Five Dead Wolves
Coming Home: The C.A.R.E. Program
C.A.R.E is a 16 minute long documentary filmed by 5 Bucknell students taking an English Film/Media Studies course. The film was selected from a list of possibilities from the Film/Media Production Clinic, where every semester local organizations bid to have videos completed by film students. The C.A.R.E. program was selected because of the high impact this type of project could have on ex-offenders. The students wanted to participate in a meaningful production that could create social change.
The program was created by Judge Yvette Kane and is supported by additional Judges Thomas Vanaskie and William Arbuckle. The program hopes to reduce the recidivism rate by offering participants the opportunity to receive support. The ex-offenders are partnered with probation offers, Judges, and community members who help council. Ex-offenders who participate in the program can receive a reduced sentence, receive funding to attend college, and aid in finding jobs.
The program hopes to become a model to reduce recidivism across the country and hopes more inmates awaiting release will be encourage to participate due to the testimonies of the participants of the documentary film.
From prisons to Congress, student documentary will have a wide audience
Student Film is Subject of TV Special
Wildlife Leadership Academy: Digital Stories of Conservation
My community work with the Wildlife Leadership Academy was my first attempt at a Virtual Digital Storytelling Experience with 4 participants from the Wildlife Leadership Academy camps. Michelle Kittell, the Executive Director of the non-profit organization wanted to use digital storytelling as a part of a fund-raising campaign for the organization. Four participants, four digital stories of conservation, each released within a week of each other to help promote the camps and raise money.
We worked virtually with the participants because they were not local. Two were in high school at the time, the third in college, and the fourth a recent graduate of college. The wordpress site acted as a hub of information for the participants to access any and all information they needed regarding the assignment. It also served as guide for anyone wishing to duplicate such a process. All materials and scaffolding of the assignment available for anyone. The link to the blog is below followed by my report and presentation on the project. I think others who are looking to duplicate such a process will find my reports valuable.
Wildlife Leadership Academy: Digital Stories of Conservation
Brianna-Healey-Derr-Field-Project-Report
Sarah’s How a Mayfly Nymph changed my life
Jackie’s Hunting: Conserving Our Tomorrow
David’s An Unexpected Journey: Inspired by Japanese Stilt Grass
Roberts’ Hunting for Understanding
Packwood House Digital Archive: A Community Project
Faculty: Janice Mann
Students: Rebecca Reeve ’17
Summer 2016
Tools: Omeka
URL: http://packwood.omeka.bucknell.edu/omeka/
The Next Page Article
The Packwood House Digital Archive of the Personal Papers, Ephemera, and Photographs of John and Edith Fetherston
Professor Janice Mann (Art History) and Rebecca Reeve (Art History ’17) collaborated on a research project during the summer of 2016 to digitize archival materials in the Packwood House Museum. The Packwood House was the residence of Bucknell graduate Edith Fetherston and her husband, John. Reeve worked with Courtney Paddick and Carrie Johnston to learn how to scan, digitize, and write metadata for the collection of postcards that Edith Fetherston received from friends traveling the globe in the early twentieth century. Reeve and Mann are generating an Omeka exhibit that will showcase these postcards and eventually serve as an online repository and virtual museum for the entirety of the Packwood House papers and collections.
This research collaboration grew out of Mann’s fall 2015 course, “The West Imagines the Rest,” in which students learned about the ways westerners interpret and collect eastern art. During the course, students worked alongside Emily Sherwood to create a virtual guide for the museum, which featured Edith Fetherston’s collections from her travels in Asia.