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2025

MediaLib Workshop at CAS North East Regional Conference
July 2, 2025 Event

We are grateful to Simon Roberts (Carmel College) for organizing the Medialib Workshop ( titled "Using Medialib to create multimedia python products") during the CAS North East Regional Conference! Thrilled to see high school teachers diving into our research team's open-source multimedia Python library Medialib and its exercises which has attracted users over 100 countries. It was incredibly rewarding to witness firsthand how our core teaching Philosophy resonates with teachers’ needs. Medialib and its materials exist to enable interactive Python coding environments to lowers barriers for beginners and empower CT educators

MediaLib Version 3.1.0 Released
July 2, 2025 Update

Added force_all_done() as a temporary fix to macOS freezing issue when using all_done(). This update ensures better cross-platform compatibility and resolves stability issues reported by our macOS users.

2023

8th Medialib Workshop
August 1, 2023 Event

The 8th MediaLib Workshop at the Information Technology and Media Center of Kagawa University. Great thanks to Professor Naka Gotoda, Professor Ken'ichi Fujimoto, and Professor Yusuke Kometani for co-hosting this event. This workshop was sponsored by (1) The Integrated Center for Informatics, Kagawa University and (2) JSiSE (Japanese Society for Information and Systems in Education) Shikoku Branch.

7th Medialib Workshop
July 20, 2023 Event

The 7th Medialib Workshop! Many thanks to Dr. Daner Sun from The Education University of Hong Kong for co-hosting this event!

6th Medialib Workshop
July 20, 2023 Event

The 6th Medialib Workshop supported by the development of STEM project-based learning materials and female R&D talent cultivation project! Great thanks to Professor Ting-Chia Hsu from National Taiwan Normal University for co-hosting this event!

8th MediaLib Workshop Announced
July 12, 2023 Event

The 8th MediaLib Workshop co-hosted with Professor Naka Gotoda, Professor Ken'ichi Fujimoto, and Professor Yusuke Kometani will be held on the 22nd July 2023 at the Information Technology and Media Center of Kagawa University.

5th Medialib Workshop
July 12, 2023 Event

5th Medialib workshop in Kyushu University. Great thanks to Professor Shimada Atsushi for co-hosting the workshop ! This is the first time Medialib workshop is co-sponsored with another project. Many sparks flew during the discussion!

4th Medialib Workshop
July 11, 2023 Event

4th Medialib workshop in Kyoto University. Thanks for the participants, we could had a very dense and deep discussion. Many thanks to Professor Hiroaki Ogata for co-hosting the workshop !

3rd Medialib Workshop
June 20, 2023 Event

The 3rd Medialib workshop in Bochum University of Applied Sciences, Germany. Great thanks to Professor Jörg Frochte for the great efforts in co-hosting this event.

7th MediaLib Workshop Announced
June 14, 2023 Event

The 7th MediaLib Workshop will be held online co-hosted with Dr. Daner Sun from The Education University of Hong Kong.

CS Tutorial Released
June 16, 2023 Tutorial

This tutorial was designed for first year CS students who don’t have programming experience and contains exercises related to Medialib and programming logic.

6th MediaLib Workshop Announced
June 14, 2023 Event

The 6th MediaLib Workshop was held online co-hosted with Professor Ting-Chia Hsu from National Taiwan Normal University.

2nd Medialib Workshop
June 1, 2023 Event

The 2nd Medialib workshop in SDU. A Great discussion we had! Great thanks to Prof. Andrea Valente and Prof. Emanuela Marchetti for the great efforts in co-hosting this event.

4th and 5th MediaLib Workshop Announced
May 18, 2023 Event

The 4th and 5th MediaLib Workshops will be held at Kyoto University and Kyushu University Japan.

2nd MediaLib Workshop Game Jam Announced
May 11, 2023 Event

We are excited to announce our Game Jam Event as part of the 2nd MediaLib Workshop. Register solo or in a team of up to 3 people.

MediaLib can now be downloaded using pip
May 11, 2023 Update

MediaLib can now be installed using pip install medialib. This installation will also include pygame.

3rd MediaLib Workshop Announced
May 2, 2023 Event

The 3rd MediaLib Workshop - Computational Thinking & Programming Education will be held on the 20th June 2023 at Bochum University of Applied Sciences, Bochum, Germany.

2nd MediaLib Workshop - Training Wheels for Python Learning
March 17, 2023 Event

The 2nd MediaLib Workshop - Training Wheels for Python Learning will be held on the 30th - 31st May 2023 at the Center for Learning Computational Thinking (CLCT) at SDU Kolding.

MediaLib Computing at School Event Announced
January, 10 2023 Event

The MediaLib (and other news and information) Event will be held on the 15th February 16:00 - 17:00 online.

2022

1st Medialib Workshop
December 13, 2022 Event

The 1st MediaLib Workshop - Computational Thinking & Programming Education was held on the 12th - 13th December 2022 at Durham University, UK.

MediaLib - What is it? What can it do?
December, 13 2022 Article

Published by Simon Roberts (Computing Hub Lead - Tees Valley and Durham)

MediaLib Version 3.0.1 Released
December 10, 2022 Update

Renamed is_mouse_press() function to is_mouse_leftclick().

1st MediaLib Workshop Announced
November 1, 2022 Event

The 1st MediaLib Workshop - Computational Thinking & Programming Education will be held on the 12th - 13th December 2022 at Durham University, UK. The workshop will be run in a hybrid way with activities both onsite, in the Pemberton Lecture Rooms (PG20) and online.

MediaLib Version 3.0.0 Released
October 31, 2022 Update
MediaLib Website Launched
October 31, 2022 Update
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