Teaching Residency

As a Teaching Resident you will work with 3 others to design a web-based, multimedia mapping and storytelling platform, which you will pilot while leading Eyebeam's 3-week summer intensive for NYC teens, Digital Day Camp (DDC). Teaching Residents will join Eyebeam's creative community from June 6-August 5 - gaining 24/7 access to our West Chelsea facility, use of our production equipment, your own desk space, and a group of inspiring residents and fellows to work with and learn from.

Under the guidance of Teaching Residents, students will work in small teams to create deep, multi-media, digital stories about a very small but vital piece of a neighborhood - a corner store, bus stop, school yard, playground, garden or church. These stories will be woven together in a web-based, interactive map that could include anything from photographs, to drawings, to audio and video recordings, to diagrams and infographics. The maps will embody the voice and heart of a neighborhood as told by DDC students, and will serve as a platform and a model for future digital storytelling projects.

TEACHING RESIDENTS WILL FORM A BRAIN TRUST How can we create and share stories on the open web? What new tools, ideas, modes of creative or collaborative practice we can introduce to teens participating in DDC? How can the work we do this summer live on as a resource and methodology for community engagement?

During the DDC planning period, four Teaching Residents will work together to explore the media-rich possibilities of neighborhood mapping in 2011. You will share your skills, knowledge, tools, and creative practices to pilot a shareable model that takes advantage of free and open resources and provides a platform for diverse expressions of creativity.

We are excited about how any combination of the following can be used by students to generate a rich map of an NYC neighborhood: data viz, social media, augmented reality, crowd-sourcing, locative media, dynamic content, HTML5, open source libraries, soundwalking, mobile, hacked aerial cameras, old school arts and crafts, public performance, and gaming and blogging platforms.

At the conclusion of the DDC, we will refine our work, and publish it online for others to use. A major goal of this year's program is to create something that we can share with other teachers and community organizers; something that will have a life after DDC concludes. We are looking for Teaching Residents who can take that journey with us. We are very excited to invite you to join us!

You will be required to be at Eyebeam on DDC program days, and for planning meetings (we are looking for people who willing and able to be a part of the Eyebeam community during the residency period.)

A link (or 2) to a mapping project or digital storytelling project that you have either participated in, created, or (if you haven't done it before) simply a mapping/storytelling project you love

eyebeam.org, via the Internet Archive