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Media & Learning News readers will be pleased to know that the June issue of the monthly newsletter is out now. In it you will read about how interest in media and digital resources is growing as a US Study on media and learning has been published and questions are raised in our featured article on What's the point of media education? The MEDEA2020 partnership also reports on the First MEDEA workshop on animation and an introduction to the Italian National Film School - Animation Department is also included in this issue, along with tips on interesting sites, tutorials, guides and much more in the new section Top resources which promotes some of the latest resources in the Media & Learning Community Resources Database, and plenty of other news items, notifications and announcements related to the use of media in education and training. You can download this month's issue here and next month's publications will again be available in English, French, German, Italian, Polish and Spanish.

The fourth Media & Learning News of this year was published today, including a feature article about the award-winning "Et si c’était toi?" shortfilm tackling student bullying, an insight into the legal re-use of audiovisual media and the Tools of the Trade series is continued with part 4 of DIY 3D Video. Furthermore, readers will find out a tip on how to expand the use of your materials in other languages by subtitling, news about a equity competition with a visual/audio-visual category and plenty of other news items, notifications and announcements related to the use of media in education and training. The following issue in May will be published in 6 languages again. Visit the current newsletter here.

The popular Media & Learning News was published for the first time in March in 6 languages, French, Polish, Italian, Spanish, German and English. The newsletter includes an article from Catalonian Television about education as a communication challenge, a feature article on MEDEA Awards' winner Pocket Anatomy which visualises the complexities of the human body and a continuation of the DIY series on 3D Video.

It also includes news about new MEDEA National Contact Points in Germany and Cyprus and plenty of other news items, notifications and announcements related to the use of media in education and training.  

5 further multilingual editions are planned for 2011. You can access the newsletter here.

INgeBEELD is an initiative of the CANON Cultuurcel of the Flemish Ministry of Education and Training and offers a range of highly innovative materials and support resources to teachers and learners in schools aimed at raising levels of media literacy across the curriculum.

An open day held on November 9 provided an opportunity to teachers and others interested in exploring the use of digital media in class to highlight INgeBEELD4 - a rich resource of ideas and resources that aim to move beyond an interpretation of media literacy as simply the adoption of basic media skills. This study day highlighted the new Vlaanderen in Beeld (Flanders in images and pictures) portal which offers rich media resources including the resources becoming available from the archives of VRT, the national broadcaster and included an inspirational talk by Paul Bottleberghs of Ambrosia's Tafel, keynote speaker at the forthcoming Media & Learning conference.

On 8 November we published the new issue for the monthly Media in Education Newsletter, which you can download online. It includes articles on how documentary film is being used to tackle integration issues in a learning project with significant social impact and reveals an account of a typical day in the life of the connected media-savvy teacher such as Belgian teacher Lucas Van der paer.

This month's issue also highlights Federica, the web-learning multimedia-rich portal of the University of Naples Federico II, offers an introduction to webcasting and welcomes MEDEA's new national contact point in Luxembourg. It also includes plenty of other news items, notifications and announcements related to the use of media in education and training.

MEDEA2020 is a new project supported by the European Commission's Lifelong Learning programme which will build on the experience of the MEDEA:EU project in further expanding the work of the MEDEA Awards community.

This project will expand the reach of the MEDEA Awards by involving partners in Italy, France, Spain, Ireland and Poland and will provide the resources to support an ever-growing community of practice interested in the use of media for teaching and learning. Concrete outcomes include national workshops, the continuation of the annual Media & Learning Conference, multilingual newsletters and the support of an online community of practice as well as an online searchable database of relevant materials.

ATiT will lead this project which will begin officially on 1 November.

This month's newsletter includes 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 and reflections on how university library services in the US are embracing multimedia in an effort to expand their service offer to media-savvy students. You can also read a review of pocket video cameras like FlipCams and how they can be used for teaching and learning, learn more about MEDEA's new national contact point in Romania, and read 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.

This month's newsletter includes a feature article on the educational outreach programme of the San Francisco Film Society which will be celebrating its 20th anniversary in 2011. It also includes a description of the programme for the Media and Learning conference in November 2010 which combines a variety of presentations, discussions and online activities. The tools and services section contains an article about developments in camera technologies which are making high quality video recording far more affordable for educational video producers. The newsletter also contains a reminder about the grant deadline for taking part in an educational video production workshop for teachers and trainers in Leuven, Belgium in February 2011 - the closing date for grant applications is 15 September. Other articles include news about a new WEBTV service in Italy launched by CSP and an introduction to MEDEA's new national contact point in Bulgaria, Zinev Art Technologies Ltd. (ZAT).

The closing date for the MEDEA awards is coming up soon and so we invite all producers of media resources to submit their entries by 31 July. Entry to the MEDEA Awards is free!

This year there are two main MEDEA Awards, the MEDEA Overall Award and the European Collaboration Award. The European Collaboration Award recognizes excellent media-based productions and projects that come about as a result of European cross-border collaboration. This year the organisers are making a distinction between professional and non-professional producers, awarding the best entry in each category.

You can submit your entry in French, English or German and once your entry is completed, you can then follow its progress online. Find out more from the MEDEA Awards website.