Media Shots (formal name Medshots, CRL) is a Portuguese cooperative with expertise in digital storytelling and social media in both the social and corporate contexts. Media Shots is working in other educational partnerships, notably COMENIUS and LEONARDO DA VINCI, as facilitators of digital storytelling workshops that in some cases involve locative media. Their main foci are education and social causes. Media Shots is responsible for the production of a E-Learning Course about Digital Storytelling, already used by teachers from Italy, Bulgaria, Spain, Portugal, Turkey, Switzerland and Norway and has also been responsible for delivering digital storytelling workshops, at both standard and ‘train the trainer’ levels. Media Shots works with other partners in Portugal, notably entrepreneurs and teachers’ associations, in the promotion of digital storytelling and social media through workshops and platform development. Media Shots Productions has a broad international network of organizations within the community and education sectors, who are experimenting with and using digital storytelling to effect social change, upskill disadvantaged people and contribute to the emerging global network of online digital stories. In Portugal, Media Shots sees one of its goals as to use projects to strengthen the Portuguese national position as providers of low-cost solutions in social media and digital storytelling training, and digital platform development in education and enterprise incubation.
