The Puerto Rican Cultural Center and Batey Urbano programs aim to expand youth technological literacy and creative production. They recruit youth from local high schools and have a 3-year old after school program called BACCA that engages youth in creating digital media content using various software. The organizations partner with other groups to teach youth website design, podcasting, and using multimedia on the web as part of a project to strengthen collaboration between Latino and African American youth. Batey Urbano youth are producing a multimedia manual that will be published online about their work. The programs utilize both open source and commercial software and applications across Windows, Mac, and Linux platforms along with various hardware.

1. HP, Digital Media, Learning
and Youth
Alejandro Luis Molina, José E. Rivera
Puerto Rican Cultural Center & Batey Urbano

2. WHAT WE WANT
To expand youth technological literacy and creative/
cultural production through our programs, as a point to
strengthen the connections to school and community;
• PRCC has always seen youth as a starting point to
implement the creation of a culture of technology;
• Our programs and affiliates have strong history of
using technology, including digital media.

3. THE FORMS IT TAKES
• The Puerto Rican Cultural Center, Dr. Pedro Albizu Campos High
School, Batey Urbano, BACCA and Summer Job programs recruit from
4-5 area public high schools and are developing a digital youth
network.
• We are in the 3rd year of BACCA, our Barrio Arts, Culture and
Communications Academy after‐school program. This program engages
youth in the creation of content – providing both access and skills
training, while tying it to the resolution of community problems.
• Instructors have experience working with area youth on radio
production, photography, video, theater, multimedia and social
networking content, and will know how to use the latest software or
techniques to showcase student work in a variety of online and
community venues.

4. BATEY URBANO IN THE COMMUNITY: C, C AND C!
HTTP://FLICKR.COM/MUEVETE

5. BATEY URBANO IN THE COMMUNITY: C, C AND C!
HTTP://FLICKR.COM/MUEVETE

6. Puerto Rican Cultural
Center Summer Job
Media Project
5 summer interns took a
4 week crash course in
website creation and
design, video interviews
and editing and writing
in this exploratory PRCC
summer project. Over
the course of the
project, the student
successfully conducted
interviews using
questions they wrote
and discussed, edited
the interviews and
posted them to a
website they created.
Visit the website at:
http://bit.ly/futureweb
PRCC SUMMER MEDIA INTERNS
FROM START TO FINISH: VIDEO EDITING, WEBSITE CREATION AND DESIGN

7. HP Smart Communities Early Action Project Phase 1
As part of the Early Action Project aimed at strengthening
collaboration between the Puerto Rican/Latino and African
American youth from the East and West side of Humboldt Park,
the PRCC, and Batey will partner with the Spoken Word Academy
and the Westside Writing Project to teach website design and
building skills, podcasting and rich-media use on the Web.
Below: Batey Youth in the process of producing draft of
Multimedia Manual that will be published online.

8. HP Smart Communities Early Action Project Phase 1
In the last slide, Jessica Fuentes, a member of Batey Urbano and
below, Samuel Vega, also a member, speak to the expectations
of cross-cultural collaboration and how technology helps the
Batey run their space.

9. HP Smart Communities Early Action Project Phase 1
Draft cover of Multimedia manual, to be produced at blurb.com

10. What We Use
OPEN SOURCE, WEB 2.0
& FREE APPLICATIONS:
Google Apps, Wordpress CMS,
Open Office, Audacity, Open Proj,
Flickr, Blip, Feedburner, Ourmedia &
Internet Archive
COMMERCIAL APPS: Pro-Tools, iMovie, AdobeCS2
CROSS-PLATFORM USE:
Windows, Macintosh & Linux (Mint)
Misc Hardware: point and shoot cameras, Flip video
recorders, digital audio recorders