| Chancellor Berdahl Honors EDGE Program |
Earlier this summer EDGE—Eastmont Digital Griots En-route—an innovative new program to help high school students gain the skills and experience that will prepare them for college, completed its first year. Later this month, EDGE will be recognized and honored for its work as one of eight UCB/Community collaborations to receive commendation from Berkeley Chancellor Robert Berdahl at a reception on September 18.
EDGE is a writing project that teaches young people how to create a strong personal statement for college admissions applications. The program establishes a collaborative environment for written, oral, and ethnographic exploration, while appealing to students by offering hands-on experience with sound and video technologies.
The program motto is: "Access to college through access to stories". A student's life experiences, articulated and given context, can be shaped into compelling narratives that flesh out the personal history behind the grades and numbers on a high school transcript. The creators of EDGE saw, in digital storytelling, a unique opportunity for young people to participate in something as old as civilization-creating, recording and sharing stories of individual identity, family and community.
. . . Continue on to the IU News September 2003 page to read more about EDGE.
