Featured Projects LATEST PROJECT - Check out the youth stories from South Africa created at the 5th World Summit on Media and Children.

D_Storytelling Contest An autobiographical digital storytelling contest for students. Check out the changes for 2009! New theme, more formats!

About Our Workshops Dates, times, and info about the process of the KQED Digital Storytelling Workshop.

Great Inspirations Watch stories, explore narrative, investigate new technologies, check out resources.

The Digital Storytelling Initiative

2009 Digital Storytelling Contest and Festival Info!

As the hundreds of formal and informal educators and valued community partners that have taken our recent workshops know, we've revised our workshop schedule, streamlining our traditional workshop and adding more variety by including place-based digital storytelling using geo-browsing applications like Google Earth and Google Maps. With our emphasis on place, and the newest Ken Burns series, National Parks: America's Best Idea airing in the Fall of 2009, we are taking this opportunity to align our digital storytelling work and our digital storytelling contest and festival with this series. The theme for the contest this year is Public Lands, Public Voices - my place in outdoor space.

KQED and our new Center for Digital Media remain a national leader in community created and distributed digital content. We hope to shape 21st century media by providing training in story theory and in the use of multimedia and digital technology. Compelling and engaging, genuine and authentic, community created digital stories derive their impact by weaving images, music, narrative and voice together, thereby giving deep dimension and vivid color to characters and experiences. With new media, we can explore cultural understanding and competence, and with new tools for collaboration and connectivity, we can tell those stories. Our stories.

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