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Alert: Missing 15 yr old student -- Tisha Muentes
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From: "Inter-American Magnet School" <interamericanschool@gmail.com>
Date: Nov 12, 2008 7:37 AM
Subject: Alert: Missing Inter-American Alumna -- Tisha Muentes
To: "Adela Weinstein" <aweinstein@thecenterweb.org>, "Anton Miglietta" <anton@idpl.org>, "Anton Miglietta" <antonmiglietta@sbcglobal.net>, "Carmen Vidal-Hallett" <cvidalhallett@gmail.com>, "Elizabeth Kundolf" <EKundolf@cps.edu>, "Fabian Muentes" <iamslsc@aol.com>, "Jill Wohl, IAMS LSC Secretary" <jillwohl@gmail.com>, "Jody Luna" <jodyluna@yahoo.com>, "Karen Barbour" <karen-barbour@sbcglobal.net>, "Luis Vera, LSC Chair" <lvera@thetaxdefenders.com>, "Monica Gonzalez" <msgonzalez@cps.edu>, "Susan Kilbane" <smkilbane@cps.k12.il.us>
Former Inter-American student and eldest daughter of current IAMS parents has been missing since Monday. Please get the word out and share any information with the family.
Un estudiante de la escuela interamericana que se graduó en 2007 y la hija mayor de padres de IAMS, la niña que falta... desde el lunes. Por favor comparta cualquier información con la familia.
http://www.4shared.com/file/71159980/44f42200/MISSING_TEEN.html
http://www.nbcchicago.com/topics/?topic=Tisha+Muentes
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=38669981077
ALERT: MISSING CHILD, Tisha Muentes. Age 15, Height 5'1 ft, Weight 100 lbs. Hair Dark black wavy. She wears her hair in a bun. Last seen on Halsted (Diversey/Halsted) bus southbound on 11/10/2008 at 07:20am. She was wearing a large light brown furry coat, beige scarf and gloves, jeans pants. If anyone knows anything contact her dad: Fabian Muentes at: (773)410-6611or (773)791-8473…
Aviso Urgente: LA JOVENCITA DE 15 ANOS TISHA MUENTES de ascendencia ecuatoriana se encuentra extraviada. Sus generales son: de cinco pies una pulgada de alto, pesa 100 libras, tiene pelo mediano ondulado negro, usaba blusa blanca, blue jen, abrigo cafe claro, bufanda y guantes de color crema. El ultimo contacto familiar fue mediante un e-mail enviado a su tia ayer lunes 10 de noviembre a las siete y veinte de la mañana, asistia a LINCOLN PARK HIGH SCHOOL donde tenia buenas calificaciones. LES PEDIMOS ENCARECIDAMENTE cualquier dato que puedan proporcionar sera de mucho valor llamando al papa el bombero Fabian Muentes al telefono (773)410-6611 o al (847)293-4352.
Esperanza,
FELE
(This message is sent out by FELE (Familias en la Escuela), Inter-American's Volunteer parent group. Este mensaje es enviado por FELE (Familias en la Escuela), el grupo de padres voluntarios de la escuela Interamericana.)
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Abstract for my grant proposal
Comments welcomed!
Virtual Newsstands: When Tagging is Good for a Chicago Neighborhood
Our experiment aims to expand readership and train future new media journalists by attaching news stories to underserved neighborhoods (those centered around areas with large concertrations of public housing) where people congregate, like laundromats, bus stops, grocery stores, using mobile phones. Patrons and pedestrians can sample and view unique local news in context.
Disadvantaged youth selected from local Chicago tutoring/mentoring programs will work with journalism students
to learn basic reporting skills and use of new location-based technologies installed on state of the art mobile
smartphones. Once they have acquired this knowledge, they will go back into their neighborhoods and write
original stories about issues relevant to their particular beat. Once approved by an editor, it will then be
published both online and in a mobile format accessible to the community via ordinary cellphone.
When a citizen is at a bus stop or local barbershop, they will see signs that simply direct them to either call
a number or send a text message to hear stories about their neighborhood.
It isn't innovative to recognize that mainstream media often overlooks inner city "information ghettos",
creating pockets of disenfranchisement. Nor is it innovative to help disadvantaged youth living in Chicago to
produce relevant, professional mixed-media stories about their neighborhood, though participants will get
training from local community-based journalism organizations and major universities. It is innovative to empower
these young people with cutting edge tools such as mobile smartphones to be able to produce their own articles,
photographs, and audiovisual content for a wider readership. Their families may not have computers or Internet,
but the cellphone is a familiar device in these communities. We think that producing site specific news stories
is a novel idea. To write about a robbery at its scene, for example, adds new challenges for the reporter and a
new kind of experience for the reader. To review a local band, in front of the place they perform and include a
soundclip; to address issues about a zoning changes at the site, include photos or interviews with the story are
other examples of what might be done in this new kind of news. See our illustration in the attachments for a
view of our "virtual newsstand" idea. Info is tagged to spaces and everyone has a cellphone these days.
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