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Digital Storytelling | Learn How-To With This Training Course

Editorial Staff — Fri, 30 Jun 2023 19:33:38 +0000

About the Training Course

Discover “Videmaker 101”, the Training Course organised by the Alter Network association that will allow you to learn to research, storyboard, shoot, edit sound and video and promote digital storytelling so you can aid communication in your communities back home

The project will involve 25 participants from all over Europe (Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Greece, Italy, Netherlands, Poland).

They will participate in numerous activities, which will take place from 10 to 18 September 2023 in Gotse Delchev, Bulgaria.

The programme

Through this TC participants will be able to deepen and learn new videomaking skills. Not only do these new abilities will open up new career opportunities, but they will also be useful to promote cultural inclusion and provide a platform for young people to tell their stories.

Specifically, the course will focus on:

art of digital storytelling
skills in deduction, inference, and translation between words and images
use multimedia technology to tell compelling stories
How to engage the audience

Participation requirements

The association is looking for people who meet the following requirements:

Youth workers passionate about leveraging the power of video in your work
Excited to learn about visual storytelling and its potential for fostering cultural inclusion
Open to collaborating with participants from diverse backgrounds and cultures

A good level of English is recommended, both spoken and written, in order to participate actively in the activities and collaborate with the other participants.

This project is aimed at youth workers who are interested in this area of communication and who wish to acquire new skills to be used for the promotion of cultural inclusion and community development.

The association will cover all travel expenses of the participants and will provide food and accommodation during the duration of the project

Do not miss this fantastic opportunity and join the project now!

The deadline for applications is 27th of July.

Project Result | TikTok… Time for Stories Toolkit

Editorial Staff — Mon, 14 Nov 2022 11:43:14 +0000

This toolbox was developed during the project “TikTok…Time for Stories”, funded by the Erasmus+ programme of the European Commission.

The project aimed at creating communication tools and strategies useful for those youth workers and organisations that want to use social media as tools to actively involve young people – especially those with fewer opportunities – in social and educative activities.

The Youth Exchange and the Training Course in Galbiate

To achieve this goal, we implemented a Youth Exchange and a Training Course. Both the activities took place in Galbiate (Italy), between July and October 2022. The former aimed at analyzing, together with a group of teenagers, the way in which they themselves use social media and the kind of narrations they use. The latter, instead, building on the information collected during the Youth Exchange, aimed at providing youth workers and teachers with tools to create participatory and effective social media campaigns, targeting young people.

The Project

The project addressed 2 main issues:

Lack of technical knowledge among the youth workers: difficulties to approach platforms such as Tik Tok and Instagram, which are the most used by our target. We wanted, beyond acquiring technical knowledge, to be explained by the young people about how they use these platforms.
Difficulties with creating content: difficulty to communicate with young people and to create social media content that can be really appealing to them. Therefore, we wanted both to develop general knowledge about social communication and to deepen, with young people, the most popular narrations and content.

Objectives of the project

The objectives of the project were:

Providing young people with a space where to discuss and confront about the topic of social media;
Providing young people with theoretical and practical knowledge on digital storytelling, fake news and campaigning;
Promoting, among young people, social media as tools for social commitment, involving them in the creation of content and campaigns;
Providing organisations, working with young people, and youth workers with general tools and competences on social media, with a focus on Instagram and Tik Tok, in order to reach young people;
Creating tools and strategies, useful for organisations and youth workers, in order to reach and involve young people in social and volunteer activities, through social media;
Promoting among organisations and institution, inside and outside the partnership, the use of social media as a tool for inclusion and involvement;
Promoting good practices like the active involvement of young people in the creation of the online campaigns of the organisations;
Offering an opportunity of intercultural learning and the possibility to know new realities and lifestyles;
Improving the transversal and management competences of the participants, through non-formal education activities and self-management;
Promoting the Erasmus+ programme and the opportunities offered by the European Commission.

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How to: ICT and Volunteers’ Activities

Editorial Staff — Mon, 04 Jan 2021 10:04:00 +0000

When it comes to activities implemented by volunteers – especially considering the new challenges we face due to the Covid pandemic – the ICT field plays an important role. ICT tools in fact may be the core of volunteers’ activities or just a slight part of them. In both cases, it is a key-element to know how to have an open-mind community that value the ICT tools for responsible use of digital media, taking advantage of the European cooperation and with the support of volunteers’ activities.

For this reason we present you a new tool, released through the S.A.L.T.O. platform, that focuses on digital media, creativity, social media, web design, online learning and critical thinking. It is also the result of an ESC project, the “#DigiMedia ESC volunteering Project”, carried out by Association TEAM4Excellence. This tool is in fact a Magazine that resulted after the implementation of the above-mentioned project.

All the activities were practical, result-oriented and created on the basis of an integrated approach to gain the best outcomes and reach the goals. Giving the successful completion of each activity, the participants were able to:

prepare the learning materials for non-formal learning for different groups of youth;
do weekly analysis for the volunteering activities;
use ICT in youth work;
create viral online campaigns relating to youth work;
design learning materials for creative thinking development;
illustrate the importance of young people participation in social activities;
use creativity and joy while doing your tasks, thus adding more value to the cause;
use intercultural and language skills for better communication and understanding others.

Whether your organisation is planning to submit a project proposal or just wants to implement an ESC volunteering project, it is useful to take in consideration the pros&cons and the How To of this tool, as it equips you with practical examples on how to carry out such activities, with the support of a gathered experience in the field. It includes workshops, webinars, contests and other activities organized during the project period.