Project

ICT AS A SOURCE OF KNOWLEDGE

ABOUT OTHER COUNTRIES, CULTURES AND LANGUAGES

Preliminary Concept of the Project

During two years of international cooperation partner schools will learn how to practically apply in education all kinds of tools and information and communication technology (CMC and LMS platforms, DTP programs as well as programs for preparing multimedia presentations, designing internet sites and programs for video editing) by preparing common internet sites and printed materials on different topics using the working language and also in partner national languages. The materials will be the source of knowledge about other countries, cultures and systems of education. They will also promote language diversity in the European Union.

In the first part of the projects students from all partner schools will be working in small teams and each month they will prepare newspaper articles on traditions and customs of their native countries which will be listed in the repertory of the Moodle platform. Articles collected in this way and translated from the native languages into the working language of the project will serve as a basis for preparing publications promoting all cooperating countries in the local communities. During working visits students will also prepare multimedia picture dictionary which will be used as a teaching aid during lessons promoting learning mother tongues of the cooperating countries. To make the process of learning more attractive quizzes and interactive crossword puzzles based on the idea of a labyrinth will be designed.

At the next stage of the project partner schools will choose individually school subjects on the basis of which multimedia presentations and internet service will be created. Students working in small international teams and supervised by teachers involved in the international cooperation will have to work on chosen by themselves topics and prepare public presentations. Prepared presentations will be enriched with video materials made and assembled in selected by students computer programs. Moreover, students will prepare interactive exercises testing the acquired knowledge .

The project will promote integrated with English and information and communication technology teaching of different subjects as well as interdisciplinary intercultural education.

School subjects chosen by partner schools:
Languages, Literature, Arts, Geography, Biology, Astronomy
School Coordinator’s roles and duties
– preparing training for international teams of students as an introduction to information and communication technology useful for teaching school subjects chosen for the project
All coordinators’ roles and duties
– coordinating cooperation among individual task teams
The role and duties of teachers working on the project from all partner schools:
– substantive supervising of teams of students
– correcting students’ work

Students’ roles and duties
– cooperation in international task groups
– using synchronic and asynchronic means of communication in team work ( internet forum, chat, mails, internet communicators)
– preparing articles in students’ native languages and in English
– translating materials received from other partner schools
– exchanging materials through LMS platform
– publishing articles by means of CMS platform
– computerized setting of publications
– designing multimedia presentations and internet sites
– processing of pictures and video films using the computer
Plan of action

Date	Activities	Location	Mobility
SEPTEMBER 2010	ICEBREAKING – Getting to know cooperating partners by means of Internet forum. Preparing main server for LMS and CMS platform in Romania. Official meeting with parents of all pupils involved in international activities.	All schools
PAŹDZIERNIK 2010	Computer workshops: CMS Joomla, LMS Moodle, HotPotatoes, Quandary Disseminating experience from courses: Creating eLearning Courses, Comp@ctive.	POLAND
NOVEMBER 2010	Preparing newspaper articles about cooperating cities and regional tourist attractions.	All schools
DECEMBER 2010	Preparing newspaper articles about national customs and traditions. Christmas carols on-line.	All schools
JANUARY 2011	Preparing newspaper articles about pupils’ hobbies.	All schools
FEBRUARY 2011	Preparing newspaper articles about legends and folk tales. Official meeting with parents of all pupils involved in international activities.	All schools
MARCH 2011	Computer workshops: PageMaker, InDesign, CorelDraw, Photoshop Disseminating experience from courses conducted in training centres for adults and from graduate training schemes for teachers.	SPAIN	2 Teachers 6 Students
APRIL 2011	Translating newspaper articles from English into national languages.	All schools
MAY 2011	Preparing a publication in partner school national languages. Official meeting with parents of all pupils involved in international activities.	All schools
JUNE 2011	Meeting with parents and local authorities. Evaluation of the project. Report of Progress.	ROMANIA	2 Teachers
AUGUST 2011	Official meeting with parents of all pupils involved in international activities.	All schools
SEPTEMBER 2011	Computer workshops: Multimedia Builder, Mediator, Swishmax, Flash Disseminating experience from the project ICT in Contemporary European Education and study visit Project management – learning from educational projects.	ICELAND	2 Teachers 6 Students
OCTOBER 2011	Preparing multimedia presentations. Main software – Swishmax Students work in international teams /all subjects chosen by partner schools are included/	All schools
NOVEMBER 2011	Preparing multimedia presentations. Main software – Multimedia Builder Students work in international teams /all subjects chosen by partner schools are included/.	All schools
DECEMBER 20011	Preparing multimedia presentations. Main software – Mediator Students work in international teams /all subjects chosen by partner schools are included/. Christmas carols on-line.	All schools
JANUARY 2012	Preparing multimedia presentations. Main software – Flash Students work in international teams /all subjects chosen by partner schools are included/. Official meeting with parents of all pupils involved in international activities.	All schools
FEBRUARY 2012	Computer workshops: Adobe Premiere, Pinnacle Studio Disseminating experience from the course Media and Democracy and/or from the project ICT in Contemporary European Education.	BULGARIA	2 Teachers 6 Students
MARCH 2012	Preparing video films using Moodle about places important for the history of the cooperating countries. Main software – Adobe Premiere	All schools
APRIL 2012	Preparing video films using Moodle about places important for the culture of the cooperating countries. Main software – Pinnacle Studio	All schools
MAY 2012	Preparing video using Moodle and multimedia picture dictionary with students’ opinions about the project. Official meeting with parents of all pupils involved in international activities.	All schools
JUNE 2012	Meeting with parents and local authorities. Evaluation of the project Final Report	All schools POLAND

The amount of planned mobilities (in Poland):

Students – 18 (3 * 6)
Teachers – 8 (4 * 2)

TOTAL – 26
THE AMOUNT OF GRANT WE APPLY FOR (in Poland)

minimum 24 mobilities – 20.000 euro
Partners declaring their willingness to participate in the project:

INSTITUTION	CITY /COUNTRY	AGE OF STUDENTS	COORDINATOR
Zespół Szkół im. Jana Pawła II w Siewierzu	Siewierz POLAND	16 – 19	Dariusz Markiewicz
Școala cu clasele I-VIII „Sf. Vasile” Ploiești	Ploiesti ROMANIA	14 – 16	Daniela Ionescu
National Comprehensive Language School „Sofia”	Sofia BULGARIA	14 – 19	Savina Tumbalova
Fjolbrautaskoli Norðurlands Vestra,	Saudarkrokur ICELAND	16 – 20	Gudbjorg Bjarnadottir
Instituto de Enseñanza Secundaria «Siberia Extremeña»	Badajoz SPAIN	12 – 18	Paqui Gea

The project prepared by Dariusz Markiewicz

Translated by Urszula Kosteczka