STATUTES
The New Media School is a non-profit
organisation and
therefore acknowledged as a corporate body by the Belgian law.
A board of directors and a general assembly are responsible
for the management.
Most participants are active in education, in higher or secondary
institutes. They work with projects and activities of the New
Media School, either as a volunteer or free lance.
TASK
The New Media School tries to enhance and to realise
the educational use of new media in society and education.
The NMS can provide activities, products and services related
to these media: all graphic, multimedial, digital and electronic
communication.
The NMS wishes to co-operate with schools, publishers, providers
and others, to enhance and to spread the educational means
and contents.
Its purpose is to enhance the social development, through education
and training, nationally in Flanders, but also internationally
through European partnerships and projects.
HISTORY
The
NMS was founded in 1995 and was immediately engaged in a promotion
campaign for new media in education by organising a symposium
and workshops. The central theme of these were the educational
use of computer and the internet.
In 1996 NMS participated for the first time in a European project
ARTLINKS. in the European programme INFO
2000, with a.o. the
publishers R.G. Visualia and De Gulden Engel.
The year 1997 produced successful European projects. For the
publisher Averbode NMS provided teacher training courses in a
Netd@ys project. With the strategic plan Kempen and the Katholieke
Hogeschool Kempen, NMS got the pilot project Leonardo, which
resulted in the online learning environment “Bridged”.
With the university of Ghent NMS participated in the Comenius project “Bisel”.
This introduced us into the world of environment protection,
more specifically water ecology.
In 1999 NMS organised, during this project, training courses
in Kongsberg and Athens for teachers of as many as 22 different
European countries.
That same year the Flemish government helped us financially,
through IWT, by accepting the mulitmedia project WERELD. Together
with publisher Averbode and with Belgacom we developed the online
learning environment EXPLORIAN, a co-operation
which led to the projects TTT and TTP during the following years.
The theme environment education was chosen when NMS stepped into
Comenius Freshwater Network in 2000. For Green Pannonia NMS organised
a Leonardo Mobility training in water ecology and ICT.
This laid the foundation of the synergy between ICT and environment
care, which was sealed in 2002 with the Grundtvig project “Sustainable
development and ICT in adult education”.
