Featured Workshops
Join us online at one of our scheduled workshops listed below! Attending a conference soon? View our conference calendar to see where we'll be.
March 27, 4-6pm PDT
Online workshop; for grade 6-12 educators
Invite students to create their own mini-documentary to share their voice, learning, expertise and curiosity. Join us and WeVideo to explore ready-to-use curriculum and media-making resources, jump into video pre-production, and start your own mini-documentary.
April 10, 4-6pm PDT
Online workshop; for grade K-12 educators
Discover the impact of video storytelling! Create your own video to use as a model for a year-end reflection, celebration or a culminating video project. Receive hands-on experience with video editing tools, as well as classroom resources and modifiable curriculum.
April 17, 4-6pm PDT
Online workshop; for grade K-12 educators
With the 2024 Election approaching, help students craft arguments about issues that matter to them–then share their voice through audio storytelling. Join the National Writing Project and KQED to unpack the genre of civic commentary and start your own audio commentary to use as a model with students.
Schedule
Join us online at one of our scheduled workshops listed below!
KQED x WeVideo: Inspire and Inform with Student Mini-Documentary Projects
March 27, 4-6pm PDT
Online workshop; for grades 6-12 educators (Free)
Informational media is critical in today's society by providing the knowledge and know-how to navigate the complex and constantly evolving world. KQED’s Show What You Know Youth Media Challenge invites students to create their own mini-documentary to share their voice, learning, expertise and curiosity. In this interactive workshop, we’ll partner with WeVideo to explore ready-to-use curriculum and media-making resources, jump into video pre-production, and start a mini-documentary to use as a model with students. You’ll leave with everything you need to do KQED’s Show What You Know Youth Media Challenge in the next school year.
Teach Election 2024 with Multimedia Projects from Public Media
April 9, 2-3pm PDT
Webinar; for grades 6-12 educators (Free)
Student voice matters in 2024. Attend this edWebinar to hear from classroom teachers about the impact media projects can have on students’ civic engagement, motivation, and media literacy. The session will also look at KQED’s Call for Change: Your Election 2024 Project, a free, ready-to-use project from public media focused on issues, not candidates.
Attendees will leave with modifiable curricula in English and Spanish to use with students and will receive access to free professional development resources designed to support and enrich educators’ digital media skills. The Call for Change project has been developed for grades 6-12 and is grounded in project-based learning (PBL) and Universal Design for Learning (UDL) best practices. Center your students’ voices in 2024 starting with this edWebinar.
"I love the hands on aspect of all the KQED workshops. Thank you for giving us time to create model texts for our students."
- High school educator
The Power of Video Storytelling for Celebration and Reflection
April 10, 4-6pm PDT
Online workshop; for grades K-12 educators (Free)
Video projects are a powerful way to connect with students and strengthen classroom community as we wrap up the year. Explore a variety of video projects from K-12 classrooms that show the impact of video storytelling, then start your own video to use as a model for a year-end reflection, celebration or a culminating video project. You’ll get hands-on experience with video editing tools, as well as classroom resources, modifiable curriculum, and connections to further learning with KQED. Video production beginners and experts will leave with something useful for their practice.
Call for Change: Argument Writing and Action for Election 2024 (with the National Writing Project)
April 17, 4-6pm PDT
Online workshop; for grades 6-12 educators (Free)
With the 2024 Election approaching, help students craft arguments about issues that matter to them–then share their voice through audio storytelling. Join the National Writing Project and KQED to unpack the genre of civic commentary, which combines both personal experience and research-based evidence, then start your own audio commentary to use as a model with students. You’ll leave with hands-on experience, curriculum resources in English and Spanish, and access to web-based media tools needed to do KQED’s Call for Change Youth Media Challenge or another civic media project.
"I'm just so appreciative. This was a wonderful surprise. [This time] felt like a gift. There are still talented, creative, fun people in the world who are dedicated to improving education for our students. Thanks for refreshing my soul!" - High school educator
If You Really Knew Me: Identity, Belonging & Multimedia Storytelling (with Facing History)
July 24, 10am-12pm PST
Online workshop; for grades 6-12 educators (Free)
Developing an understanding of their own identity deepens young peoples’ relationships with each other, breaks down stereotypes, and nurtures a sense of community and belonging. How can educators support young people to share a powerful message, memory, story, value or life lesson about themselves or their community? In this interactive online workshop, participants will explore Facing History’s classroom-ready materials and jump into project planning and media creation related to KQED’s First Person Photo Essay Youth Media Challenge project. We also talk about how middle and high school students can publish their work on KQED’s Youth Media Showcase and share their voice beyond the classroom.
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About KQED
KQED is a nonprofit, public media station and NPR and PBS member station based in San Francisco that offers award-winning education resources and services free to educators nationwide. KQED Teach is a collection of professional development courses that empower educators to teach media literacy, make media for the classroom and lead media-making projects with students in K-12.