In this free, hands-on course you will
- Get step-by-step guidance on planning, implementing and assessing a graphics project from start to finish
- Learn how to select and plan for different elements of the project, from digital graphics tools to aligning learning goals with your content and standards
- Explore graphics projects created by educators and students from a wide range of grade levels and subject areas
- Create a ready-to-use graphics project plan or unit
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Create a rubric or checklist for a student media project that supports your curriculum goals
Who Should Take This Course
K-12 educators in all subject areas who want to develop skills and confidence with media making and media literacy.
Course Features
Learn online at your own pace with step-by-step videos and hands-on activities. Join live events with instructors and peers. It’s completely free!
Certificate of Completion
Earn a Certificate of Completion for 8 hours of professional development. Then apply for graduate units from one of our university partners.
Learning Objectives
Understand the components needed to successfully plan and implement a media project with students, including:
- Aligning your media project to your content and standards
- Choosing the media format and digital tools that best communicate your project’s content and student’s learning effectively
- Creating a clear timeline for your project from start to finish
- Managing group work, collaboration, equity and accessibility
Example Curriculum
- Graphics Projects in Practice
- Connecting with Local Geography through Photo Essays (middle school)
- Offering Media Options to Connect to Literature (middle school) (2:13)
- Showcase Learning with a Capstone Web Page (elementary)
- Media Projects Help Early Learners Express Feelings (elementary) (5:38)
- Developing your Graphics Project Idea
Enroll now for free!
You will have four weeks to complete the assignments in this course and receive a Certificate of Completion. If you would like to continue to access the course content after those 4 weeks, you are welcome to re-enroll. There is no penalty for taking the course multiple times.
Your Instructors
We support educators in integrating video storytelling, audio podcasts and other media literacy skills into their teaching practice.
Angel Valerio
Angel is KQED’s program manager for STEM professional learning. Previously, she worked in South Los Angeles and East Oakland as a high school life science teacher and instructional coach. She is passionate about the intersection of science, social justice, and uplifting youth voice.
Rachel Roberson
Rachel is KQED’s program manager for humanities professional learning. Previously, she was an English and social studies classroom teacher and teacher leader in San Francisco, Oakland, Austin and internationally. Before becoming a teacher, she was a newspaper reporter in the Bay Area.
Rik Panganiban
Rik is the manager of online learning and educator certification at KQED. Rik was the head of Digital Learning at the California Academy of Sciences and the instructional design lead for Science Action Club.
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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.
All course content unless otherwise noted is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. This license excludes all user generated content unless explicitly labeled for reuse by the user. Permission to reuse user generated content should be directed to the individual creator.
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