This course is an innovation because it’s the fusion of two learning pathways which we crossed to make one unique course more functional and useful. 

It combines the Media Education basics and Video Making.

Media Education is already known by teachers. Now it is more trendy to say MIL (Media and Information Literacy) to teach teachers and students to be more media literate and attentive to information, fake news and dangerous risks coming from the net. 

More than ever, young people are bombarded with information, and it can be difficult to discern the real from the fake, or the important from the trivial. Over the past 10 years the news media has changed dramatically from traditional print to digital – and social media has changed the world. As students become ever more connected they need to be informed, be more aware and able to face what they expect to all in the next future with the information sector. 

Video Making or digital Storytelling are very trendy and popular now, thanks to many new professions born in the digital era connected with social media, marketing and digital content production. According to the actual digital transformation happening, it’s recognized that videos are a very powerful tool to teach, to educate and to involve. Nowadays, kids and youngsters have to be considered a kind of addicted to videos and youtubers fans. The risk of becoming clinically addicted is true but, at the same time, young generations have to become more aware about how a video can be created, for professional and educational purposes. Included, many teachers have become youtuber, bloggers, video makers with public channels of social pages where they become famous and they share what they are able to create to teach and to change methods and perspectives in education. 

Storytelling has always been a significant part of history, but the means through which the stories have been told has evolved with each civilization. From the oral histories presented by bards in ancient courts, to the works of scribes during the Renaissance, to newspapers, CNN, and now the Internet, personal narrative has been used to communicate the events of the past. Digital storytelling now combines tradition with technology and allows students to tell stories through voice, text, images, audio, and video.

Digital stories allow students to take a linear series of events and turn them into a multidimensional experience. It encourages them to communicate, collaborate, and research as well as to infuse media into the process. A plethora of tools and apps exist to create these projects, and all of them enable students to gain a deeper understanding of history as they explore the most effective way to retell it.

Digital storytelling for all is a training designed for all who want to deepen knowledge about audiovisual content creation.

Storytelling is a meaningful tool that can be used in the classroom to engage student learning as well as to enhance the expression of views, stimulate creativity, critical thinking and reflections on social issues. 

Storytelling for all is an experience created with the main aim to offer a practical approach to learn how to create an audiovisual product in its 3 main phases: pre production, production and postproduction. With this course we will cover the practical aspects of planning shoots, capturing shots, editing and publishing online to the worldwide audience. 

"Video art is a contemporary art form that deals with everyday issues, problems, dilemmas, wishes, and focuses mainly on human existence and experience. Video as a medium in artists´ hands has the ability to connect identity, experiences and knowledge through the arrangement and management of images, text and sound into a work of art. As a technology tool it has the capacity to capture learners´ interest and connect school life with everyday world, since video is already a significant part of their life in many forms (e.g. through television, internet, video games, mobile phones)".

Programme structure will cross the different areas of video-production and video concept focused on teachers and educators jobs related to the work in the classroom.

Target group

Teachers can be any kind of teacher working in a public or private school or educational institutions.

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As all our programs, the present one is flexible and adaptable to special requests, depending on the subject taught or on the starting level of the participant. 

Furthermore, in line with the JUMP Academy method, our courses are based on a strategic balance between formal and non formal education, indoor and outdoor education and the team takes care of a very important aspect of international mobility which is the intercultural learning which we develop with short excursions and facilitating the interaction with local partners, businesses and citizens of our territory. Each local context has its own economy so it’s always useful, in training programs, to get in contact with concrete examples (experiential learning and real based learning). 

We always try to connect our learners to local teachers and students to cooperate in developing innovation and networking for future projects. If possible, inside the program, a morning is spent inside a local school, visiting, observing and cooperating in the realization of one or more lessons. The proposed program JUMP works, in European dimension and with international spirit, at local level and, according to the period of the training along the year and the weather, it is possible to change some sessions and add visits and meetings, in cooperation with our network of partners including schools involved in European projects).