NEWS / AWARDS: Al Jazeera Children's Channel wins award

Sunday 25 Apr 2010 - Al Jazeera Children’s Channel (JCC) has won the Golden Award for the best medium length film for ‘Baghdad’s Angel’ at the Al Jazeera 6th International Documentary Film Festival which ended on Thursday. The 52-minute documentary, produced by Rasheed Mashharawi, portrays the life of children in Iraq through Hawraa, a 10-year-old girl who walks the streets begging for support for her family.

The film illustrates the influence of war and conflicts on the lives of children.

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NEWS: Al Jazeera launches Arabic children learning portal

Saturday 23 Jan 2010

Qatar-based Al Jazeera Children's Channel (JCC) on Thursday launched Taalam.TV, said to be the first Arabic video-on-demand, educational portal for schools and educators across Arab.

‘Taalam. TV’, which means Learn TV, is an integrated learning website that functions as an educational complementary tool for teachers and students in school and at home.

“It brings to the classroom a rich database of educational material and videos extracted from JCC programmes content to make teaching more stimulating and engaging, allowing students to store, process and recall information more rapidly,” JCC said.

The website was developed by JCC's website and multimedia team and a group of Arab teachers and experts, who verified the educational information of the videos and composed the supplementary tools, such as fact sheets and sample exercises.

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