During the first half of 2006, more than 500 middle-school students from around the Gulf Coast took part in an innovative digital arts summer programs sponsored by the Mobile Learning Institute. Working together in small teams over the course of intensive, weeklong workshops offered in classrooms and during summer camp, Digital Arts Camp participants used the latest mobile phone and communications technologies to script and create digital films that combine their personal reactions to their experiences since Hurricane Katrina with their own specific recommendations for how parts of their cities, towns, and communities can be preserved or re-created as the region rebuilds.

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Please follow the links below to see the digital films created by
Gulf Coast participants

MLI Summer Camp Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana
	In August 2005, Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, experienced Hurricane Katrina firsthand. This summer, Mobile Learning Institute Digital Arts Summer Camps provided young people from this community with an opportunity to share their own stories. View Website

New Orleans West College Prep (NOW) Houston, Texas

The students at New Orleans West College Prep in Houston are all former New Orleans residents who were uprooted by Katrina. By conducting personal interviews and combining the resulting footage with illustrative images and video clips, fourth-grade through eighth-grade students at the school developed narratives that vividly portray their memories of the storm, their experiences in their adopted home of Texas, and their hopes and expectations for the future. View Website

Ashé Cultural Arts Center New Orleans, Louisiana
	In August 2005, New Orleans, Louisiana experienced Hurricane Katrina firsthand. This summer, Mobile Learning Institute Digital Arts Summer Camps at the Ashe Cultural Center provided young people from this community with an opportunity to share their own stories. View Website

Bay/Waveland Middle School Bay St. Louis, Mississippi
	In August 2005, Bay St. Louis, Mississippi experienced Hurricane Katrina firsthand. This spring, Mobile Learning Institute Digital Arts Summer Camps provided students at Bay/Waveland Middle School an opportunity to share their own stories. View Website

Bay St. Louis Summer Camp Bay St. Louis, Mississippi
	In August 2005, Bay St. Louis, Mississippi experienced Hurricane Katrina firsthand. This summer, Mobile Learning Institute Digital Arts Summer Camps provided young people from this community with an opportunity to share their own stories. View Website