Youth Center
PATHWAYS TO OUR FUTURE:
Youth as Multimedia Producers
 
PATHWAYS TO OUR FUTURE offers an in-depth multimedia training program for youth ages 14-18. Students will use materials provided and their own imagination to create projects like an original e-Greeting and a QuickTime movie that they can send via email. They will also learn how to write HTML to produce websites, manipulate photographs to make original art works, write storyboards for video assignments and create desktop publishing projects. Other assignments will involve developing ideas for animation projects and learning about sound editing programs.

To enhance the learning experience, PATHWAYS TO OUR FUTURE offers employment enrichment training, field trips, a guest speaker series and job shadowing activities. Upon completion of the training program, participants gain a real world experience via a community service project or internship placement. Placements are intended to further the participant's development of acquired multimedia skills in a workplace setting.

 
JANUARY
Intake Assessment & Pre Interviews - 2 hours
FEB-MAY
Beginning Multimedia Production Workshops & Job Readiness Training
Classes meet Mondays & Wednesdays
2 hours a day 
Quizzes will be given on a monthly basis 
FEBRUARY
Multimedia Production - Adobe Photoshop, Digital Photography & Video Production,
iMovie, Dreamweaver, & Flash
1) Developing ideas, organizing and saving projects files
2) Manipulating digital images using Adobe Photoshop
3) Operating a digital camera
4) Importing and saving pictures on the computer
5) Intro to QuickTime movies for Internet distribution
6) Crash course in video production 
7) How to conduct an interview and capture footage 
8) A review & critique work in progress		  

JOB READINESS TRAINING
Intro to Job Skills 
Job Applications Workshop 
Video Taping of
Mock Interviews
Motivational
Speaker Series
Utilizing Labor
Market Data

MARCH - MAY
Website & Video Production - Adobe Photoshop, Digital Photography & Video Production,
iMovie, Dreamweaver, & Flash
1) Writing for multimedia production
2) Getting started and organizing files
3) Using an HTML editor
4) Preparing animations for web works
5) Creating and manipulating images for web production
6) Preparing QuickTime movies for web display
7) Developing multiple layer web works 
8) A review & critique work in progress 
JOB READINESS TRAINING
Preparing Resumes
Cover Letters & 
Letters of Appreciation
How to Ace the Job Interview 
Job Search Tools
& Labor Laws
MAY - JUNE
Final Multimedia Training, Internship Placement & Program Assessment
1) Bringing portfolio work to completion
2) Palm Pilot training 
3) Final Program Evaluation -2 hours 
4) Assessment evaluation of lessons learned
JOB READINESS TRAINING
Sending Electronic Documents
Post Video on Job Interviewing
Internship Assignments
 
 
 

CONTACT: 
Jacalyn Lopez Garcia, Multimedia Instructor
email: jacalyn@ucr.edu

UCR Communities for Virtual Research 
Phone: (909) 787-3852
Fax: (909) 787-3888

PTOF
PROJECTS

Art
Photography
Video
Websites
Animations

Youth Center