Media and Learning 2011

Opening Plenary

The opening plenary of the Media & Learning Conference 2011 'Harnessing the power of Media to Support Learning' will include several thought-provoking presentations aimed at promoting debate as to the value and impact of media on the learning process.

• Re-skilling for the digital era
  Constantijn Van Oranje, Member of Cabinet to Commissioner Neelie Kroes, Vice-President of the European Commission and Commissioner in charge of the Digital Agenda
• Media, Brain & Educational practice
  Peter Adriaenssens, Professor Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium
• The centrality of imaginative technology usage to powered-up learning spaces
  Conor Galvin, University Lecturer and Researcher, School of Education, UCD, Ireland
• Learning to express, learning to be
  Richard Harper, Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research in Cambridge and Co-manager Socio-Digital Systems Group, UK

Coffee break

According to wikipedia, the 'coffee break' allegedly originated in the late 19th century in Wisconsin, USA with the wives of Norwegian immigrants - but in conference terms it has come to mean the time when you meet old friends and catch up on news and developments. During Media and Learning we plan to improve on this idea by making sure you also meet new people and will be providing you with a participants list and a code for contacting anyone attending the conference using your mobile phone. This way you can use the coffee break to really expand your network .... and don't worry - we will also be providing coffee, tea and fresh drinks!

Come and play
During the coffee breaks and lunches you can also visit the dedicated Play Area in the dining and networking space where you can try out and use different devices and applications in an informal and friendly manner. This Play Area is managed by conference staff and with the input of several teachers. Companies displaying devices and applications in this area include Adobe, Microsoft and Apple. Fancy a try-out of Kinect? Or interested to see how you can use Adobe software on different Tablets and Smartphones? Then come and play!

Screening session highlighting excellent examples of media being used to support teaching and learning

This screening session features the MEDEA Awards 2011 finalists who were announced in October 2011.

• Armi di distruzione di massa
  Antonio Mandarano & Gianluca Ramundo, ITIS “A. Avogadro” of Turin, Italy
• Changing Lives
  Deirdre Flood, Drogheda Special Olympics Club, Ireland
• Imprinting
  Cinzia Chelo, Scuola Secondaria di primo grado A. Brofferio, Asti, Italy
• INgeBEELD Media Wisdom Platform
  Dirk Terryn, CANON Cultural Unit, Flemish Government, Belgium
• Twig
  Anthony Bouchier, Twig World Ltd, UK

Traditional television and its role in the new media-rich learning environment

• Educational TV worldwide - international TV professionals' experiences and opinions
  Elke Schlote, (IZI) Bayerischen Rundfunk, Germany
• Educational TV in the digital era - NHK's experiences
  Sachiko Imaizumi Kodaira, NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, Japan
• Educational TV - knowledge anytime and anywhere
  Cecilia A. Edwall & Görel Elf, UR, Swedish Educational Broadcasting Company, Sweden
• Kids create their own content working with Turkish Educational TV
  Şirin Soyöz, British Council, Turkey

What is the best business model for a learning game?

Finding successful business models for media-rich learning games is a big challenge. Do you have ideas about how to cover the costs of educational gaming? Join our discussion to add your voice and share your experience about how best to use the power of gaming to support learning in sustainable business models.

Join the panelists:

• Karolien Poels, Department of Communication Studies, University of Antwerp, Belgium
• Swen Vincke, Larian Studios, Belgium
• Baltasar Fernández-Manjón, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain

Students training teachers in setting up and using social media tools and services

Bart Verswijvel has been running the very successful TeacherAid project, highly commended in the 2010 MEDEA Awards. In this ground-breaking initiative traditional roles are reversed with students training teachers how to use all sorts of media and communication tools in the classroom. Bart will be joined by 11 of his students who will take you through the process of setting up similar schemes.

• Bart Verswijvel, Immaculata Instituut Oostmalle, Belgium

Display area

The following organisations will be represented on a stand on Thursday. Stands 4 and 5 feature Lifelong Learning Programme (LLP) projects.

• Stand 1: INgeBEELD Media Wisdom Platform
• Stand 2: European Schoolnet
• Stand 3: IBBT (Interdisciplinary Institute for Broadband Technology)
• Stand 4: Viducate
• Stand 4: Language learning and social media: 6 key dialogues
• Stand 4: SpeakApps
• Stand 5: SVEA
• Stand 5: ELVIN (European Language Virtual Network)

Lunch

Lunch will be provided in the conference venue and is free to all registered participants. It will be served buffet-style providing you with plenty of opportunities to meet existing friends and colleagues. You can also use the time to visit the stands hosted by various organisations active in the Media and Learning sector. In addition, you can use the conference SMS messaging system to make contact with anyone attending the conference whom you do not already know in order to expand your professional network.

Come and play
During the lunches and coffee breaks you can also visit the dedicated Play Area in the dining and networking space where you can try out and use different devices and applications in an informal and friendly manner. This Play Area is managed by conference staff and with the input of several teachers. Companies displaying devices and applications in this area include Adobe, Microsoft and Apple. Fancy a try-out of Kinect? Or interested to see how you can use Adobe software on different Tablets and Smartphones? Then come and play!

Screening session highlighting excellent examples of media being used to support teaching and learning

This screening session features the MEDEA Awards 2011 finalists who were announced in October 2011.

• Monkey Tales Games
  Swen Vincke, Larian Studios, Belgium & Vicky Vermeulen, die Keure Educatief, Belgium
• The European Chain Reaction
  Dave Schrauwen, Qworzó primary school, Belgium
• The Merchant of Venice
  Uwe Gutwirth, University of Education Salzburg, Austria
• Werner Heisenberg
  Uwe von Schumann, INTER/AKTION, Germany

Putting in place classrooms for the future that stimulate creativity and participation

• The iTEC classroom project – designing the future classroom
  Will Ellis, European SchoolNet
• Can design thinking make a difference to our physical and virtual learning spaces?
  Jim Devine, JD Policy | Projects | Innovation, Ireland
• Creative learning environments: a new European initiative to overcome the implementation gap
  Lieve Van den Brande, DG Education and Culture, European Commission
• Before we build, what are we building for – what and how we learn in the 21st century
  Stephanie Ottenheijm, Kennisnet, The Netherlands

Can media make a difference in supporting early and special needs education?

Given the power of audiovisual and social media it is hardly surprising that many practitioners have adopted media-based tools and services to support early and special needs education. What is the role of these types of services and can they have an impact where more traditional methods fail?

Join the panelists:

• Jolanta Galecka, Young Digital Planet, Poland
• Jan Dekelver, K-Point, Katholieke Hogeschool Kempen, Belgium
• Els Janssens, BEDNET, Belgium
• Greet Decin, KHLeuven, Belgium

INgeBEELD – rolling out a large-scale media literacy scheme in Flanders, Belgium

Workshop with Paul Bottelberghs, Media Wisdom Platform, Belgium and Dirk Terryn, CANON Cultural Unit, Flemish Government, Belgium, on the Flemish Media Literacy Policy incorporating highly innovative media literacy practices into the curriculum.

• Paul Bottelberghs, Platform for mediawisdom, Belgium & Dirk Terryn, CANON Cultural Unit, Flemish Government, Belgium

Display area

The following organisations will be represented on a stand on Thursday. Stands 4 and 5 feature Lifelong Learning Programme (LLP) projects.

• Stand 1: INgeBEELD Media Wisdom Platform
• Stand 2: European Schoolnet
• Stand 3: IBBT (Interdisciplinary Institute for Broadband Technology)
• Stand 4: Viducate
• Stand 4: Language learning and social media: 6 key dialogues
• Stand 4: SpeakApps
• Stand 5: SVEA
• Stand 5: ELVIN (European Language Virtual Network)

Coffee break

According to wikipedia, the 'coffee break' allegedly originated in the late 19th century in Wisconsin, USA with the wives of Norwegian immigrants - but in conference terms it has come to mean the time when you meet old friends and catch up on news and developments. During Media and Learning we plan to improve on this idea by making sure you also meet new people and will be providing you with a participants list and a code for contacting anyone attending the conference using your mobile phone. This way you can use the coffee break to really expand your network .... and don't worry - we will also be providing coffee, tea and fresh drinks!

Come and play
During the coffee breaks and lunches you can also visit the dedicated Play Area in the dining and networking space where you can try out and use different devices and applications in an informal and friendly manner. This Play Area is managed by conference staff and with the input of several teachers. Companies displaying devices and applications in this area include Adobe, Microsoft and Apple. Fancy a try-out of Kinect? Or interested to see how you can use Adobe software on different Tablets and Smartphones? Then come and play!

Screening session highlighting excellent examples of media being used to support teaching and learning

Each screening includes a guided tour of a specific production or media-supported service, project or initiative followed by a short question and answer and discussion opportunity.

• Students for students
  Serge de Beer, Lentiz Educational Group, The Netherlands
• Science can be fun! New forms to present scientific content in online-media
  Susanne Friz, FWU Institut für Film und Bild, Germany
• Scientix: Portal for sharing teaching materials and research reports from European Science Education projects
  Eloïse Gérard, European Schoolnet
• Geo-media resources from Digital-Earth.eu
  Karl Donert, EUROGEO, Belgium
• Media applications supporting learning
  Erik Mannens, IBBT, Belgium

Successful media-based applications in higher and continuing education

• HumaniZing eLearning with Lecture Recording: Operational and Pedagogical Considerations
  Daniel Tan Tiong Hok, Centre for Excellence in Learning and Teaching (CELT), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
• Designing video for teaching and learning
  Mike O’Donoghue, School of Education, University of Manchester, UK
• Successful media-based applications with MediaMosa in higher & continuing education
  Jocelyn Manderveld, SURFnet, The Netherlands
• EdMediaShare - Finding Useful Online Video Made Easy
  Theo Kuechel, Digital Media and Educational Technology Research Consultant, UK & Tim O'Riordan, JISC Digital Media, UK

Re-imagining sacred cows: what are the implications of social networking on media and learning?

In spite of an ever growing landscape of social media and social networking, the bulk of learning media today is still rooted in ancient traditions. In this session Allen Partridge will incite and facilitate a discussion of roadblocks to the expansion of social networking in the context of media and learning. Are the sacred cows of teaching and learning with media changing? Should they be changing? Together we'll look at the anticipated, the actual and the potential change triggered by social networking / social media in the context of learning.

Presentation: Allen Partridge, Adobe, USA

Join the panelists:

• Helen Keegan, University of Salford, UK
• Claudio Dondi, SCIENTER, Italy
• Gráinne Conole, Beyond Distance Research Alliance, University of Leicester, UK

The Media & Learning IPR Quiz 2011

Want to test your own knowledge and understanding of IPR, copyrights, plagiarism and legal issues around the use of media in education? Then take part in this quiz and find out whether you can consider yourself an “expert” or a “criminal” when it comes to rights issues in education. Your knowledge will be tested by means of real cases and examples, and judged by a panel of experts.

Adjudicators:

• Joris Raport, MODO Advocaten, Belgium
• Gérard Casanova, Vidéoscop, Université Nancy 2, France
• Philippe Bijvoet, VRT, Belgium
• Robin Kerremans, ICRI - Interdisciplinary Centre for Law and ICT, K.U.Leuven, Belgium

Chairpersons:

• Mathy Vanbuel, ATiT, Belgium
• Deborah Arnold, Vidéoscop, Université Nancy 2, France

Display area

The following organisations will be represented on a stand on Thursday. Stands 4 and 5 feature Lifelong Learning Programme (LLP) projects.

• Stand 1: INgeBEELD Media Wisdom Platform
• Stand 2: European Schoolnet
• Stand 3: IBBT (Interdisciplinary Institute for Broadband Technology)
• Stand 4: Viducate
• Stand 4: Language learning and social media: 6 key dialogues
• Stand 4: SpeakApps
• Stand 5: SVEA
• Stand 5: ELVIN (European Language Virtual Network)

MEDEA Awards Ceremony followed by Reception

The MEDEA Awards is an annual competition that aims to encourage innovation and good practice in the use of media (audio, video, graphics and animation) in education. Before the winners of this year will be announced, the finalists will present their entries. Host: Jan Hautekiet.

• Antonio Mandarano & Gianluca Raimundo, ITIS “A. Avogadro” of Turin, Italy Armi di distruzione di massa
• Deirdre Flood, Drogheda Special Olympics Club, Ireland Changing Lives
• Cinzia Chelo, Scuola Secondaria di Primo Grado “Brofferio”, Asti, Italy Imprinting
• Dirk Terryn, CANON Cultural Unit, Flemish Government, Belgium INgeBEELD Media Wisdom Platform
• Vicky Vermeulen, die Keure Educatief, Belgium and Swen Vincke, Larian Studios, Belgium Monkey Tales Games
• Dave Schrauwen, Qworzó Primary School, Belgium The European Chain Reaction
• Uwe Gutwirth, University of Education Salzburg, Austria The Merchant of Venice
• Anthony Bouchier, Twig World Ltd, UK Twig
• Uwe von Schumann, INTER/AKTION, Germany Werner Heisenberg

Sponsored by Adobe, this ceremony will be followed by a reception, which is free to all registered participants. To receive an invitation as a guest, please contact the organisers.