Course in July 2012

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Course details

As a participant, you will receive hands-on training on the creation of digital video for the classroom. You will be able to use professional hardware and software to practice specific skills in a practical and supportive environment in the classroom.

During the course you will gain insight into the value video can bring to the learning process and the practical knowledge necessary to create your own video materials. Guided demonstration sessions will be used to highlight video-based materials available online. Participants will be shown different examples including the materials and showcases available through the MEDEA, EduTubePlus and EUscreen projects. Discussions about these materials will also highlight important legal and technical constraints related to the use of video for teaching purpose.

Working in teams you will conceive, plan and create a short video clip for teaching purposes utilising the skills and knowledge you have gained. These clips will be used for a final evaluation session which will include a public screening to which several interested people from Leuven and the surrounding region will be invited.

To stimulate discussion and to raise issues related to quality and pedagogical value of video, a visit to a relevant organisation in the area is foreseen.

During the course, you will receive a set of working documents which you can use after the workshop to use digital video in the classroom and you will also have access to the trainers via email for as long as necessary to help support you in your efforts to utilize video for teaching and learning purposes. You will also be enrolled in an online discussion group related to the use of media in education and so will be able to keep in contact with the other participants as well as the trainers in the months after the course.

As this is a residential course, all international trainees are staying in the same location where the course is also taking place.

* For participants receiving a Comenius grant (school education), the course reference number is BE-2012-186-003 and the session ID is 40175. For participants receiving a Grundtvig grant (adult education), the course reference number is BE-2012-187-003 and the session ID is 40178.

What do you have to prepare and bring?

Please bring information about your region (photographs, brochures, posters), to briefly introduce where you are coming from. If you have already created a video yourself or have been using existing video for teaching purposes, please bring a sample of this video material that you can then show during the course and explain why you created/used it.

You will also receive from the programme organisers approximately four weeks before the course a list of websites you should visit to see various applications of video in a teaching and learning context along with the detailed agenda and practical information about you participation in this course.