furnished and so here goes when i looked out to the black sea of caps and gowns searching for your lovely face i found a woman sewing with that spain june air you're taking in the side of the ceremony the crowd screaming here and not in our back glowing friends beaming with pride we stood up just to get a glimpse of you i smiled for weeks on in replaying your walk slow motion small i use shiny youthful face you paused for the camera at the edge of the stage and just like that you became a college graduate you leave me speechless like a movie star on the red carpet you didn't just go to college you fired up stream for the gates of that place when you got to campus you felt overwhelmed under resourced and fighting to belong you subtle classes feeling alone with your ideas and skin color at times you were the teacher peacekeeper rewriting world history for classmates and professor under the graduation cap i saw the faces of your childhood kindergarden years your small tender face and middle school petite body in high school we should have known you would become this lovely woman standing upright facing the world with those brave eyes you do have a soldier for a father an ethiopian queen for a mother poet so relatives you do rain from ethiopia where the farmers and stay home moms speak in metaphors and run as far back as you trace your name which would be the start of humanity you find scholars we named you fit some will be to you or somebody before the crowned girl started attending high school i had a teacher who was very motivational and kind of pushing me to perform not only to write but really sharing it in public is really what makes most people the most nervous but my advice for people who  your poetry and inviting your friends and family to come and see it through facebook or you know whatever other methods you might want to use so yeah i definitely say that it's a very  helpful thing to do for me it helps me relax from my work that i have or school it's something that i do that's fun but also really helps me get to know myself get to know my community and really just push myself  record audio how to do audio editing how to conduct interviews and they've spent the time exploring the us are terrorists neighborhood and collecting different kinds of sound and all of the the recordings that they made are going to now go into an exhibition at the friday art museum that will be opening next week actually and we'll have another big party coming up in january that the community is welcome to that will be sent so it's been a really amazing workshop i think we come with a number of things i think the students learned some technical skills but equally importantly is you know they were able to really kind of like  explore the neighborhood and to really learn how to kind of think critically about the city and what but what it means to live in a community so it's a good kind of combination of learning some computer skills learning some media skills but also learning some critical thinking skills so i think it's a really wonderful experience for the students speaking personally it was an amazing experience working with these kids none of whom i'd never met before  just i learned an incredible amount and it was continuously impressed with how hard they worked and just how creative and and smart they were so i think i know i'm feeling really proud of what we've accomplished here and i'm really looking forward to seeing all of their work presented at the friar museum in the coming months well this is so days the last day for this workshop but i think you know i'm really excited about doing more work like this and continuing with different people in different organizations over the  hello my name is dr paul jackson and i'm sitting in the studio of multimedia resource training institute located in seattle washington the corner of twenty third in jackson and the problem dod and i'm an instructor actually in the studio i've taught just the camera we're going to talk about digital storytelling so we'll create scripts and we'll give you an idea of what you can do to tell your story we all have stories and so you can use m m r t i twenty third jackson to tell your story we have a lot of equipment here and we have some tali trained professional people who can help you out to tell your story so the classes haven't been actually scheduled get put because it's very important that you come in and register for the class and then we will be able offer the classes depending on how many people registered and what you are interested in learning the multi media resource training institute has a lot of highly skilled professional people that can train  number of different things related to digital media so again if it's not just the camera per se but also about storyboarding about script writing about editing and even from editing what do you want to do after you finished at it and so i know they have taught classes on crowdsourcing and how to raise money for the project that you want to do some multimedia training institute has a lot of services that go beyond just the classroom but this is a we do more than just teach you video we can actually come to you and provide you with top notch high quality professional media services take take for instance today and it was the twenty third annual taiwan on luncheon that the breakfast group  on an we actually were able to webcast that event we brought in our cameras have brought in a laptop and provided web streaming to the internet so people not only in seattle but around the world could see the video and listen to event and again multimedia resource training institute can provide those services to you at a low cost so we go beyond just the classroom again we can teach you how to create videos how to shoot how to edit storyboard scripts write the whole thing we can actually come to you to help you tell your story were you happen to be so you don't this is sara lee have to come down to the studio if you want to do something remotely we could do that also yeah  just really raise awareness on this cause a time so that was my first first introduction to video production but later on now that i became familiar with the programs in which allow you use to edit below which was  funk a pro i had the ability to now be able to make more videos in which we're off different interesting topics so i started making you know just some dance videos at home for fun and just you know with the issues very once you become more familiar with the software i feel it becomes a lot more interesting because we have a tendency to walk away and ignore things that are complicated but when your brain is able to master understand the way to something worse then it becomes a lot of work peeling because you're able to literally dance advance and just a lot of familiar with different projects for graphic design as well but honestly i have to say that i do not utilize your pressure as much as i should because honestly living in the year two thousand and thirteen with how much technology we have access to there's no reason why any of us should have or shouldn't be participating in media and consistent video recording of you know what happened back then and i actually believe that people with different people have different systems of learning in other words different people learn in different ways you know some people need you know literally re something in order to understand it some people need to see something in order to understand it some people need to hear something in order to understand it and i'll sometimes like the magic negro what would history be like if we literally could see the video you know we see what they say in the books you know we see with you know people who toss it as this is what they say what happened in history but imagine if we literally got to see what happened with video footage now we all know that that's impossible because there were such technology back fit but now if you think about it we do have access to such technology and one hundred two hundred three hundred years from now we're going to be looking back at what we're doing today as history so the opportunities in which we took the chance to film in news the things that we have access to as far as technology wise are things that we're going to look back and actually see those things that we failed to utilize our technology for and just you know we'll get to it later and you know not worry about how to utilize the technology that we have access to things that we're going to miss out on because one day we're going to be talking about the year two thousand and thirteen and what we're involved with and what we're doing so multimedia to me is one of the most important parts of our societies today is going to give us the ability to not only understand technology our cells you know that we're interacting with but also look back in time and see what life was like during this time and be able to show the next generation the next generation after that what life was like back then and they're able to learn from the mistakes we made and also just benefit from in all different types of ways you know there's so many things that we just have to have to take advantage of and our technology is definitely one of them but for the right reasons so with with great responsible with great power comes great responsibility and multimedia in video production are definitely definitely witness such a situation that provides great opportunities for used to have interactions with technology as such which they usually will not have a lot of students have a passion for something law students have things in which they want to pursue and if they don't have access to the things that allow them to pursue with their passion about that is useless if it wasn't for organizations like the m m r c i students wouldn't be able to access the technology which we have and  they're giving students stop assuming to have access to that so i feel like this is a very very great great chance for students to learn very valuable skills in life you know what it comes down to in the future the things that you have to be able to write a resume that being able to learn the type of knowledge you have is all going to have to do with what you took the time to understand and learn at times like now where you have the chance to have access to such programs and organizations and so taking the time to be a part of these type of institution is going to make a difference to how far you go in life because you're going to be able to offer more abilities skill in just knowledge because you took the time you lies these positive programs that are provided public the people the youth and so i'm just very glad at the chance to you know utilize in myself and and really see why opportunities are out there because i mean if you don't take the chance to step step out and see what's available you may never learn anything you know it's