Arlee teens report on animal rehabilitation organization for Montana Public Radio
Arlee High School students learned audio reporting basics during a Montana Media Lab Youth Voices workshop. Using their new journalism skills, they produced a news story about an effort to rehabilitate animals in their community. That story aired on Montana Public Radio. Listen and read their work below. Listen on Montana Public Radio A dog sanctuary on the Flathead Indian Reservation is
Young Polson filmmakers investigate the Flathead Monster
Middle school students in Polson spent the week of their News Literacy and Digital Storytelling Workshop gathering stories about the Flathead Lake monster for a video story. An elder shared the Kootenai story of a lake monster creating Flathead lake. The students visited a judge who believed he saw a monster in the lake. A museum director shared her theory
Hays-Lodgepole students report on Native language textbook
Students at Hays Lodgepole school spent a week this summer navigating fact and fiction on the internet and creating an audio story about a new Nakoda language textbook at a News Literacy and Digital Storytelling Workshop. Students interviewed the school principal, the illustrator of the book, and their peers. The Nakoda language was once forbidden in schools. Their story captures the
Box Elder students produce videos about community happenings
Box Elder High School hosted the first Montana Media Lab News Literacy and Digital Storytelling workshop of the summer. Box Elder students made two videos about their community. One focused on the new school garden—Bear Nation Garden. They got footage of the garden intern planting seedlings and pulling weeds. Their reporting took them to the local convenience store, the school cafeteria,