Evens Prize for Intercultural Education 2009: Media Education

From our colleagues in Antwerp: Check out the Evens Prize for Intercultural Education 2009: Media Education: "With this sixth edition of the Evens prize for Intercultural Education to be awarded in 2009, the Evens Foundation seeks to highlight the importance of MEDIA EDUCATION and to support the development of new sustainable proposals in this field in Europe targeting children."

Proposals should be submitted before the January 15th 2009. There is an overall prize money of 50.000 Euro available.

Click here for more information.

Simple animations with Moviemaker and still images

Stop animation seems to become a more and more popular feature and there is a wide range of special software available. However it is very straight forward to make your own basic animations with software such as moviemaker.
Just create a series of low resolution still images (something like 1024/768 or 800/600) and import them to Moviemaker. You need to set the duration for the still images in the "Tools- Options - Advanced" menu to 0,125 seconds to make sure that you don't need to change the length of each image. Then just import you images and add titles and sound.
You find an example below from our last teacher trainnig course, done in 40 minutes all together:

MEDEA Award 2008

Check out the MEDEA Awards 2008 from our colleagues from ATiT in Belgium: "The aim of the MEDEA Awards is to encourage innovation and good practice in the use of media in education. It will also recognise and promote excellence in the production and pedagogical design of media-rich learning resources." Win a prize including a free trip to Berlin to the Online Educa or hardware.

More infos here.

New videos from the join in theme "friendship"

You find a selection of videos from Orsaskolan, Sweden about the theme of "friendship" here.

Retrospective: Berlin Open Media Conference

You find the documentation about the conference on the conference blog here.

Berlin Media Meeting Programme ready

More information about the conference is online now - check out the link here.

Olympic Theme: media activity for the coming Games

.. in case you are still looking for a first activity after the summer holidays and would like to prepare something in the coming weeks: check out our sport theme on the MEAC web, it links very well with the upcoming Olympic Games 2008: overall questions about olympic stars, analysing newspaper images and producing short video clips.

Here is the link to the material.