TOY - Trainers Online for Youth
This is a reference for Luca Paolisso
The aims of the Grundtvig Workshop "Enhancing Audio Visual Digital Literacy" was to give trainers and youth workers working with kids with special needs the skills and competences to use Media, photos and videos in their daily actvities.
The group was composed by 24 participants from 14 different countries: Italy, Hungary, Poland, Germany, Romania, The Netherlands, Portugal, Slovenia, Turkey, France, Belgium, Ireland, Spain and Lithuania.
We mainly used two non-formal methods: the first was the "learning by doing", after short lectures about photo and video making, the participants were practising what they learned, they had the chance to organize workshops based on media. The second mmethod was the "peer to peer" method as we had many youth workers, trainers and educators with decennial experience we implemented activities where they could share their knowledge and learn from eachother.
The project was a huge success, we received very positive feedback also from the Italian National Agency (INDIRE).
We produced a beautiful video that you can see here: https://vimeo.com/100685928 and an handbook with some of the activities realized: https://www.dropbox.com/s/a36nqf5lr2qqtez/Grundtvig%20Workshop-Handbook.docx
In this programme I was the head trainer and responsible for the implementation of the programme. I gave lectures and coached a beautiful group of professional trainers and photographers that supported me in the team.