These stories give us insight into what it means to have family and to be part of a community. It's all we have and all we are.
Place-based Digital Storytelling Overview
This educast explains our five-step process for creating place-based digital stories. It provides the intellectual and technical skills necessary to independently create and "place" or geo-tag digital stories. The QuickStart Guide is a step-by-step "how-to" so you can follow along or easily replicate the process.
Welcome to the first in a series of 11 EduCasts as we work to provide new media tools to help connect community to place through digital storytelling and other narrative forms.
In the most recent seminar, we studied the life of Dhoruba Bin Wahad, one of New York's "Panther 21." Dhoruba's upbringing in Harlem in the 1950s, rise to black consciousness and activism with the Black Panthers demonstrate the historical events and ethos of the radical 60's in narrative form, making it easy for students to imagine the culture of that time and to compare it to today.
KQED Digital Storytelling and Community Mapping Project
In support of Ken Burns' The National Parks: America's Best Idea, KQED Digital Storytelling, Digital Media Center, and Quest Education created materials to bring together National Parks, Community Partners, and PBS entities in innovative new media outreach activities. Our goal is to engage underrepresented members of the community in our open spaces. We rely on the importance of story, the love of place, and the use of technologies old and new to create sustained connections.
Our First Community-Created Map by our Partners
As part of our outreach for Quest Education and the upcoming Ken Burns special on PBS, KQED convened community partners for this special place-based digital storytelling and collective mapping workshop. We hope you enjoy the stories of The Serpentine Prairie.
For best view, please click on "View Larger Map" below image
An Example of a Place-based Digital Story Uploaded to YouTube
Community-created digital stories can live on your site, or can be uploaded to PBS's national StoryShare site.
Manzanar - Our Legacy of Hope
Resource Documents ~ Pre-workshop packet explains the "hows" and "whys" of digital storytelling and community mapping.
The proper artistic response to digital technology
is to embrace it as a new window on everything that's eternally human,
and to use it with passion, wisdom, fearlessness, and joy.
~Ralph Lombreglia
Golden Gate, A Journey of Hope
As I learned English, I felt that I could more easily articulate my thoughts and emotions. Yet I remain submerged in silence waiting for that vibrant moment when the audience will stop to listen to my story and realize that the world is not the same for all of us.
...Then during WWII he and his entire family...were rounded up, lost everything but a suitcase each, and were sent to live in an internment camp in Arizona....
Created by Xiana Wang
9th Grade, San Francisco School of the Arts
Reality check, my California. A group of intelligent, real people. Not so perfect, not so rich. We are black, white, brown, Puerto Rican, Asian, or Pacific Islander, or Latin. We are diverse.
Created by Markeeda Cottonham
10th Grade, City Arts and Technology
The 5th World Summit on Media for Children was a global, interactive conference with discussion and debate on issues involving children and media. The summit showcased the diversity of global children's media with a focus on the achievements of developing countries. KQED was proud to participate as an International Partner and to offer pre-summit and summit workshops with over 45 youth digital storytellers.
We'd like to give a shout out to our wonderful colleagues: Benjy Francis, Artistic Director of the Afrika Cultural Centre, hosted our pre-summit workshop and proved to be an authentic voice throughout the Summit. Julia Kaiser replicated her innovative program, Junge Journalisten Berlinale from the Berlin Film Festival at the Summit, training youth to be working radio journalists. We found wonderful colleagues and kindred spirits in Thomas Hailer, Director, Generations section of the Berlin Film Festival and Carolyn Wilson, President of the Association of Media Literacy and Instructor at the University of Toronto. We also marveled at the art and craft of animation expert Antonia Ringbom from Finland, whose work with children throughout Africa evolved our perspective on what we do; and Clifford Cohen, head of AnimAction also showed some fine work of kids using animation for creative expression. Finally, we need to thank Milton Chen of the George Lucas Educational Foundation who first put us in touch with Firdoze Bulbulia, the amazing South African filmmaker and Chairperson of the 5th World Summit on Media for Children.
And as I learn anew everytime we do this: I bow my head in appreciation and gratitude to the kids. Their spirit rejuvenates and without such a flow, I don't know where we would be.
In One's Own Shoes
Walking on tattered sole. A pity none but those I confide in know.
Created by Sizwe (Suss)
5th World Summit on Media and Children
Johannesburg, South Africa, 2007
This is a compilation of stories created by youth participants during the summit. Three workshop were conducted, 1 each afternoon for 2.5 hours. Much was done in a very short time. Enjoy!
Created by many voices
5th World Summit on Media and Children
Johannesburg, South Africa, 2007
KQED proudly celebrates Black History Month. The African American community has been an active part of the Digital Storytelling Commmunity here at KQED, and has created amazing stories offering insight into the rich experience of being African American.
Eyes on the Prize
When Eyes on the Prize premiered in 1987, The Los Angeles Times called it "an exhaustive documentary that shouldn't be missed." With its re-release, KQED's DSI implemented a locative media project with Oakland High School. Starting with a discussion on community and social justice, students went into their neighborhood to document local social justice issues. Locating their stories with long/lat coordinates, they then came back into the classroom created a short digital story, used Google Earth to tag content to a mapped location, then using gps-enabled handhelds, the students geo-tagged content such that it could be experienced in the actual location using a handheld.
An Ode to Tree
"Tree is beautiful."
Created by Annie Phung
Oakland High School
KQED Eyes on the Prize Locative Media/Social Project
"My father was always so proud that he had been there standing against fascism and the specter of Hitler in Britain. Standing firm for what he held to be true."
Created by Maxine Einhorn at a KQED digital storytelling workshop. In memoriam for the last of a generation. Would that we all stood so tall.
We are proud to present "All about the College Track," a collaboration between KQED, the teachers and students of Castlemont High in Oakland, CA. and the producers of the pbs series, "College Track." We invite you to view student and teacher created digital stories around the myths and truths of how we track students for college... as told by those not quite so tracked.
Eight teachers from the Oakland Unified School District participated in a three-day workshop at the district technolgy center using KQED's mobile lab. Follow-up workshops with teachers at their schools and in their classrooms further support the goal to integrate digital storytelling into the curriculum of the pbs series, "College Track." We invite you to view student and teacher created digital stories around the myths and truths of how we track students for college... as told by those not quite so tracked.
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