Media Infusion is a blog written by teachers for teachers focused on using multimedia resources to address common instructional challenges. Each month guest experts discuss and invite you to share your ideas about using multimedia resources to address common instructional challenges. These practitioners live and work in your standards-based, resource-challenged world. They share your commitment to creating rich, engaging learning experiences for students and are pioneering methods for infusing their instruction with media to improve learning across grade levels and curriculum topics. Pull up a screen and join us!

• Digital Media Webinar Series: Integrating Youth Media Making into Public Media
  Beginning on Thursday Sept 15 (12-1 ET), the VoiceScape project will host a series of 5 webinars. The title of the series, “A Match Made in Heaven: Youth Media Making and Public Media,” introduces sta …
• Portfolios the Digital Way
    I recently attended an e-portfolio workshop with a group of Boston Public School teachers at the Adobe office in Waltham, Ma. E-portfolios weren’t new to me, but I had never spent a great deal …
• Media Literacy: Understanding and Creating with Intentionality
  If you’re looking to define media literacy there are books galore, websites innumerable, and semester-long courses in teacher training programs that will offer an approach. The industry standard resou …
• The Final Step
  This school  year of media-making and digital media arts production is quickly coming to a close as summer vacation looms. Many of the projects began back in October. Some of us managed to help our st …
• Software in Service of the Story
  People come to digital (media) arts workshops and trainings wanting and expecting to learn how to use the software; they want to “get their hands dirty.” And so they will. But first comes the story. G …
• Finding the story: “I don’t have any stories to tell….”
  We’ve all heard it, “I don’t have any stories….” It’s the battle cry of those who don’t understand that we all have stories to tell, we all have stories that need to be told, we all have stories that …
• Stop Motion Animation: A Great Way to Ease into Digital Media Creation
  Stop motion animation is an easy way to jump into digital storytelling or movie making. Stop motion is an animation technique where an object is moved incrementally and pictures are taken of each move …
• (Only) 5 Things You Need to Know to Create a Video
  It seems like an overwhelming task to learn how to make compelling video projects. And it is, but not because of the technology. Learn these five tasks and it is, literally, a done deal. 1.  Getting m …
• AYV Essentials—Getting started with youth-created media
  Youth-created media….It’s a big topic. Pedagogically complex, cognitively complex, resource and time intensive, yet ubiquitous, and an essential component of today’s educational environment. Have yo …
• PBS+AYV+POV: The Inaugural Post
  By Leslie Rule This post launches the Project VoiceScape blog. Project VoiceScape is a partnership between Adobe Youth Voices (AYV), the Adobe Foundation's global signature philanthropy program, …

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