. He thereafter gave participants an insight of how ICT, Adobe Youth Voices (AYV), networking, collaboration, knowledge sharing and educational content creating and repacking have helped him to move towards his personal dream. He mentioned some of the countries he has been to; Senegal (1), Nigeria (1), Ghana (4), Egypt (2), South Africa (12), Botswana (1), Tanzania (3), Zimbabwe (1), Mauritius (1), Kenya (9), Ethiopia (3), UK (3), Germany (2), Slovakia (1), France (1), Spain (1), Netherlands (2), USA (6), Taiwan (1) and Qatar (1). He concluded by asking the educators to reflect on how AYV will help them in achieving their personal dreams because it is only them that they will be able to overcome all the challenges which come with its implementation at their sites.
AYV Helping Me to Achieve My Dream- Personal Testimony by Allan Kakinda Allan Kakinda shared with the workshop participants how AYV is helping him to move towards achieving his dream of being “A Global leader promoting positive media” Allan joined Adobe Youth Voices (AYV) as a 1st year University student under the SchoolNet Uganda AYV site in 2008. Together with other youth artists, created a documentary on “Gender Disparity in Science Education”. He got involved in training youth artists from other Uganda AYV sites. In 2009, his team was selected to attend the AYV 2009 Summit which was held in California, USA. He led two youth artists; Sheilla Mulungi and Ronald Kasendwa to the Summit. At the Summit, he made Lisa Jobson, of iEARN-USA who informed him of an internship opportunity at iEARN-USA offices in New York, USA which he took up (August, 2010 – January, 2011 Allan mentioned some of the AYV activities he has been involved in which included:
Completed the iEARN AYV online course (2010) Started the MakHill Media AYV site Trained as iEARN AYV Global media mentor (May 2011) in California, USA. Hosted the iEARN AYV exhibition in Taiwan (July 2011) Was one of the trainers at iEARN AYV training in Taiwan (2011) and in Doha, Qatar (2013). An iEARN AYV online facilitator A judge at the AYV Aspire Awards Produced 3 tutorials (2 for the AYV Online course and 1 for stop motion animation)
Allan shared with participants the following benefits he has got from participating in Adobe Youth Voices: 8
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Developed media making skills (video and design).
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Developed 21st century skills (team work, tele-collaboration, working across different time zones, cross cultural understanding, ICT literacy, creativity and innovativeness, patience, empathy and effective communication).
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Attending international conferences (GEC 2010, 2011 and 2012) and training opportunities.
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Meeting and networking with different people around the globe.
Allan concluded by asking the participants to ponder on….
What is AYV to you? How is it going to help you achieve your dreams? Is it in your dream circle?
Are you called to the media mountain of influence? If not, how can AYV on media help you fulfill your calling in the mountain of influence you are called to?
My AYV journey – A personal Testimony by Joel Bato Joel Bato informed participants that he started his AYV journey in 2009 with the AYV Face -to -Face training workshop. He completed the iEARN AYV online course in 2010 becoming an iEARN Master Trainer. Joel has overtime moved small steps which he is convinced are definitely in the right direction of his dream of being “An instrument of change and of impacting positively on the lives of people in his community.” Joel listed some of the AYV activities he been involved in:
He has worked on a number of media projects with his students which include: o “Race Against Time” which was an Aspire Awards finalist 2012. o “I Have Something To Say” which was exhibited at the iEARN AYV international exhibition in Doha, Qatar (2013). He was a winner at the Microsoft Innovative Teachers Competition in Jordan (2012) and qualified to attend the global Innovative Teachers Forum in Washington D.C (2012). He had just attended the AYV Lead Educators’ training in California, USA (Aug 2013)
Joel Bato concluded by sharing some of the things which took place at the AYV Summit 2013; Lead Educator training, youth exploring media making, visit t Adobe headquarters, excursions, social networking and AYV Live.
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iEARN-AYV ONLINE COURSE
This session was led by Allan Kakinda (AYV Lead educator and Online Course facilitator) and co-facilitated by Kakinda Daniel (iEARN Uganda AYV Coordinator). The facilitators logged into the Online course and visually demonstrated how the course looked like. Participants were informed that the iEARN-AYV Online course will be run in two sessions; Session One (23rd Sept – 18th Nov) 2013 and Session two (17th Feb -14th April) 2014. Some of the educators will be registered for session one and others for session two. (a) Course Structure The Online course has eight sessions with each session run for one week. The session for the coming week is often opened on Sunday. Session 1: Program Overview Session 2: Youth Media Defined Session 3: Youth Centred Instructions Session 4: Process, Product, Presentation Session 5: Media Forms and Format Session 6: Youth Media Making Tools Session 7: Connecting with Your Audience Session 8: Going forward (b) Session Structure Participants were informed that each session is further broken into the following sections Section Read: View and Reflect: Explore: Activity: Go Further:
Purpose Selected readings that help the course participants explore youth media fundamentals and best practices Youth media case studies that help course participants view what AYV youth artists are creating and reflect on how to integrate AYV elements at their sites. Tutorials and support websites that provide course participants guidance on how to implement youth media projects. Minds-On and Hands-On activities that provide the participants an opportunity to put in practice the readings, viewings and reflections. Each session has additional references and supporting materials on different youth media topics.
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Participants were cautioned that:
Unlike in the conventional classroom where assignments are privately submitted to the teacher (facilitator), in the AYV online class, assignments are submitted in public forums for peer-to-peer review and reflection by other participants. It is important to keep pace with the course because a participant will miss comments of other participants if he/she submits work late.
(c) Tips for Successfully Completing the Online Course Allan Kakinda shared with the participants the following tips for successful completion of the iEARN AYV online course: Be the first to complete all your assignments Ensure you have all the course videos before the course starts. Keep your facilitators and country coordinator posted on the technical and logistical challenges you are facing. Though you are required to comment on a least two post of other participants every week, go an extra mile and substantially comment on as many posts are possible. Mind the language, tone and relevancy of your posts otherwise you may be isolated by other participants. (d) Benefits of Completing the iEARN AYV Online Course Allan shared with the participants the following benefits of successfully completing the AYV online course: Getting the iEARN Master Teacher Certificate Getting a deeper understanding of the AYV program and how to implement it. Becoming a member of the AYV Global Online Community Possible recommendation for future AYV Online course facilitation in case you stand out of the cloud. Recommendation for other iEARN AYV Online professional development courses. Experience in completing an online course and hence reference for other online courses. One step towards becoming an AYV lead educator.
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Production
Some participants practiced video recording using cameras, sound boom and the green screen. Thanks to iEARN-USA which donated some green screen to iEARN-Uganda at the iEARN conference 2013 in Doha, Qatar
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Fig 5: Video recording
WAY FORWARD: ANTICIPATED CHALLENGES & POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS Participants identifying the following as possible challenges they are likely to encounter in the implementation of Adobe Youth Voices (AYV) and shared possible solutions to the challenges: Challenge Finding time to implement the AYV
Lack of access to school computers and Internet during the AYV Online course.
Possible solution of addressing the challenge. Use the time after classes and on weekends. Involve the school administration or organizational leaders and keep updating them on AYV activities through reports. Cascade the training so that to get more AYV educators at the site. Save and buy a personal laptop and a modem or a smart phone for Internet access.
Continuity and sustainability of the AYV program.
Lack of skills (ICT, Project-based learning)
Integrate AYV in the school/organizational activities. AYV should be seen to add value to the site’s activity. Bring on board as many educators and youth so as to create local capacity and a sense of local ownership. Work very closely with the ICT coordinator to organize ICT training workshops. Use Internet as a learning resource. Attend professional development courses in project-based learning. Invite returning AYV educators and lead educators as 12
Motivating young people to join the AYV program. Getting the information for the media Copyright issues
resource persons at some of your workshops. Invite AYV youth artists to share their personal testimonies of how AYV has impacted on their lives. Show the young people youth media produced by other local and international AYV sites. Let the youth artists exhibit their media nd participate in international competitions like the Aspire Awards. Let the young people be in the driver’s seat with you providing guidance and logistical support. Use the community as a learning resource/ Let the youth artists take their own photos or compose own music. Use loyalty free music and photos.
WORKSHOP EVALUATION Below are some of the participants’ evaluation of the workshop. “The workshop improved on my level of thinking most especially during the brainstorming sessions. I improved on my communication, ICT and presentation skills during the reflections. My attitude towards conventional teaching methods changed and I think I should now focus on project-based learning. I plan to create an AYV club to help the youth in my school air out their views using the different media formats I have learned at the workshop.” …………………. Charles Ssekalaala, Bishop’s SS, Mukono “I learned how to edit photos in Adobe Photoshop 11 and how to create simple video media in Adobe Premiere Elements 11. I also learned that AYV can change young people’s lives and if one chooses to do something, it can be done (Where there is a will, there is always a way). My attitude changed positively to embrace project-based learning, finding ways of finding out of the cloud in whatever I do and fitting whatever I do in the accomplishment of my dream otherwise it becomes useless and additional work. I plan to create a work plan which will include: Making a video for the Entrepreneurship department Making the production of the school news better Designing a virtual tour of the school. …………………………… Diana Nalubega, Jinja SS
“I got broad knowledge about the Adobe Youth Voices program that it is run in various countries not only in Uganda. I learnt how to installation Adobe Photoshop and Adobe 13
Premiere Elements software. I got know that meaningful making of a youth media projects goes through a number of stages including; Planning, Production, PostProduction, Revising and Exhibition. My attitude about AYV changed positively because I used to think it was only for computer wizards but having looked at the composition of participants who were from different areas; a Nurse, Math teachers, Foods & Nutrition, Technical Drawing etc. and all had trained in AYV and were doing well, built my attitude that AYV is for those who are able to learn but with a purpose of creating a purposeful media. I plan to:
Brief the teachers and school administrators about AYV so that it is officialized in the school. Recruit youth artists for the AYV program at my site. Train students on how to use Adobe software and how to produce youth media projects.” ………………. Sylvia Kabuye, Our Lady of Good Counsel SSS, Gayaza
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Appendix 1: ADOBE YOUTH VOICES (AYV) – FACE-2-FACE WORKSHOP PARTICIPANT LIST AND CONTACT INFORMATION
No . 1. 2.
Names
AYV Site
Phone
Kakinda Daniel Bishal Rana Magar
SNU ActionAid Uganda
3.
AYV-Uganda
4. 5. 6. 7. 8.
Sempangi Henry Sanyulye Joel Bato Mbubu Abdalah Ssekalaala Charles Muhindo Abisayah Kenneth Lukwago
+256772-820167 +256755-137455 +256703-536582 +256776-847748
9. 10. 11. 12.
Wasswa Hassan Kabuula Aggrey Patrick Mitala Amanya Kevin
13. 14.
Kuchana Tugule Solomon Kintu Kenny Ivan
15. 16.
Nalubega Diana Kasibe Isma Isaiah
17. 18.
Ibanda Edward Ssemwogerere Danny Chole Richard Mukisa Phiona Kabuye Sylivia
19. 20. 21. 22. 23 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29
Nazziwa Elizabeth Kizito Martin Asea Solomon Vivian Namazzi Ssebunya Christopher Ddungu Ronald Namuganza Stella Allan Kakinda
Gayaza HS King of Kings Bishops’ SS Bwera SS Makerere College Sc. St. Elisa SS St. Gonzaga Gonza Kampabits Arise Youth Generation Tororo Town College
+256787-287521 +256779-346813 +256775-922297 +256782-144695 +256772-453381
dkakinda@yahoo.com Bishar.magar@actionaid.org bishalrmagar@gmail.com henrysempangisanyulye@yahoo .com joelbato@gmail.com mbubuaspel@gmail.com sekalalacharles@gmail.com muhindoabisayah@yahoo.com kelukwago@yahoo.co.uk
+256774-874001 +256776-893778 +256779-846917 +256702-686784
wasswa300@gmail.com akabuula@yahoo.com mpatric41@gmail.com k.amanya777@gmail.com
Reach A Hand Uganda Jinja SS Bugema Adventist SS Bugema Adventist Wampeewo Ntakke SS PMM Girls YAFU Our Lady of Good Counsel Kololo High School Gayaza HS Gayaza H.S YAFU Namirembe Hillside
+256701-410715 kintukenny@gmail.com
Gayaza H.S Makerere University Marie Stopes
+256772-433879 ronaldddungu@yahoo.com +256777-087611 drstello3@yahoo.com +256773-099790 akakinda2@yahoo.co.uk
+256773-866584 teguleksolomon@hotmail.com
+256774-214215 dianakanyunyuzi@yahoo.com +256773-559838 kasisaial@gmail.com +256782-472168 Ibanded2012@gmail.com +256782-318902 dnssemwogerere@gmail.com +256782-347541 cholerichard@yahoo.com +256703-000496 mukisaphiona856@yahoo.com +256787-026099 silkabuye@rocketmail.com +256787-282488 +256711-151139 +256772447802 +256700-272914 +256776-711883
eliznazziwa@yahoo.com martkiz2@yahoo.com aseas99@yahoo.com vivista2k@yahoo.com ssebunya@mail.com
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