December 2010

Published 15 December 2010

Highlights in this month's newsletter include:

• Report and videos from the successful Media & Learning Conference now online
• How media in higher education is being implemented in France
• Announcement of the winners of the MEDEA Awards 2010
• A new approach to media literacy in education, based in the new digital culture, explained by Paul Bottelberghs
• Tools of the Trade: electronic whiteboards, multitouch & multifunctionality
• Last week for submitting entries to the British Learning on Screen Awards
• and plenty of other news items, notifications and announcements related to the use of media in education and training

November 2010

Published 8 November 2010

Highlights in this month's newsletter include:

• how documentary film is being used to tackle integration issues in a learning project with significant social impact
• Belgian teacher, Lucas Van der paer's account of a typical day in the life of the connected media-savvy teacher
• Federica, the web-learning multimedia-rich portal of the University of Naples Federico II
• an introduction to webcasting
• MEDEA's new national contact point in Luxembourg
• and plenty of other news items, notifications and announcements related to the use of media in education and training

Media in Education Newsletter | October 2010

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During this conference practitioners, experts and researchers will discuss how learners handle video and audio in a meaningful and thoughtful manner to support their learning, how media repositories complement existing teaching and learning materials effectively, how young people learn by creating their own media and how ICT can enhance the teaching and learning process. Find out how you can register from our website http://www.media-and-learning.eu.

We look forward to meeting you there!

annual MEDEA Awards.

September 2010

Published 6 September 2010

Highlights in this month's newsletter include:

• news about a new multimedia game called Poverty Is Not a Game (PING) raising awareness during this European year for combating poverty and social exclusion
• reflections on how university library services in the US are embracing multimedia in an effort to expand their service offer to media-savvy students
• a review of pocket video cameras like FlipCams and how they can be used for teaching and learning
• an introduction to MEDEA's new national contact point in Romania
• news about an ambitious plan to use video to help build peace and minimise ethnically-framed violence in the next round of elections in Kenya
• and plenty of other news items, notifications and announcements related to the use of media in education and training.

May 2010

Published 6 May 2010

Highlights in this month's newsletter include:

• an introduction to EuroCreator, offering video resources to European teachers
• an insight into an innovative special interest group on educational podcasting
• an article about the MEDEA 2009 Finalist, Studiecoach, produced by the Dutch Open University
• an introduction to KlasCement, offering video resources to Dutch-speaking teachers
• several calls for related competitions such as the EUROPRIX Multimedia Awards and the JAPAN PRIZE
• and an interesting collection of articles, publications and announcements about developments and publications in the field of media and education
• Media-in-Education_Newsletter_2010-05.pdf

April 2010

Published 12 April 2010

Highlights in this month's newsletter include:

• a report about EdReNe's recently held strategic seminar on repositories of learning resources
• an article about a MEDEA 2009 Finalist, Planet SciCast, an online video-sharing repository
• articles about IPR-related websites such as the Danish "E-learning & the law" website by UNI•C, and the Dutch website by SURF Foundation on Copyright in Higher Education
• an introduction to the MEDEA National Contact Point in Malta
• several calls for papers for conferences including the Media & Learning Conference 2010 Brussels and DIVERSE2010
• Media-in-Education_Newsletter_2010-04.pdf