This was a lecture and discussion-style meeting for workshop beginners. That means it was not a workshop but a preparatory meeting. In this first workshop study meeting (benkyoukai), Professor Shin Mizukoshi did a short lecture about the MELL Project and MELL Platz. Both were nationwide practical research activities for improving people’s media literacy and encouraging media expressions with unique workshops. In front of the bookshelf of the Fukutake Commons, he introduced his edited book, Media Literacy Workshop: Learning, Playing, and Expressing Information Society (University of Tokyo Press, 2009). The discussion among Professor Mizukoshi, the students, and the faculty staff of GCL was a good opportunity to grasp the very basic concepts of doing a workshop.