DIVO Project

DIVO Project

DIVO (Digital Interactive Video Online), is an active learning education concept, incorporating creativity and ICTs, which uses participant centred, creative digital video dialogue(s) to promote inter-cultural understanding and peer-led learning between remote groups who would otherwise never be able to meet.

The DIVO project uses digital video to enrich online dialogue between remote groups. Groups of young people conceive, record and exchange short digital films based on common themes which are shared via a website. The films are viewed and the issues contained are discussed and explored on and offline and new films are created and shared in response. In this way, a digital video dialogue emerges which contains a genuine sense of mutual sharing and exchange. DIVO can be used in a range of settings to promote and support dialogue in formal and informal educational contexts, including inter-cultural understanding in support of Key Stages 3 and 4. Learning how to use digital interactive video creatively is coupled with the development of teamwork and negotiation skills. Mass media often promotes images and messages which are at odds with the environment and unrelated to the audience. The DIVO project puts media creation firmly in the hands of participants, offering them the opportunity to experiment in a playful and powerful way with a media force they are only likely to have experienced as consumers.

The DIVO project is committed to relocating remote and marginalised groups to the centre of the communication process and giving their voices a global platform.

Read more about DIVO Project:  Background

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