I am a third year doctoral student in the Graduate School of Education. My focus area is Language, Literacy, Society, and Culture. My three areas of research are digital literacies, transnational and African American identity formation, and teacher education. I am currently researching mobile literacy practices of urban transnational youth. I have always had an interest in videography and have my BA in Radio and Television Broadcasting. I am keenly interested in digital activism/social justice and critical media literacy as it relates to urban youth. I am intrigued by the use of the visual as a resource or tool for social justice as in the Oscar Grant Case. My email is aaminahm@berkeley.edu. I’m looking forward to getting to know all of you this spring!
Monthly Archives: January 2011
Hi! I’m Kimra
I’m Kimra McPherson, a second-year master’s student at the School of Information. I’m a user experience researcher, blogger, and former journalist (both traditional newspaper reporting and online entertainment writing), and I’m particularly interested in people’s personal relationships with media of all sorts.
I’m a recreational photographer with one photojournalism class under my belt and a minimal amount of experience of taking photos for publication. I’ve also done some shaky Flip-style video interviews and edited videos using iMovie. I’m taking this class both to learn more about best practices for multimedia narratives and to figure out how to incorporate different techniques into my final project presentation.
My e-mail: kimra@ischool.berkeley.edu
Hands-On
Many people have said they’re interested in this class to improve their production of media.
This class has two thrusts: theoretical/conceptual, and practical. My premise is that the former will help people do better at the latter. There’s more to creating a presentation than knowing how to work a camera.
On the practical side, we will address the following:
- basics of photography (for those who don’t already know them) – both technical skills and creative
- basics of video
- basics of audio
- skills for editing all of the above
- media products as data for analysis
- reports and presentations using excerpts and combinations of media
Students’ existing skills in these domains vary from none to expert — all are welcome.
This is not a technical class, but we will work with basic hardware and software to learn the essentials.