Looking for ways to reach your students this summer? Learn the basics of effective storytelling through the video production process. In this session, we will discuss proper pre-production planning and explore various camera moves, shots, and framing techniques meant to engage and retain audiences. We will discuss audio types and techniques as well as a few tricks to allow for even more creative means to expand imagination. We will also have time to discuss equipment and video/audio editing software.

Featuring resources from KET’s Ready to Learn Grant, come explore multimedia resources that support science and literacy development, designed for use in after-school and out-of-school settings. We will also explore the Family and Community Learning model for multi-generational hands-on family engagement designed to support science and literacy development among children and families. All resources are FREE and come packaged with full activity plans, supporting materials for facilitators, related video clips and digital games, and take-home support to encourage family engagement.

How can we help our children feel safe and secure when we’re struggling ourselves? The COVID-19 pandemic brought on so much uncertainty: plans that constantly changed, long-awaited events canceled, new guidelines replaced by newer guidelines, and ongoing adjustments to daily routines. We all have feelings! Join us to learn ways and resources to help kids develop a strong emotional toolkit and enable them to better able to handle the ups and downs of life.

We all have feelings! Join us to learn ways and resources to help kids develop a strong emotional toolkit and enable them to better able to handle the ups and downs of life. Anxieties and insecurities affect the wellbeing and ability of our young learners to focus and learn. Featuring content from KET, PBS KIDS and others, this session will focus on media tools that can be used to teach the youngest learners skills like patience, dealing with frustration, and how to understand and manage their feelings.

Young children are regularly engaging with media in a variety of settings. The TEC at the Erikson Institute issued their Media Literacy in Early Childhood Report to help offer a way to support and develop young children’s media literacy skills. Join us as we discuss ways to help young children find reliable information in a world of misinformation.  

Join KET for PBS KIDS Edcamp! This professional development opportunity is a FREE participant-driven experience for all educators, childcare providers, and community members invested in education. This exciting “un-conference” is a great opportunity to connect with other professionals in your field. You’ll have the chance to learn about topics important to you, and to share your own expertise. 

For decades, young authors have turned to the KET Young Writers Contest to share their work. As the needs of young writers, their parents, and their teachers change, so too, does the YWC. What once was a contest intended only for kindergarten, first, and second graders has blossomed to be inclusive of students in preschool […]