Literarium: Media Literacy for NGOs
Start date: Jan 1, 2013,
"Literarium" is a training course on media literacy designed to enable NGO workers to analyze, evaluate, and create messages in a wide variety of mediums. The training activities are aimed to broaden youth workers' experience in using media, and develop their creative skills in making their project visible and recognizable. The project will give to the learners a review of the main means of contemporary media followed by studies on each: printed media (text), visual media (image and video), interactive media (communication), social media (community), etc. Participants from Eastern and Western countries will gather in Estonia to learn the basics of typography and text layouting needed for posters and brochure making; social media usage essential for communication with the target-group; video- and blog-making as one of the most efficient tools of sharing the outcomes, etc. Certain attention will be paid to effectiveness of each medium in comparison with others and its usability in NGO purposes. After the project participants become more secure in production low-cost but high-quality media content. The overall outcome will be transformed into a set of rules and approaches and tools that can be applied in promotion of the project as well as dissemination and exploration of its.
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