• ALL NEW EduCasts Watch our how-to educasts to learn to use new media tools in place-based digital storytelling

• The National Parks: America's Best Idea Materials and Collateral for Ken Burns' Upcoming PBS series

• Youth Media Rocks Youth stories, youth perspectives, youth voices. It's all here.

• Black History Month We proudly offer these stories of the Black Experience, in honor of Black History Month.

• Women's History Month Finally a voice of our own. KQED proudly presents these digital stories, created by the women who tell them.

• 5WSMC Examples from the 5th World Summit, March 2007, hosted by the Afrika Cultural Center, Joburg, South Africa.

• Reading Rainbow These are the digital stories read by the winning authors from the young writers and illustrators contest.

• Civicorps Corpsmember Academy The History of Now: Historical Biography and Digital Storytelling by the amazing students of EBCC School.

• Eyes on the Prize Part of a digital storytelling, gps-enabled project with Oakland High School students

• Family and Community 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.

Stories From The National Parks: America's Best Idea

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 View Larger Map An Example of a Community-Created Map Liberation and Cultural in Washington DC: Welcome President Obama For best view, please click on "View Larger Map" below image View Larger Map 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. ~Education and Community Engagement Online Modules to complement the hands-on trainings and webinars. 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