MEDEA Awards 2018

Showcases

Media and Learning Association

The Merchant of Venice is an online multi-player game which helps students of Accountancy Studies to learn and practice double-entry bookkeeping in a fun way as players are Venetian merchants in the 15th Century, who have to earn money by trading with foreign countries and to build buildings with their earnings. The game even includes a virtual tax office giving feedback and penalties.
Theorem of fire explains the development of a fire with different visual effects, scales and comments. It also describes how a smoke detector works using special effects and close-ups. The film has been produced so that parts of it can be used and questions answered with the help of a specialist or a teacher. The film recommends the right behaviour in case of a fire and explains how an emergency call centre works as well as the fire department.
And the oscar goes to... is an e-Twinning project created in 2012 by Petros Michailidis of 5th Primary school of Alexandroupolis in Greece together with Christelle Vouillot from Ecole Primaire de Rolampont in France. In this project 8-9 year old pupils from the 3rd grade in France worked together with 11-12 year pupils from the 6th grade in Greece to create short videos on topics such as traditional food and customs, but also bullying and hooliganism. Through the video production and storytelling they learned to express themselves in a new way and were made aware of international collaboration.
SciCast is an online repository that shares videos, sent in by children and adults, related to Science, Technology, Engineering or Maths (STEM) and awards the best videos in the annual SciCast Film Awards.
ArtisanCam is a free online resource that introduces children and their teachers to the world of contemporary art. It has been designed to help teachers deliver a creative curriculum through a wide variety of interactive workshops and activities including over 560 exclusive video clips of international artists and their work.