VANCOUVER The Digital Technology and Culture program at WSU Vancouver has formed a partnership with the Fort Vancouver Community Television, a nonprofit community public access television station (cable channel 11). Together their aim is to train future community media leaders and expand the presence of community television in Clark County.
FVTV will provide professional internship opportunities to students in the Digital Technology and Culture (DTC) program, work with DTC faculty in training students in video production, and help students gain project management experience in digital media. John Barber, DTC faculty, and Pete Anderson, FVTV community outreach coordinator, will co-teach a “Community Media” course in spring 2009 at WSU Vancouver.
DTC students and FVTV professionals will team up to produce narrative videos, documentary films, websites, animations, podcasts, internet radio programs and other digital media, for nonprofit organizations in the Southwest Washington region.
“This will help raise students’ awareness of, and commitment to, community involvement through ethical and professional utilizations of media,” said Barber, “as well as build continued support for public access media.”
Other joint projects planned include fundraising events, a digital storytelling festival, and a live multi-media performance and broadcast of the Orson Welles’ radio show, “The War of the Worlds.”
For more information on the WSU Vancouver DTC program, see https://www.vancouver.wsu.edu/dtc.
