What is EngageWisconsin? In a world of hyper-‐connectivity, EngageWisconsin provides a platform through which Wisconsin Public Television and PBS programming, community engagement events, and social media meet. Through this online community engagement portal, Reel2Real screenings extend beyond single day events, WPT and PBS documentaries are brought closer to home, and community members are invited to [...]
Current EngageWisconsin Bloggers Esther Crawford, Adoption Stories Blogger Esther Crawford is a mom to an eighteen-month-old biological boy and is in the process of adopting a five-year-old girl through Milwaukee’s foster care system. She has been blogging since 2004 and is the founder of the mom blogging news site ShePosts.com. She is also a social [...]
EngageWisconsin’s storytelling hotlines are just another way through which Wisconsin Public Television viewers can engage in conversation regarding the Wisconsin issues. Each week, our hotline questions will change. We encourage you to check out our weekly questions and call in to share your stories and unique perspectives. Hotline 1: 1-608-467-4301 (skype: engagewisconsin-wpt) Hotline 2: 1-608-807-1159 [...]
Hey Wisconsin Students: Start your media project today! Entries will be accepted October 1, 2010 – January 31, 2011.
Alcy Sivyers “Emmy’s Song” won “Best in Festival” at the 2010 Wisconsin Youth Media Festival. The WYMF gives Wisconsin students in grades 3-12 a chance to create, design, and experiment with digital media in a meaningful way, with advice and critique from professionals in the field. Submission categories include: best original work, documentary, psa, original personal narrative, and (new) green Wisconsin.
Celebrate by recording and preserving interviews with the people you care about. You can easily preserve your interviews using equipment available in most homes, such as iPhones, computers, tape recorders, or even paper and pen. WPT and EngageWisconsin encourage your to participate in the National Day of Listening, November 26th, 2010, and sharing your experiences (and possibly an excerpt of your interview/recording) with us.
Throughout the airing of Circus, starting on November 3rd, stories from Big Top Wisconsin will be posted several times a week. During this time, we encourage all Wisconsin residents to share their own personal circus stories. Wisconsin played an undeniable role in the development of the American circus – help us create a digital scrapbook of Wisconsin’s unique circus history.
TONIGHT:Wisconsin Foodie premieres tonight at 7 pm on your local Wisconsin Public Television station! In support of such an exciting home-grown program, return to WPT’s Engage Wisconsin website to follow our bloggers Susan Gloss and Neil Franzen, exploring green living in urban and rural Wisconsin. We would love to hear your opinions and gain your [...]
Ken Burns’s TENTH INNING PBS tonight 9/28 8/7C. EngageWisconsin would like you to share. What is your best or youngest memory of baseball? Email your stories to baseball@engagewisconsin.org – subject line: Tenth Inning. If you have old photos, you could (scan and) send those along too! Help us collect baseball memories from as many Wisconsin [...]
Calling all Wisconsin residents: Wisconsin Public Television is putting together a team of EngageWisconsin bloggers to write and document stories about sustainable living, adoption, unemployment, Rock County, and the circus. If you think you’re the perfect person to write about one of these topics, please contact us via email with your topic of choice, why [...]
