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Belgian entry Monkey Tales Games is the winner of the MEDEA Professional Production Award 2011 and Austrian entry The Merchant of Venice is the winner of the MEDEA User-Generated Award 2011. The European Collaboration Award 2011 sponsored by SMART was awarded to The European Chain Reaction by Qworzó Primary School (Belgium) and this year’s special Award recognising excellence in the use of media to support volunteering was awarded to Changing Lives by Drogheda Special Olympics Club (Ireland). This announcement was made during the MEDEA Awards Ceremony (sponsored by Adobe) which took place on 24 November 2011 as part of the Media & Learning Conference in the Flemish Ministry of Education and Training in Brussels. Read the press release here and view them all in our media gallery.
The 9 finalists for the 2011 Annual MEDEA Awards are known and the overall winner will be announced during the MEDEA Awards Ceremony which takes place on Thursday 24th November during the Media & Learning Conference 2011 in Brussels. You can read our press release announcing the names of the finalists as well as 13 Highly Commended entries which will all be added to the media gallery very soon.
This year, the MEDEA Awards attracted 115 online submissions from 28 different countries, which are currently being judged by our international judging panel. This year there are also 2 special awards that are supported by the European Commission through the Lifelong Learning Programme (LLP) for the MEDEA2020 project (2010-2012). The special Award for European Collaboration in the creation of Educational Media 2011 attracted 26 submissions and judges will also be reviewing 19 submissions in the framework of the special Award for Educational Media Promoting Volunteering 2011, which was set up to coincide with the European Year of Volunteering 2011 (EYV). The finalists will be announced at the end of October 2011 so stay tuned.
Entries are arriving at the MEDEA Awards Secretariat from practitioners and educational media producers from Europe and further afield and we are looking forward to a receiving a lot more before the 16 September deadline. Sponsors including Adobe are adding their support and plans for the competition are well underway. We invite participants to submit entries now!
The Media in Education Newsletter has been renamed 'Media & Learning News' and will continue to be published every month. From March onwards, this newsletter will be available every two months in Spanish, Italian, French, Polish and German as well as English. This month's highlights are: an update on BBC News School Report and its News Day; an invitation to the International Council For Educational Media; one mother's experience of how media-rich learning materials are challenging traditional maths teaching; Tools of the Trade: fancy creating your own 3-D Video and plenty more.
The December issue of Media in Education is now available, in which you will find a short report about the Media & Learning Conference as well as a report on how media is being implemented in French universities and a feature article by Paul Bottelberghs on a radical new approach to media literacy in education, based in the new digital culture. This issue also contains an article on electronic whiteboards, an announcement of the winners of the MEDEA Awards 2010 and lots of other news and information.
BBC’s highly engaging project School Report which gives 11-14 year-old students in the UK the chance to make their own news reports for a real audience was a popular overall winner of this year’s MEDEA Awards. Ros Smith, representing BBC School Report at the awards ceremony held last night during the Media & Learning Conference in the Flemish Ministry of Education and Training headquarters in Brussels, expressed her delight about this award and the value the School Report experience can bring to individual children including those who may be slow to put themselves forward in normal classroom activities but who suddenly start to find their voice in School Report. BBC News School Report was also the winner of the Professional Production Award sponsored by AVID. Read the press release here and view the ceremony's photographs in our media gallery.
This issue's highlights include how documentary film is being used to tackle integration issues in a learning project with significant social impact and publishes a snippet from the diary of Belgian media-savvy teacher Lucas Van der paer. It gives a tour on Federica, the web-learning multimedia-rich portal of the University of Naples Federico II and offers an introduction to webcasting as well as MEDEA's new national contact point in Luxembourg and plenty of other news items, notifications and announcements related to the use of media in education and training.
After a really busy judging period and the active involvement of 74 judges, the MEDEA Secretariat announced the 9 finalists of the MEDEA2010 competition today. Representatives of all the finalists will be taking part in the MEDEA Awards ceremony which takes place this year on Thursday 25th November in Brussels as part of the Media & Learning conference. During this ceremony winners in the different categories of the competition will be announced. Find out more.
