Over 25 youth media arts educators gathered at our inaugural event this past Tuesday to discuss the issues of our field.

We began the evening with our featured curriculum presenter, Chris Gaines, who explained his approach to introducing storyboarding using the Mac program, Comic Life. He explained that the storyboard-to-comic strip curriculum allows the students to complete a project in less time than it would take to fully complete the film, helping the students achieve a sense of accomplishment early on. [For those of you who were unable to attend the event, you can find Chris's curriculum through the "curricula" page.]

After the presentation we took a spin on the website and got introduced to some of the features that might help us work together as a community.

We ended the evening discussing upcoming projects, copyright issues, and potential collaborations.

The tentative date for our next gathering is November 18th, 2008, so mark your calendars! And in the meantime, please poke around on our site, add curriculum and events, and help us to continue to build our community by pointing your friends and colleagues to our website.