KETC/Channel 9 is offering free digital storytelling classes designed to teach participants how to edit video using Apple’s Final Cut Express. The course gives community members an opportunity to develop a better understanding of the current media landscape and how they can become more engaged citizens empowered by new media. Participants will learn how to become fluent in the language of the digital age by using video to build a story. Class graduates will then become part of a network of community producers who can be deployed for KETC initiatives that address relevant community issues. 
Classes are associated with Channel 9 projects; currently, KETC/Channel 9 is working on an immigration initiative called Homeland. Thus, the topic of the current series of classes is immigration and how we as a community should deal with this complicated issue. Class participants will be loaned a small digital handheld camera and will be asked to interview people regarding their opinions about immigration; they will then turn these interviews into a digital story that may be used online in association with Homeland (visit www.explorehomeland.org).
Classes are held at KETC, 3655 Olive St. in Grand Center. No experience is required. Students are supplied with everything necessary including the use of equipment during class and lab hours. At the end of the course, students will have produced a video, from 30 seconds to 3 minutes in length.
Saturdays in September
9/11, 9/18, and 9/25
9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
September 13 to October 1
Monday, Wednesday, Friday
10:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m.
Optional lab 3:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
September 14 to October 7
Tuesday, Thursday
10:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Optional lab 3:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
October 4 to October 22
Monday, Wednesday, Friday
10:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Optional lab 3:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
October 12 to November 4
Tuesday, Thursday
10:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Optional lab 3:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
October 25 to November 12
Monday, Wednesday, Friday
10:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m.
Optional lab 3:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
November 9 to December 9
Tuesday, Thursday
10:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Optional lab 3:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
***No class week of 11/22
November 15 to December 10
Monday, Wednesday, Friday
10:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m.
Optional lab 3:00 – 5:00 p.m.
***No class week of 11/22
Will you be offering this course again?