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The VISCED project, for which ATiT is responsible for dissemination, just released the first 2012 edition of Virtual Schools and Colleges Newsletter, which contains a variety of articles and reports related to the use of ICT in secondary and post-secondary education for 14-21 year olds in Europe and elsewhere.

Article titles include: Webinar aimed at helping US policy-makers develop policy on K-12 online learning, EurODL paper on Virtual Schooling through the eyes of an at-risk student, Finland's approach to education, Multidisciplinary research project on learning receives million euro funding from Tekes and Technology, Funding Policies and Teacher Education Key Topics Discussed at Global Conference. Read this and more online.

The first 2012 issue of Media & Learning News has just been published and in it you can read articles such as 'Media Literacy – a View from the US', 'Belfedar, a fun way to learn to cooperate and manage conflict', and a feature article about the Merchant of Venice, one of the MEDEA Awards 2011 winners, on which you can read more in 'Having fun and learning accountancy at the same time'.

Other highlights include a 'New initiative on Lecture Recording', Tools of the Trade:  Animation, what software or tools to use…', the 'New Voices in Media Education event in London' and 'Commonwealth film competition about relationships'. As always, you will find plenty of other news, notifications and announcements related to the use of media in education and training in this issue.

The December issue of Media & Learning News was published yesterday. In it you will find news about the winners of the MEDEA Awards 2011 and a feature article on "Developing media literacy skills for science communication", as well as information about the iTEC Designing the future classroom project, and an insight into the International Clearinghouse on Children, Youth and Media based in Sweden.

You can also read about The Center for Media Literacy in the US and the Media & Learning Conference in Brussels which attracted 298 people from 39 countries,as well as plenty of other news items, notifications and announcements related to the use of media in education and training.

On 30 September 2011, the September issue of the Virtual Schools and Colleges Newsletter has been published last Friday, a newsletter published by the VISCED project. Containing a variety of articles and reports related to the use of ICT in secondary and post-secondary education for 14-21 year olds in Europe and elsewhere, this issue includes an article extolling the value of online learning for gifted students in the US, a new report on Learning and Innovation through ICT at school in Europe and a Virtual School Symposium (VSS) taking place in the US. Among other interesting articles, you can also read the latest blog post by Paul Bacsich, VISCED's project coordinator, entitled "Hidden virtual schooling" as well as an article about the first meeting of VISCED International Advisory Committee that took in Portugal. You can read the issue at the VISCED project website.

The 9th issue of Media & Learning News includes news from the US about how students created a lecture capture and note-taking device, Nikos Theodosakis raises a few issues in his article 'Participation: Social Media's Invitation to Learners'. You can also find out about a report on the use of educational videos and digital learning materials in every class in The Netherlands, and read the final installment in our 5-part series on 3D, about displaying and viewing. Very important in this newsletter are the reminder about the MEDEA Awards deadline which is set on 16 September 2011 and the online publication of the Media & Learning 2011 Conference programme. To read all this and more, visit the newsletter's web page.

In this month's issue, articles included are about the launch of the European Film Gateway website, a feature article on Producing video for teaching and learning - Is there a best way to produce educational video?, news about the loss of an important science video repository with the end of AthenaWeb.org, an update on Dutch Policy on media literacy and digital skills. Also in this issue, are an announcement of the TrueTube and Moviestorm schools video competition, a feature article on Connecting those using Geo-media and Geoinformation in Schools, and plenty of other news items, notifications and announcements related to the use of media in education and training.

The latest Media & Learning News is online now, with highlights including broadcasters' views on educational TV worldwide - international TV professionals' experiences and opinions, an article about Knowledge Pills: efficient learning and knowledge sharing for SMEs using video as well as a feature article on eduSensus - the role of multimedia in supporting Early & Special Needs Education.

Among the many interesting articles are five new resources in the Media & Learning Resources database including science video repositories and a British film archive, and events and calls such as a related competition in the US: International Student Media Awards and plenty of other news items, notifications and announcements related to the use of media in education and training. This issue is published in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish and Polish.

To download this month's issue, please visit the newsletter's website.

The second edition of the Virtual Schools and Colleges Newsletter was published yesterday as an outcome of the European project VISCED which is carrying out a systematic review of virtual schools and colleges at international and national levels including a study into operational examples of fully virtual schools and colleges. 

The June newsletter contains a variety of articles and reports related to the use of ICT in secondary and post-secondary education for 14-21 year olds in Europe and elsewhere. It includes a report on ICT take-up in Finnish schools, recommendations about relevant resources and events and information about projects and initiatives related to the concept of Virtual Schools.

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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.