As a media arts scholar and practitioner, Gabriel Peters-Lazaro's areas of interest include early primary media education as well as the intersections of technology and health. He completed his B.A. in Film Studies at UC Berkeley in 2002 where he received a departmental citation as well as that institution's highest award for artistic achievement. He completed his M.F.A. in Film Directing and Production at UCLA in 2007, honing his skills in traditional and digital filmmaking techniques. From 2008, he has been the Multimedia Media Lab Manager at USC's Institute for Multimedia Literacy, where creative applications of technological tools in the service of innovative forms of participatory learning are daily pursuits. His work at IML includes developing new forms of educational video and multimedia content across a wide variety of subject areas in collaboration with scholars and organizations from all parts of USC and beyond. His recent involvement in the Junior AV Club (think 4-year-olds with video cameras) has yielded rich beginnings into research on pre-kindergarten media education. In collaboration with USC's Anthropology department, he teaches documentary filmmaking techniques to Master of Arts in Visual Anthropology students. He is also an avid surfer.
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2010