Project Overview:
For this thirteen-week long project, our Humanities class from High Tech Middle Chula Vista will be learning about the US-Mexico Border through firsthand interviews with local community members. Our goal is to show the diverse and complicated ways the border impacts our families and our communities by interviewing a broad array of people with different experiences and perspectiv
es. We will use professional quality tools like digital voice recorders and Adobe Audition software to record our interviews and turn them into professional quality digital podcasts. We will release our podcasts on iTunes and use our knowledge of social media like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Tumblr and Google to reach the broadest possible audience. Along the way we will document our process by taking photographs, videos and keeping inquiry journals. Throughout the project, we will have the opportunity to interact with professionals in the field of radio journalism, photography and social media. We will have your podcast scripts critiqued by reporters from KPBS Fronteras Desk, This American Life and Radiolab. To complement our study of the US/Mexico Border, we will follow current media coverage on the border in newspapers, magazines, and television. We will also do field work by taking field trips to Border Field State Park with Enrique Morones of the Border Angels, the Tijuana River Estuary with Paloma from WildCoast, KPBS studios at SDSU with Adrian Florido and San Ysidro Port of Entry. Essential Questions:
How does the US-Mexican border impact our community and our environment, and how do we impact the border? How can we help to empower and represent the voices of the silenced?
