ACES project started with Kickoff meeting on 24 of September 2012 in Laško, Slovenia. Trough the games the teams had a great opportunity too know each other and this year's theme of the ACES project.

KICKOFF MEETING FROM 24 - 28 SEPTEMBER 2012 Inside this issue:

Kickoff meeting 1

Media Literacy 2

Video conference 2

Visit to Kragujevac 3

Bus iness Name

OCTOBER 2012 ISSUE 1

Being all around us, the media play a significant part in our lives and help us understand the world and our place in it. This is why it is so important for the young people to understand, study and analyze them. Media education is the process through which individuals become media literate – able to critically understand the nature, techniques and impact of media messages and products. It is important to encourage young people to question, evaluate, understand and appreciate their multimedia culture and to teach them to

become active and discriminating media consumers and users, decoding, analyzing and evaluating media.

Amongst the important issues such as the production of media and media language, the attention was specially drawn to the media representation. The media don’t just offer us a window on the world, they represent it and offer us versions of reality. Thus it is crucial for the audiences to compare media with their own experiences, and make judgments about how far they can be trusted.

Media literacy works towards deconstructing these media products, taking them apart to show how they are made and exploring the decisions and factors behind them. One of the aims of the training was to introduce students to the basic concepts of media literacy such as news, the ways journalists obtain information and topics, how to organize a media, the role of a reporter, editor, editor in chief... Further students’ practical experiences in this field are planned in the upcoming project activities, when the visits to a television and

radio stations are planned, giving to students an opportunity to talk directly with professionals.

know each other by joining the Facebook group ‘Media and reality – allies or opponents’. They particularly shared impressions about the trainings on media literacy conducted simultaneously in each of partner schools. Students thus discussed the most interesting project activities, their roles in student project teams and especially the forthcoming visit to Kragujevac as the first official meeting of partner schools and project

Students and teachers from Politehnička škola (Kragujevac), ASUC "Boro Petruševski" (Skopje) and Srednja poklicna in strokovna sola Bežigrad (Ljubljana) had the opportunity, for the first time, to see and talk to each other, exchange impressions about the project and learn about each other by videoconferencing.

Each school presented their project teams and students participants individually, even though they already got to

participants.

Since one of the project tasks is questioning the media and reality (allies or opponents?) through this activity, carried out through by use of the Internet, the students were shown how the media can be used for the purposes of inter-and multi-culturalism, cooperation, friendship and entertainment.

MEDIA LITERACY

VIDEO CONFERENCE

Media education is the process through which

individuals become media literate ...

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REALITY

Media literacy in Kragujevac

Media literacy in Skopje

Media literacy in Ljubljana

teacher. The same day, students from all partner schools had an opportunity to get to know each other by participating in an Environmental Workshop: Battery Strikes Back (supported by Environmental Center of Polytechnic school) and Karaoke Party (supported by Student Parliament of Polytechnic school).

As a part of the project activities, the first official meeting of partner schools was held in Politehnička škola, Kragujevac, Serbia. Among many, the opening activity was the official presentation of the participation in Academy of Central European Schools 2012/2013 and the project activities, held by Jovana Janić, an English language

Certainly, the attention was mostly drawn to an oratorical evening "Reality Check - How to Build and Perceive the World Through Media," which was held on the second day of the visit. This was an opportunity for the students from three different countries to give speeches on the same subjects but different languages and approaches:

VIS IT TO KRAGUJEVAC

Video conference in Ljubljana

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Goning to Kragujevac!

Video conference in Kragujevac

Video conference in Skopje

6. Jelena Prokić, III-5, Politehnička škola, Kragujevac, Serbia. The audience voted and the best one was awarded - Dragana Trajanova, Skopje, Macedonia. When it comes to project activities, all the participants (both teachers and students) agreed on starting a common blog (a medium) of the three schools with information on individual and mutual activities of the partner schools. One of the aims of this visit was an agreement on the creation of the e-magazine ’Reality’ (with the same name in all partner schools), that will be dealing with the same topics on media and reality but different perspectives. This was also an opportunity to select and appoint journalists, photographers, editors, designers among students from all three schools.

1. Dragana Trajanova, III/2, ASUC “Boro Petrushevski”, Skopje, Macedonia. 2. Simon Pakovski, IV 1, ASUC “Boro Petrushevski”, Skopje, Macedonia 3. Urške Jordan, Fashion creator, Srednja poklicna in strokovna šola Bežigrad-

Ljubljana 4. Žiga Klun, Logistic technician, Srednja poklicna in strokovna šola Bežigrad-Ljubljana 5. Ivana Janković, I-10, Politehnička škola, Kragujevac, Serbia

Since the visit was held during the October festivities in Kragujevac - a set of events that are dedicated to the tragic incident which happened during World War II on 21 October 1941, this was also an opportunity to introduce guests from Macedonia and Slovenia to the historical and cultural heritage of the Serbian city of Kragujevac.

Oratorical evening "Reality Check"

Published by:

ASUC “Boro Petrushevski” bul. Aleksandar Makedonski 26b,

1000 Skopje Macedonia Phone: +389 2 3115 819 School Email: info (at) asuc.edu.mk School homepage: www.asuc.edu.mk

... set of events that are dedicated to the

tragic incident happened during

World War II on 21 October 1941, ...

... the attention was mostly drawn to an oratorical evening

"Reality Check - How to Build and Perceive the World Through

Media,"

Polytechnical school Kosovska 8,

34000 Kragujevac Serbia Phone: +381 34 335175 School Email: sekretar (at) politehnicka.kg.edu.rs School homepage: www.politehnicka.kg.edu.rs

Srednja poklicna in strokovna šola Bežigrad-Ljubljana Ptujska 6,

1000 Ljubljana Slovenia Phone: +386 1 280 53 00 School Email: fani.al-mansour (at) guest.arnes.si School homepage: http://www.s-spssb.lj.edus.si/index.htm