the33tv.com goes inside The SMU Guildhall Game Design & Video Game Development School

This video is from the article that Amanda Salinas wrote over at the33tv.com about game development and animation degree programs increasing to 27% in the last year. Check out the video below, which takes you inside the prestigious gaming program at SMU Guildhall:

Land Rush Group founder Ejovi Nuwere interviewed on PBS TV's Biz Kid

I can't say enough about my boy Ejovi Nuwere, formally the CEO of startup SecurityLab Technologies. Ejovi Nuwere grew up impoverished in the Bed-Sty section of Brooklyn where he saw a close friend gunned down as a teenager and his mother succumb to drugs. Despite those obstacles, Ejovi went on to become a computer security professional at age 15 and went own to work for @stake (later acquired by Symantec), and ended up on the Businesweeks top 25 under 25 in 2005. Check out his PBS TV 'Biz Kid' video feature below:

MultiMedia expert S. Craig Watkins talks about his new book 'The Young And The Digital'

In this short video, fellow Black Digerati and Radio-Television-Film professor S. Craig Watkins talks about his new book 'The Young and The Digital', which explores digital natives dynamic engagement with social media, online games, mobile phones, and communities like Facebook and MySpace. Check out the video below:

YouMedia Chicago in Action!

YouMedia Chicago is an innovative, 21st century learning space, housed at the Harold Washington Library, created to inspire collaboration and creativity among Chicago urban young adults as they work in groups on projects and learn vital digital media skills. I spent a brief moment in the YouMedia lab tonight, and let me tell you the design and setup of all the technology is really nice! And since Black Digerati is based in Chicago, we're currently working on developing a relationship with the leadership at YouMedia to act as 'technology mentors' to some of the youth. More info on that to come, but in the meantime check out the video created by some of the youth as they tell the story of YouMedia:

Digital Media guru David Dunkley Gyimah talks 'IM Videojournalism' at SXSW

Here is an excerpt of London based Black Digerati David Dunkley Gyimah, at SXSW this year giving his ideas on intertextual storytelling and the importance of how you build your website and shooting cinematically. Check out the video below: