The Media Center now has a new service for you: digital consultation hours!

Whether you have questions about the NRW Education Media Library, Edumaps, iPads, media education topics or the Media Center's services. The Media Center team will be available to answer your questions digitally for one hour a month. If your questions cannot be answered directly, the team will find a solution or forward your questions to the right contact person.

You can reach the Media Center team on the following dates from 2 p.m. to 3 p.m. in the  Webex room (opens in a new tab).
Meeting code number: 1754 40 6518.

The employees look forward to your questions and an exciting exchange.

In North Rhine-Westphalia, the NRW media literacy framework provides the basis for teachers to strengthen pupils' digital skills. The skills described there can be developed concretely and practically in the classroom with the Internet ABC.

In order to delve deeper into the work with the Internet ABC, the State Media Authority, together with the LVR Center for Media and Education and the LWL Media Center Westphalia, offers a certificate qualification for Internet ABC teachers. The team at the Bonn Media Center is qualified to carry out the certification.

The training of interested teachers aims to sustainably promote internet skills in elementary school (especially 3rd and 4th grade) as well as in 5th and 6th grade of secondary school. The hybrid training concept is divided into three units (presence and distance phases):

• Familiarization and exploration
• Deepening and applying
• Exchange and evaluation

During the training, participants can explore the Internet ABC together, develop their own teaching ideas for integrating the learning modules with reference to the media literacy framework and try them out in practice in the classroom.

The Ministry of Education has equipped the media centers in NRW with so-called "Digital Making Places". These are divided into the areas of audio, visual, coding, tinker and VR.

Together with you, we would like to explore how the material can be used in schools. We therefore invite you to try them out freely on the following dates:

• Tuesday, February 11, 2025, 2 - 4 p.m.
• Tuesday, March 25, 2025, 2 - 4 p.m.
• Tuesday, April 29, 2025, 2 - 4 p.m.
• Tuesday, May 27, 2025, 2 - 4 p.m.
• Wednesday, June 11, 2025, 2 - 4 p.m.

We offer the opportunity to carry out a project with school classes on site - for example, making your own video film, animated film or radio play - and supervise this on request. A room with iPads or laptops is available for this purpose.

Media scouts are experts in safe and responsible media use and advise younger pupils and their peers in schools. Middle school students are trained together with teachers in the areas of internet safety, social media, mobile devices and cyberbullying.

The training is carried out in cooperation between the media center and the Bonn police's prevention department and takes place over four workshop days. One training session takes place every six months.

The Bonn Media Center is an Open Roberta Coding Hub. A coding hub or coding lab(or) is a programming center or place for programming, learning and application. The Bonn Media Center offers learners the opportunity to bring robots to life on the freely available programming platform " Open Roberta Lab (opens in a new tab)". Individually or in groups, independently or in workshops, the mBots, the Calliope mini microcontroller and other educational robots, for example, can be easily programmed on site in a playful way, thus contributing to an understanding of the digital world.

The Bonn Media Center's Coding Hub hosts training courses, workshops and project days aimed at pupils and teachers. The aim is to reduce inhibitions, gain initial programming experience and implement projects. In addition, the robots can be loaned to schools in Bonn as a class set for four weeks free of charge.