Today is the birthday Fred McFeely Rogers, aka “Mister Rogers.” One of my earliest heroes, he modeled for me a way of being, or looking at the world, and a vision for community that continues to inspire me to this day. I now work for a PBS station, which is honestly still a thrill. One …
I”m excited to announce the newest course on KQED Teach — “Partner with GenAi to Elevate Authentic Youth Voice.” In this short course you will learn about KQED Education’s unique take on generative AI in the classroom and see how you can customize an AI chatbot that supports student media making. Pre-enroll here. Partner with …
So it’s pledge time again at KQED, the public media station I work at. To spread the word, I decided to create a video on my personal Instagram account on why public media is so important to me. But as anyone who follows me on Instagram knows, I mostly post about roller skating. So I …
Today marks my sixth year working at KQED for the education department. Still feel so honored to get to work here, with these incredible people, supporting this important mission to “inspire, inform and engage” our community.
I love my KQED Fam. Isn’t our 2024 end of year pic fantastic? Not gonna lie, it’s been a rough year. Lots of faces missing from this picture. There are rocky shores ahead for public media. But in this pic I see literally hundreds of incredibly smart, creative, and dedicated people who want to build …
Last week I had the unique opportunity of teaching two back-to-back workshops for two very different audiences: one was a webinar for 80+ teachers from around the country and the other was an in-person class for 25 roller skaters in a park. The interesting thing is that both workshops were very similar in structure. This …
This weekend, KQED welcomed thousands of visitors to our headquarters for our 2nd annual KQED FEST! I had a blast as one of the greeters in the main lobby of KQED, welcoming people to our space and orienting them to the hundreds of things going on that day in the building and on the street. …
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In the Before Times, doing in-person workshops for teachers and librarians was one of the best parts of my job. Luckily, those days are back, to some degree. In July, I got to help with a KQED organized a summer media making day for local educators. Then in August, I helped lead professional workshops for …
I’m excited to announce the release this week of the final episode of season one of “The Field Trip Game,” a new video series from KQED. This is the first KQED show created by and for young people! I was so excited to hear that the producers wanted to feature rollerskating in one of the …