The European Newsroom Erasmus Project

Project Title

The European Newsroom

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Strategic Partnerships for Schools Only

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2016

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; Early School Leaving / combating failure in education; ICT – new technologies – digital competences

Project Summary

Videos are an increasingly popular way to convey information and meaning. They can be a powerful tool when you’re trying to influence wide masses in Europe and the rest of the world. This project aims to increase the understanding and skills of high school students when it comes to producing your own videos and .The problem of using video in school projects is that usually only people who are enthusiastic about video have the patience to take the time and produce quality videos. This project aims to make the everyday use of videos as a learning tool easier for upper secondary students. This way both will learn how to communicate better in an audiovisual format. They’ll also be better informed about how to distribute these videos, how to make sure that privacy and copyright are being respected and about the ethics of visual journalism. What we will provide is structure to the academic introduction to video production – presenting and evaluating visual information produced by the students – at an upper secondary level. The main intellectual output is a YouTube channel that includes video tutorials that encompass both the low-threshold use of videos in a variety of subject in themselves and the general use of video journalism in phenomenon-based learning. Below is the structure of our training events and similarly the structure of the YouTube channel playlists and the website that embeds them.1. Learning and evaluating using the language of cinema.- privacy issues and open source content- low-threshold ways of using video in the classroom in every subject- technical instruction on cameras and lighting 2. Videojournalism and the interview as tools in phenomenon-based learning.- identifying subjects that can be used in news stories- how to prepare the background for a newsstory- how to prepare for an interview- how to conduct an interview- technical instruction on editing and producing the video3. Copyright issues, digital publishing and international cooperation for schools and students.- how to protect your copyright- who is responsible for the content when it is published- general knowledge on digital publishing- how to set up international cooperation using phenomenon-based learning via news stories.We will turn what we have created during these training events into short informational video tutorials. Hopefully our materials will help students and teachers realize the power of videos and teach them the necessary knowledge and skills so they can better communicate in an audiovisual medium. Hopefully, on the long term, video will become a natural tool of conveying information on real-life phenomena in the upper secondary classroom.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 51880 Eur

Project Coordinator

Raudaskylän Kristillinen Opisto ry. & Country: FI

Project Partners

• Liceul Teoretic “Dr. Mihai Ciuca”
• Liceo Statale A. Manzoni