of Campania and the Administrative Service Centre of Naples in Italy. This media lab conducts research and analysis into the media world. Student groups can come to the media lab to make their own productions. They learn how to find ideas for a film, what a storyboard is, etc. Their films are then created, with some students producing, others acting. The final goal of the Bottega is to turn students into critical viewers of any kind of visual material.
One of the online services of the Bottega is a Mediateca with videos and links to web sites. The videos are made by or for students and are offered via streaming and download.
Technology
The downloadable videos all require Windows Media Player. They are all compressed as RAR files and therefore require WinRAR to unpack them.
User group
The media lab of the Bottega currently works with 5 secondary regional schools but they are open to all interested educational institutions, offering customised learning paths or visits to the schools. The Bottega not only offers its services for the benefits of students but also for teachers.
Their “Il Cinema Racconta” training project aims to make teachers cinema literate so they are bet-ter prepared when teaching about film and video.
Pedagogy and methodology
The Mediateca videos are closely related to the curriculum. There are no assessment or feedback mechanisms provided. The purpose of the Bottega lies primarily in raising students’ and teachers’
awareness of media in education and in helping them create materials, which are then published online. The creation of an online collection of video materials can therefore be considered more as a result than as a goal in itself.
Organisation and financing
The web site is freely accessible to everyone and requires no registration.
BOTTEGA DELLA COMMUNICAZIONE E DELLA DIDATTICA
URL http://www.bottegacd.it/pagine/progetto.asp MAIN CONTACT
ADDRESS Bottega della Comunicazione e della Didattica – ITI viale Kennedy 112
IT-80125 Napoli Italy
E-MAIL coordinatore@bottegacd.it
Dschola is a regional project set up in Piemonte, Italy aimed at stimulating greater attention to ICT, by involving students, teachers and families in partnership with schools. It involves 2,828 educa-tional structures and 50,000 teachers. The Dschola school network is currently made up of 18 tech-nical secondary schools, reference points for technological issues in their regional area and with proven experience within the ICT area.
There are two different examples of the use of streaming in education within Dschola:
• Tg Diddatico – educational news in English
• Video Gallery - broadcast of events related to Dschola and other education and ICT events Technology
The viewer needs a standard Pentium 2 computer with sound and video card to watch the stream-ing content of Dschola as well as software like a web browser, Macromedia Shockwave and Quicktime. Software is available on the Dschola web site for the specific Hypervideo applications which are included.
User group
The Dschola project is specifically intended for primary and secondary teachers and students of the schools taking part in the project. Access to some project pages is restricted. The video galleries are public.
Pedagogy and methodology
The content of the streaming videos of Dschola is curriculum related. Tg Diddatica, providing news in English, is intended to be used by English teachers. It also delivers accompanying learning mate-rials like texts. Hypervideo, which allows the user connect to other content, is used in some cases in the video gallery. This allows connections (links and hot-spots) to be synchronised so that con-nections are made at the exact moment prescribed by the author.
Organisation and financing
The Dschola project is an initiative of the region of Piemonte and was largely funded by the CRT bank foundation.
DSCHOLA
URL http://www.dschola.it MAIN CONTACT Eleonora Pantò
ADDRESS CSP
via Livorno 60 IT-10144 Torino Italy
E-MAIL eleonora.panto@csp.it
Edmond (Electronic Delivery of Media on Demand) is a pilot project carried out in Germany between February 2001 and July 2003. Its main objectives were the evaluation of the potential of electronic media and the testing of online distribution of digital media for educational purposes. In addition the project aimed to make learning more active through the use of media. Edmond provided media modules to participating schools through streaming.
http://www.edmond-nrw.de
Technology
The initial project plan was to connect a school with a private high capacity (2-4 Mbit) connection to a video server. However it was decided that this plan was too cost intensive and too limited for educational usage. When ADSL became more widespread to users including schools, the approach shifted towards online delivery of media.
The Edmond project used Windows Media Player for playing the streaming media in .asf format.
EDMOND
URL http://www.edmond-nrw.de/
MAIN CONTACT Dr. Joachim Paul, project manager ADDRESS Medienzentrum Rheinland
Bertha-von-Suttner-Platz 3 D-40227 Dusseldorf Germany
E-MAIL Dr.Joachim.Paul@lvr.de
User Group
Streaming video material was available to 23 participating schools in the Nordrhein Westfalen region. It involved primary as well as secondary schools. Usage was free during the pilot for partic-ipating schools. In the future, the Nordrhein Westfalen region intends to enlarge this streaming video distribution to all schools in the region.
Pedagogy and methodology
The Edmond project focused on the useful delivery of educational video material to schools. Videos came from the Institut für Film und Bild in Wissenschaft und Unterricht GmbH (FWU), which is essentially an organization for the use of image in education. The videos were closely curriculum related and fitted well within lessons. Videos in the catalogue were clearly identified indicating for what grade they were intended and in which class they should be used.
The Edmond project was a clear example of content illustration. Videos that illustrated courses were distributed and teachers used them to support their classes. These videos were available for individ-ual usage in computer classes as well as for whole class teaching by making use of a beamer.
Organisation and financing
Edmond was one of 3 sponsored projects from the Nordrhein Westfalen region. Content is available as the result of a cooperation between the FWU and the Medienzentrum Rheinland (MZR) in Düsseldorf. The local media centres act as partners of the MZR and provide the web site/portal and consulting support.
From an organisational point of view, schools need to be equipped with a reasonable standard PC classroom with an Internet connection. Secondly, teachers in the participating schools needed to be motivated and prepared to use digital media such as streaming video.