The Site of Rik Panganiban
For the past few weeks, I’ve been revising one of my favorite courses on KQED Teach, “Understanding Copyright for Educators.” It’s a short, breezy introduction to the basics of copyright law, Fair Use, Creative Commons and the Public Domain. Fun stuff! When we originally wrote this course in 2022, there was a lot of complicated …
I’ve been a media literacy educator for the past 17 years. And I’ve been a practicing Quaker for more than 25 years. Until recently, I haven’t put those two parts of me together. At its face this feels like a shaky juxtaposition. Media literacy is being able to consume, analyze, evaluate and share media effectively …
The KQED Education 2024-25 school year report is out! I’m so proud of our successes this year, including my work managing KQED Teach (pg 12) and the PBS Media Literacy Educator Certification (pg 13). KQED Teach was reviewed in the spring by researchers from the National Association for Media Literacy Education who found that 90% …
I am excited to announce the launch of two new courses on KQED Teach focused on GenAI in the classroom: These courses join our first GenAI course “Partner with GenAI to Elevate Authentic Student Voice” to complete our trifecta of offerings that bring together the full picture of media literacy – ANALYZE, EVALUATE and CREATE …
My role at work has shifted to leading more professional development workshops for teachers. This week, I co-led a workshop on partnering with AI to support student media making. We had 227 folks turn out! When you are leading workshops online, it’s hard to know if you are hitting your marks. But it’s great to …
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.
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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 …