MEDIA EDUCATION.FI

More Than Just Child’s Pl@y?, Helsinki

11 February 2011

Ms. Rauna Rahja, coordinator, FSME

rauna.rahja@mediakasvatus.fi

The Finnish Society on Media Education

• FSME is a non-profit NGO• Founded in 2005 by researchers • Funded by the Ministry of Culture and Education• Works nationally and internationally• Operates in two languages (Finnish & Swedish)• 200 members & over 40 communitymembers

What do we do?• Support and develop the field of

research and practises concerning media education

• Contribute to the public debate

• Provide opportunities to share media educational experiences online and offline (e.g. Youth & Media -conference every year)

• Inform about media education via newsletters, the social media (FB, Twitter) and mediaeducation.fi-web portal

BASICS

• Operates in three languages (Finnish, Swedish, English)• Gathers current, essential information and materials under one roof• Contains news, events, materials, wiki, project descriptions, researches,

a library, support for parents…• Updated continuously by registrated users and coordinators• Beneficial to teachers, early childhood educators, youth workers, media

educators, librarians, social workers, researchers, students, journalists, different organizations, associations and professionals, parents and other educators etc.

• Contents are mostly produced outside the FSME, but edited and published by the coordinators

STATISTICS

• Over 3000 Finnish users every month• In the past year (2010) 40 700 visitors in total on the website

(around 94 % from Finland)• Nearly 800 registrated users• Over 2000 subscribers of the newsletter

(sent in Finnish and Swedish)• Active online community on Facebook

(485 fans on the Finnish Society on Media Education page)

Reconstruction of the website in 2010

What’s new? Improvements and useful new tools

My Profile Bookmarks

Linko - development platform

Media education wiki Improved tools to send,

share and comment contents like news,

calendar marks, materials…

www.mediaeducation.fi

Coming up in 2011

• A new practical tool for early childhood educators “Media Moment Machine”

• Renewal of the media educational toolkit for parents

More information

• www.mediaeducation.fi• Publications of Finnish Society on Media Education on

the Society’s website www.mediaeducation.fi/publications

• Like us on Facebook: Finnish Society on Media Education

• Follow us on Twitter: Mediakasvatus

Thank you!

Questions, comments?

rauna.rahja@mediakasvatus.fi