Communi-TIES Media Literacy in Practice

Day 2 of our event in Thessaloniki
Wonderful interaction with inspiring colleagues from Northern and Central Greece that joined our sessions today!
Special thanks to the Vice Principal of Amygdaleonas Junior High School, Mr Tzelepis Dimitrios for his opening remarks, Dr Rapatzikou Tatiani, for her keynote speech on Participatory Learning - Digital Literacy - Digitality in the Classroom, Dessi Ognianova, project partner from Bulgaria for her workshop "DigiLab for Content Development, Nadina C. Nicolici, project partner from Romania for "Checking Facts like a PRO!" workshop, and Chryssa Lazou, project coordinator, and Prof Avgoustos A Tsinakos, Director of the AETMA Lab, IHU for sharing the project materials created through the Augmented Reality educational app ARTutor during the workshop "Training youth for responsible citizenship in the digital age through technology-enhanced learning".

Day 1 Media Literacy and Critical Thinking in the Digital Age Event in Thessaloniki, Greece.
Wonderful insights from our keynote speakers, Associate Professor Nikos Panagiotou, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Professor Avgoustos A Tsinakos, International Hellenic University, Dr Apostolos Paraskevas, Interregional Thematic Network on Internet Safety, Dr Theodore Maniakas, Senior Education Coordinator of EFL Teachers - 1st Regional Center for Educational Planning of Thessaloniki, Sophia Pqpadopoulou, Journalist at Athens Macedonia News Agency, Marios Magioladitis , Chair of Wikimedia Community, Greece and Senior Executive of Corfu TechLab!
A very special moment with students, representatives from each country, sharing their transnational synchronous learning experiences and journey while creating digital content.
The event is under the auspices of the Ministry of Interior, Sector Macedonia Thrace and supported by the U.S. Consulate General Thessaloniki U.S. EMBASSY ATHENS U.S. Embassy Sofia and U.S. Embassy Bucharest

Day 1 of the Communi-TIES Media Literacy in Practice event in Thessaloniki, Greece.
A great opening and sharing of ideas of our 2-Day event taking place at the International Digital Transformation and Digital Skills Center!
Special thanks to Mr Stavros Kalafatis, Deputy Minister of Interior, Sector Macedonia and Thrace, Mr Isaak Hansen-Joseph, Consul at the U.S. Consulate General Thessaloniki, Mr Thomas Bacharakis, Regional Director of Education in Central Macedonia for their opening remarks!

We are delighted to share the upcoming 2-day event for the dissemination of our two GOLD Award winning program Communi-TIES Media Literacy in Practice for Innovation in Teaching (Education Leaders Awards 2022) and Innovation in Language Learning (ELT Excellence Awards 2022) in Thessaloniki on September 23-24, 2022 with outstanding keynotes from academia, the journalism sector, education stakeholders and media literacy exchange program educators!
The event will take place in the Digital Transformation and Digital Skills Center, Thessaloniki, under the auspices of the Ministry of Interior (Sector Macedonia & Thrace) and with the support of the U.S. Embassies in Greece, Bulgaria and Romania.
For more information about the program and registration, follow the link https://sites.google.com/view/project-communities/events/thessaloniki-gr

Meet our keynotes

Nikos Panagiotou, Associate Professor - School of Journalism and Mass Media Communication, Aristotle University, Thessaloniki

Thodoros Maniakas , EFL Coordinator, 1st PEKES of Central Macedonia

Avgoustos A Tsinakos , Professor, AETMA Lab Director, Department of Informatics, International Hellenic University

Apostolos Paraskevas , Coordinator of Educational Work,
Interregional Thematic Network on Internet Safety

Sophia Papadopoulou, Journalist at Athens-Macedonia News Agency

Marios Magioladitis, Corfu Tech Lab, Chair of Wikimedia Community, Greece

Tatiani Rapatzikou, Associate Professor, Department of American Literature and Culture, School of English, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

Dessi Ognianova, Project Partner, AlumniTIES and TEA alumna, Bulgaria

Nadina C. Nicolici , Project Partner, AlumniTIES, SUSI and Fulbright TEA alumna, Romania

Chryssa Lazou, Project Coordinator, AlumniTIES and IVLP alumna, Greece

Partners:
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, International Hellenic University, DCN Global AETMA Lab Hellenic U.S. Alumni Association International Peace Journalism Laboratory Corfu Tech Lab Xánthi TechLab Digital Transformation and Digital Skills Center - CISCO,
επεα Ένωση Πτυχιούχων Αγγλικής Διαπεριφερειακό Θεματικό Δίκτυο Ασφάλεια στο Διαδίκτυο Γυμνάσιο Αμυγδαλεώνα Καβάλας

CommuniTIES event Day 2
Wonderful interaction with colleagues today! Workshops on leveraging AR and VR for , project for digital storytelling, identifying
Special thanks to all participants for joining us for a second day on media literacy empowerment!
More to come in Thessaloniki in September for the big closing event of our project Communi-TIES Media Literacy in Practice in the Balkans!

CommuniTIES hybrid event - Day 1

We are so happy and honoured to have interacted with a warm audience, face to face and virtually from across the world to promote media literacy skills enhancement for the youth. Special thanks to Mr William o' Connor, U.S. Embassy Bucharest for the opening remarks and our keynote speakers for their insightful presentations!

We are happy to share a memorable visit of our CommuniTIERS to the Bulgarian News Agency. The students had an engaging meeting with the Director and Secretary General, discussing the history, mission and vision of BTA. We had the pleasure to also meet BTA outstanding journalists, editors and graphic designers who shared valuable insights, newsroom experiences and some challenges of the content development. The students were invited to analyze the BTA Instagram content by applying their critical thinking skills.Special thanks to Mr.Kiril Valchev and Ms.Julia Sokolova for the wonderful visit and cooperation.

The Romanian students from Liceul Tehnologic "Lorin Salagean", who are involved in the project CommuniTIES, visited the local TV station Tele 2, located in Drobeta Turnu Severin. They spoke to the journalists, found out how news is made and presented, and had a hands-on session to experiments what being a journalist and a presenter is like.

📌 Save the date! 📌
June 9 & 10, 2022
The second 2-day event within our project will take place online, being organized from Drobeta Turnu Severin Romania.
📌 Are you a teacher or educator interested in finding out expert information about Media Literacy and Critical Thinking in the Digital Age?
📌 Then, have a look and register here: https://forms.gle/rHjQ4QVDobKern5HA

Looking forward to seeing you online!

CommuniTIES
Γυμνάσιο Αμυγδαλεώνα Καβάλας
CommuniTIERS visiting Corfu Tech Lab
The participants enjoyed a wonderful presentation of the history of the island, the process of digitalization of sources, and STEM and Robotics activities!
Special thanks to Marios Magioladitis and Κατερίνα Μεσημέρη for their response and wonderful cooperation!
U.S. EMBASSY ATHENS U.S. Consulate General Thessaloniki

Closing event of a wonderful, interactive exchange of ideas among educators in the Balkans who aspire to promote and in the digital age. Happy moments of the certificate ceremony and cultural exchange on food and cuisine!

Day 2 of Sofia event
CommuniTIER DigiLab for content development workshop delivered by Dessi Ognianova, BG project partner. Teachers explored students' digital content, discussed their skills and creativity, and posted positive feedback on the padled wall of the event.