liisa kirves, [email protected], viekas.fi

Liisa Kirves, [email protected], www.viekas.fi

Communication Camps in Finland - Going on Vacation with the New Media

Liisa [email protected]

www.viekas.fi


The message today:Theory

- basic needs of existence- communication capabilities

How we did it?-what is communication camp?-how does it work?-the finance?

Internet


Participation and activity

Commitment Understandingand objectives To Belong

To Do

To Be Organised

Basic Needs of Existence

Source: Kari E. Turunen


Communi-cation

capability

Communication Capabilities

Access Competence

MotivationSource: Marja-Liisa Viherä, 2000


Communication Camps

• Process towards active citizenship

School Grounds

Sleeping Tents and Swings


Communications Camps • Years 1987-2001• Duration of stay: 3 - 8 days• About 90 camps, about 2200 participants• About 70 youths returned to the camp more than 10 times• At least 400 youths repeated their camp experience two or more times

There were Others in Camp also:• Children with their parents• Teachers with their students from different education levels• Social workers with their clients• People with various handicaps• Unemployed people as well as the newly employed• People from both city and countryside, age from 3 to 70 years• Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Estonian, Russian, Italian, Brazilian,

U.S.American, German, French, British, etc.


Main Principles of Communication Camps

• Learning by doing

• Finishing the work

• Initiative

• Caring for others

• Taking and carrying responsibility

• Peer mentoring; We are all teachers and we are all students

• Working independently within our groups

• Teamwork

• Realising the total process while learning

• Valuing the work of others


Flow Chart

Video

Newspaper

Radio

Restaurant

Help Point - Kiosk


Working group

2 - 3 junior leaderage 14-18,

min experience 3 camps

2 - 4 beginners

3 -5 who haveexperience from

earlier camps


Communication Equipment at the Camp•Computer network

Still and/or digital camerasScanner, printer and copy machine

•Video cameras Editing machines and monitorsTV and/or multimedia projector

•Radio transmitterMixer, recorders, cd-playersLoud speakers, radiosPc´s and connection to Medianet (ISDN or network)

•Mobile phones Phone exchange and phones, fax machinesInternet connections and access


Campers at Work A typical day

•- on the newspaper•- in the “restaurants”•- as radio reporters•- as TV news reporters, editors, playwrights, etc.•- at “help points” where they handle organisational details while learning how to operate the electronic equipment. Their duties include: keeping a daily log, arranging effective transportation, relaying messages, establishing a camp bank with “almost-real” currency, etc. •They also maintain a kiosk where people can buy sweets, pancakes, coffee, ice cream etc

Paella Outdoors

Newspaper Group

Printing the Newspaper

The newspaper is ready!

Radio Group


Adults at the camp are:•drivers

•to a shop•for movie groups•for campers or guests to or from

bus- or railway station•audience to radio- and tv-programs•readers to a newspaper•customers to camp kiosk and restaurants


Finance:Camper pays:

1 000 FIM (168 EUR) for 8 daysJunior leader pays:

400 FIM (67,4 EUR)Adult person pays:

nothing but has to work (and drive)

The Ministry of Traffic and Communicationyearly 20 000 FIM (3360 ECU)Sonera air timeVOLUNTARY WORK - the most important


Internet at the camp1993 One connection, only few interested. 1994-96 Surfing, making home pages, seeking information for newspaper, restaurants, video, radio. www.viekas.fi started. Easy chat. Camp information.1997 Radio online to the Internet.


1998All campers have email, most also home page1999 Camp log to the net, registration to the camp only via web site2000 Newspaper to the Internet2001 Online reporting from Romania


Internet is one tool among the othersto publish a newspaper to run the radio stationto get information for films, cooking and articles

Internet is a delivery channel to Tietotuutti and Radio Viekas

Internet is an interactive media for all camperswww.viekas.fi

bulletin board (chat)Romania, bus trip to WFSF conference,

text and pictures online, much emails and text messages


www.viekas.fi

liisa kirves, [email protected], viekas.fi

Documents

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turunenliisa kirves

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work of othersliisa

earlier campsliisa kirves

camp experience

camp bank