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Digital Media Center

Welcome to KQED's Digital Media Center, the place to explore, create and showcase media for and by the community. KQED strives to engage you in the media production process with community and educator trainings, tools, content, and outreach. As part of our community, we hope you will help us build this innovative and creative Digital Media Center. This space will grow and change with our collective creativity.

As part of Frontline's exploration into this digital nation of ours, youth and youth leaders talk about cellphone use and non-use in their schools.

 
Integrating Media and Technology into Your Teaching
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Media Literacy

Foster independent thinking and 21st century literacy skills with KQED Media Literacy resources. The ability to think critically about the powerful images, words, sounds, and messages that saturate contemporary culture increases students' chance of success in and outside of the classroom.

Through workshops, and in-class materials and programs, encourage your students to ask key questions about who creates media messages -- why? and to what effect?

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Digital Storytelling

Help students of all ages find, tell, create, and publish the stories of their lives with Digital Storytelling activities. Through hands-on training in multimedia production and story theory, educators and community members can guide the creation of compelling and authentic digital stories within a learning environment.

Digital stories can lead students and community members to discover first-hand how narrative education can provide knowledge and inspiration. By creating their own media projects, storytellers can also develop important critical thinking skills that help them interpret 21st century culture.

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Teachers' Domain

Featuring public television content, Teachers' Domain provides multimedia classroom resources and professional development courses to K-12 educators. KQED contributes to the collection of resources within the archive with content from KQED programs that focus on local topics related to science, the environment and nature. Teachers' Domain is a searchable database of free, high-quality multimedia content available to stream, download, share and remix.

The resources found in Teachers' Domain include video and audio clips, interactive features, images, and documents prepared from the best of PBS programs and universities across the country. You will also find accompanying explanatory background articles and media-rich lesson plans - all correlated to state and national curriculum standards.

Blog: media.infusion @ PBS Teachers
  • Digital Media Webinar Series: Integrating Youth Media Making into Public Media

    Beginning on Thursday Sept 15 (12-1 ET), the VoiceScape project will host a series of 5 webinars. The title of the series, “A Match Made in Heaven: Youth Media Making and Public Media,” introduces stations, educators, and community partners (it is open to all) to the how and why of integrating youth media making into public media. Hear from Project VoiceScape station grantees about their experience, explore hardware and software options, discover great resources (including Adobe curriculum,...
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Black History Month

KQED celebrates with special programming in February and honors four local unsung heroes.

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Noise Pop: Comedy and Music

Listen to this week's podcast exploring the relationship between music and comedy with guests Shawn Robbing and Ivan Hernandez.

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