1. The workshop trained educators to become media coaches and produce a final media literacy project. It aimed to introduce mobile learning possibilities through the use of digital devices. 2. The workshop consisted of general media training over 5 days, 2 days of technical workshops, and an online Moodle platform for resource sharing between sessions. Participants used their own laptops, tablets or smartphones. 3. The evaluation found that Moodle was not ideal for this short workshop. For future projects, easier to use tools already familiar to participants, like Dropbox or Google Docs, would be better suited than an online learning platform

1. My Mobile – Education on the Move
Sensitising educators and trainers to the
opportunity of mobile learning

2. Media Animation asbl
• Media and multimedia education resource centre (French-speaking community)
• Centre for adult education
• Fields of expertise:
- Media Literacy (information, movies, advertising, internet uses, social
networks, video games etc. in different media supports).
- Media production (video, web campaign, publication, music, etc.)
- Analyses and researches
- Consultancies
http://www.media-animation.be/

3. Belgian training scenario : Media Coach
1. European project (2008-2009)
Media Coach is a transnational initiative of media resource centres in
Europe for the increasing of media literacy through professional media
coaches.
Media Coach offer training opportunities for the professional and
educational staff of libraries, adult education organizations, teachers
primary and secondary education, youth workers and staff of parent
organizations.
Media literacy as an important factor for active citizenship in today’s
knowledge and information society.
http://www.media-coach.eu/

4. Belgian training scenario : Media Coach
2. Media Coach in Belgium (French speaking part)
• From March 2011 to October 2011
• 9 participants: teachers, educators, social workers and librarians
Training model:
- 5 days of general training about media and media education;
- 2 days of technical training to choose between:
* the moving image,
* media audio (sound, radio, podcast, ...),
* information: learn, speak in the media,
* create, editing on Internet;
+ Mobile dimension : a Moodle platform.
* to allow participants, experts and media professional to
exchange about training and practices.
* to work on personal project of the participants
* Evaluation

5. Didactic learning focus and purpose of activity
• To train people to become media coaches.
• To produce a final project focused on media
literacy.
• To train participants to use numerical
devices and make them aware of Mobile
learning possibilities.
• To share resources and practices between
participants and between participants and
professionals.

6. Didactic learning focus and purpose of activity

7. The main design features of the workshop
• Strong partnership
• Agenda
- March 4, 2011: Media and Issues
- March 15, 2011: Information journalistic / Audio-Visual
- April 7, 2011: Media - Culture - Leisure
- May 5, 2011: Media and Diversity
- May 20, 2011: Media Advertising
- June 2011: two days of technical workshops (Audiovisual,
Information, editing on the Internet, etc.)
- 8 and 29 September 2011 : additional half-days on specific themes
- October 11, 2011: final evaluation meeting

8. The main design features of the workshop

9. Intended learning outcomes
• To become a media coach
• To realize a media literacy project
• To use mobile learning scenarios,
mobile devices and be aware about
mobile environment

10. Type and number of phones
Each participant had to use their own
device (laptop, notebook, tablet or
smartphone).
Additional media
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• Computer and projector
• Camera, microphones, headphones
• Computer of the participants

11. Procedures: description of practical realizations
• Face to face training
sessions
• Technical workshops
• Additional half-day
• Online platform
• Personal project
• Evaluation

12. Choose a platform

13. What choice of tools
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- Platforms, focusing on resources?
-Social networks, focusing on relationships?
Finally, we chose the Moodle platform, because the objective
- was not a community (Mediacoach has a tool for this)
- was to provide and share resources, and organize training (file sharing,
forums, diary management training, ...)
Note: we did not choose a tool like Facebook because the participants,
educators and teachers, were not regular users....

14. What choice of tools
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Moodle was not a good choice:
- not easy technically (Media Animation is able to do it, but not the
participants)
- not easy for new users: not useful for a short project (most suitable for
an educational institution)
Expected functions were not avalaible. For example: the opportunity to
notify all participants via email as new content was added by a member.

15. What choice of tools
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However, Moodle has provided various functions expected:
- Providing resources for the participants
- sharing documents between the participants
- project Evaluation
-…

16. What choice of tools
The choice of the tool is important:
The tool must be consistent with the objectives:
- offer online resources
- share resources
- promote exchanges between participants, their projects, their
questions, their thoughts
...
Before the training, we were not able to identify our expectations.

17. What choice of tools
The choice of the tool is important:
- The tool must be useful for participants.
- Therefore we conclude that for a project of limited duration, it is
important to use tools easy to install and use and/or known to the
participants.
Example: dropbox, google doc, Facebook (if the participants use it)…

18. What choice of tools
What tools do we choose?
There is no simple answer to this question, but criteria to consider:
- what needs are related to the objectives?
- what is the level of control of the participants
- what tools are available?
- are they partially adequate or inadequate, and why ?
- should we use together different tools (mail, platform, application ...)

19. Thank you
for your attention
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Média Animation asbl
Paul de Theux (Director) and Catherine Geeroms (International Relation)
Mailto p.detheux@media-animation.be │ c.geeroms@media-animation.be
Website www.media-animation.be │ Facebook www.facebook.com/MediaAnimation