The Mediacom Studio is alive

I am pleased to announce that the Communication Studies Unit is now equipped with a multimedia studio which I have set up with (a lot of) help from Avinash (my husband who is a lecturer in the Computer Science dept). The studio has been baptised Mediacom Studio and even has a website which we have launched yesterday at www.mediacomstudio.com

The facility has been created thanks to funding from the UNESCO-IPDC which approved my project last year. Avinash has been the mastermind behind the technical setup and has spent a lot of time selecting and fine-tuning our equipment list. We had a lot of constraints such as limited availability of certain items and also the dollar exchange rate which shrunk our budget. But, we managed to have a nice setup nevertheless with:

- Apple iMacs complete with the iLife and iWork suites
- Panasonic HD camcorders with tripods and a lighting kit
- Olympus audio recorders with tie-clip microphones
- Philips LCD TV, DVD player and an Apple TV
- a gigabit local network

The idea is to provide more hands-on practical training to our Communication and Journalism students, to give them the opportunity to come up with professional products and showcase them on the website.

Christina Chan-Meetoo

Talk on Inclusion & Diversity

There will be an interesting talk on the following theme:

An Interdisciplinary and Intersectional Approach to Discourses of Inclusion and Diversity

by Benita Bunjun (University of British Columbia, Canada)

Date and time: 30th April 2008 at 2pm
Venue: Lecture Theatre 1 of UOM

Open to all. Students are particularly encouraged to attend.

UNESCO Toolkit on sustainable development

I have received a copy of the training toolkit for Media professionals on Education for sustainable development from the UNESCO representative in Tanzania which I am making available here for all journalists who may be interested in the issue of sustainable development.

Please feel free to disseminate to all colleagues in the news media.

Media as partners in education for sustainable development

The file is a pdf of approximately 2.7 MB

C. Chan-Meetoo