I just finished up my stint directing a reporters camp in San Rafael (see previous post for more details). Lots of fun turning kids on to multimedia reporting. Nick News — a kid-focused news show on Nickelodeon — called us yesterday. They’ll be coming out next month to film me and some of the kids for a piece they’re doing on summer camps. So if you watch Nickelodeon on a regular basis, keep an eye out for me…

A gallery of all the slideshows is in the works. As soon as that’s up, I’ll link to it. In the meantime, follow this link to watch a slideshow the kids produced last week, after we took a trip out to Infineon Raceway.

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Sammy Hagar Poses with the first session of this year’s Fast Forward Adventure Reporters.

I’ve spent the last couple of weeks helping 5th - 10th graders learn to be multimedia journalists, as part of Fast Forward’s Adventure Reporters — an annual summer camp in San Rafael.

For the past several years, kids attending the camp have had the opportunity to interview a variety of famous and interesting people in the Bay Area. Their writing appears throughout the year in Fast Forward Magazine, which is distributed to schools throughout Marin County.

This is the camp’s first foray into multimedia, and I think the kids are enjoying it. Here’s a link to a slideshow created by two boys who went to Pixar studios and interviewed Andrew Stanton, director of Wall-E, before the film’s release.

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