During the weekend of October 2-4, sites around the country are going to take part in the first nation-wide Climate Game Jam, an effort to get lots of people designing games that communicate climate science and spur the players to fight climate change. A partnership of NOAA, the White Office of Science and Technology Policy, …
Check out the beautifully designed new website of the California Academy of Sciences. Planned to better serve our many audiences, to showcase the wonder and beauty of our collections, and work well on a variety of different devices from a cell phone to a 25" monitor, the new calacademy.org launched today. Surf around and tell …
Today my colleague Annelise Wunderlich took some portrait shots to use for our internal site. I love the background she picked! Which one is your favorite?
So I’m staffing one of the entry points for KQED Fest today, handing out programs and greeting people. It’s about 11:15am. A beat-up white truck pulls up and an older gentleman in overalls waves me over. He has a sour look on his face. “Good morning, how can I help you?” I ask, in my …
This year was one of growth and evolution of my work to support media literacy education everywhere, through our suite of high quality services, products, and relationships. While we haven’t reached the kind of mass impact that I believe our work deserves, I’m heartened by the stories of teachers impacted by our work, in big …
The National Association for Media Literacy Education (NAMLE) has selected the PBS Media Literacy Educator Certification by KQED for the 2022 Media Literate Media Award. This award recognizes outstanding contributions to media literacy made by media professionals with national reach. Past winners of this award include Bill Moyers, Snopes.com, On the Media/WNYC and PBS News Hour Student Reporting Labs. …
It’s been a pretty epic June at KQED for me and the rest of the KQED teacher professional learning team. It kicked off with the public launch of the brand new KQED Teach! As I mentioned last month, we’ve been seriously in need of an upgrade to our learning management system that houses our online …
So 2020 was of course not the year that anyone expected it to be. I feel very fortunate that I continue to be gainfully employed at an organization that values my work and that serves a vital need in this time of multiple crises. Here’s some of my professional highlights from 2020. Working from Home …
I’m so excited to lead a hands-on workshop at the virtual Fall CUE conference on Monday, October 26. The subject of our session is: “Lies, Damn Lies and Deepfakes: Teaching Media Analysis to All Grades”. It’s going to be a fun, hands-on meetup with teachers, where I will get them analyzing and evaluating media, spotting …
I wrote this piece for the KQED Education blog, focused on key learnings from seven of our newest PBS certified media literacy educators. I’m so proud of what these master teachers are doing around the US to support quality media education for young people. There’s no magic wand that we can wave to make remote …