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eFestival award for the first hungarian interactive comic created by Eduweb Multimedia CCo.
11/2/2006
eFestival which presents the outstanding practice of digital content development of Hungarian on-line and multimedia trade was organized for the 6th time this year. Entrants could compete in 5 categories:
- e-Learning
- Digital maintenance of Hungarian cultural heritage / eScience
- Everyday information science / eEntertainment
- eHygiene / eEqual opportunity / Performance of public information
- eCommerce
The interactive comic was created by Eduweb took 2nd place at e-Learning category. The e-Learning material entitled „The Other Side” was ordered by ASVA (Public Purpose Foundation for Protection of Audiovisual Works Copyright) and ProArt (Public Foundation for the Protection of the Copyright of Audio-visual Works of Art).
The curriculum is about the questions of copyrights and it’s prepared for teenagers in original style. It is a story of a secondary school all-boys band called Tundrastorm.
The curricula has a dual aim: on the one hand, it aims to make the students understand that there are plenty of legal forms of accessing works of art such as films, pieces of music, instead of resorting to illegal downloads. On the other hand, it makes them aware of the possibilities and rights they themselves have if they create an intellectual product. Hence the title of the material, „the other side”, as the material looks also at the other side of the coin.
Besides teaching some basic concepts the learning material also emphasises the emotional and moral issues involved when demonstrating the extent of the damage that the illegal activities of audiovisual pirates do to authors or artists of various sorts.
The story of the school band includes a number of musical and concert video media elements which can be listened to or viewed individually. The original music was composed by a real life Budapest amateur rock band called Gloaming. The authors of the learning material also modelled their characters on the band members.
The material is accessible as of 6 September on Sulinet’s website, at http://szerzoijog.sulinet.hu
Eduweb Multimedia CCo. and Neumann House held a joint program about the results of international JASON project
11/03/2006
Eduweb Multimedia CCo. and Neumann House held a joint program on 31 October about the results of international JASON project to be completed at the end of October 2006 including subject of digitalizing and cataloguing of cultural heritage.
To the demonstration members of organizations and institutes organizing trainings in subject of digitalizing of cultural heritage, and co-workers of cultural institutions (such as librarians, museologists, archeologists, archivists) were invited.
Besides members of Bulgarian, French and Portuguese institutions experts of Eduweb participated in the 2-year-long project. Neumann House played active role in testing the informatics system and the developed e-Learning curricula which were finished as the result of the project.
The program was opened by Katalin Bánkeszi, professional director of Neumann House. Then short presentations were held by experts of Eduweb about the project, its aim, results and the new educational environment and process of education. Those present might have examined the prepared electronic curricula developed within the scope of the project after registration into the Learning Management System (LMS). These curricula give instructions to co-workers of cultural institutions about digitalizing cultural objects (e.g. systematization of pictures, recording videos, taking photographs, electronic archiving etc.), cataloguing cultural heritage and using digital content found at World Wide Web efficiently. Users can access LMS and the curricula in five languages (English, Hungarian, Portuguese, Bulgarian and French).
Beyond presenting the means, methods and ideas of digitalizing the aim of the program was to help those concerned applying the attained knowledge in their everyday work.
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Eduweb is now a member of the Hungarian Outsourcing Association
09/11/2006
By joining the Hungarian Outsourcing Association, Eduweb Multimédia CCo. has further expanded its network of associations. The new membership is connected with Eduweb’s aim to widen its portfolio.
Eduweb is now focussing on providing a full-range educational service to its clients based on accomplishments of the blended learning and e-Learning.
This autumn the association is publishing its manual entitled Outsourcing in the practice of enterprises, the target group of which are the decision-makers of Hungarian and multinational corporations as well as small- and medium-sized companies.
Eduweb contributes to this gap-filling publication with articles as well as with its market research findings.
