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This podcasting project of the Lower Eastside Girls Club trained young women, aged 15-21, to produce weekly podcasts on community news and issues as a first step in building a network of teen podcast correspondents to cover local issues and events. The Lower East Side Girls Club serves predominantly black and Latina girls from low-income neighborhoods.The podcast project did not continue after the club moved into new quarters.
Project Updates
- Podcasts, Projects and Partnerships in the Works for Loisaida Speaks (October, 2007) - Lyn Pentecost, founder of The Lower Eastside Girls Club, says her project has been a learning experience for students and teachers alike, “It has encouraged us to look deeply at what communications and digital literacy programs have to offer teens, and the girls are ‘wowing’ our local community with their talents.” The project has hit […]
- More Podcasts are Coming for Fall (May, 2006) - With its podcasting booth built and equipped, the Lower Eastside Girls Club has taken new steps to get its podcasts online faster, conduct podcasting training for the club’s staff, and reschedule podcasting classes to better fit the girls’ schedules. One result is that the club has set a new goal of producing and posting at […]
- Loisaida Launches Podcasting Booth, Reaches out for Community Support (February, 2006) - A December 2005 ribbon-cutting ceremony for The Lower Eastside Girls Club’s new podcasting booth attracted 50 supporters, community members, technology experts, activists and youth. Women representatives from radio stations WBAI, WNYC, WAMC and NPR visited the state-of-the-art booth, complete with its own computers, recording technology, lighting system, carpeted floors, on-air sign and air conditioner. They […]
- Girls on Air: Podcasting Launches in Lower Eastside (November, 2005) - A new podcasting booth has been outfitted with computers, recording technology, a lighting system, carpeted floors and air conditioning and more than two dozen girls at the Lower Eastside Girls Club have been trained in producing podcasts. The girls helped to construct the booth earlier this year and launched their first podcast online in September […]
- Communities Find New Voices, One at a Time (August, 2005) - As the 2005 New Voices grantees make progress recruiting volunteers, launching Web sites and building studios, they bring promise of citizens media outlets to their communities.
- “Loisaida Speaks” Podcasts Slated for September (August, 2005) - Loisaida Speaks has begun podcasting! Their first podcast, Jenasis, can be downloaded on their website at http://www.girlsclubworldwide.org/wp/. The Girls Club has also received help from interns from New York University’s Interactive Telecommunications Program. The Lower Eastside Girls Club in New York City has launched the newest addition to its website, www.girlsclub.org, to house the podcasts […]
