Activities

20 meetings have been set with school principals from the municipality of Prishtina, Prizren, Gjakova, Shtime, Gjilan and Obiliq where the main topics of discussion were the goals of the project and the work plan that will be implemented during the 2019/20 school year in 20 champion schools. The first training was held on November 15th in Prishtina. 29 teachers attended the training including two school principals from Gjakova municipality. 

“Running a digital media club” workshop was facilitated by prof. Kaltrina Kelmendi, the Faculty of Philosophy, Department of Psychology. She also had a presentation about media education, its impacts on each generation. 

During this training they learned about the importance of film as a medium for informing the audience on particular topics, photography and how to capture an image and present it to the audience, photo composition and how to use camera, lightning, crop, etc. They were also introduced to effective forms of communication on social media, its importance and how it can be used effectively by young students in order to reach a proper audience for many topics. During the period of December (2019) - March (2020) there were 45 sessions with students and 2 workshops with Digital Media Clubs. Students were trained to use the audio-visual equipment they possess, training for photography / video, creating interviews and editing videos. The first workshop was held on January 27, only with teachers where an effective plan for the digital media club was concluded, creating video channels on the platform gjirafavideo.com by Adele Gjoka, fake news and their impact on the new auditions by Muhamet Hajrullahu. 

10 training sessions in 10 Champion Schools with 145 Media Club Students participated in trainings for use of donated equipment, 3 additional schools included in the training program, co-financed by the Municipality of Prizren, as well as a teacher training provided for 36 teachers from 20 champion schools and 3 additional schools from Prizren Municipality took place during January 2020. During February 2020, 18 training sessions in 15 Champion Schools and 3 schools supported by the Municipality of Prizren with 260 Media Club Students participated in trainings for use of donated equipment, and 3 additional schools received the equipment donated from Prizren Municipality. 

The second workshop that included teachers and students was organized in March through a field visit to Gjirafa Studios. Students had the opportunity to see closely the work of the production and realized interviews between different schools. More than 170 students from the municipality of Prizren, Shtime and Gjakova participated. These meetings allowed our team to develop a project implementation timeline that manifested in 22 training sessions with Media Club Students between April-June 2020. 

The aim was to train students for internet research, video editing and visualization of lesson plans which created a communication link between teachers and students that resulted in creation of Virtual Classroom with 13 Lesson Plans for the subjects of Geography, Civic Education, History and Chemistry. 4 Additional videos as a process of training in Edutainment were created solely by students guided by their coordinators and were uploaded to School Channels created in Gjirafa Video. The trainings were not limited to creation of Video Content only, but our work extended to training and supporting the publication of School Magazines.