Author: yongshuling

Shuling Yong is the Founder of Media For Social Change. She is a documentary filmmaker, video storyteller, speaker and educator who is passionate about utilizing her skills to make the world a better place.

Y.O.U. – Tyler’s Story

Meet Tyler. Bright student. Strong role model. Aspiring journalist. One of the 15,000 lives that has been touched by Evanston non-profit organization Y.O.U. (Youth Organizations Umbrella, Inc.) over the last 40 years. She’s also one of the talented young men and women I had the privilege of meeting while on my journey to document the impact that Y.O.U. makes in our community.

With comprehensive after-school programming, assistance with homework, enriching summer activities and leadership development opportunities, Y.O.U. enables every youth the opportunity to realize their full potential, regardless of their economic backgrounds. I’d also like to highlight, especially, the organization’s one-on-one mentoring program. I cannot emphasize enough the importance of having a good mentor in life and am so glad the kids get paired with their own mentors through the program.

To learn more about Y.O.U., visit their official website at www.youevanston.org

About the video
Produced/Directed/Sound Recorded by Shuling Yong
Cinematography by Jeff Perlman 

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How technology is redefining education.

Innovations For Learning has been featured in GOOD Education for our use of computer technology to help teachers track student learning in classrooms. Watch how it all works as my boss Seth Weinberger demonstrates the TeacherMate.

Check out the full article on GOOD here. Thanks to the team at http://www.good.is for the great post! Glad I was able to contribute some classroom footage to this.

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Childcare Network of Evanston – Shanika’s Story

Created for the Childcare Network of Evanston‘s 13th Annual Benefit on Oct 22, 2011.

A community is only as strong as its foundation, and for over 40 years, CNE has been providing the building blocks necessary to ensure that children in Evanston and its surrounding communities have access to quality early education programs. Research has shown that without this quality care during the early childhood years – birth to five – a child’s chance for future educational, professional and personal success is greatly compromised, thus having a great impact on the stability and overall health of a community.

Details
Oct 2011
Duration: 7min 9secs
Shot on the Panasonic GH2
Edited on Final Cut Pro
Produced/Directed by Shuling Yong
Cinematography by Jeff Perlman
Location Sound Recording by Jonathan Vogel and Morgan Johnson
Edited by Philipp Batta

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The Learning Log #2 – How do you grade yourself?

We all grade ourselves by different measures:

  • For some people, it’s as simple as how much money they make. When their net worth is going up, they know they’re doing well.
  • For others, it’s how much money they give.
  • For some people, it’s how many people’s lives they can influence for the better.
  • For others, it’s how deeply they can influence just a few people’s lives.

– from pg 30 of “Anything You Want” by Derek Silvers, Founder of CD Baby

I’d never thought of it that way before. Maybe that’s why some of us are in a flux of constantly doing things, and yet constantly feeling like we haven’t accomplished much in life. When we raise our grades in one measure, we find ourselves looking at the other measures and going “well, but I haven’t done X.”


Maybe that’s why some of us struggle with our parents. We’d write home happily about the lives we’d touched in the community, only to be given the failing grade by them because we weren’t already making the big fat paycheck they’d hoped their college educated child would be making.


So how do you grade yourself? Are you measuring your success by your standards, or someone else’s?


The Learning Log is a reflection of the lessons I pick up while reading my books. I hope the points picked out will inspire you as much as they’ve impacted me.
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