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The MEDEA2020 partnership recently launched a community of practice focused on media-based education! This multilingual online community of practice (CoP) called Media & Learning Community, was created for practitioners interested in the use of media in education. As a community member you can connect with other community members, start and join discussions related to media and learning related topics, and promote your own initiatives and events, as well as find and share educational resources focused on media and learning.

If you speak French, German, Italian, Spanish and Polish, you can participate in language-specific discussions that are moderated by a native speaker and expert. To explore and join the community, see www.media-and-learning.eu/community

VISCED partners met on 27 and 28 April 2011 in the accommodating MENON offices for a two-day meeting to discuss the progress on the main workpackages including the research activities. Partners discussed their research work and the public wiki which will contain all research results. Agreements were made about the classification of schools and colleges. Progress was made in setting up the International Advisory Committee and future project and committee meetings were discussed with a view on dissemination and network opportunities. During this productive meeting, the public launch of the VISCED website was also announced.

The MEDEA Awards 2011 website is now available in French and German with updated information as well as the complete entry process available in not only English but also French and German. These translations have been taking place during the month of February and from now on French-speaking and German-speaking people that are interested in finding out more about the competition and possibly participating, can now roam the site in their own language. The organisation is currently working hard on the Spanish, Italian and Polish translation of the entire website, which will be available by the end of March 2011. Deadline this year is 16 September 2011!

The E-ViEW project website developed by ATiT is now up and running. This website will support the E-ViEW project partners who are developing and piloting a European Virtual Campus aimed at learners in the work place which will focus on enhancing their management skills and competences within a European context. Concrete outcomes from E-ViEW include a Virtual Campus Framework for Work-based learning with a sample undergraduate module, a pilot implementation of this course and an online handbook with a description of the experiences gained in creating and delivering this course in the Virtual Campus Framework for Work-based learning. The E-ViEW website will provide news and information about the project and its activities and also on the general topic of work-based learning.

On 15 January 2010 EUscreen launched its website (www.euscreen.eu) where all public documentation produced within the EUscreen project will be made accessible, along with links to specific sites and documentation about EUscreen technological issues. An important role of the website is also to capture and publish the social dynamic of the EUscreen user community and to enable sharing data and expertise with the targeted user communities and with the public at large. The site also provides links and information about activities related to the eContentplus Programme as well as articles, fact-sheets, project descriptions and specific PowerPoint presentations related to project activities and results.

ATiT offers web site and web application development to their customers and we find ourselves using Drupal more and more lately. Drupal is an open-source content management system and framework that can be modularly extended by either third party or custom written software modules. It has gathered a large following of users and developers around the world and is getting bigger all the time.

Last year, we created the Fortis Coaching Game, a serious game based learning tool for bank managers. Development could be brought right up to speed by using Drupal as an underlying framework, cutting down on development time and costs and offering a solid code base at the same time. This web site, the ATiT site v3, is also powered by Drupal. It only contains a small amount of custom coding; most functionality used here is present in Drupal core or by freely available third party modules.

If you want to learn more about Drupal, please visit www.drupal.org. You can of course always contact us for further enquiries.

Atit created a web site for Meubelmakerij Minne during April. Meubelmakerij Minne is a Belgian furniture manufacturing company. The web site provides an image gallery with an easy to use interface for uploading pictures and altering content. Its main goal is to make people acqainted with the company and to give a preview of their range of products. Please note that this site is in Dutch.

http://www.meubelmakerijminne.be

During the Improving Governance and Fighting Corruption Conference organised in Brussels from March 14 to 15 2007, ATiT supported the organisers (the Belgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the World Bank Institute and the OECD) and developed together with Inventis the live website with conference materials, presentations, live streaming and background documents. The 24-hour Global Videoconference Consultation with participants from around the world connecting over 30 leading business and public policy schools around the world, could be followed via live streaming.