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[Nettime-bold] AGORA 2002: NEW TECHNOLOGIES IN MEDIA LITERACY |
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fax: 003010-7520064 www.filmart.gr this might interest many of you "Annual Mediterranean Regional Summit AGORA 2002" - Athens, Greece 15-18 June Supervised by the Hellenic Audiovisual Institute Produced by European Childrens' Television Center www.3rd-ws.org Organized by Childrens' Media Development Focused on New Technologies in Media Literacy, AGORA 2002 aims to bring together some of the most prolific researchers, producers and innovators from the field of ICT and education, while providing unique opportunities for synergies and investements in the fast developing marketplace of the Mediterranean basin. Enclosed find a synopsis of AGORA 2002 program, as well as details for participation, to a unique platform of possibilities for synergies and investments on the children's audiovisual environment of the Mediterranean region. PROGRAM: AGORA 2002 kicks off the 15th of June with the MEDÉÔÅRRANEAN YOUTH AND MEDIA OBSERVATORY one day conference. Members and partners of the MedObs' international network aim to influence the policies related to Youth and Media and to open to the Mediterranean basin new cooperations schemes on this field with the rest of the world. For more info on the MED OBSERVATORY and how to participate please contact the MedOb coordinator and head of the steering committee, Mr. Rodolfos Maslias medobs@ectc.gr . In the following day, June the 16th, in collaboration with Italian RAISAT Ragazzi, AGORA will host the CHILDRENS' CHANNELS FORUM. Thematic channels for children from different countries all over the world will compare their experiences and cooperate in order to create a real and useful network to exchange products, projects and ideas. The forum will be complemented by the workshop MONITORING EXPERIENCES ON TV PROGRAMS FOR CHILDREN in an attempt to underline the necessities of both the researchers and the Media Operators. For more info contact the TV Coordinator, Mrs. Vasso Kanellopoulou tv@ectc.gr . NEW TECHNOLOGIES IN MEDIA LITERACY will be the thematic axis of the sessions scheduled for the third day, 17th of June. This part-conference, part-hands-on-lab will bring together electronic media producers and e-content programmers, researchers, digital artists, media tutors, media education designers, psychologists and children; anyone who is involved in the making of a school for the future. For more info on the NEW TECHNOLOGIES IN MEDIA LITERACY and how to participate contact Mr. Yianni Skourogianni newtech@ectc.gr Another ECTC initiative that will be presented for illumination the 17th of June in AGORA, is the MEDIA SUMMER SCHOOL. Conceived as a summer training camp where old and new will meet, analogue and digital will infuse, the first Mediterranean school for children has been programmed to open its doors in 2004, at the village of Giffoni, Southern Italy. AGORA will host the first of a series of preparatory workshops where new concepts, ideas, desings and applications on interactive media education will be debated, and discussed. For more info contact Mr. George Christakeas, mss@ectc.gr The last day of AGORA, 18th of June, is dedicated to Collaboration Networks. On of the initiatives that will be presented and discussed.is the WORLD SPORTS EXPO FOR YOUTH 2004 project. WSE is a global exhibition to be organized in Athens in July and August 2004. The exhibition is to feature visual, audiovisual and web-based creations addressed to children as well as art creations produced by children. It will carry out an indicative mapping of the international situation and a wide-ranging and detailed presentation of global realities at an historic moment when the Olympic Games are returning to their birthplace. For more info on WORLD SPORTS EXPO FOR YOUTH 2004 and how to participate please contact Mrs. Eugenia Liroudia wse@ectc.gr . For info on booking a stand regulations at the AGORA market you may contact management@ectc.gr . |