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This month's issue highlights a forum on Video and Active Citizenship, a new special interest group on video in higher education, a teachers' resource on the topic of cyberbullying and a report on the level of interest in educational video during the Global Learn conference Conference in Malaysia.

Readers will also notice a new feature about tools of the trade, now launching with an insight into Adobe's new eLearning Suite. In our feature article on past winners, finalists and Highly Commended now we now explore the multimedia literacy project INgeBEELD, a MEDEA 2009 Finalist.

You can read the entire newsletter for more interesting articles on relevant organisations, events and competitions such as the Erasmus EuroMedia Awards and the ALT/Epigeum Award.

The October issue of the Media in Education Newsletter highlights the launch of the new Greek ministerial video web site for schools, the new JISC Digital Media Newsletter and the way Swedish schools are using media resources.

This month's newsletter contains a feature on the winner of the MEDEA Special Award in 2008 as well as a profile of CSP in Italy, a very active MEDEA national contact point. The October edition reports on the numbers of entries to the 2009 MEDEA Awards and gives information about other awards in this sector.

If you have relevant information or news you would like to share in this newsletter, contact the editors.

ATiT is a proud founding member of the MEDEA Awards 2008, which just announced its last Call for Participation in a press release.

The MEDEA Awards 2008 is entering its final weeks for accepting submissions as the closing date for submissions is 30th September 2008. The MEDEA Secretariat, which is organised by ATiT, has already received submissions from 15 countries and the number is growing. This is the final chance for those among Europe’s educational and creative professional producers, amateurs, supporting staff, students and teachers to submit an educational project in which media (moving images, sound, media-rich applications, virtual simulations …) plays a vital role.

Five finalists will be invited to Berlin for the Awards Ceremony on Thursday 4th December 2008, where they will have the chance to win the first MEDEA Award. Prizes for 2008 will include the award itself and hardware to the value of 6,000 Euro.

You can download the press release (PDF) and visit the web site for more information:

http://www.medea-awards.com

Learn@Work is a Socrates Minerva project (2005-2008) focusing on the use of ICT to enhance the induction and continuing support for learners in the workplace. Together with Glasgow Caledonian University, Dublin Institute of Technology, Aalborg University, and The Institute for Future Studies in Innsbruck, ATiT developed pilots and models for training in companies, especially for newcomers. 

The project's main aim was to explore the synthesis between the theories, conceptual frameworks and practices of distance learning, e-learning, work based learning and work placed learning in order to provide the training community with practical examples guidance on the design and implementation of e-supported learning at work.

This State of The Art Report was edited by Marie Bijnens and Mathy Vanbuel and was published at the end of the project in 2007. It contains an overview of the theory on work-based learning and e-Learning on the work floor, and illustrates the theory with extensive descriptions of the pilot applications that were built during the project lifecycle.

More about the Learn@Work Project on the Project Website.

In recent years, there has been a growing interest in the creation and use of web-accessed digital video and audio throughout the education sector. The pedagogical vision is clear: only when video and audio have become routine components of education and e-learning will we have an educational environment that reflects the media-rich world in which we now live. The VideoAktiv Handbook on Digital Video and Audio in Education is designed to assist in creating and using audio and video material for educational purposes. This handbook is one of the products of the VideoAktiv Project, and available also from the VideoAktiv website, where you will find additional useful resources on the use of video in higher and further education. Print copies can be obtained by sending an email to videoaktiv@atit.be.

A handbook ‘European Cooperation in Education Through Virtual Mobility’ has been published by EuroPACE ivzw (BE), SPACE (BE), ICWE (DE), TietgenSkolen (DK) and ATiT (BE).
It includes short summaries of innovative projects or activities, with a specific focus on outcomes, challenges and recommendations. This handbook can be downloaded at www.being-mobile.net
Read the full press release.

Citizen E is a European project partially funded by the European Commission's Minerva Programme that ran from October 2004 till September 2006. Its objectives were to improve teachers’ ICT skills as well as their intercultural communication skills and to develop and share useful teaching materials related to European citizenship. During its lifetime, the project revolved around a commonly used online platform aimed at European teachers involving almost 1500 teachers and students in Italy, Poland, Ireland and Belgium.

One of the key activities of the project was to disseminate best practice regarding e-twinning activities. Based on the experiences gathered during Citizen E, the project partners have written a Best Practice Manual intended as a guideline for European and national training institutions who are interested in setting up school twinning activities. This Best Practice Manual includes guidelines and recommendations as well as concrete examples of school twinning activities carried out during the project lifetime.

Download the Citizen E Best Practice Manual here

eStream, which is a European funded programme focussed on the use of streaming media in education, has recently published its fourth report, entitled "Transnational Exchanges of Streaming Material" This publication was written by ATiT staff members Mathy Vanbuel and Mieke Bijnens and can be downloaded from the eStream website or here.

On April 6 and 7 2006, ATiT participated in the VideoAktiv Project Meeting held at the University of Groningen. During the meeting the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and Universiteit Groningen demonstrated their jointly developed VideoAktiv workshop. The VideoAktiv team also visited the CAVE. The most important objective of the VideoAktiv project in the immediate future is the work on the handbook and the VideoAktiv website.