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On Wednesday 1st of June 2011, the MEDEA2020 consortium gathered at the Ramada Viking hotel in Waterford, to discuss the progress of this European Project. The project partners also participated in the EdTech conference where the MEDEA Awards were presented.

The annual assembly and conference of the European Society for the Systemic Innovation of Education (ESSIE)  took place on 27 May in Leuven and attracted about 100 researchers from different parts of Europe. Peter Sloep from the Open University, the Netherlands set the tone for the day in his inspiring keynote presentation entitled 'Networked Learning, a Paradigm Shift'. A presentation from ATiT which elaborated on the role of educational media in general and video in particular in the new digital culture described ways in which video can contribute to innovative learning practices. This was also an opportunity to promote  various initiatives where educational media is nurtured and supported including the MEDEA Awards and the Media & Learning community.

Two week-long residential courses combining theory and practice are taking place in Leuven later this year. The first takes place on 4-9 July and the second on 24-29 October. Places are still available for these courses which provide participants with the necessary basic skills to create and share their own educational video materials.

During these courses, participants work in teams to produce their own educational video programme and this process is interchanged with theoretical sessions and visits to ensure a good balance of work. The number of participants is limited to 20 and the course culminates with a public showcase of the videos produced by the different teams to an invited audience.

Find out more from this site which includes information about how you can apply for funding to take part.

The first 'Using Video to Support Lifelong Learning' course was held in the Irish College in Leuven from 14-19 February. 12 participants took part from 9 different European countries. As part of their practical work, course participants created educational video clips in small teams and presented them to an invited audience on Friday 18th Feb which included Renilde Reynders from EPOS, Belgium and Schepen Mohamed Ridouani. The next course takes place from 4-9 July, for more information, go to the video course pages.

ATiT is organising the next week-long course Using Video to Support Lifelong Learning  from 4-9 July in the Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe, Leuven, Belgium. This week-long course will provide participants with the basics of video capture and editing as well as training on how to publish their video materials online. Aimed at enthusiastic newcomers, this course will also address issues to do with video as a learning tool and how best to use video at all levels of teaching and learning. Funding to cover the full costs of participation including accommodation and flights is available through the Comenius/Grundtvig programme of the European Commission, full course details are available here. The deadline for application for this funding is 14 January 2011.

The December issue of Media in Education is now available. In this month's newsletter you will find a short report about the Media & Learning Conference. Video recordings, presentations, photos and a final report about the conference are now available from the conference website.  

You will also find a report on how media is being implemented in French universities and a feature article by Paul Bottelberghs on a radical new approach to media literacy in education, based in the new digital culture. This issue also contains an article on electronic whiteboards, an announcement of the winners of the MEDEA Awards 2010 and lots of other news and information.  

Media in Education will be re-launched in January 2011 as "Media & Learning" and bi-monthly editions will be available in French, German, Italian, Spanish and Polish as well as in English.

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.

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).