APRS’s Final Video!

Check out the students’ final video on India’s Independence including interviews with local community members and re-enactments of key moments during the Independence movement!
Watch here

Virtual Gallery Tour!

Hi Folks,
For those of you who could not make it to San Francisco for The Modern Story’s show at Zeum, we created a virtual gallery for you to walk through and look at the photos, as well as watch the videos.
For a larger version, visit: http://www.vuvox.com/collage/detail/0fb585dd6

more about “presenting: TMS AT ZEUM: “CONNECTING …“, posted [...]

Vijayanagar Video 2 and begin final videos

Hello everyone, we have finally finished the second video from Vijayanagar Colony about traffic and child labor. It is posted here:

We are in the beginning phase of our final video projects at both schools. At Vijayanagar Colony, the students are doing a video on the environment and specifically on air pollution. They will be documenting details [...]

A New Year

Hello again, after a winter holiday hiatus! Dave and I took the chance to see other parts of India during the two schools’ winter vacations. I think both of us saw far more foreign tourists in some of our destinations than we have during the months we have spent in Hyderabad! However, [...]

Some random entertainment…

Melanfloquine, the malaria medication I have been taking here in India, has made my sleep schedule extremely erratic, so I made a short little animation during a couple insomnia fits.  Stick figure animation is the perfect cure at 3AM, when your brain isn’t really up to the capacity to be fully productive, but it still [...]

Happy Holidays!

A a short video on identity by A.P. Boys Residential School

A news package on disease in Nalgonda by A.P. Boys Residential School

Happy Holidays from Hyderabad! Though we are both far from home, Dave and I have found our holiday season to be filled with warmth (from people and from the climate), friendliness, generosity, and of [...]

Young journalists in the making

A week after the tragic attacks in Mumbai, we find Hyderabad quite calm, although there have been noticeable security changes, particularly in the hospital we live next to.  They now have very tight security in the entrance of both of their buildings, complete with metal detectors, extra guards, and one of the buildings has [...]

Nalgonda Photo Scavenger Hunt!

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We apologize for the delay in posting these videos, we have been facing some weak internet connections that prevented us from posting these earlier. We hope this won’t be a problem for future videos. Group #3’s video is uploaded, and below it are the links to Groups #1 & #2.  They will appear in [...]

Photo projects finished, now on to video!

Photo Scavenger Hunt-Vijaynagar Colony
What an eventful week! I mean that in terms of classes and life here in Hyderabad, of course, but also for our people at home in the US. Here is a summary of some highlights.
We split our classes this week into two groups, which rotated. One group learned how [...]

Digital Story Examples continued…