Entries for March 30 2007
UK Bound : SA Wrap-up
[SUMMARY—What an adventure.]
(RSA) MediaSnackers has had an amazing experience here in Johannesburg, South Africa at the 5th World Summit on Media for Children (check out the 'digital journalists' blog).
The opportunity to come to Africa and work with such a diverse range of young people plus meet and talk 'youth media' with so many interesting individuals/organisations was simply humbling. We also got the chance to meet associates and colleagues who have been great friends/supporters of MediaSnackers but whom we have never met face to face.
Here are just some of the amazing people MediaSnackers had the privilege to meet: Clifford Cohen of AnimAction (USA); Mimi, Amitatou and Cathy all from Plan International (SEN and PHI); Martin and Thomas from Radijojo (GER); Liz Nealon of Tesseractive Pictures (USA); Janet English from KOCE (USA); Susanne Wad of Station Next (DEN); Tamara Dawit Plan Canada (CAN); JoEllen Fisherkeller from Dept. of Culture and Communication at NYU (USA); Chris, Emidio and Karen all from Unicef (GER, MOZ and USA); Bruktawit and Shane of Whiz Kids Workshop (ETH); Linda Raftree from Plan USA (USA); Miomir Rajcevic of Media Education Centre (SER); Ian Stewart, Author of Ambushed (USA); Elke Scholte of International Central Institute from Youth and Educational Television (GER); Kevin Fine of Little Champs and 5FM (RSA); and many more…
Thanks to the young people who so enthusiatically participated and attended our workshops. Thanks to the summit organisers for giving us the opporunity to be involved. Thanks to all the other young people and professionals we met for their friendship and humility, and thanks to the people of Johannesburg for simply being so superbly nice. Last but not least thanks to BT Education for sponsoring the training and trip.
The next Summit will be in Karlstad, Sweden 2010
MediaSnackers provided real world support for the event by training young people to both use the video equipment supplied by BT and to interview the participants of the event. The challenges of the interviewing task should not be underestimated as the questioning, feedback, challenging and summarising skills are difficult to master.
The resultant vodcasts were a credit to MediaSnackers who produced both meaningful and entertaining reporting from the Summit despite a number of technical challenges which are captured on film. A highly professional and successful partnership—thanks.
David Hancock, Head of Education and Volunteering, BT
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CHECK OUT: MediaSnackers South African Vodcast Specials: Part One and Part Two
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