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Easy Digital Design for Community and Service Learning

DIGITAL SKILLS

EASY DIGITAL DESIGN FOR COMMUNITY AND SERVICE LEARNING

The course is addressed to school teachers, VET trainers and Adult Education Staff working with socially fragile and disadvantaged target groups.
The main aim of the course is to provide the participants those technical, operational and social competencies needed for the digital empowerment of schools, educational centres and non-profit organizations and their main target groups.

METHODOLOGY

Every edition of the training course is organized in partnership with a local non-profit organization. During the course, participants from all over Europe will cooperate for the implementation of a real digital project, working together with the members of the hosting non-profit organization.

LEARNING OUTCOMES

The training program focuses on media literacy in the field of mobile photography and audio-visual production, digital storytelling and project management.
Divided into smaller groups, participants will produce a short film clip by using mobile technology (smartphones/tablets), including: Online Collaboration Platforms, Photography, Photo editing, Video recording, Video editing, Audio recording, Audio editing, Publishing, Promotion, Project management.
By project-based learning, the participants will have the opportunity to master theoretical knowledge as well as practical work, gain valuable experience in different types of media as well as project planning and implementation.

PROGRAMME

Activities are structured per one or two weeks of intensive workshops, participants will achieve a consistent set of competences at the end of each week.

COURSE

DAY 1

Welcome, getting to know each other, meeting with the members and users of the hosting organization, introduction to media literacy.

DAY 2

Fundamentals of photography production, workshop on social photography. Online journalism, your non-profit organization at the center of your community.

DAY 3

Fundamentals of video production, effective images for the promotion of a social value. Fundamental of audio production, recording the world around us.

DAY 4

Introduction to the Social Hackathon challenges and division into groups.

DAY 5

Experiencing the social hackathon by contributing the co-development of digital solutions for the challenges related to the Sustainable Development Goals.

DAY 6

Experiencing the social hackathon by contributing the co-development of digital solutions for the challenges related to the Sustainable Development Goals

DAY 7

Awarding ceremony and departure of participants.