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COMENIUS 2010 – 2012
“LOOKING AT THE SAME VIEW FROM DIFFERENT WINDOWS”
MEETING IN ITALY 13th-18th MAY 2012
- Sunday 13th May
Meeting families/students/teachers
18,30 Welcoming at secondary school “J. Piaget”
- Greetings by headmistress
- Presentations
- Supper at school
- Monday 14th May
07,50 the families take the students to teachers at secondary school “J.Piaget”
Starting the Comenius project activities (Poland-Germany-Spain-Italy)
18,00 Welcoming partners at secondary school “J. Piaget”
- Greetings by headmistress
- Presentations: students/families/schools
- Presentation of Comenius project with display of work done
19,30 Aperitif
20,00 Supper: students with families, teachers at “Circolo Endas”
- Tuesday 15th May
07,50 the families take the students to teachers at secondary school “J. Piaget”
08,00 TEACHERS: meeting of project at primary school “A. Manzoni”
STUDENTS: activities at school “J.Piaget”: teachers will give a talk on all places to be visited
10,00 Meeting teachers and students with local authorities at town-hall
STUDENTS and TEACHERS
12,00 Departure for Porto Venere and Palmaria island, a walk with guide
19.00 the teachers take the students to families at secondary school “J.Piaget”
20,00 Supper teachers at Restaurant-Pizzeria “Da Sandro F.lli D’Angelo”
- Wednesday 16th May
07,50 the families take the students to teachers at secondary school “J.Piaget”
09,00 Attend multiethnic festival at amphitheatre in Viale Alpi
12,30 Lunch at primary school. “A.Revere”
14,00 Departure by train for “5 Terre” a walk with guide
19.00 the teachers take the students to families at secondary school “J. Piaget”
20.00 Supper teachers: Restaurant “Il Ristoro nell’aia”
- Ø Thursday 17 th May
07,50 the families take the students to teachers at secondary school “J.Piaget”
STUDENTS
08,00 Lia Museum
10,00 Activities on the project
TEACHERS
08,00 Attend lessons at school
13,00 Lunch at Secondary school “J.Piaget”
STUDENTS and TEACHERS
14,00 Departure for the visit to S.Terenzo, Lerici, Tellaro, a walk with guide
18,30 Closing and farewell by headmistress
20,00 Supper students/families/teachers at “Locanda Alinò”
- Friday 18th May
06,00 Departure Polish students and teachers from school “J. Piaget”
07,50 The families take the German students to teachers at school “J. Piaget”
Teachers meeting about project
AGENDA:
- 1. Activities that were to be done
- 2. Final report
1. Activities that were to be done
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Activities |
Germany |
Spain |
Poland |
Italy |
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1
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Logo contest |
Complete |
Complete |
Complete |
Complete |
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2 |
E-mails/pen friends
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Complete |
Complete
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Complete |
Complete |
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3 |
Travel book
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Complete |
Complete
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Complete but Barbara needs to send it to Andreas to put on the website
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Complete |
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4 |
Web site
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Doris is putting photos on the website
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Some photos need to be uploaded...Ana’s going to send them to Andreas
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Barbara’s going to send photos to Andreas |
Complete |
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5 |
Song
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Complete |
Complete
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Complete |
Complete |
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6 |
One day in my life
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Complete |
Complete
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Music needs to be readjusted |
Complete |
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7 |
Travel agency
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Complete |
Complete
|
Complete |
Complete |
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Activities |
Germany |
Spain |
Poland |
Italy |
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8 |
Videoconference
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Complete |
Complete
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Complete |
Complete – upload certificate of achievement – 1st, 2nd, 3rd and other photos
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9 |
Life in other countries
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Work to be done on Thursday
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Work to be done in Spain when the teachers return
End May
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Work on Thursday |
Work on Thursday
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1. Final report
SUMMARY
Our project was based on students’ and teachers’ work. Students had a chance to develop their world view by experiencing a lot of practical activities focusing on different cultural aspects like presentations, movies, travel brochures, geographical books, common cultural photograph albums, exhibitions of their drawing of the new cultural information they got during the project. They used new technology as a tool for sharing the different activities. The children also prepared songs and folkdances and performed them in public. By means of all these activities, students learnt different cultures, ways of life, attitudes and this helped them to have empathy and tolerance towards different points of view. Teachers had a chance to improve their methods by comparing the education system of each country. Each teacher prepared documents, presentations, power points that contained information and explanations about the education system of his/her country. They discussed the similarities and differences and talked about the usefulness of them. During the visits they observed lessons so that they could note approaches, techniques, methods, lesson plans and material used by the colleagues from the different countries and share those experiences and apply the relevant data to the student’s curriculum and lessons. The results of all our work have been put on the website, represented in organized exhibitions and published in the local press.
OUTCOMES
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Identifier |
1 |
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Type |
Website |
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Title |
www.comenius.bimamue.de |
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Description |
The website is divided into different sections: What’s Comenius project? General plan Meetings Project works Partners Web links |
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Date (dd-mm-yyyy) |
25/10/2010 |
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Target group(s) potential beneficiaries |
Primary school/Secondary school |
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Language |
English |
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Identifier |
2 |
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Type |
Song |
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Title |
“Looking at the same view from different windows” |
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Description |
The song is formed by 4 stanzas in different languages: German, Polish, Spanish and Italian and by a chorus in English. Each country recorded its stanza for a CD and designed a part of the CD cover. The song was performed in public by all partners in Italy at the closing project festival... 1000 copies of the CD were made and distributed in the four countries. A video-clip was made from a live performance held at the project’s conclusion in Italy at the multiethnic festival. |
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Date (dd-mm-yyyy) |
2010-2012 |
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Target group(s) potential beneficiaries |
Primary school/Secondary school |
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Language |
English, German, Polish, Spanish, Italian |
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Identifier |
3 |
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Type |
|
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Title |
“Pen friends” |
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Description |
Each country corresponded with other countries by post or by emails in English. They have transferred this correspondence to popular social networks (facebook) and voip media like skype. |
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Date (dd-mm-yyyy) |
2010-2012 |
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Target group(s) potential beneficiaries |
Primary school/Secondary school |
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Language |
English |
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Identifier |
4 |
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Type |
Book |
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Title |
“Travel book” |
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Description |
In the travel book there is information compiled by the students in English about different cultural, geographical, historical aspects and customs of each country. It travelled from country to country where it was exhibited in the different schools. It is also posted on the website. |
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Date (dd-mm-yyyy) |
2010-2012 |
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Target group(s) potential beneficiaries |
Primary school/Secondary school |
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Language |
English |
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Identifier |
5 |
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Type |
Video |
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Title |
“One day in my life” |
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Description |
Each country prepared a video about a typical day in a student’s life in English. These videos were then posted on the website. |
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Date (dd-mm-yyyy) |
April-May 2012 |
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Target group(s) potential beneficiaries |
Primary school/Secondary school |
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Language |
English |
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Identifier |
6 |
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Type |
Poster |
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Title |
“Travel agency” |
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Description |
Each country prepared a poster with characteristic information about its country: food, music, literature, sport, art, geography etc. This was then posted on the website. |
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Date (dd-mm-yyyy) |
October 2011 |
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Target group(s) potential beneficiaries |
Primary school/Secondary school |
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Language |
English |
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Identifier |
7 |
|
Type |
Logo contest |
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Title |
Comenius 2010-2012 “Looking at the same view from different windows” |
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Description |
Each country prepared 3 logos to represent the project for the website and the students of all schools voted the best logo. The logo was subsequently used to represent the project on the website, on the CD and elsewhere. |
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Date (dd-mm-yyyy) |
October-December 2010 |
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Target group(s) potential beneficiaries |
Primary school |
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Language |
English |
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Identifier |
8 |
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Type |
Video conference |
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Title |
“Quiz” |
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Description |
The students of each country prepared a list of questions about their own country. Then they organized a quiz in video conference using Skype. |
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Date (dd-mm-yyyy) |
11/05/2012 |
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Target group(s) potential beneficiaries |
Secondary school |
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Language |
English |
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Identifier |
9 |
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Type |
Table |
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Title |
“Life in other countries” |
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Description |
All students prepared a table to compare life in the different countries on the basis of what they learnt over the course of the project. |
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Date (dd-mm-yyyy) |
16/05/2012- end May 2012 |
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Target group(s) potential beneficiaries |
Secondary school |
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Language |
English |
EUROPEAN ADDED VALUE
-Improving students intercultural awareness
-Exploring the common values among the European countries which make all of us “one” and realizing the differences which make each of us “unique”
-Created friendship between students and teachers
-Increased motivation for learning foreign languages
-Personal development of students and teachers
-Increased language skills and ICT skills
-encourage the younger generation to develop important European family values like having a wide range of world view, being open to new ideas, being creative, tolerant, good at communication
-Creation of a European area of learning by means of spreading our teaching methods to other partner countries
-Increased quality of school management
PARTNERSHIP OBJECTIVES ACHIVEMENTS
-Promote active European Citizenship: to make children understand and get closer to the different cultures of the countries involved in the project.
-To show our children different ways of life
-To improve their communicative skills in the English language
-To use new technologies in an ever changing world
-To stimulate the learning of the English language
-Reinforcing the awareness of belonging to the European culture by paying attention to the historic and cultural heritage
-Developing of self confidence, being tolerant to other opinions
-To motivate children and allow for greater personal development
-To improve the methodology of teaching: observing lessons in different countries
WORKPLAN AND TASKS
The project was initially planned for seven partners. But when the project began there were only four partners and at the first project meeting in Regensburg, some activities were revised to reflect the new partnership and to avoid duplication of activities.
The activity entitled “My life as a pizza” fell under the activity entitled “A day in my life” which depicted a typical day in the life of students in partnership countries.
Activities like the cultural box and young explorers formed part of the travel book project. The video-clip planned for the travel agency was done as “a day in my life”.
Exchanging folk dances and songs was not done via internet as planned initially but it was organized at the multiethnic festival held with all four partners present in Italy.
Other activities were added in order to create a common image for the project, such as the project logo which was planned in each country and the best one was voted by all the students involved.
COOPERATION AND COMMUNICATION
The cooperation and communication between the participating organizations involved was good and all organizations were equally involved. We communicated by internet e-mails, phone calls, text messages, Skype. During the meetings, we programmed, compared and evaluated the results of our activities together.
PARTNERSHIP LANGUAGE
English
EVALUATION
-progress monitoring
Regular evaluation sessions
-main conclusions and consequences of the monitoring and evaluation
The organizations involved monitored and valued the partnership during the meetings and during the staff meetings in each school. The organizations were enthusiastic about the project: cooperation and results.
RESULTS/PRODUCTS/OUTCOMES ACHIEVEMENT
To a high extent
AIMS/OBJECTIVES ACHIEVEMENT
To a high extent
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