MEA – The Media Education Association Resource Network

We are opening up the next executive meeting on Friday March 9th to all members able to attend. If you want to come to the meeting, which will be over lunch at a venue near Euston from 12-2.30 that day, get in touch with the Chair petefraser@me.com for more details. Draft Agenda Future plans, including [...]

Kick starting regional activity through giving some seedcorn money to regional groups of media teachers. Some of you have already been in touch previously and we are pleased to say that the MEA has already awarded grants to Derryn Hinks at the Toynbee School, HANTS d.hinks@toynbee.hants.sch.uk for her regional hub including schools in and around Southampton, [...]

98 registered attendees including workshop providers and MEA executive. Attendance showed delegates from South Shields, Yorkshire, the Midlands, East Anglia, London and Home Counties and some attendance from Plymouth in the South West. We even had one visitor from Canada! On the Friday evening, around 35 delegates came along for the wine reception and talk [...]

‘… IT BEGINS WITH THE AUDIENCE’ Report on the Film Policy Review Survey

Children and Parents: Media Use and Attitudes

…if you haven’t visited the site for a while. News of upcoming events and some changes to the site is all here!

The website at www.themea.org has had a bit of a makeover with the aim of making it a bit more user-friendly. The simpler home page will take you more directly to what you are looking for. Groups are being replaced by forums, and POV is now accessible with a single click from the home page [...]

Feb 3/4 at the BFI South Bank: an MEA/BFI event Advance notice of our February event: New Voices in Media Education – a conference at the BFI, South Bank, London on Saturday 4th Feb, preceded by a special event on Friday 3rd. The conference will feature workshops run by people relatively new to the media [...]

1st December, after the conference, at 5.30-6.30, following the wine reception. If you can’t come to the day event, just come for the AGM! (FREE after 5 pm). Includes election of officers and report on the year’s work.

December 1st, London Knowledge Lab conference: tickets and full details here