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South Africa: Employment of Live Mass Information/Entertainment in Terms of
2008-03-17 21:06:00 Source: DB Click Employment of Live Mass Information/Entertainment in Terms of Broad Principles of Entertainment Education This report offers a description of the strategy underpinning an initiative called the JAE (Just About Education) HIV/AIDS Information Tour. As indicated by the tour tagline (JAE), the project drew on the power of celebrity - “Jae” is ...
Cote d?Ivoire gears up to host 7th int?l festival of theatre without border
2008-02-28 12:25:00 Source: APA Cote d?Ivoire gears up to host 7th int?l festival of theatre without borders APA-Abidjan (Cote d?Ivoire) The 7th edition of the international festival of theatre without borders (FITSAF) will take place from 25 to 30 August in Cote d?Ivoire, APA learns here from the organisers. The theme of this event, which ...
Artists Help to Heal Wounds in Kenya - 01/2008
2008-01-19 11:35:00 Source: Drama Tool Artists Help to Heal Wounds in Kenya 4 January 2008 Politicians have plunged the country into chaos but local artistes can help to heal the wounds caused by an election gone awry and the resultant lawlessness and suffering. read more
Ethiopia: Theatre fights stigma and discrimination
2008-01-19 11:23:00 Source: UNICEF Theatre fights stigma and discrimination © UNICEF Ethiopia Members of the Tabor Wegagen Anti-AIDS Association. Members of a young people?s association in the city of Awassa, Ethiopia, used to be greeted by insults when they went door to door to educate their community about HIV/AIDS. Today, their reception is ...
Financial Sustainability Model for Community Radio Stations in Southern Afr
2008-01-09 12:59:00 Source: Soul Beat Africa 98 Subscribe to The Soul Beat - http://www.comminit.com/en/user-/register/38 or email Seipati Fountain sfountain(at)comminit(dot)com Financial Sustainability Model for Community Radio Stations in Southern Africa by The Southern Africa Institute for Media Entrepreneurship Development (SAIMED) This document presents a financial sustainability model that has been developed by SAIMED with the aim of assisting community radio stations ...
African radio: Radio Instruction to Strengthen Education (RISE) project - T
2008-01-09 12:42:00 Source: Soul Beat Africa 98 Radio Instruction to Strengthen Education (RISE) project - Tanzania This project, funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), aims to teach children literacy, numeracy, life skills related to health, hygiene, nutrition, and HIV/AIDS prevention through interaction radio instruction (IRI). Interactive lessons are broadcast over the national radio station network ...
African radio: 101.5 Koch FM - Kenya
2008-01-09 12:25:00 Source: Soul Beat Africa 98 Subscribe to The Soul Beat - http://www.comminit.com/en/user-/register/38 or email Seipati Fountain sfountain(at)comminit(dot)com 101.5 Koch FM - Kenya This is a private radio station owned and run by the youth of Korogocho informal settlement in Nairobi. The station is a product of the Miss Koch Initiative, a project started in 2001 to respond to rising ...
African report: the role community radio stations (CRS) can play in poverty
2008-01-06 12:10:00 Source: The Drum Beat 424 INFORMO(T)RAC Programme - Joint Review Mission Report by Roy Kessler and Martin Faye This evaluation report explores the role community radio stations (CRS) can play in poverty alleviation by sparking dialogue about social issues. The authors of this piece find that in 3 West African countries - Senegal, Guinea-Bissau, and Sierra Leone - ...
Edutainment: Dramatool - international meeting point for drama/theatre educ
2008-01-06 12:00:00 Source: The Drum Beat 424 Dramatool - Global Launched in 2002, Dramatool is a web-based platform described as “an international meeting point for drama/theatre education”. Available in Amharic, Chinese, English, French, Kiswahili, and Spanish (as of this writing), this website is an effort to empower drama and theatre practitioners through networking. Dramatool is run by a team ...
Review: National Treasure: The Book of Secrets- Family Edutainment
2007-12-23 00:01:00 For Ron Paul supporters. For everybody else. National Treasure: The Book of Secrets (NTBOS) is an inoffensive, boring screen adaptation of the edutainment classic Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego, a computer game lazy teachers use to mesmerize their students. Just like the game, the protagonists, Ben Gates, Riley Poole, and the appropriately named Abigail Chase (Nicolas Cage, Riley Poole, and the best German import since the M3, Diane Kruger) go from location to location solving various puzzles. The puzzles are varied, but easily solved, none taking more than a couple of minutes: After the trio suspect that a particular object contains a clue ("There must be something here.")- and they all do, they look at the mysterious object under a microscope, take it to a professor of ancient languages, or, as in one instance, use a radio controlled helicopter to find it. The characters then progress to the next level until they fight the boss at the end. Well, not exactly a boss....
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Merry Motors : Collection of edutainment games for children
2007-11-25 03:45:00 Welcome to the Town of Merry Motors! This is a collection of fascinating children's games and funny lessons. The program can be useful for preschool children (4-5 years) and primary school children as well as for their parents, teachers and tutors of preschool age children. The program includes 27 edutainment games and exercises. The main characters of the games are nine machines: a submarine, a ship, a helicopter, a plane, a truck, a taxi, a bus, a tram and a steam locomotive which live in the town of cars. The games and exercises of the Merry Motors collection help to develop memory, attention, basic motor skills, spatial imagination and logical reasoning. A colorful and bright appearance will make the process of training even more interesting and memorable, while original music will create a fine mood and an atmosphere of a fascinating adventure. Games for the development of memory and motor activity, exercises with different colors, math tasks, tasks for the development of logi...
8 Child-Approved Edutainment Sites | Resource Junky
2007-11-08 08:07:00 The internet is a great place filled with a wealth of information, but this is just one facet of it. On the other hand, there are some sites that we never want our child to discover. I teach after-school computer lessons to elementary-aged children 5 Zoom(s)
Bacteria Salad: Agribusiness in a Game
2007-10-15 18:23:00 In Bacteria Salad your mission, if you choose to harvest it, is to squeeze as much profit out of mass amounts of cheap tomatoes and spinach.While building large industrial farming complexes may send the cash registers cranking into overdrive, you also run the increased risk of floods, animal-waste pollution, and life-threatening E. coli. But will you be content with the pennies you'll scrape by with your small family farm? Decisions, decisions.Play Bacteria SaladYour goal is simple: Harvest mass amounts of cheap produce and sell it for as much profit as possible. But watch out for floods and animal waste, or your greens might turn, uh ? brown ? and your customers will get E. Coli. And it doesn't take an MBA to know that killing people is bad for business!InstructionsUse your mouse for all commands. Click a farm to plant fields in it. When contaminants pass over your farms, click on a field to remove it. Try to find and remove the contaminants before your vegetables end up in the r...
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Namibia: Radio show for youth
2007-08-18 11:54:00 Seen on The Drum Beat 408 Subscribe to The Drum Beat: http://www.comminit.com/subscri-be_drumbeat.html Access this issue online at: http://www.comminit.com/drum_be-at_408.html Suzie and Shafa Show - Namibia The Suzie and Shafa Show is a lifestyles variety show created by youth for youth between the ages of 15 and 24. The radio programme airs on the University of Namibia (UNAM) Radio 97.4 FM ...
Madagascar: Projet Radio
2007-04-25 23:39:00 The following article was seen on The Soul Beat 83 Projet Radio - Madagascar This is a rural radio project for regional development in Southern Madagascar funded by the European Commission Food and Security Division. The project delivers information to isolated rural village populations in the southern parts of the country via Freeplay radios with the aim ...
Edutainment: The puppet has a cough, HIV/AIDS education - Ethiopia
2007-04-05 19:00:00 The Puppet has a Cough - Ethiopia This is a puppet show project meant to educate Ethiopians about HIV/AIDS. The puppeteers who launched this project are part of the HIV/AIDS Education Team at the Counselling and Social Services Center of the Medical Missionaries of Mary (MMM) in Ethiopia. Utilising drama, music, video ...
Edutainment: A River Blue Project ? Uganda
2007-04-05 16:10:00 A River Blue Project ? Uganda This project is an arts empowerment project for the children of internally-displaced persons (IDP) camps in Northern Uganda. The project is funded and overseen by Barefoot Workshops, a non-profit, media-based educational and development organisation from the United States. In August 2006 Barefoot Workshops and musician and artist, Joseph Arthur, sponsored ...
Edutainment: Mo Kamba (My Mate) - Angola
2007-03-16 10:59:00 Source: DB Click Edutainment Mo Kamba (My Mate) - Angola This is a radio-based edutainment project designed to reach sexually active Angolan youth. In developing this initiative, the BBC World Service Trust aims to change behaviour to the end of reducing the prevalence of HIV and AIDS. This initiative draws on entertaining radio spots ...
Edutainment: Great Lakes Reconciliation Radio Project - Rwanda, Burundi and
2007-03-16 10:46:00 Source: DB Click Edutainment Great Lakes Reconciliation Radio Project - Rwanda, Burundi and DRC This is a regional reconciliation programme that seeks to expand Radio La Benevolencija (RLB) activities in Rwanda, both geographically and thematically. The expansion into the Great Lakes Region - into neighbouring countries like Burundi and the Democratic Republic of ...
Edutainment: Computer Mediated Communication as a Means Of Assessing Entert
2007-03-15 15:39:00 Source: DB Click Edutainment Computer Mediated Communication as a Means Of Assessing Entertainment Education in Africa: A Case Study of Yellow Card “In the past decade, Computer Mediated Communication (CMC) has emerged as a rapidly adopted innovation, creating communities that could not have been formed otherwise (Clarke, n.d.). By 2002, internet users worldwide ...
Edutainment: Story Story - Voices from the Market radio drama - Nigeria
2007-03-15 15:35:00 Source: DB Click - Edutainment Story Story - Voices from the Market - Nigeria Launched as part of Voices, a national public education broadcasting project for Nigeria, “Story Story - Voices from the Market” is a radio drama that uses what are intended to be dynamic storylines and true-to-life characters to encourage debate amongst ...
Edutainment: Talented Youth Theater (TYT) - Ghana
2007-03-14 12:46:00 Source: Soul Beat Africa 80 Talented Youth Theater (TYT) - Ghana - is a Ghana based youth organisation that is interested in the health, economic and socio-cultural needs of the youth both locally and internationally. TYT uses drumming, dancing and drama as a means of communicating information on youth issues and to create an ...
Edutainment: Chipawo - Zimbabwe
2007-03-14 12:43:00 Source: Soul Beat Africa 80 Chipawo - Zimbabwe - is a Zimbabwean organisation that aims to use arts education for development and employment. The organisation works with children from the age of 4, all school-going children, young people and artists and teaches them to sing, dance, play music, act, make videos and television ...
Edutainment: Act, Learn and Teach: Theatre, HIV and AIDS Toolkit for Youth
2007-03-14 12:04:00 Source: Soul Beat Africa 80 Act, Learn and Teach: Theatre, HIV and AIDS Toolkit for Youth in Africa This toolkit and associated material, including the CD-ROM provided, introduce the reader to Forum Theatre as a tool for HIV and AIDS education. The toolkit is aimed at youth groups and amateur theatre groups in English-speaking ...
Edutainment: Kenyan Youth Empower their Peers to Adopt HIV Prevention
2007-03-14 12:00:00 Source: Soul Beat Africa 80 Mchezewangoma becomes Mchezangoma: Kenyan Youth Empower their Peers to Adopt HIV Prevention Through Creative Ngoma Dialogue Circles This paper describes the use of both participatory and grounded theory approaches to formulate Creative Ngoma Dialogue Circles (CNDC), which are 1- to 5-minute problem-posing pieces representing and problematising HIV/AIDS. Based ...
Edutainment: Educational Theatre at the Edge of the Crush - South Africa
2007-03-14 11:54:00 Source: Soul Beat Africa 80 Educational Theatre at the Edge of the Crush: The Use of Theatre as Entertainment-Education in HIV and AIDS Awareness and Prevention in the South African Mining Sector This paper examines the first phase of research into the use of theatre-in-education regarding HIV and AIDS in the South African ...
Edutainment: Talking Hands - South Africa
2007-03-14 11:47:00 Source: Soul Beat Africa 80 Talking Hands - South Africa This programme uses entertaining yet educational strategies such as puppet theatre as a tool to develop awareness of issues related to alcoholism and drugs, violence, nutrition, dental care, HIV/AIDS, and unemployment. The programme also uses short plays to teach children and teenagers fundamental ...
Edutainment: Haba na Haba - Kenya
2007-03-14 11:44:00 Source: Soul Beat Africa 80 Haba na Haba - Kenya This is a community development project of the Mathere Youth Sports Association (MYSA), which promotes community development through Arts and Creative Education in Kenya. The project is organised through “vikundi” or art groups divided into different age groups who use music, dance, drama and ...
Edutainment: Winter/Summer Institute in Theatre for Development (WSI) - Les
2007-03-14 11:28:00 Source: Soul Beat 80 Winter/Summer Institute in Theatre for Development (WSI) - Lesotho This collaborative effort by four universities from different continents aims to use theatre to address the issue of HIV and AIDS and the role of gossip and silence in the spread of HIV. The ultimate goal of the Institute is to ...
Edutainment: Tuseme Project - Tanzania
2007-03-14 11:25:00 Source: Soul Beat Africa 80 Tuseme Project - Tanzania This is a school-based theatre for development initiative that aims to empower girls to understand and overcome problems that can potentially hinder their academic and social development. It also aims to give them a voice to speak out and express their self-identified problems while ...
Edutainment: Amani Peoples Theatre (APT) - Kenya
2007-03-14 11:13:00 Source: Soul Beat Africa 80 Amani Peoples Theatre (APT) - Kenya This is an organisation that brings together volunteer trainers to use their talents, skills and experiences to employ interactive participatory theatre for conflict transformation, peace-building and development in Kenya. The APT process integrates education, entertainment and research in exploring context-specific issues on ... |
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