The
Project
In January 2001, Real Art Ways began offering digital audio training
workshops in our new audio lab at 30 Arbor Street. The workshop participants
(high school students, senior citizens, artists, teachers, and other
members of the community) will produce original projects, including
audio art, journalism, drama, poetry, music, storytelling, oral history,
and sound design. As the projects are completed, they will be transformed
into streaming audio files and archived on the Real Art Ways website.
Visitors to our website can then listen to the audio projects on their
computers.
To prepare for this project, we spent the past year examining best
practices. We visited and spoke with audio, video and web access centers,
youth radio projects, media educators, radio stations, audio artists,
journalism programs, arts centers, educational software designers,
musicians, business incubators for youth, streaming media specialists,
and funders of technology, education and the arts. We looked at hundreds
of websites and listened to dozens of web radio stations.
We have put what we learned into this toolkit, but it is only a start.
There is more to be learned, more to be documented, more to be shared.
As you use this toolkit, we hope you will share your own discoveries.
Please let us know of other programs, Web links, curricula, successes
and problems, funding opportunities, innovative approaches, and so
on. We will incorporate your information as soon as we can, so that
others may learn from it. Let us know if our toolkit structure works
for you. And, please don't forget to add links to Real Art Ways and
this toolkit to your own website!
Send your comments to info@realartways.org.
This toolkit is made possible through the generosity of the Albert
A. List Foundation. |
DIGITAL
SKILLS
Visit the Digital Skills Web site.
Interact with the Parkville
Audio Map.
THE AUDIO SKILLS TOOLKIT
Getting Started
Audio and Radio Production
Association of Independents in Radio (AIR)
www.airmedia.org
AIR is a non-profit membership organization of culturally diverse independent
radio producers; station and network based producers; audio artists;
radio stations; educational and cultural institutions; media art centers;
and others in public broadcasting. Website includes practical information,
training opportunities, links to other useful sites.
Radio College
www.radiocollege.org
Radio College is a resource for freelance radio journalists, station-based
and independent radio producers, providing information and education
to newcomers in the public radio field and career development information
for those at mid-level.
How To Make Radio Stories
www.thislife.org
This guide, in comic-book format, book gives you an inside look at
how the public radio show This American Life is made. But even better,
it's a step-by-step primer on how to make a radio story. The book includes
detail on where TAL finds its stories, how to structure a story, how
to do an interview, how to hold the microphone, how to edit sound,
how to write a script for radio.
National Public Radio’s Public Radio
Ethics and Style Guidebook
www.npr.org
Society of Professional
Journalists’s Code of Ethics
www.spj.org
Media Rites
Legacies Handbook & CD
www.mediarites.org
MediaRites is a non-profit multicultural production organization that
promotes acceptance, understanding and education between diverse communities
through a variety of media including radio, theatre, visual arts and
interdisciplinary outreach projects. The Legacies Handbook & CD is
a step-by-step guide - with audio examples - to creating oral and cultural
history documentaries.
Atlantic Public Media/Cape
and Islands Community Radio
Jay Allison - Tips for Citizen Storytellers
www.atlantic.org
Teen Reporter Handbook
www.radiodiaries.org
Written in reporter’s notebook format by Teenage Diaries series producer
Joe Richman, this guide is designed to help young reporters document
their own experiences. It contains practical information, a CD of teen-produced
radio stories, and lists of youth radio training programs and other
resources.
Youth Radio Manual
www.nfcb.org
This comprehensive publication, due out in 2001, contains program histories,
practical information, and sample curricula.
ProTools Software - FREE
www.digidesign.com
Digidesign’s Pro Tools FREE audio editing software is now available
for download from the Digidesign website. This free version of Pro
Tools runs on qualified Mac OS, Windows 98 SE and Windows Me computers.
Video Production
National Alliance of Media, Arts,
and Culture
www.namac.org
Community Radio
National Federation of Community
Broadcasters
www.nfcb.org
NFCB is a national membership organization of community-oriented, non-commercial
radio stations. The website includes links to community stations on
the Web. NFCB hosts a Youth Radio Workshop at its annual conference.
A Youth Radio manual, including sample curricula, is due out in 2001.
Free Radio Berkeley
www.freeradio.org
Broadcasting
Federal Regulations
Federal Communications Commission
www.fcc.gov
445 12th St. SW, Washington DC 20554
(202) 418-0190
fccinfo@fcc.gov
The FCC was established by the Communications Act of 1934 as an independent
United States government agency directly responsible to Congress.
The Act, which has been amended over the years, charges the Commission
with establishing policies to govern interstate and international
communications by television, radio, wire, satellite and cable. The
Mass Media Bureau regulates AM, FM radio and television broadcast
stations, as well as Multipoint Distribution (i.e., cable and satellite)
and Instructional Television Fixed Services. The FCC recently adopted
rules creating a new, noncommercial low power FM radio (LPFM) service.
The new service will consist of stations with maximum power levels
of 10 watts - reaching an area with a radius of between 1 and 2 miles
- and 100 watts - reaching an area with a radius of approximately
3 _ miles.
Low Power FM
Media Access Project
www.mediaaccess.org
Media Access Project is a non-profit, public interest law firm which
promotes the public’s First Amendment right to hear and be heard on
the electronic media. MAP publishes advocacy and research literature
on LPFM.
Microradio Implementation
Project (MIP)
www.microradio.org
This site has “how-to” and policy information, as well as links to
other microradio organizations. Sponsored by the United Church of Christ,
MIP is the largest LPFM clearinghouse organization.
Community Media Services
microradio.org/apply.htm
Under the direction of Nan Rubin, a 25-year veteran of community media
development, CMS works with the United Methodist Church to assist community-based
groups in applying for and building radio stations. Nan’s easy-to-follow
instructions on how to fill out the technical sections of the FCC LPFM
application and her introductory publication on building radio stations
are available on the microradio.org website.
National Lawyers Guild Committee
on Democratic Communications
www.nlgcdc.org
NLGCDD offers legal services to LPFM applicants. It is chiefly responsible
for the Broadcast signal labs study that convinced the FCC that LPFM
was technically viable.
Americans for Radio Diversity
www.radiodiversity.com
ARD has worked extensively to promote the development of LPFM stations.
The organization also spearheaded a campaign against NPR’s opposition
to the FCC’s low-power radio initiative.
LowPower Radio Coalition
congress.nw.dc.us/lpr/
LPRC helps set up meetings for community organizations and individuals
to discuss LPFM with members of Congress. The organization publishes
email updates on Congressional activities and maintains a website listing
simple, documentable ways to affect public policy.
Beginners Guide to Low Power
Broadcasting
freespeech.org/lowpower/guide.html
Rick Harrison’s basic look at the technical issues of low-power radio.
Thorough.
Streaming Audio
Microsoft Windows Media
msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/imedia/windowsmedia
Real Networks
www.real.com
General Resources
Current
www.current.org
Current is a biweekly newspaper that covers public TV and public radio
in the United States. Current Online includes information on Web radio,
LPFM, audio streaming, public policy, and many other topics.
Linked Lists of AudioWebcasts
and Newsletters
www.ontheair.com/Subscribe.asp
wmbr.mit.edu/stations
www.radio-online.com
w…\Òetradio.com
www.internetradio.about.com
dialspace.dial.pipex.com/town/place/abn39/index.html
Training Programs and Resources
Radio
Radio Diaries and Teenage Diaries
www.radiodiaries.org
Producer Joe Richman believes everybody has a story to tell. He provides
people with audiocassette recorders on which to document those stories.
Radio Rookies
www.wnyc.org/new/index_rookies.html
WNYC, One Centre Street, NY, NY 10007
(212) 669-2813
Youth Radio
www.youthradio.org
1809 University Avenue
Berkeley, CA 94703
(510) 841-5123 fax: (510) 841 9804
youthradio@youthradio.org
Through hands-on practice, working relationships with industry professionals,
and production of award-winning programming, Youth Radio students learn
the basics of broadcasting. They bring youth perspectives to the airwaves,
shedding light on the concerns andinterests of young people. Youth
Radio provides training, production and broadcast experiences, internships,
mentorships, classes in the latest digital technologies, and a College
Bound Program.
Youth Media Project
www.wdiyfm.org
c/o WDIY-FM
Community Public Radio for the Lehigh Valley
301 Broadway, 3rd Floor, Bethlehem, PA 18015
610-694-8100 ext. 5 fax: 610-954-9474
WDIY-FM provided training in radio production and reporting skills
for a group of teens. Students took classes in radio production, interviewing,
writing, editing, commentary and vocal training. The youth reporters
interviewed adults and other teens who were working to create safe
and healthy neighborhoods at the grass roots level across the Lehigh
Valley. The teen reporters produced news features for local broadcasts
during National Public Radio's Morning Edition.
Latino USA/Youth Spin
www.latinousa.org
(Learning Resources)
Communications Building B3.142
University of Texas, Austin, TX 78712
512-471-2137
Youth Spin is a youth-produced program highlighting the work of young
people in their community. The program is broadcast on KOOP 91.7 FM
in Austin, TX.
WWOZ New Orleans/Student Imaging & Original
Minds
www.wwoz.org
P.O. Box 51840, New Orleans, LA 70151
504-568-1239
KDNK/Youth Radio 2000
www.kdnk.org
P.O. Box 1388, Carbondale, CO 81623
970-963-0139
Kohanic Broadcasting Corporation/Alaska
Native Youth Media Institute
www.knba.org
feedback@knba.org
Each summer since 1992, the Kohanic Broadcasting Corporation Training
Center has conducted the weeklong Alaska Native Youth Media Institute
in Anchorage. For each Institute, more than a dozen Native high school
students are selected from throughout the state to receive hands-on
instruction in media. Some of the country's best Native media professionals
guide the students through writing, recording, and producing audio
for radio broadcast and Internet distribution. By program's end, the
students produce a radio feature program that is offered for broadcast
by Native radio stations across the country. for more information.
Radio Bilingue
www.radiobilingue.org
161 S. Main Street, Salinas, CA 93901
831-757-8039
KZFR/Youth Programming
www.kzfr.org
P.O. Box 3173, Chico, CA 95927
530-895-0788
Kids Discover Radio
1706 Lexington Ave. #4, New York, NY 10029
212-987-8119
Audio
Voices of Youth
www.westfolk.org
Western Folklife Center
501 Railroad Street, Elko, NV 89801
voy@westernfolklife.org
In this fast-paced world, "lack of time" is a growing lament of today's
youth. Voices of Youth, a program of the Western Folklife Center in
Elko, Nevada, was designed to give twelve teenagers the opportunity
to slow down and take the time to get better acquainted with their
neighbors, friends and family -- and themselves -- through the arts
of photography and sound recording.
Jackstraw Productions
www.jackstraw.org
4261 Roosevelt Way, NE Seattle, WA 98105-6999
(206) 634-0919 Fax: (206) 634-0925
danielle@jackstraw.org
Danielle Eidenberg-Noppe, Education Director
Thirty students at Kirkland's Finn Hill Junior High stepped back in
time and into the shoes of their parents and grandparents during a
language arts/social studies project at Jack Straw, an audio arts center
in Seattle. The eighth-graders interviewed their elders and put their
stories on tape at Jack Straw for a lifelong keepsake.
Video
The Bay Area Video Coalition (BAVC)
www.bavc.org
2727 Mariposa Street, 2nd Floor
San Francisco, CA 94110
415.861.3282 Fax: 415.861.4316
bavc@bavc.org
This nonprofit multimedia arts center in the heart of San Francisco’s
Mission District offers an array of video, education, and technology
services to independent producers, artists, and organizations. Services
include: state-of-the-art production facility, training workshops,
seminars, publications, employment development programs, job listings,
research and development projects, video preservation.
Appalachian Media Institute
www.appalshop.org
91 Madison Ave., Whitesburg, KY 41858
606.633.0108 fax: 606.633.1009
ami@appalshop.org
This is a program offered by Appalshop. AMI is a program to teach teenagers
how to use film, video and audio production to help create a positive
voice for Appalachia. Appalshop also has a community radio station,
WMMT-FM, which can be heard on the Web.
Computer Imaging and Web Design
Plugged In Enterprises
www.pluggedin.org
2115 University Avenue
East Palo Alto, CA 94303-2224
(650) 322-1134 fax: (650) 322-6147
info@pluggedin.org
Plugged In Enterprises is a computer training and entrepreneurial development
program for teenagers that concentrates its activities on the following
areas: technical skills, employment experience, professional skill
development. First, Plugged In Enterprises trains teenagers in the
latest web design technology. The teenagers then use their skills to
operate a web page design business that creates web sites for community
members and paying commercial clients. Clients include Pacific Bell,
Sun Microsystems, and the East Palo Alto Law Project.
Manchester Craftsmen’s Guild
www.manchesterguild.org/
1815 Metropolitan Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15233
412-322-1773
Manchester Craftsmen's Guild is a multi-discipline, minority directed,
arts education and presenting organization that uses the visual and
performing arts to educate and inspire inner-city youth to become productive
citizens. Artists, educators, and counselors serve as mentors to young
people through activities that stress the application of the arts in
the community, experiential learning and higher education. MCG’s Apprenticeship
Training Program (ATP) teaches inner city public school students the
technical and aesthetic elements of ceramic art, computer imaging,
drawing, painting and photography while providing guidance and support
for students to pursue their long term goals. Personal and career counseling
assists students to meet the challenges awaiting them beyond high school.
MCG’s other programs include the Community Development Corporation/Arts
Resource Initiative (CDC/ARI), Denali Initiative, Jazz performance
and education program, broadcast-quality audio/video recording studio,
and visual arts programs.
Funding
Youth
Open Society Institute
Soros Foundations Network
www.soros.org
400 West 59th Street, New York, NY 10019
(212) 548 0600 or (212) 757 2323
Fax: (212) 548 4679 or (212) 548 4600
Office of Communications at the Open
Society Institute
New York (212) 548-0668
Children and Youth
Main Number:(212) 547-6918, Main Fax Number (212) 548-4610
After-School Programs
Main Number:212-548-0359, Main Fax Number 212-548-4601
The numerous nonprofit foundations created by the philanthropist George
Soros are linked together in an informal network known as the Soros
foundations network. The Open Society Institute (OSI) is a private
operating and grantmaking foundation that seeks to promote the development
and maintenance of open societies around the world by supporting a
range of programs in the areas of educational, social, and legal reform,
and by encouraging alternative approaches to complex and often controversial
issues. OSI has funded several youth radio initiatives.
The Nathan Cummings Foundation
www.ncf.org/
The Nathan Cummings Foundation
1926 Broadway, Suite 600, New York, NY 10023-6915
212.787.7300 fax:
Arts: arts@cummings.ncf.org
The goal of the arts program is to keep the arts alive by preserving
and sustaining community-based arts education that benefits at-risk
youth, as well as community-based and culturally-specific arts organizations
during a particularly difficult period in arts funding; and to promote
artistic endeavors that provide a deeper insight into and understanding
of issues pertaining to health, the environment, Jewish Life, democratic
values and contemplative practice.
Surdna Foundation
www.surdna.org
The foundation’s Arts program supports efforts in which young people
have complex, long-term opportunities to create art with accomplished
artist-leaders; young people gifted in an art form gain the necessary
skills to pursue advanced professional training; young people explore
difficult community issues through art making; arts, professional training,
academic, and community institutions collaborate; artists, as well
as their students, create art. The Arts and Education program supports “crystallizing
experiences” - experiences that help young people focus, engage and
deeply connect to something they care about. The Artist-leaders and
Young People: Creating Works of Art program has funded media training
programs.
Markle Foundation
www.markle.org
The Interactive Media for Children program “aims to help realize the
potential for children to benefit from using interactive technologies,
including computers, the Internet, interactive toys, and eventually
digital TV. The program also aims to expand public, press and parental
expectations for what these technologies can do to enhance children’s
lives.”
Levi Strauss Foundation
www.levistrauss.com/index_community.html
P.O. Box 7215, San Francisco, CA 94120
415-501-6000
The foundation supports programs that involve youth in decision making
at all levels of the organization; give youth a voice in their communities;
provide youth with opportunities for meaningful service in their communities;
foster youth empowerment models and projects; and focus on under-represented
and marginalized youth. Types of programs include youth organizing,
identity- and issue-based activism, community service, media/journalism
training, and leadership and skills training.
Media, Arts, and Humanities
Ford Foundation-Media, Arts And Culture
www.fordfound.org/
320 East 43rd Street, New York, NY 10017 USA
(212) 573-5000 fax (212) 351-3677
The Media, Arts and Culture (MAC) unit provides funding to strengthen
the arts and media as vibrant and crucial contributors to the communities
and societies in which they function.
John D. And Catherine T. MacArthur
Foundation
www.macfdn.org
The foundation’s General Program makes grants in support of innovative
media projects, especially those that increase the diversity of voices
and viewpoints in film, television, and radio.
National Endowment for the
Arts
www.nea.gov
National Endowment for the Humanities
www.neh.gov
Corporation for Public Broadcasting
www.cpb.org
Technology Education
U.S. Department of Education
www.ed.gov
Technology Literacy Challenge Fund - $2 billion nationwide over
5 years to states; 30 percent of funds should be used to provide
teachers with the professional development they need to use technology
effectively in the classroom.
Technology Innovation Challenge Grants - Partnerships between local
school districts, universities, businesses, libraries, software designers,
and others.
3:1 match by partners for fed dollars.
Preparing Tomorrow’s Teachers to Use Technology- To help teachers integrate
technology effectively into the curriculum and use the new teaching
and learning styles enabled by technology. Possible activities include
creation of technology-based teaching tools and resources; field experiences
focused on teaching with technology.
Learning Anytime Anywhere Partnerships - Will support partnerships
that may include colleges, universities, businesses, community organizations,
or other entities to deliver quality postsecondary distance education.
Community Technology Centers - Funding for center start-up and expansion.
School-to-Work - Grants to states and communities for implementation
of school-to-work programs integrating academic and vocational learning
with work-based learning. Software and related technology-based applications
can be supported through these programs.
21st Century Community Learning Centers - Grants to rural and inner-city
public elementary or secondary schools to plan, implement, or expand
projects that benefit the education, health, social service, cultural,
and recreational needs of a rural or inner city community. Funds may
be used for technology related programs.
RealNetworks Foundation
2601 Elliott Avenue, Seattle, WA 98121
(206) 892-6644 fax: (206) 956-8249
www.realgiving.org
The foundation will consider requests that enable alternative voices
or foster the right of free speech throughout the world, broaden access
to technology among underserved communities throughout the world, and
enhance the quality of life in areas where RealNetworks' employees
live and work. In particular, the foundation wishes to fund proposals
within the aforementioned program areas that include an innovative
use of the Internet to achieve project goals. In general, the foundation
seeks one-year grant proposals in the range of $10,000-$75,000. Application
guidelines and eligibility requirements available online. Deadlines
(pre-application letter): February 1, August 1.
Technology Development
U.S. Department of Commerce
National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA)
www.ntia.doc.gov
Technology Opportunities Program - Matching grants to promote the widespread
use and availability of advanced telecommunications and information
technologies in the public and nonprofit sectors. Supports innovative
an exemplary projects that cans serve as models for using information
infrastructure in the public and nonprofit sectors. Projects should
be nationally significant demonstration of how telecommunications and
information technologies can be used to extend valuable services and
opportunities to all Americans, especially the underserved. Projects
should reach out to all members of a community and catalyze partnerships
to help reduce the digital divide. Especially interested in building
capacity of smaller, locally based organizations that both serve and
represent underserved communities across the United States.
Microsoft Community Affairs
New England Software Donation Program
www.microsoft.com/newengland
Microsoft has a number of corporate giving programs, including direct
monetary gifts to non-profit organizations in the New England region,
in-kind software donations, employee matching programs and national
initiatives that support access to technology.
General Information and Resources
Council on Foundations
www.cof.org
The Foundation Center
www.fdncenter.org
Education Leadership Toolkit -
A Project of the National School Boards Foundation
www.nsba.org/sbot/toolkit
This website is well organized, with useful information on education
technology and curriculum and assessment. The extensive list of funding
resources also contains links to other funding sites.
Chardon Press
www.chardonpress.com
Resources for fundraising, free advice column, publications
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