Member News and Updates
Nicole Hume Assistant Director for Strategic Partnerships hume@ucmo.edu
Back to School! With summer coming to an end it is soon time to send the children back to school. Luckily KMOS offers links to an amazing online learning media page for students from preK-12 with free access to trusted, classroom-ready digital learning experiences for teachers to use. Just visit kmos.pbslearningmedia.org to learn more! Educators interested becoming a PBS Certified Media Literacy Educator can choose to submit a portfolio of resources demonstrating their mastery of media literacy or begin their pathway toward certification by taking a free professional development course from KQED Teach. Once certified, they have access to a number of “Program Perks” including a digital badge, a letter of recognition, and collaborative opportunities with KMOS-TV! On Thursday August 16th, KMOS will be back at the Missouri State Fair in the Lowell Mohler Assembly Hall in Sedalia. Please stop by and visit with us and chat with us about your favorite book! Voting is still open for The Great American Read and we can help show you how to vote!! Go to www.kmos.org to find the list of 100 books and vote for your favorite!
What do puppies & freshly baked cookies have to do with car donations? Answer on page 10. Don’t forget to follow us on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook @ kmostv to keep more up to date on what is happening around here at KMOS-TV!
Keep your eyes out this Fall for a fourpart series that explores the extraordinary world created by Native Americans through an unprecedented combination of science, scholarship, and traditional indigenous knowledge. Narrated by Robbie Robertson (Mohawk and member of the famed rock group The Band), each hour will explore Great Nations and reveals cities, sacred stories and history long hidden in plain sight. In what is now America’s Southwest, indigenous people built stone skyscrapers with untold spiritual power and transformed deserts into fertile fields. In upstate New York, warriors renounced war and formed America’s first democracy 500 years before the Declaration of Independence, later inspiring Benjamin Franklin. kmos.org
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