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When You’re Plugged In? Video
Check the direct links to our companion web sites:
Flipping The Script
Hidden Heroes
Get plug and play Lesson Plans from our curriculum:
Find Your Voice from Flipping The Script
Have You Seen Me from Changing The World Through Media Education
YME Movies Win Awards!
Youth Media Educators created short videos that will be featured in the following festivals: Get Naked (2007) will screen at the Project Youth View Festival on April 12, 2008 and the Louisiana Film Festival Youth Division April 4-5, 2008. It’s Not Fascism When We Do It (2006) will screen at McCormick Tribune Freedom Museum on April 12, 2008, where Justin will accept the first prize in the youth film category!
If you are interested in attending any of these screenings or events please let us know. Just Think always enjoys connecting with our community.
History
Founded in 1995 as a concerned response to the ever-increasing deluge of messages youth receive from television, radio, film, print media, electronic games, and the Internet, Just Think teaches young people media literacy skills for the 21st century. We have been successfully creating and delivering in-school, after school and online media arts and technology education locally, nationally and internationally for thirteen years.
Board
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Officers
Daniel Kunstler. Chair
Writer; former Managing Director, J.P. Morgan; Vice President, Board of Trustees, Marin Horizons School.
Kym Glanville, Secretary
Poet; freelance writer; community activist
Jeffrey Morgen, Treasurer
Vice President of Finance, Bricsnet FM America; former Vice President, Finance & Administration, Poly Gram Video Inc.
Members of the Board
Jan D’Alessandro Wadsworth
Former Vice President of AOL Foundation
Brian Fitzgerald
Vice President/GM, Audible Education; former Director of Communications Products, Yahoo Europe
Julie Goggin
Partner, Goggin & Goggin, Attorneys at Law
Kathryn Hopkins
Policy Research Associate, John W. Gardner Center for Youth and Their Communities, Stanford University
Ed Payne
Former CEO and Co-Founder, QuickDog Inc.; former President and Co-Founder, Albathion Software; fiction writer.
Frannie Pope
Actress, Member of “Funny But Mean” Sketch Comedy troupe
Elana Yonah Rosen, Co-Founder
Executive Director, Just Think
Aaron Singer, Co-Founder
Founder and former President of the ad-hoc Group, Inc.; President, Blue Yonder Foundation
HONORARY BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Chuck Champlin, Vice President, Sanwa Bank, Los Angeles; former Director of Communications, Walt Disney Company
Rachel Gaunt, former vice president, Saatchi and Saatchi, London
Nicole Guillemet, Director of the Miami International Film Festival
Lily Kanter, founder, Bay Area Social Venture Partners
Jim Losi, former senior vice president, Charles Schwab & Co.
Marilyn Loushin-Miller, Superintendent, Hillsborough School District
April Minnich, co-founder of Red Sky Films and Red Sky Interactive
Suzanne Sheuerman, Founder and former president and CEO of Walnut Creek-based ExTerra Credit Recovery
Wendy Yanowitch, Former Vice President of Business Operations, Big Vine and Yahoo!; previously with USA Today and ITT Sheraton
Paul Zaentz, independent film producer, Fantasy Films
BOARD OF ADVISORS:
Milton Chen, George Lucas Educational Foundation
David Gang, executive vice president, AOL; director, AOL Latin America
Deborah Goldblatt, director, Global Childrens Organization; publisher LA 411
Joan Hertzberg, psychotherapist
Hal Josephson, NewMedia Invision Awards Festival
Bruce Lincoln, Columbia University, Institute for Learning Technologies
Tom Luddy, American Zoetrope
Phillip Moffitt, entrepreneur
Patti Page, IDG
Mark Schlichting, Living Books
Linda Stone, Microsoft, New Technologies
Youth Media Educators 2008
Deadline Extended
Due to so many of your phone calls and emails we are extending the deadline for applications to May 23!
Youth Media Educators (YME) 2008 is more robust than ever.
Just Think expands the scope of this year’s program to officially extend throughout the year. As a Youth Intern you will recieve $1500 to learn media literacy education, peer teaching and entrepreneurial skills during the Summer and then implement your learning during the 08/09 year.
Learn More
View the Video
View Student Work
Download the Application
May 2008 Newsletter
Youth Media Educators Deadline Extended
Deepen Your Practice
Just Think Speaks Out
Turn Distractions into Attractions
Are You Turned On?
Media Mobile Goes Minimalist
Just Think E-News February 2008
Just Dance!
The Unauthorized Rolling Stones”:/http://murphyproductions.com/html/events.htm#urs will be storming into Mill Valley on Just Think’s behalf.
Join us on the dance floor this Friday, Feb. 29th at 8:30pm. All proceeds will benefit Just Think’s programs.
New Board Chair
We are delighted to announce that Just Think board member Daniel Kunstler recently agreed to take the helm of our Board of Directors.
Shift Happens
Branding Anyone?
Just Reaching Out
Daniel Kunstler Interview
A Conversation with Just Think’s New Board Chair
We are delighted to announce that Just Think board member Daniel Kunstler recently agreed to take the helm of our Board of Directors. Daniel spoke with Director of Development and Communications Donna Staples about his new role with Just Think. See key excerpts or read details of their conversation below.
Excerpts from the Interview (Full interview below)
Donna Staples: Tell us a little about yourself—your family history, professional background, interests.
Daniel Kunstler: I’m a study in immigrant geography… first generation American with a family background in eastern and western Europe… [My parents] married in Brazil… I worked as a banker for 25 years with J.P. Morgan… After I left Morgan I was at Dominican [University] teaching finance to undergraduates and graduate students… I’ve written a novel and I’m editing it now.
Sponsored Projects
Just Think serves as fiscal sponsor to several inspiring works that parallel or complement our work.
“Seeing Beyond Sight” is a photojournalist project compiled by Tony Deifell that showcases the blind teenager’s photography. Through its ambitious, seemingly paradoxical premise, Seeing Beyond Sight stretches our definitions of art, vision, and perception and what it really means to see. For more information visit www.seeingbeyondsite.org
Student Filmmakers
Bhutan Background
In April of 1999, Lyonpo Sangay Ndgedup, Minister of Education of Bhutan (currently the Minister of Government.) approved a collaborative media education project to teach 20 students to produce a series of 12- 15 minute narratives or documentaries for the Bhutan Broadcast System (BBS)
Going Green
Just Think has always been a globally conscious organization. Through our office greening, we hope to reduce our carbon footprint and contribute to a more sustainable world.
Just Think E-News December 2007
As 2007 comes to a close we give thanks!
Videos from YME Summer 2007 on the theme of POWER in a global society will be featured throughout December and January at World Savvy’s Global Youth Media Arts Project at Zeum.
Just Think is co-sponsoring two screenings in January with San Francisco Film Society, Global Lens and World Savvy
We would like to thank the shopping search engine, The Find, for helping us with our fund raising efforts.
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