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Teaching Hugo
Martin Scorsese’s Academy award-winning “Hugo 3D” is based on Brian Selznick’s “The Invention of Hugo Cabret”, winner of the prestigious Caldecott Medal. The book mixes historical fiction with picture book and graphic novel. The film won five Oscars for art direction and technical excellence and demands to be seen in 3D. It reconnects the viewer with the dream-like magic of cinema. The day school will start with a screening of "Hugo 3D" and then explores how the book, film and…
Find out more »Doha Centre for Media Freedom organizes a specialized Media & Information Literacy Training the Trainers workshop
The Doha Centre for Media Freedom (DCMF) is set to organize a specialized “Training the Trainers” workshop for its Media & Information Literacy programme from 12th till 16th May in the Concorde Hotel Doha. Participants include Qatari trainers and journalists from various organizations & media outlets such as Qatar University, Arabic daily Al-Sharq, Aljazeera Channel, as well as trainers from several GCC & Arab countries. The workshop aims to train trainers to teach students about media & information literacy, as…
Find out more »Call for Proposals: Connect – Summer Youth Programming Competition
Connected learning opportunities raise the challenge of digital citizenship: to use the web and its resources well and safely; to interact collaboratively with peers and across generations in productive ways; to put web resources and networks to good civic purpose; to advocate for effective and equitable web solutions to social problems; and to develop web-based skills for productive purposes. The Digital Media and Learning Competition, administered by HASTAC and supported by the MacArthur Foundation, and in collaboration with the Born…
Find out more »Youth 2.0
On March 20th - 22nd 2013, UCSIA is organizing ‘Youth 2.0: Connecting, Sharing and Empowering? Affordances, Uses and Risks of Social Media’, an international, multidisciplinary scientific workshop at the University of Antwerp, Belgium. This two-day workshop will investigate a number of relevant questions related to children’s, adolescents’ and emerging adults’ use of social media in general and social network sites in particular. This international meeting consists of keynote lectures, presentations in parallel sessions and debates by senior and junior scholars.…
Find out more »Conference National Cultures Numériques Éducation Aux Médias Et À L’Information
Attention: Registration to the conference is necessary until May 13. Le développement des outils et instruments numériques accompagne et accélère de profondes transformations de notre société, modifiant notamment notre rapport aux savoirs. Dans un environnement communicationnel caractérisé par une connexion quasi permanente et de multiples formes d’accès nomade, avec des jeunes actuellement massivement utilisateurs, producteurs et diffuseurs d’information, mais dont les compétences sont très inégales, la question se pose de former des citoyens qui pourront prendre toute leur place dans…
Find out more »Políticas culturales, tecnologías y esferas del poder
- El papel de las tecnologías y de las nuevas experiencias en la democratización del espacio mediático, de sus usos sociales, y del derecho a la apropiación de este espacio para diferentes prácticas de comunicación y de expresión en conjunción con la configuración de nuevas esferas participativas. - Hacia la definición de un nuevo mapa de relaciones entre instancias plurales de planificación cultural y el derecho a la comunicar: accesibilidad y diversidad como aspectos constituyentes - Nuevos modelos comunicacionales y…
Find out more »AMES Conference 2013: Quality TV, Quality Teaching
The 2013 Association for Media Education in Scotland Conference will take place at Forth Valley College's Stirling Campus on Saturday 1 June 2013. The keynote will be on the theme of Quality TV and will be delivered by Kim Akass and Janet McCabe, two prominent UK academics on this topic. There will be workshops on QTV topics such as Battlestar Galactica, Borgen, Homeland, House of Cards, The Walking Dead and on other topics of interest to teachers at all levels.…
Find out more »Festival of Migrant Film (Slovenia)
Since 2010, Slovene Philanthropy and Zavod Voluntariat celebrate the World Refugee Day (20th of June) in Slovenia with the Festival of Migrant Film. The organizers strive to offer our local audiences a selection of insightful and provocative films focused on topics related to migrations, asylum and refugees. The Convention on the Status of Refugees from 1951 defines a refugee as a person who »owing to a well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a…
Find out more »Réunion des experts en éducation médiatique / اجتماع خبراء برنامج التربية الإعلامية والمعلوماتية
Le Centre de Doha pour la Liberté des Médias organise une réunion d'experts en matière d'éducation médiatique du 11 au 13 Juin 2013, à l’hôtel concorde, à Doha. Un certain nombre d'experts et d'universitaires du monde entier participeront à cette rencontre, des professeurs, des universitaires et des représentants des autorités locales au Qatar ( le conseil suprême pour l’enseignement et l'Université du Qatar), ainsi que des experts œuvrant pour des institutions internationales telles que la Fédération de l'Alliance des Civilisations…
Find out more »Media and Information Literacy Regional Conference in Qatar
Media and Information Literacy Regional Conference in Qatar The Doha Center for Media Freedom (DCMF ) with the support of the UNAOC, UNESCO and other organizations, organized an expert meeting on Media and Information Literacy (MIL) in Doha, Qatar, on 11-13 June 2013. The meeting convened governmental representatives from Qatar, Kuwait, Lebanon, Egypt, and Morocco, in addition to participants from Europe and East Asia. The 3-day conference focused on best practices and the global framework on MIL, specifically identifying challenges…
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