About DIVIS

DIVIS - Digital video streaming and Multilingualism

The Divis project (Digital video streaming and multilingualism) is a European funded Project that runs from October 2008 to September 2010. It aims to encourage, motivate and equip both teacher trainers and practising language teachers to include video production in their teaching.

There are 7 European partners involved in the project across 6 different countries:

Kulturring in Berlin e.V. (DE)
Talenacadamie, Nederlands (NL)
Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona (ES)
Centre d’Educació Infantil i Primària Catalunya (ES)
University of Pitesti (RO)
PNM Language Services Limited (UK)
Iceland University of Education (IS)

Initial research will be undertaken to establish how teachers feel about the use of video production and what skills and experience they have in this area. From the results of the research, the project team will develop a useful online guide to address the teachers' needs, introducing creative and non-conventional teaching methods and samples to support implementation of video work in the classroom as well as providing technical support. The manual will include 3 different age groups (ages 10 to 18) and 4 production levels. The languages will include EN, DE, ES, IT as well as 5 less widely used and taught languages (RO, NL, CA, IS).

A video gallery will also be developed with a number of short video examples covering a wide range of age groups from primary to upper secondary and these will be developed during a number of school workshops and teacher training courses which will take place during the lifetime of the project. A quality label will be developed to award to teachers who participate. Additionally the DIVIS Web will provide links to educational and language online portals.

Strong dissemination of this project is going to be the key to its success and a final Conference is planned to ensure that potential end users are aware of the project and its outcomes.

The DIVIS consortium incorporates multifaceted strategies and strengths: language teaching experts, media educational and production experts and extensive networks will guarantee successful valorisation of the project results, reaching teacher trainers, teachers and mentors. The project will also build upon the expertise developed within EU teacher training courses and projects such as "Staging foreign languages","Ovide" and "Speech Bubbles"