On September 9th at 3:30pm there will be a Digital Mixer at Anacostia High School. The mixer will be the opening engagement for the Digital Media Arts after-school program developed by Fellows Brittany Clemons and Danielle Scruggs.

The Digital Mixer will provide outreach to students who are interested in digital media and participating in the after-school program. The mixer will create a comfortable, fun dialogue with students about social media, student created content, and online platforms for them to showcase their work and voice their opinions. We will interview and record interested students on their frustrations with their community, any social issues impacting them, and what they propose for change. We will inform them that as a digital media arts program participant, we will give them the tools to produce and distribute their stories/projects online. In case any students have any technology questions, we will also have a fellow available to provide quick, basic digital training. Danielle and I are trying to secure a local Southeast blogger to discuss social media as a positive community tool with the students. There will also be a mini internet cafe for the students. While discussions are going on and people are eating, there will be screenings of short student created films. Those short films will set the standard for what the students are capable of creating. Principal Spann will also provide us with Anacostia High School branded flash drives for the students. The mixer will lead the Digital Media Arts program into a successful semester at Anacostia High. Come join us for food, prizes, screenings, social networking, and more.