Expand Your Media Literacy Skills Today With KQED Teach

KQED Teach offers a collection of free, hands-on professional learning opportunities focused on Digital Media. Educators can build skills in digital storytelling, data visualization, and critical media use to support all curriculum areas. These skill…

 

KQED has been committed to helping teachers and learners for as long as I can remember. Early on it was providing public TV resources and lesson plans. Now, as they have evolved, they give us communities and networks of connected learners.  This is their latest effort.  And it is a hand-in-glove fit to the DIY online community, CLMOOC, as they wend their way through their four week field walk.

I especially like the “courses” they offer.  Here is one I like a lot, Video Storytelling Essentials.  Why? Because it divides the ‘lessons’ into how to tell stories with video (five modules) and how to teach others to tell those stories (one module).  That is the correct order of things.  If you want to teach then you need to make–a lot.

The community part of the site is nascent, but there is still activity–a very good sign.  Check out Rachel (sorry, I don’t know last name) and her use of WeVideo to make a six-word video story.  Got me inspired:  wake, take, make, reflect, listen, go.  Going to try to have something by the evening before the Twitter chat for #CLMOOC