KGNU Community Radio Boulder
Media Gardens
Started: 2017
- Currently active
- Created by our station
Station type: Radio
Media Gardens is a project created by KGNU Community Radio, an independent, noncommercial community radio station. Created in 2017, KGNU Media Garden’s program aims to empower the voices of creative bilingual youth in the Boulder County area by providing the resources that they need to understand what it means to thrive in digital and analog frontiers through the exploration of media, music, and culture. Media Gardens aims to develop and cultivate skills such as critical media literacy, media production, and the production of digital audio content, and more to encourage the development of digital and analog content that amplifies their voices.
This project reaches tweens and teens via...
- Directly engaging t(w)eens via activities, events, or programs
- Indirectly reaching t(w)eens via educators, PD, curriculum
- Media and/or educational content that is made by, with, or for t(w)eens
What topics does this project focus on?
Civic engagement
Culture, society
Current affairs
Education
Identity, relationships
Journalism
Life skills, career skills
Media literacy
Media making
Music, art
Public media
Science, technology
Wellness, mental health
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Is this project considered part of the station's journalism work?
Other
*Yes, Media Gardens productions by youth participants are submitted to the news department for broadcast and those that are aired have received quite positive feedback from the news department and from listeners alike. Youth participants explore cultural, political, and current affairs, and their pieces are regularly submitted to the news department.
Departments involved:
Education
Newsroom
Production (TV/Radio)
EngagementOther
Partner organizations involved:
- New Vista High School- Boulder High AVID- Lafayette Youth Advisory Commission- I Have A Dream Foundation of Boulder County- Denver Public Schools Career & College Success Launch Program
Media and/or educational content
Who is the primary audience of the content?
Educators
Who creates the media content?
T(w)eens and adults (in collaboration)
*Educators
Who decides the topic areas of the content?
Both youth and adults (in collaboration)
Where is the content shared?
Broadcast radio
Website
Podcast
Instagram
Facebook
Other
*APP
Directly engaging tweens and teens in local programming
In this project...
We host programming directly for t(w)eens
We partner with *local organizations* to host programming
We partner with *national organizations* to host programming
We partner with our *local school district(s)* to host programming
Contact time between youth participants and station staff:
11+ hours
Contact time between youth participants and partner orgs:
3-10 hours
Indirectly engaging youth via educators, professional development, or curriculum
This project indirectly engages youth by partnering with...
Schools Community-based organizations or nonprofits Public departments (e.g., city parks department, local library, etc.)
Does this project train educators or run a professional development program?
Yes
Does this project create curricula or educational resources for educators to use?
Yes