Media center

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A district media center in Tauberbischofsheim-Distelhausen in Baden-Württemberg

Media centers (also district media centers , formerly Bildstellen ) supply schools , universities and other educational institutions with suitable media, advise them on their use and train teachers in media education and technology . The promotion of media competence , the exemplary development of interactive forms of teaching with the help of multimedia tools, the support for school networksand properly developed media databases are part of today's program. State, municipal or church sponsored media centers follow a non-profit educational mandate.

history

The origins of the Bildstellen - as media centers were called until the 1990s - were collections of series of photographs for teaching and research. In the art-historical discourse, the term image point is still used today for collections of photographs for research purposes.

After electrification and the development of projectors created the technical prerequisites for the presentation of slides in schools, numerous educators began to promote the use of slides in class from around 1905. In order to meet the growing demand for such images, the first commercial publishers soon emerged, selling and lending special slide series for teaching purposes. At the same time, companies like Liesegang in Düsseldorf were developing projectors that were easy to use.

The first public picture agency for renting pictures in Prussia was probably built in 1907 in Gleiwitz, Silesia. Not much later - in 1910/11 - a photo site was also created in Soest, Westphalia. Founder of the teacher Henry was exactly who wanted to promote primarily the home and youth development through the acquisition and rental of corresponding images in 1916 this facility was the district government Arnsberg recognized as "photographs main site for the youth care in Arnsberg". As early as 1913, such a district picture office had been founded in Düsseldorf on the Rhine . In 1918 62 cities at the national level formed a picture play alliance with the aim of stimulating and coordinating the supply of schools with photographs. From the 1920s onwards, the Bildstelle also began lending out educational films. The typical offer also included instruction in the operation of the devices.

In 1934, a central decree of the Reich Minister for Science, Education and Public Education ordered the establishment of district, town and state image offices across the board. The picture areas subsequently became an important instrument of National Socialist school policy.

After 1945, school television and school radio appeared in addition to slide series and 16 mm films ; Foils for the overhead projector and device repairs completed the offer. The VHS video cassette caught on in the 1970s and has been supplanted by digital media on CD and DVD since the 1980s . Since then, software and multimedia packages have also found their way onto these data carriers; Since the beginning of the 21st century, the online distribution of media via broadband networks has also established itself . The lesson- related indexing and assessment of the material is of crucial importance.

The nationwide system of state picture offices , district and city picture offices has been partially dissolved in some federal states since the 1990s. Since equipping schools with media is the responsibility of the school authorities (who have usually delegated them to the districts), the federal states have only limited influence on maintaining the media centers. In most of the federal states (such as Baden-Württemberg , Saxony , North Rhine-Westphalia and Hesse ), nationwide coverage is still guaranteed. In other countries, libraries , school-related authorities and service providers sometimes take on these tasks. Traditional media rental is now being supplemented by web-based distribution models such as SESAM , EDMOND-NRW or the Siemens media portal .

Other uses of the word

Individual media companies from film, print and other sectors refer to locations as media centers where media are produced, broadcast or marketed.

Web links

literature

  • Media, Education and Visions. 75 years of picture offices / media centers. 50 years of FWU. Lahnstein 2000.
  • Media competence in municipal responsibility - results of a workshop of media centers in NRW. Published by the LWL Media Center for Westphalia and the Media Center Rhineland, Münster / Düsseldorf 2005.
  • Markus Köster: film and image as a youth educator. The history of the picture sites in Westphalia (and the Rhineland) until 1945. In: Geschichte im Westen 25 (2010), pp. 59–87.

Individual evidence

  1. Scholz: The first photo location in Prussia, in: Der Bildwart, Heft 4, 1925, pp. 354–357.
  2. Markus Köster: Film and image as a youth educator. The history of the picture sites in Westphalia (and the Rhineland) until 1945, in: Geschichte im Westen 25 (2010), pp. 59–87, here pp. 60f.