WOUB Our Ohio Documentary and KQED Youth Media Challenge

Hear what the next generation of students in Southeast Ohio say about their community. WOUB, in collaboration with our partner station, KQED, invites high school students to share their student-led community documentary projects and publish them on the Youth Media Challenge Showcase.

Our Ohio

WOUB’s Our Ohio documentary film project challenges high school students in Southeast Ohio to learn about and explore independent documentary film, Appalachian cultural identity, media literacy and multimedia storytelling. The project gives young people the resources necessary to tell their own stories and challenges them to think more deeply about what they want to say and the most effective way to say it.

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Curriculum Connection

Bring your student’s Our Ohio Documentary projects to a wider audience with Call for Change, Show What Know, or First Person. Students will tell their own stories and publish them to the Youth Media Challenge Showcase.

Commentary

Call for Change

Two students, one with a microphone and headphones

Students choose a local, national or global topic and express their views in an issue-based audio or video commentary or editorial cartoon.

Informational

Show What You Know

two students looking down at a piece of paper, one holding a microphone and wearing headphones

Students show what they know about a topic, concept or scientific phenomenon in a podcast, mini-documentary or infographic.

Personal Narrative

First Person

a student holding a microphone

Students share a memory, story or life lesson about themselves or their community in a personal narrative audio essay, short film or photo essay.

Resources and Support

More Project Resources

Find tool/software tips, learn how to share this project with your school community and more.

Media Skills for Educators

KQED Teach offers free workshops and self-paced courses on media-making and implementing and assessing student media projects.