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One World film clubs summer school of documentary film

31.08.2010 / Jana Toužimská

Between August 22nd and 27th international school of documentary film of One World film clubs took place in Banska Stiavnica, Slovakia. Students, selected based on their applications, came to participate from five countries – Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia, Estonia and Romania. This event has been organized for the fourth year and student film makers cooperated with professional director Jaro Ridzoň, director of photography Tomáš Stanek and editor Filip Šustek who taught them various techniques of documentary film-making. Special guest of the event was Australian director Benjamin Richards who volunteered as a special advisor to students. This year the summer school event was connected to a student contest Who else?, which was organized within the Watch and Change project in the spring. During this contest, students were supposed to send their ideas on social spots focusing on various global issues. The best of the ideas were presented at the summer school of documentary film. The participants then could choose which of the social spot ideas they transform into real social spots and consequently make them during their week in Banska Stiavnica. Total of 5 social spots were made. These will be later put on a DVD and sent to all participants and interested film clubs or schools.

Winner of the student contest Who Else?

18.06.2010 / Jana Toužimská

The student contest Who Else?, which focused on students ideas for a social spot regarding youth participation has its winner. Tomas Kresnicka from grammar school in Strakonice, won the first price with his idea for a social spot called Glasses. You can read the winning spot here. His idea will not be submitted to the international summer school of film clubs. Within the project Watch and change this contest was implemented also in other project countries - Estonia, Poland and Slovakia. Winning suggestions for a social spot from these countries will also be sent to the summer school where they are going to be filmed. Thank you to all the other contest participants for submitting their proposals.

The Quarterly Watch and Change International Newsletter

08.06.2010 / Jana Toužimská

The international project Watch and Change promoting development education in four EU member states has published its quarterly newsletter. It contains news and new developments in the project countries Estonia, Poland, Slovakia and the Czech republic. Click here to read the newsletter.

The Student Elections - Results

26.05.2010 / Jana Toužimská

Between April 26. – 28. the student elections were organized in 135 schools. Over 20 000 students participated in this event. The types of secondary schools participating in this event were grammar schools, secondary schools with a specialization and vocational schools. The rate of participation were 50,6%, 46,8% and 2,6% in vocational schools. The participation rates do not follow the real structure of the potential voters among the students, the scores were weighted according to the types of schools. The results were measured by Milward Brown research firm. The top three political parties were all from the right side of the spectrum: 1)TOP 09 2) ODS 3) Věci veřejné.The complete results can be found here.

One World Film Festival in Numbers

12.05.2010 / Jana Toužimská

During March and April 2010 People in Need organized the One World Film Festival of human rights documentary films in Prague and 29 other cities and towns across the Czech Republic. This year again, the number of visitors have exceeded the 100 000 mark. The special school projections for elementary and secondary schools were attended by 48 000 pupils, students and their teachers. We would like to thank all teachers who invited their students to the cinema this year! We look forward to meeting you next year again!

The new Media and poverty educational set

19.04.2010 / Jana Toužimská

In the final, third year of the project Watch and Change a new educational set is being developed. The Media and Development set stems from the development education project Watch and Change, as well as from the media education set Be in the picture. The One World in Schools have decided to develop this educational material because most information young people get about global development issues is from TV, internet and other media which present only portion of the information and often from only one angle of the problem.Teachers who ordered this material will be able to teach students  how to become more objective in judging the news about global issues as well as learn about the work of war journalists, find out more about media and Islam and how non-profit organization make their fundraising campaigns. This set works mostly with shorter clips of movies and so that teachers can be more flexible with the planning of their curriculum. The materials will be published in May 2010 and distributed to over 200 schools which have pre-ordered the materials.

The Student Elections Project

06.04.2010 / Jana Toužimská

Starting the week of April 12th, secondary schools in the Czech Republic will be able to start registering for the Student Elections project. This project wants to be a practical example and a teaching tool about the system of elections in the Czech parliament. The responsibility to organize this event at each school will fall maily on students who will form student election committees and oversee the processes at their school. There will be one teacher, functioning as a garantee amongst the pedagogical team at each school, who will be the one to register the school for the project.  In the Student Elections Project students 15 years of age and older will be able to vote the same political parties and representatives who are going to be participating in the real parliamentary elections on 26.- 28. of June 2010.

International seminar during the One World festival

18.03.2010 / Jana Toužimská

During the film festival One World in Prague, the One World in Schools conducted a seminar with a presentation of activities which the students and teachers who cooperate with the project participate in. During the presentation the international guests were able to find out about the audiovisual methods and interactive activities which the teachers use in classrooms. One of the teachers Tomas Holubec, from Business school Kollarova in Prague who has a long experience with using the materials has agreed to come to show a practical example of the activities he uses with students when screening documentary films. Two student leaders of a film club came to speak about their experience with screening documentary films in their school. The seminar was attended by professionals from various countries who were interested in finding out or even setting up a similar project which focuses on education about human rights through documentary film. The guests were able to share experiences about their work in human rights education and learn from each other about methods and ways to enter the formal education system in their respective country.

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Student contest Who Else?

02.03.2010 / Jana Toužimská

This year one of the activities of the Watch and Change project is an international contest for students from secondary schools in the four participating coutries Czech Republic, Poland, Estonia and Slovakia. The students will be asked to submit sugestions (themes) for a social commercial dealing with a global issue, such as migration, development aid or natural disasters. The contest is called Who Else?, because it signifies the „Who else, if not you?!“ idea. In the Czech Republic, the topic will focus on student civic engagement and participation in the local affairs. The contest will be announced during the documentary film festival One World which starts on the 10th of March. In order to assist participants with writing the suggestions in a certain form, there will be an on-line tutorial posted on the web. The best suggestions for the social spot will be sent to the annual One World film clubs summer school, which will take place in Slovakia in summer 2010. The main prize is a digital videocamera. More information and the above mentioned tutorial are coming soon.

New activities in the spring

22.02.2010 / Jana Toužimská

The Watch and change project has come to its final year and we are preparing to make it as interesting and full of new activities as the previous two years. There will be a few events which are offered to students and teachers on annual basis, such as seminars for teachers and university students (pedagogical faculties) in April, student screenings during the One World film festival in March or the summer school for film club students. There are also some new activities which have been prepared for students of secondary schools - most importantly the "Who Else?" contest! In this contest the students will enter a suggestion for a theme of a social commercial. The theme should focus on how young people can be active in the area of social issues, whether locally or globally. The best themes will be filmed during the film summer school in August 2010 and screened publically. More about this contest will be announced in March during the documentary film festival One World students screenings.

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