Possibilities of new audio and video IT

with all age groups in rural areas

Tools, methods and curricula in the area of mobilization of rural population -seminar 1.-3.3.2011 in Finland.

1st Seminar of Grundtvig Learning Parthership Project “Capacities over 50s as rural development tool – 50+”

Esa Ylikoski, Senior Lecturer, HUMAK – University of Applied Sciences, Faculty of NGO and Youthwork, Nurmijärvi campus

• Not only by computers, e-mail and social media (FaceBook, Twitter), but also ”traditional” equipments, tools and ”channels” have new possibilities• Radio recording, editing and broadcasting, audio programmes in Internet

• Video cameras, editing and presenting• Digicamera, still photos,

New information technique IT

• Listening together in houses, at neighbour´s or ”whole village” (still real many villages in South)

• Recording (new) music, copies by teens• Recording stories or folk music to scientific purposes (ethnographic) or promoting historical heritage (archive, museo)

• Radioamateurs (morse, AM)

Backgroud and roots of radio and recording

• Photo camera in family and village photographer

• Film-camera as a hobby• Rounding moviefilm presenters, cinema theatres

• Watching TV together at home, at neighbour´s or ”whole village” (still real many villages in South)

Backgroud and roots of camera, film and TV

• New recorders are small and easy to use, and the quality of sound is high and enough to edit• for example ZOOM H-2 Portable Surround

Sound Recorder (Price about 160-170 EUR)

• Editing is possible in computer and laptop with free programs • Audacity® is free, open source software for

recording and editing sounds

Radio recording and editing

• Traditional broadcasting is depending on the situation and politics of broadcasters, commercial media?

• Community Radio Brodcasting as a change • AMARC, World Association of Community Radio

Broadcasters,http://www.amarc.org

• CMFE Community Media Forum Europe, www.cmfe.eu

• New ”broadcasting” is also possible in Internet• Your own Internet sites can have audio and video (clic clic)

• YouTube (and others)

Radio presenting and broadcasting

• New digital cameras are small and easy to use, and the quality of picture is high and enough to edit• Difference between video and still cameras doesn’t exist

• Large scale of digital camera equipments

• Editing is possible in computer and laptop, • Maybe best editing programs (for examle Adobe Premier ) aren’t

free

• Also free programs

• Live presentation possible with dataprojector

Video camera recording and editing

• One photo tells more than thousand photo!? (In a movie film 1000 photos are used in 42 seconds)

• Analyzing photo/photos – part of media education

• Digital story telling – combining text, voice and still photos

• Live presentation with dataprojector

Still photos and digital story telling

• Traditional tv-programmes (news, documents, fictio) are depending on the situation and politics of cable-tv and other commercial media owners

• Internet• Your own Internet sites can have audio and video (clic)

• YouTube (and others)

• Community Media• Community-TV, our own videoprogram can be part of

whole program carta, unique program or we can have for example 10 minutes or 60 minutes once a week

Presenting own programsin media

• Young make interviews of older people (recording or video), for example• How was the life of the village before

o For example: work, house live, free time, culture, dancing, music, amusements, school

oAlso separate several decennaries

• How people felt some general historical phenomens

• Group discussings dealing former times (recording or video) - older people group OR young and old people together

Ways to use 1:Between Young and Older people

• Young people can also continue with material and • edit recorded material to shorter programs

• present programs in media (Internet, Community media) or ”live cinema” in village party (with dataprojector)

• Editing work can be done also together with some older people, those who are telling the stories

• Young and older people can also do together more, carry out the planning and also realisation of the project (and evaluation)

Ways to use 1:Between Young and Older people

• It’s possible to learn how to use recorders and cameras and also editing programmes

• It’s possible to make recordings and videos before editing anything

• It’s very useful to record and save both present living and happenings and also stories about old times

• To record ”raw material” to archive

Ways to use 2:Older people themselves together

• History and future are made similiary now• Theme happenings – festival, weekend, evening• Could theme be decennies? 60’s, 70’s, 80’s - 90’s

• Or something else, construction/buildings, education…

• Pieces of self made radio/video programmes could be shown then

• And arrange new live-discussions, witch can also record by video or audio recorder

Ways to use 3:All people together

• Co-operation between villages • visits and visitors

• Presentations of short video/audio in common live happenings

• Discussion the same experienges, comparison

• Also in Internet

• Co-operation inside and between areas

Ways to use 3:All people together

• Can audio/video recording and editing activities help find common language and new discusion between age groups (young and older people)?

• Could the 3rd age -people find themselves new activities with audio/video recording and editation, too?

• Could it be possible to express better the needs of rural areas using also audio/video programmes in Internet and Community media and in real life meetings?

Summary questions

• Is it possible get school and teachers with, could it do in the name of media education?

• How can adult learning institutions and organisations support older people in use of IT, audio, video and social media?

• What kind of experiences have we, our learning partnership project?

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