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Children@Hospital Original title L’enfant @ l’hôpital Media Format offline/DVD, CD-ROM or video materials
Producer Association Anne Dunoyer de Segonzac Bour Geneviève Pellereau Emmanuel Ferrand Vincent Country France Contact contact@enfant-hopital.org www.enfant-hopital.org
72 | WSA 05 | e-Inclusion
Description of the product/project Children@Hospital allows seriously ill children, who are forced to live excluded from the world they are used to, to get in touch with other groups of children and adults, who keep them connected to the world, to other cultures and to educational knowledge. The multimedia platform and content, which has been created for this project, is easy to use and based on technology usually accessible for everybody. Children@Hospital is a little university where linguists, musicians and scientists make use of their knowledge to do everything they can for the ill children at hospital. The project follows the motto »learning to help healing«. Jury Evaluation Children@Hospital is an easy-to-use product that allows seriously ill children to communicate with friends, teachers and adult mentors while in hospital. At the heart of the product is the Kanari application, which includes e-Learning tools to study, interact with mentors, post at forums and build a home page. The possibility to interact with mentors is a very interesting feature; it gives the child the opportunity to keep in contact by sharing pictures, written experiences and short films. Teachers can also continue to educate the child by giving assignments and keeping it up-to-date on news from school. Children@Hospital is being used in 50 French hospitals – a great achievement.