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ATiT is organising an information evening for teachers in the western Irish county of Clare on Social Networking Tools and Platforms in Education in conjunction with the Clare Education Centre on Thursday 7 May at 19.00. Teachers taking part can find out more about social networking software and how it is being used in schools throughout Europe. They will also be invited to discuss how tools like YouTube, Flickr, FaceBook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Bebo can be used to support teaching.

This event is part of the recently launched SoRuraLL project and will also be an an opportunity to find out more about the trials taking place in Clare during the 2009/2010 school year and how teachers in the region can get involved.

For more information contact info@atit.be

The campaign for the MEDEA Awards 2008 is in full motion and we're still welcoming participants, partners and sponsors! The aim of the MEDEA Awards is to encourage innovation and good practice in the use of sound, video or media-rich applications in education. If you're interested in becoming a sponsor and supporting this competition, please download our PDF with conditions and benefits for our different sponsoring categories. For more information you can visit the website  http://www.medea-awards.com.

All roads lead to Berlin on Wednesday 28th November for the annual Online Educa Berlin conference. With a packed agenda including several new elements, OEB07 looks set to break all previous records in terms of quality and participation. Poised to attract more than 2000 participants from 92 countries, its a good opportunity for us in ATiT to get togeher with old friends as well as meeting new people. Looking forward to seeing you there!

ATiT, in collaboration with several partners has recently launched the MEDEA AWARDS to encourage innovation and good practice in the use of digital moving images and sound in education. The award will also recognise and promote excellence in the production and pedagogical design of media-rich learning resources. These materials will typically be delivered online via internet or virtual learning environment and used as an integral part of a programme of study. The award is open to anyone working with or in European education at all levels. We welcome participation from producers, teachers, academics, support staff and students. Find out more on the MEDEA web site http://www.medea-awards.com

Together with the Kenya Institute of Education, the Nairobi University and BBC Worldwide Interactive Learning, ATiT is organising a workshop entitled “Producing and Publishing Media for Online Learning (part 1): The eLA Media Team Training Workshop” at the eLearning Africa conference. The workshop is intended for African participants only and takes place from the 28th till the 30th of May, 2007. Workshop participants will be guided by a team of experts while they actually try out what they have learnt during the two days of the eLearning Africa conference as they will form part of the conference media production team.

The new school year has got off to a great start for Citizen E with teacher workshops organised in Poland, Ireland and Italy for the teachers taking part in the 2005/2006 school year, more than 30 people taking part in the training session organised by WOM in Czestochowa on 27 September. The process of twinning the schools has already begun and project work between participating schools begins in October.

The report about the eStream workshop, hosted by ATiT in Leuven in May, is now available on-line from the eSTREAM web site. This report contains the presentations given as well as notes from the individual sessions. Photos taken at the seminar are also available form the same site.

Teachers from Belgium, Poland, Ireland and Italy took part in the Citizen E Training course organised by ATiT in the Pixel training centre in Florence from 13 to 18 June. During the 5 day training programme they covered different aspects of ICT use in the classroom, including collaborative platforms like the Citizen E platform, the use of different applications and how to make their own video materials.

ATiT hosted a lively Best Practice Seminar on Video Streaming in Europe in Leuven from 26 - 28 May in the context of the eSTREAM project which attracted over 40 participants from all over Europe.

Between 7th and 14th March 2005 Citizen E teacher workshops took place in Italy, Poland, Belgium and Ireland. In total 63 teachers participated in the workshops. They received more information about the Citizen E project, learned how to use the Citizen E platform and exchanged ideas about possible twinning activities and action projects they could set up in the upcoming months.