Mobile media centre
Mobile media centre for education, creativity and pedagogical work.
Experience digital media, create your own content, work together and document pedagogical processes – flexibly, in one place.
Nursery · After-school club · Primary school · Library
The stage opens
The eKami brings digital content into the group. Everyone looks at the same surface, talks about it and shapes the moment together.
It combines the familiar storytelling form of the Kamishibai with the possibilities of digital media – from picture books to your own film.
It can be used on the move: in the group room, in the reading corner, in the classroom or in the library.
01 — Picture book
Picture book pages appear large on the stage. The group sits together, one person tells the story, and everyone sees the same picture.
02 — Children's work
Paintings, craft projects and photos from everyday life at the setting can be shown and discussed together.
Project week
Our forest diary
03 — Presentation
For project weeks, parents' evenings or children's meetings, the eKami becomes a calm presentation surface.
Touch interaction
04 — Touch
Content can be scrolled through, enlarged and selected directly on the touchscreen.
Two ways of working
The eKami adapts to the way you work.
Screen in the wooden frame
Discover content together, experience stories, watch videos, work interactively and present.
Screen lies flat in front of you
Design, write, document and work creatively on your own content.
Possibilities
Possibility 01
Children and adults experience content together. One child can operate it while the group watches, listens and talks about it.
Possibility 02
Screen, stories, pictures, children's own creations and classic materials belong together. Digital content becomes part of a shared learning moment – not an end in itself. Onilo boardstories, for example, can be complemented with tactile figures on the storytelling rail.
onilo.de(öffnet in neuem Tab)Possibility 03
The eKami can be used wherever a story is being told: in the morning circle, in the reading corner, in the classroom, in the after-school club or in the library.
Possibility 04
Classic, educationally valuable PC games can also be enjoyed together on the eKami – for example titles from Terzio such as Findus, Löwenzahn or Ritter Rost.
The photo shows children playing “Frühstück versenken” from “Findus 4 – Findus bei den Mucklas” together. The large touchscreen makes the game visible to the group and easy to control directly.
Terzio and the games and brands mentioned are independent offerings and have no direct connection with eKami.
Possibility 05
The eKami doesn't just support children and groups with media work. It can also become a digital workstation for early years practitioners.
The eKami connects media education with everyday pedagogical work.
Possibility 06
The eKami invites you to link digital and analogue worlds. This makes it possible to playfully experience early coding ideas – with a camera, chalk and movement.
A camera shows the nursery room live on the eKami. On one panel, the allowed movements are drawn: left, right, forward, backward, jump. On the other panel, the children sketch the level with chalk. They then rebuild it in the room using foam blocks. One child sits in front of the eKami and gives instructions to another child – whose eyes are covered – to guide them safely through the level.
Possibility 07
Via a connected projector, content from the eKami can be transferred onto a large projection surface and presented to a whole group.
Product visualisation
Possibility 08
The eKami is also suitable for holiday clubs, schools, youth centres and media education projects.
Digital games can become the starting point for creative stories and joint projects. With Luanti, virtual worlds can be explored and used as a basis for your own stories and storytelling formats.
Luanti is an independent project. The eKami provides the mobile technical working environment for such endeavours.
Idea helper
Describe your planned scenario – the children's age, the topic, the setting. You will receive three concrete ideas for working with the eKami.
BYOD – Bring Your Own Device
The eKami makes it possible to connect your own compatible device and quickly bring in and share existing content.
No need to prepare content twice. Simply bring existing materials along and use them directly.
Classic Kamishibai
Classic Kamishibai also has its place here.
The eKami can also be used with classic Kamishibai picture cards in A3 format.
Tried-and-tested storytelling and digital media education need not be opposites. The eKami combines classic pedagogical methods with digital possibilities.
And once the screen is removed, the eKami becomes a theater: the empty frame turns into a stage for hand puppets, figures and children's own stories – outdoors as well as in the group room.
The eKami doesn't replace tried-and-tested methods – it expands their possibilities.
Learn more about Kamishibai
Step 1 / 6
Switch off the eKami, unplug the cables and carefully lift the screen out of the wooden frame. Put it down safely.
For libraries
With the eKami Story Case, libraries can lend kindergartens and after-school clubs a complete, mobile storytelling kit – digital and analogue in one case, ready to use. Practical method cards quickly explain which media-education activities you can run with it.
Plus: 3 codes for Onilo Boardstories – “Alex abgeholt”, “Verrückte Abenteuer von Dr. Brumm” and one story of your choice.
Living Puppets is an independent brand and not affiliated with eKami.
€1,699
Technical specification
The eKami combines high-quality, proven components with a thoughtfully crafted wooden frame – openly documented and honestly stated.
Competencies
Pedagogical framework
In its design, the eKami is guided by the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and the mandate for digital education. Children have a right to education, participation and access to information – including in a digital world.
Children operate it themselves, choose content and create their own works – participation becomes tangible in everyday life.
Digital content can be experienced together wherever learning and storytelling are already taking place – regardless of room or personal devices.
Digital education is part of contemporary curricula. The eKami provides a mobile working environment suited to everyday use.
Media use takes place within the group with guidance – curated by practitioners, not in isolation on an individual device.
Professional guidance is drawn, among other things, from the 'Competence Framework for Digital Education in Bavarian Nurseries'. It describes educational goals for digital education work with children – the same goals that guide the design of the eKami. This does not involve any official certification or sponsorship.
How the individual competence areas relate to one another is shown by the competence wheel.
Partners and references
The eKami is used in nurseries, projects and libraries – here are some of the places working with it.
As part of “gemeinsam digital!”, the eKami was used in the “Medienzwerge” project – creative digital media work in the nursery.
Read the project report(External link, opens in a new tab)
Previously in use at the former provider ProLiberis gGmbH, the eKami has been successfully used and further developed for years in a nursery run by Zukunftsschmiede gGmbH.
The eKami is used in media education activities at the children's and youth library, for example in the “Lesekater” format.
Tell us about your setting and your planned use – we will get back to you with practical advice.
Request a practical trial
Made in Germany
Moritz Brylski invented and designed the eKami. His idea combines the familiar form of Kamishibai with the possibilities of contemporary digital education.
Moritz Brylski on LinkedIn(öffnet in neuem Tab)FxB Engineering
Norbert Fischer and his team brought the eKami to life with technical expertise, craftsmanship and great dedication.
German flagMade in Germany
FxB Engineering is based in Karlsruhe: the eKami is designed and built here and manufactured in Baden-Württemberg – in the south-west of Germany.
Enquiry
Would you like to use the eKami in your setting or discuss a suitable specification? Write to us. We'll get back to you with the next steps.
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