Digital Literacy India Project #13050

Support Media Literacy for Kids in Rural India

by Agastya International Foundation

Support Media Literacy for Kids in Rural India

Project Report | Nov 10, 2021
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By Rani | Donor Relations

In this quarter, MediaArts Lab reached a new cohort of children and focused on improving the quality of the productions from previous cohorts.

July 2021

Conducted online sessions for kids on Media activities.
Our team participated in a Zine workshop conducted by Megha Vishwanath, a Bengaluru based illustrator and designer
We also started physical contact sessions in Operation Vasantha (OV) centers. Every instructor visited the centers and conducted sessions based on the MediaArts Curriculum.

August 2021

Both online and offline sessions were conducted in Operation Vasantha centers throughout the month.
Children were divided into four groups based on their interests and trained in 2D animation, Photography, Videography, and storybook making.

September 2021

We began conducting sessions in schools while children in OV centres worked on completing their productions.
A community filmmaking program was started by a group of interns of the lab and successfully running with the help of OV volunteers.
Workbooks were distributed among children and we shifted to iPads and new recording equipment for this cohort of children.
Our instructors attended an Art integration workshop for two days in Agastya’s Art lab and participated in a Workshop on CCT on QA parameters.

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