Share Student Voice Through Audio Storytelling and Media-Making

Описание: Bring THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION Youth Media Challenge to your classroom. Discover how your students can connect the foundational principles of the American Revolution to their lives today by amplifying their knowledge through media-making.

In this interactive workshop for middle and high school teachers, we explore the extensive, curriculum-aligned, multimedia resources from THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION classroom collection on PBS LearningMedia, created with educators and drawing on content from the film by Ken Burns, Sarah Botstein, and David Schmidt. You will learn how to use the resources in the collection to inspire students to create a media project for THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION Youth Media Challenge, focusing specifically on audio production, a media format that can be made accessible to all learners. You will also learn how to create a podcast in the classroom setting — no special studio or equipment required – and leave with a pathway to empower and share student voice beyond the classroom.

What you’ll do:
Learn about PBS LearningMedia's free, curriculum-aligned resources from THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION classroom collection and THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION Youth Media Challenge
Get hands-on experience with the basics of audio production and start your own short podcast
Discover how to guide the creation of audio projects in your classroom setting

Please Note: This workshop was designed to be attended live. The recording has been edited and may not reflect the same level of interactivity or engagement. We encourage you to attend our workshops in real time.


Timestamps
0:00 Welcome and introductions
2:21 About PBS LearningMedia
3:15 About KQED
4:14 How much experience do you have with media making?
5:45 The goals of today’s session
6:24 About THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION Youth Media Challenge
10:02 About THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION Classroom Resource Collection
14:11 What’s in a PBS LearningMedia resource?
16:52 Walkthrough of an interactive lesson (“The Meaning of Democracy in the Founding Era”)
22:28 Clip from THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION on The Haudenosaunee Confederacy
26:22 Clip from THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION on James Forten
29:24 Clip from THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION on Benjamin Rush
33:03 Introduction to the “John Adams’ Contributions to Constitutional Thinking” PBS LearningMedia resource
35:39 Introduction to the “Key Battles of the Revolutionary War” interactive PBS LearningMedia resource
38:12 How the Youth Media Challenge promotes student media literacy
43:03 The basics of audio storytelling: pre-production
52:40 Why audio storytelling?
57:00 Example of audio storytelling project
59:00 Write your own script!
1:15:00 Examples of audio storytelling projects from educators
1:22:00 More about THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION Youth Media Challenge
1:23:48 About the PBS LearningMedia Teaching 250 Hub
1:25:10 Contact information and closing