Video & Education News
Television archives to be made available to European Schools
Monday, 25 January, 2010 - 10:38
The recently launched EUscreen initiative is planning to make available an interoperable digitised collection of television material made up of archive resources from partners including broadcasters in 19 European countries.
EUscreen is a European Project supported under the eContentPlus programme and is working closely with the Europeana portal, through which these archive materials will be offered. One of the core groups of users identified by the project team is the educational community. By the end of the project, more than 35,000 items including videos, articles and photographs will be...
Encouraging teachers to use video in language teaching
Monday, 18 January, 2010 - 17:27
The Digital Video Streaming and Multilingualism (DIVIS) project aims to encourage, motivate and equip both teacher trainers and practicing language teachers to include video production in their teaching.
Supported under the European Commission’s Lifelong Learning Programme, this 2 year project is developing guides, materials and examples to help teachers to use video production as part of their teaching practice. The support site for this project operates in 6 languages and work is progressing well in the creation of an online guide to help teachers use video in their classrooms....
Useful Guide to Creating your own Internet TV
Wednesday, 6 January, 2010 - 16:31
"Make Internet TV" is a project conceptualised and executed by the Participatory Culture Foundation, a US-based non-profit foundation with a mission to build tools and services that give people more ways to engage in their culture.
"Make Internet TV" was funded by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, supporting citizen journalism and the building of community through the use of digital media and provides a very simple but useful guide with step-by-step instructions for recording and publishing Internet video. It is particularly useful for newcomers who want to get a...
Guidelines Published for Broadcasters on Promoting User-Generated Content
Monday, 21 December, 2009 - 11:44
A series of guidelines have been published on how broadcasters around the world can encourage audiences to produce better quality user-generated content and to improve media and information literacy.
These guidelines have been published by UNESCO in partnership with the Commonwealth Broadcasting Association and while they are intended in the first instance for broadcasting organisations in the British Commonwealth, much of what they contain is of potential interest to anyone interested in promoting user-generated media content and enhancing media literacy generally. Specific chapters...
BaKaFORUM Finalists Now Online
Monday, 14 December, 2009 - 12:40
The list of the contest entries and of the preselected finalists is online now. The final jury work will be done during BaKaFORUM 2010 under the direction of Lúcia Araújo, director general of FUTURA Channel, Brazil.
The BaKaFORUM TV and Media Forum is a meeting point and platform for exchange and cooperation for broadcasters, independent producers as well as cultural, educational and societal organizations interested in quality TV work, global education and development education. The annual conference includes sessions, a contest, screenings and workshops. During the year,...
Winners Announced in MEDEA Awards 2009
Tuesday, 8 December, 2009 - 11:39
The overall winner of this years MEDEA Awards is Know IT All for Primary by Childnet International (UK) which was announced by Maruja Gutierrez-Diaz on 4 December during a well attended reception in Berlin.
Know IT All for Primary was represented at the prize-giving ceremony by Lucinda Fell, Policy and Communications Manager, who graciously accepted the bronze MEDEA statuette from Maruja Gutierrez-Diaz, Advisor to the Director of the Lifelong Learning Programme, European Commission as well as hardware and software sponsored by Avid and Adobe. In addition to the overall winner, the MEDEA Award...
Irish Film Festival for School Children Reaches Climax
Tuesday, 1 December, 2009 - 10:51
The Irish National FÍS Film Festival took place in October in Dublin City University. Twenty-five awards were presented to schools to celebrate their outstanding film achievements in areas such as animation, acting, editing and direction.
FÍS (literally translated as 'Vision') is an initiative from the Department of Education and Science (DES) in the Republic of Ireland and is a project designed to introduce the medium of film as a support to the Primary School Curriculum
700 children and their teachers from all over Ireland took part in FÍS by writing,...
Planet SciCast Promotes Short Films About Practical Science
Monday, 23 November, 2009 - 11:41
Planet SciCast has been set up by NESTA in the UK and offers a variety of different resources to teachers and students who are interested in creating their own short films in the science arena.
SciCast is made up of four elements:
An annual competition to get children, young people, teachers, parents, science communicators and science/engineering/technology professionals all making short films about practical science.
A web resource of all those movies (plus write-ups of the activities, experiments and demonstrations), for the use and amusement of everyone involved, and...
Report from FutureLab Explores Digital Participation in Schools
Monday, 9 November, 2009 - 10:15
A report from Futurelab in the UK provides a comprehensive overview of recent research on the development of digital participation in
schools.
In this report entitled "Digital participation, digital literacy, and school subjects: A review of the policies, literature and evidence" the authors argue for several developments which need to happen in and around schools to enable and empower them to prepare their students for an increasingly digital world. They also outline the potential challenges which need to be taken into account when designing classroom strategies to...
Preservation of Audiovisual Heritage through Video Active Portal
Monday, 2 November, 2009 - 11:08
The Video Active project reached its final stage in August after three years of development and now contains over 10,000 videos, photographs and articles.
This collection will continue to grow. The renowned media artist and independent filmmaker Péter Forgács has used the material from Video Active to create a short documentary. By using footage from the different archives, Forgács gives a beautiful insight in the rich material available on Video Active. The documentary enables viewers to discover various aspects of European television history in a compelling...