Welcome on MEDiakitab blog. This program aims at sharing information and ressources dedicated to reading and writing practices, from story telling to digital form, in the Euro-Mediterranean space.

MEDiakitab association, located in Marseille, is in charge of administrating the blog. Contents are a reflection of the activities, analysis and knowledge developped by the network members.

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Zlezla, Alexandrian children animate a story

From folk story to web cartoon

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The cartoon Zlezla has been directed in 2008 by Sharif El Sayed, a multimedia artist from Alexandria, with a group of 13 Egyptian children, from 6 to 13 years old, guided by a cartoon expert team. This project, which took place in the education and recreation centre HANDS has been financed by El-Marwed El-Thakafi. [...]

Youth literature on the web

French reference web sites for librarians

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To fuel MEDiakitab seminar, Laetitia Derenne gathered in this document reference websites dealing with the following subjects :

- General knowledge about children literature (bibliography, selection, critics, news in publishing, theorical searches)

- Important genres in children literature (fairy tales and folk stories, comics, documentaries…)

You can download the pdf file.

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School libraries in Egypt

Role of school librairans and new technologies in educative action

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By Soha Saad-Wakim, Coordinator at the Catholic Schools Training Centre in Alexandria

Libraries and information services undoubtedly play a key role in access to essential documentary resources. Their action encourages cultural development and contributes to maintaining intellectual freedom. School libraries are supposed to make an important service structure available related to the school’s aims. These [...]

The “arche’eau”* educative kit

Archeologists in the bud explore water phenomena

The Educational service of the CEAlex with the Scientific, Technical and Industrial Culture’s Centre of Marseille designed three educational trunks. They are available to the media-librarian, teachers and animators trained to use them. The “arche’eau” trunk displays two themes: water and underwater archaeology.

Based on “Read then Do”, the trunk displays documents (books, files…) and [...]

The art of « clavardage »

Using ICT at school

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Clavardage blog © ZINC-FP

For a few years now, ZINC actively supports the set up of sustainable intercultural projects with Mediterranean countries. The blog Clavardage, set up in 2007, when several establishments started exchanging, is a window on these projects.

You can find:

- News about clavardages and reading challenges

- Links to [...]

Mare Nostrum

An interactive web cartoon

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Mare Nostrum is an interactive bilingual (French and Arabic) web-cartoon carried out between children in Arles and Alexandria, from 11 to 14 years old during the school year 2006-2007.

« This is the story of an archaeologist, in Southest France who discover a boat flotsam to date from Roman period, in the Rhone. He contacts [...]