Our project is to create a video of five minutes or so, about capoeira (Brazilian martial art). Students themselves will make the video using video cameras and photographs being what they are trained to do so and later disseminate the video inserting the same site www.pratiquecologia.org, twitter, facebook and flickr. Since students will also be trained in handling these social networking tools.
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What locality or neighborhood will your project focus on?
Campo Grande City. State of Mato Grosso do Sul
Describe the specific community with whom you will be working.
Population peripheral low-income urban (cultural level too low) user of the Internet (websites, twitter, facebook). The community is shown through this video and its inclusion in social networks show the community in this effort to insert the digital world. Basic education educates the community on proactive behaviors that generate social movements claim and quality of life.
What kinds of news, stories and other content will be created?
The video shows a Brazilian capoeira and how it educates through behavioral and physical culture. The content will show the activities and lessons of the project, students will be trained in photographs cameras and video cameras, the script will be done by themselves after a training on this item. In the end will be created a DVD that will be released via youtube, twitter and facebook.
What technologies and digital tools do you plan to use in the trainings?
Other tools
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Describe the connections that you or your organization have already established that will contribute to the success of the project.
Since 2003 we have connection with the Ministry of Environment of the Federal Government of Brazil through the project called “Green Room PratiquEcologia.” This partnership enables us to support teaching through books, brochures, magazines, CDs, DVDs.
How many participants do you think will be involved in your project?
30 people. Through personal contacts with each, doing wake up awareness that capoeira is also a tool to unite people around a common good, also using digital information tools such as video, photography and social networks.
Besides the microgrant funding, what other resources and support are you seeking for your project to ensure its success?
Through the website of the NGO-PratiquEcologia we seek sponsors for the project, and also use social networks to capture maintainers. Compete in edicts of income generation, because we work in this direction, generating income through the creation and sale of products from the reuse and recycling of materials, especially plastics.
Contact name
Valdinei de Oliveira Monteiro
Organization
NGO- PratiquEcologia