On 8 June 2012 Sally Reynolds presented the way a community and network around the MEDEA Awards has formed which be formalised into an association, launched by the MEDEA2020 project and supported by the MEDEAnet project.
5 Years on and Just Getting Started: Sharing the Experience of the MEDEA Community in Building a Sustainable European Networks
1. 5 years on and Just Getting Started
Sharing the experience of the MEDEA Community in building
a sustainable European Network
Sally Reynolds EDEN Conference Porto 6-9 June 2012
2. Overview
•Different elements in the network
•Relationship between each and how they fit
together
•Lessons learned in the creation and support of
the network
3. Moving images in
EDucation European
Awards
www.medea-awards.com
• Partners in Austria, Belgium,
Bulgaria, France, Germany, Greece,
Ireland, Italy, Poland, Romania,
Spain, ...
4. Why an Awards Scheme?
• Draws up and identifies practitioner expertise
• Adds new life on an annual basis to the
network
• Provides expertise input to other activities –
the awards are the beginning of a relationship
and not the end
• Core to the rationale of the network
5. Who can participate & How?
• Students, teachers, audiovisual departments,
schools, training centres, professional producers,...
from all educational levels
• Animations, weblectures, documentaries,
videoclips, games, ...
• Free to enter
• French, German, Polish, English, Italian or Spanish
6. Finalists
• Finalists take part in Media & Learning Conference
and awards ceremony in Brussels
• Prizes include awards, software or hardware
• Interviews and published extracts of finalists in the
online media gallery
MEDEA Award MEDEA Award Special Prize Special Prize Special Prize
User-Generated Professionally European Educational Media MEDEA Jury
Educational Produced Collaboration Encouraging Active Special Prize
Media Educational in the creation of Ageing and
Media Educational Solidarity between
Media Generations
7. Judging Criteria
• Pedagogical quality
• Media use and integration
• Aesthetic quality
• Usability
• Technical quality
• New jury members are always welcome!
8. First 2 years
• 2008: 121 online entries from 25 countries
• 2009: 254 online entries from 38 countries
MEDEA Special Jury Award 2008 Overall Award 2009
“Anti-Anti”
Anti-Anti “Know IT All for Primary Schools”
Schools
Sint-Lievenscollege Ghent Childnet International
(Belgium) (United Kingdom)
9. 2010 & 2011
• 2010: 140 online entries from 31 countries
• 2011: 115 online entries from 28 countries
Overall Award 2010 Finalist 2011
“BBC News School Report”
Report “INgeBEELD Media Wisdom Platform”
Platform
BBC CANON Cultural Unit
(United Kingdom) (Belgium)
10. MEDEA related activities
Annual Media & Learning
Media & Learning Resources
Conference MEDEA database
in Brussels
Awards Media & Learning
Monthly annual Community of
Media & Learning competition Practice
Newsletter
Social media
2-day Week long campaign
workshops training
courses
11. MEDEA related projects
MEDEA
2008-2011 Awards
MEDEA:EU annual
project end of 2012
competition
the MEDEA
Association
2011-2012 will be launched,
MEDEA2020 ensuring the
project
2012-2014 sustainability of
MEDEAnet the awards
project
13. The MEDEAnet project
3-year (Jan 2012 – Dec 2014)
network project funded under
KA3 of the Lifelong Learning Programme
Aiming to:
•Exploit best practices of the MEDEA Awards
•Extend its existing informal network
•Support the launch of the MEDEA Association
14. MEDEAnet activities
knowledge
workshops
MEDEAnet building
promoting
in 7 partner media-based learning and sharing
countries amongst
to organisations practitioners
and practitioners
a large-scale
a 12-part series Annual report
of public Charting Media dissemination
and Learning in and exploitation
webinars
Europe strategy
15. Why build a network?
Media Literacy/Wisdom
Media-based learning
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17. Association
• MEDEA Awards/Media & Learning Association
• Launch 15 November 2012
• Established as an ivzw in Belgium
• Open for individual and institutional members
• Core services: workshops, conference,
communications, project development
• Objective to promote and stimulate the use of
Media in Education and Training in Europe.
18. Lessons learned
• The importance of placing the core idea at the
centre of the network development
• Finding the right balance in terms of project
support and visibility
• Growing organically and adding services
according to demand and need
• Matching network interests – finding partners
who in some ways share common objectives
• Need for an independent entity to carry
forward objectives
19. Links
• MEDEA Awards:
http://www.medea-awards.com
• Media & Learning Conference:
http://www.media-and-learning.eu
• Media & Learning Community & Resources database:
http://www.media-and-learning.eu/community
• Media & Learning News:
http://news.media-and-learning.eu
• MEDEAnet project:
http://www.medeanet.eu
20. Participate in the
MEDEA Awards
2012!
Deadline 17 September 2012
More information on www.medea-awards.com
or contact secretariat@medea-awards.com
Hinweis der Redaktion
The name MEDEA is actually the acronym for “Moving images in EDucation European Awards”. It is an annual competition that is aimed at increasing the creative use of audio and video in education and as you can probably tell, with a very broad interpretation of the "Moving Images" part. We invite everyone to participate in the MEDEA Awards and this means that schools, universities, training providers but also students, teachers, audiovisual departments, for-profit organisations and companies can take part with animations, weblectures, documentaries, videoclips, games, Second Life applications, videoblogs, podcasts, videotutorials, ... In which we primarily are searching for creative and meaningful use of media. It has to have and give an added value to the learning taking place. Since January 2010 we also make the distinction between professional and non-professional producers and the best entry of each category will be awarded with a prize.
For the social media: YouTube MEDEA Awards channel http://www.youtube.com/user/MedeaAwards LinkedIn M&L group http://www.linkedin.com/groups/Media-Learning-3960155 Facebook MEDEA Awards page https://www.facebook.com/medeaawards Twitter MEDEA Awards channel http://twitter.com/#!/MEDEAawards
Working definition: Media wisdom is the totality of knowledge, skills and attitudes with which citizens can move consciously & critically in a complex, changing and mediatised world. It is the capacity for an active and creative media use focused on societal participation. It is not only about practical skills such as ict-skills, learning abilities and smooth handling of and creative use of different media, but also about media consciousness , insight in the mechanisms of commercial communication and the media industry, critical information- and strategic skills and responsible and safe use of media. When we talk about media, it is both the traditional media (television, radio, press), and the ‘new media’ (internet applications, sms) and the capacity for an everyday, informal and creative media use that is (implicitly or explicitly) aimed at participation in the cultural-societal sphere (readers letters, youtube, chatrooms, blogs, webcam, etc.).