• Request the study day at least 3-4 months in advance.
  
• "Small" primary schools (up to 8-10College:inside) should cooperate with at least 1-2 other "small" primary schools. No study days are held for a smaller primary school alone! Cooperation usually works very well! Minimum number: 10
• There will then be a preliminary discussion and planning for the study day - based on the information you have collected.
• You can submit the jointly developed procedure to the ADD.
• Organize any missing hardware that you might want to try out in good time (borrow it from the media center).

• Please check the day before whether the technology is working.
  
• We need: Internet, WiFi (password!?), a projector (can also be an interactive whiteboard).
• Do you have enough devices (e.g. tablets) for the staff? These can also be borrowed from us! But these must also be reserved in good time!
• Are all rooms prepared for workshops if the day runs with several "bands"?
• Is the catering available?
• Parking for the speaker(s)

Organize media study days

Study days can help to establish the media concept in your own school, to break down barriers in dealing with digital media among the teaching staff or to provide new impulses and discussion suggestions for further work. For example, they can be dedicated to a focus such as youth media protection, concentrate entirely on the introduction to new teaching technology and networks, provide an overview of the diverse possibilities of using digital media in teaching or combine various of these elements.#

The following tips should be considered when planning:

• To be effective, a study day must be part of a process and not an isolated measure. It is therefore necessary to embed it in a coherent overall plan and to make use of the experiences and feedback that arise from it.
  
• Since the target group in the area of digital media is very heterogeneous, the planning of a study day should address the question of how to do justice to the different levels of knowledge of colleagues.
  
• An attempt should be made to involve not only the media experts but also the advanced users in the faculty as speakers in order to give the day a broad basis.
  
• Good experiences have been had with a modular structure for study days. Workshops are then held in several parallel sessions, differentiated both in terms of topic and level of difficulty. Although the organizational effort for such a study day is greater, it allows teachers to be targeted at where they are.
  
• It is important that there is an opportunity at the end to exchange the findings from the workshop. Such a discussion can provide very valuable information for further training planning.
  

If the study day was successful, the teachers will want to use what they have learned. It is therefore important that the other implementation steps of the media concept have progressed sufficiently and that the necessary conditions have been created to avoid frustration.

The momentum of the study day can be used to firmly establish training formats for the experts (see above) and to recruit new members for the project team or the media experts.

Since the promotion of media competence in and outside of the classroom is a broad field, it may be necessary to plan not just one but a series of study days/workshops. A second media study day does not necessarily have to last a whole day. A combination with other topics anchored in continuous quality work (student activation, school communication, feedback culture, career orientation, reading skills, etc.) is then preferable to an isolated implementation.

Source: media.concept.competence (PL, 2014)