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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A group of Lebanese librarians received in Marseille

Discovering cultural activities from reading to digital practice

Samar J-Nasssiba- Samar C-22-11-11-a@zinc

 

During 3 weeks, from November 21th to December 10th, the Library of Marseille and ZINC receive 3 librarians from Tripoli and Beyrouth, to discover practical experience of cultural action, from reading to digital activities, carried out in Marseille libraries and in ZINC, with partners such as COBIAC or primary and preparatory schools. [...]

“A day on the Corniche” with the Arab Image Foundation

Selection, research and pictures production by participants at the photo workshop

From April to July 2011, the Arab Image Foundation organised workshops in partnership with Assabil and the public libraries of Tyr, Saida, Byblos and Beirut. The workshops introduced several photographic practices, to observe the Corniche as a public space of entertainment and meeting, a common point for the five. The exhibition includes images taken during [...]

Hypotheses.org, academic blogs

Platform for academic blogs : stages from the reseach process

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Hypotheses.org is a publication platform for scholarly blogs open to the academic community in all disciplines of the arts, humanities and social sciences. If you want to publish a field work blog, a research blog on a definite theme, the every day notes of a collective research program, the accounts of archaeological excavations, [...]

Stop motion training in Alexandria

Let's organize creative and multimedia workshops !

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From 6th to 9th of June, ZINC proposed a training on how to lead a workshop with children and young people to create a stop-motion movie, in the frame of cultural or educational projects. Participants are teachers from schools or cultural coordinators from libraries or cultural organization.

Members from MEDiakitab network and educational Egyptian [...]

Creative workshops in Tyr library

Writing and picture expression for young people

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« Creative Writing » workshop :

« Do you like writing ? Would you like to describe your town or your street and the relationships between people there ? Do people like the sea ? Would you be inspired to write about it within one or two lines ? »

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Milan librarians stay in ZINC

Sharing experience and digital workshops

On December first, second and third of 2010, three librarians from Milan libraries are received in ZINC in Marseille, as interns. It was a first exchange about experiences with digital tools in activities with children. ZINC team imagined the days as an opportunity to have professional exchange about practices and reflexion. The [...]

IT training fot teachers in Egypt

Developping new educative tools within French speaking schools

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Egyptian Catholic Schools Training Consultant

June 2010

“Teacher training” © CFECE-cairo

Technology for Improved Learning Outcomes-TILO is designed to improve the quality of teaching, learning and school management thanks to the use of technology by pupils in schools. The American Agency for International Development & Technology and Technology for Improved Learning Outcomes are working [...]

Milan libraries

A network for public reading

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The Public Library System in Milan is made up of 26 units : that is 1 Central library , 24 branch libraries and 11 circulating libraries scattered throughout the town. The organization of the whole system is based upon two coordinated units ; one responsible of the Central library and the other for the branch [...]

Gilles Eboli’s view on future libraries

The challenge of hybrid librairies

Gilles Éboli. Marseille – Alcazar Regional Library.

After having managed the Moselle departmental loan library, Gilles Éboli, an archivist and paleographer, was Assistant Director of Dijon Municipal Library, project manager at the Carré d’Art in Nîmes and Director of the Cité du Livre in Aix-en-Provence. Today he is Director of the Alcazar Regional Library in [...]

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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