Training

Discovery Website Adds AFI Filmmaking Course for Classrooms

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on November 20, 2006 - 6:46pm.

Los Angeles - Discovery Education's online unitedstreaming service on Monday debuted an online application developed by the American Film Institute to help teachers use filmmaking as a method to engage students in the learning process. "Lights, Camera, Education" was previously only available through training workshops run by AFI.

Webcast: UC Berkeley - Video Game Storytelling: Remembering 7th Street

Start: May 22 2006 - 12:30pm

End: May 22 2006 - 1:30pm

Timezone: US/Pacific

Presented by: UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, Western Knight Center for Specialized Journalism and Ethics and Excellence in Journalism Foundation

Summer New Media Lecture Series

When: May 21 - 24, 2006

Wired News: Video Game Helping Troops Learn Mideast Customs, Languages

Authored by dmw on April 11, 2006 - 12:37pm.

San Francisco - Wired News on Tuesday reported on a video game-styled application, developed by the University of Southern California's Information Sciences Institute, that is being used to teach U.S. troops how to speak and interact with foreigners without offending them through ignorance of local customs or nonverbal cues. The Tactical Language Training Program has so far taught about 300 soldiers that, for example, showing the soles of one's feet is offensive in Iraq. Voice recognition technology also analyzes soldiers' attempts to speak Arabic and Pashto.

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