National Programs

Media education workshops, conferences, and other forums have taken Just Think to different areas throughout the state of California and beyond. Below we’ve listed a sampling of these programs.

Local Programs
International Programs

Detroit Hispanic Development Corporation, Detroit, MI, April 2007

Hawaii International Conference on Education, January 2007

Independent Television Service (ITVS), November 2006

Ignite Your Mind Hidden Heroes Workshop, November 2006

Making Art, Making Change, August 2006

Connect Shift Conference, Kellogg Foundation, July 2006

Mendocinco Department of Public Health, April 2006

Northwest Alliance for Responsible Media Conference, Apri 2006

Images of Youth 2006: New Directions in Media Literacy and Teen Health Conference, University of Washington, March 2006

School of the Arts Resource Fair, January 2006

Project Spera, October 2005

Taking Liberties: Freedom, Creativity and Risk in the Media Arts Conference, NAMAC, September 2005

Campbell Hall, 2004
Just Think delivered a general media literacy workshop to parents at a Los Angeles independent school followed by a Family Media Forum about body image and the media. A group of girls participated in activities that asked them to define body image and evaluate print media messages. They also completed a survey about their own attitudes and behaviors towards their bodies. Mothers joined their daughters for a presentation of the survey results and more media activities.

H2Ed Summit, 2004
Just Think conducted a workshop and introduced its curriculum, Flipping The Script: Critical Thinking in a Hip Hop World, at this two day conference at the Bronx Museum of the Arts. The conference presented the best uses of hip-hop as an educational tool to teachers from all over the country.

Hip-Hop and Media Literacy, 2003-2004
Just Think selected educators at seven schools around the country to hel ppilot a curriculum teaching media literacy concepts and media production skills around the exciting and engaging theme of hip hop.

Media Literacy and Social Justice Workshop, 2003
This 16-hour media arts workshop for teachers and youth leaders was lead by Just Think at KCET-TV, Los Angeles. The credited course met the Los Angeles Unified School District’s requirements for professional development and was consistent with state standards in Visual Arts, Language Arts, History/Social Science, and English Language Learning.

National Media Education Conference, 2003
At this national conference in Baltimore, Just Think hosted two student media makers and led production workshops for youth whose video projects were presented at the conference closing session. In addition, Just Think’s Executive Director and Chair led panels and workshops for conference participants.

Current Events Workshop, 2003
Just Think’s Program Director taught a media education workshop to teachers and youth workers in Cambridge, Massachusetts in conjunction with the Community Art Center and its Teen Media Program.

Senior Year Health Engagement Outreach Campaign, 2002-2003
Over the course of two summers, Just Think led a diverse group of Bay Area high school students in the development of an outreach campaign for the PBS series Senior Year, including a companion Web site, written, video and on-line resource materials. Following the second summer, when the youth focused on the health issues in the series, we trained three outstanding students and guided them in leading a series of workshops revolving around youth health issues for health educators in Oakland, Sacramento, San Diego and Los Angeles.

Hidden Heroes Pilots, 2002-2003
In four locations around the country (New York City, Appalachia, Twin Cities, and San Francisco), Just Think piloted a program that helped young people consider the media concept of heroism. Participants then developed their own criteria for heroism, identified their local community heroes, interviewed, photographed, filmed and recorded them, and then presented their stories in public media exhibits. Just Think also developed a curriculum package (production guide and companion video) around these pilots.

Listen Up! Media Education Workshop, Fall 2002
A Just Think teen peer educator participated in a media production workshop and produced a PSA on teen suicide that was shown to a group of teachers and youth media makers at this Connecticut conference. Just Think’s Executive Director was a featured speaker and contributed to a Listen Up! documentary video.

September 11th: Reflecting, Responding, Helping, Healing, 2001-2002
Just Think conducted a series of teacher training workshops in New York City and Washington, DC, that focused on the media response to the terrorist attacks of September 11th and their aftermath, with a particular emphasis on media bias.

National Media Education Conference, 2001
Just Think assembled a group of 22 students from California, Hawaii, New York, Bhutan, and Kosovo at the founding conference of Alliance for a Media Literate America (AMLA) in June. Over the course of three days (and nights) the students produced a collection of six short films screened at the closing session of the conference. The film received a standing ovation from over 500 conference attendees!

Hawaii and New York, 2000-2001
Just Think delivered large format environmental art programs to sites in Harlem and on the Big Island of Hawaii. Each group of students digitally “painted” a bus while learning the basics of Media Literacy. Their art and digital images were then converted into a life-size professional “wrap” permanently displayed on the exterior of Just Think Mobile buses.

Soles/Souls, 1998
Led a group of youth from Marin City, California, a culturally diverse community with a large low-income population, in the production of a claymation animation on racism, later broadcast nationally as a Public Service Announcement on ABC television.

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