Approx. starting date

Activity/mobility description

Destination country (for mobility only)

Which partners involved

IX-X  2009

 

1.      Meetings for school staff  to introduce the Project (in each country)

2.      Preparing students’ personal profiles on the web - opening Project Board, meeting with students and parents

3.      Starting the project diary.

4.      Preparing Comenius Corner

5.      Gathering information about countries (worksheets/ handouts are allocated).

6.      Preparing for the first International Meeting.

7.      Setting up the virtual spaces on the WEB for communication and collection of materials

8.      Meetings among the teachers of the managing team in order to establish working patterns for the project. Settlement of a virtual community online through SKYPE and MSN Messenger which allows, through the use of chats, videoconferencing and e-mail contacts, continuous exchanges between the partners

9.      Discussions between students and teachers involved to present the objectives and themes of the project; encourage active participation of the students.

10.  Setting up, with the active help of the students, a reserved virtual space on the WEB, together with the partner schools, in which every partner can save the various documents and products so that they can be continuously implemented, checked, revised, enriched, etc.

11.  Setting up, with the active help of the students, a PODCAST in which the students can save both audio files about the various activities of the project and mini-lessons, prepared with the help of their language teachers, for teaching basic survival communication functions of their language to the foreign students.

12.  Setting up the project ‘ME in MY space” Subjective Media-documentation of the students’ flat, street , quarter, city

13.  Start to use a common internet platform (Schulcommsy  or Twinspace on e-twinning)

 

 

 

Project coordinators, teachers, students in all schools

X 2009

1.      Presentation of your school, region and country – CD presentations, albums etc.

2.      European cultural diversity and

      languages – development and improvement

      of knowledge among staff and students in this      area. Cultural tourism versus Standard tourism:     development of knowledge on this area.

3.      Cultural stereotypes: Handouts/ worksheets.

4.      Cultural equivalents: Handouts - funny sketches about themselves

5.   Begin a “European Film Festival”: Every group chooses a movie from their country (criteria: typical and/or most liked by the students, must have English subtitles) and hands it out to the partner schools at our meeting in Turkey (6 copies). In the following months we will have a “Movie of the Month” that will be watched by all participating students, after which the students from each country will write a short film review and participate in a online discussion on our common Comenius platform on the Internet

6.       “European lesson” in the host country. Organised during the visit:

- Presentations by 7 countries (PPP) or presenting other activities (dances, music, short performances, etc.)

- Cultural stereotypes (made by students)

- Quizzes about the countries (each country prepares a game)

Mobility 1: TURKEY – Eskişehir – 23-29 October

 

Project coordinators, head teachers, teachers, students, parents, local authorities

 

 

Turkey as the host country.

Small delegations of partner countries

XI-XII 2009

1.      Starting to work on the mini Europe tour guide

“Six mini wonders of my country/region/town” (writing journals and making itineraries)

2.      Working on the newspaper: writing articles to regional/local media or in the school magazine to advertise the project (Comenius magazine). Articles written by students about the countries taking part in the project, materials exchanged during the visit, photo sessions – all materials needed for the newspaper students will prepare during the classes and workshops organised in the project – ICT classes, photo workshops, language classes, journalist club.

3.      Chat about traditions (e.g. X-mas) in each country and sending Christmas recipes

4.      Sending e-cards, wall displays about special traditions of each project country.

5.      Continuing the tour guide and sending the reports to the German and Swedish partners who will compile them for the final publication (the German partners) and for the website (the Swedish partners)

6.      Evaluation meeting

7.      Dissemination meeting /forum in each country.

 

Project coordinators, teachers, students in all schools

 

 

 

 

 

 

Project coordinators, teachers, students in all schools

 

 

 

 

Invitation of member of Local authority and parents

I/ 2010

1.      Continue the task on the mini Europe tour guide.

          

2.      Continuing the “European Film Festival”

 

3.       Chatting about the films.

          Writing a film review.

 

Project coordinators, teachers,  students in all schools

 

II/ 2010

1.       Continue the task on the mini Europe tour guide.

2.       Starting to make a film about particular cultural aspects (traditions, crafts, festivals etc). Very brief videos (3-4 minutes) which describe cultural aspects of the country: at the supermarket, at the pub, dancing, traditions, culture, street fashion, street sounds. The activity improves the students’ creativity.

3.       Project meeting in each school to prepare for the second international visit.

 

 

Project coordinators, teachers, students in all schools

 

III/ 2010

1.        Workshop – topic: ‘Europe in art’. Lesson - ‘Europe in art’.  Students prepare for the exhibition.      

2.        Art exhibition – prepared by students from each country (objects of folk arts, crafts, modern arts). It will be organised during the project meeting

3.        International bazaar.

4.        Continue  the project diary

5.        Continue the “European Film Festival”

6.        Evaluation meeting

7.        End of March: publication of the first pages of the website, possibly with the domain name: www.comenius-hermes.eu

Mobility 2

SPAIN – Matarò - 18-24 March

Project coordinators, teachers and students  in all schools

The host country.

IV/2010

1.      Continue the task on mini Europe tour guide.

2.      Continue the film about cultural aspects.

3.      Project meeting to prepare for the 3rd international visit.

4.      Meeting with parents, local authorities: presentation of the project and dissemination.

5.      Project meeting in Italy

Mobility 3

ITALY – Mazara del Vallo

24-30 April

Project coordinators, teachers, students, headmasters

V/ VI 2010

1.        Meeting for school community – ‘Lifelong Learning Education’ performance by students  and CD presentations  prepared by each country with students.

2.        Meeting with local media, reports on TV/newspapers to disseminate the results and advertise the project

3.        Continue the task on mini Europe guide and the

film. 

  

Project coordinators, teachers, students

 

IX /2010

1.        Continue the project diary

2.        Continue the “European Film Festival”

3.        Evaluation meetings

4.        Prepare for the second year. Local meetings.

5.        CD / mini tour guide/ film (finishing)

6.        Prepare for the international meeting.

7.        “Doll Travel”. Dolls in special national costumes travel to different countries. The host students write blogs with the eyes of these dolls about the tourist attractions.

 

Project coordinators, teachers,

ICT teachers, students

X/2010

1.      Start to prepare a multilingual glossary with tourism related words and phrases. Hungary starts the glossary which can be implemented by the other partners.

2.      Start the Podcasts with the audio of the glossary words and upload them on the website of the project, or iTunes, or YouTube

3.      At the international meeting: Each country presents their mini tour guide and the films

they made about special cultural aspects.

Mobility 4

GERMANY – Hamburg

14-21 October

Project coordinators, head teachers, teachers, students, parents.

 

 

XI/2010

1.      Work on the newspaper issue – the 2nd one – articles / interviews/photos.

2.      Continue the “Doll Travel

3.      Continue the “European Film Festival”

4.      Dissemination forum with  parents and special guests from local authorities.

 

Project coordinators, teachers, students

XII/2010

1.        Continue the “Doll Travel”

2.        Design the final paper form of Mini tour guide (virtual publishing) and sending them to partners

3.        Improve/continue the mini tour guide on the web pages

 

Project coordinators, teachers, ICT teachers, students

I/2011

1.      Continue the “ Doll travel”.

2.      Start to make a mini “European Tolerance Guide”: Do’s and Don’t s about countries (explain to the other partners good manners to follow and bad manners to avoid: behaviour, tips, words to be used/avoided, greetings, gestures and their meanings, facial expressions, etc.)

 

Mobility 5

SWEDEN- Mjolby –

27 January – 2 February

Project coordinators, teachers, students, headmasters

II/ 2011

1.      Continue the “Doll Travel”

2.      Continue the “European Film Festival”

3.      Enrich the European Tolerance Guide.

4.      Making a Cultural Panorama / Kaleidoscope about each country to be exhibited at the final international meeting (ex.: architecture, history, gastronomy – food and drinks – folklore, traditions, festivals, industry, crafts, etc. The students are free to choose the form of the kaleidoscope (circle, flower with petals, etc.)

5.      Prepare for the final international meeting.

 

 

Project coordinators, teachers, students

III/2011

1.      Prepare the meeting for April: kaleidoscope, Tolerance Guide and Multilingual glossary.

2.      Continue the “European Film Festival”

3.      Easter recipes

 

 

Project coordinators, teachers,  students

 

IV/2011

1.      Project meeting

2.      Exhibit the kaleidoscope with school staff, etc.

3.      Finish the project diary

4.      Present the website www.comenius-hermes.eu

5.      Present the European tolerance guide

6.      Edit the film made about “Doll travel”

7.      Evaluation meeting

Mobility 6

GREECE – Salamis –

4 – 10 April

Project coordinators, teachers, students, headmasters

V/2011

1.      Prepare meeting with school staff

2.      Present the products.

3.      Evaluate the whole project

 

 

Project coordinators, teachers, students, headmasters

VI/ 2011

1.      Meeting with school staff, students, parents – presentations of all products

 

Project coordinators, teachers, students, parents

Local authorities.

VII/2011

1.      Writing and preparing the final report

 

Project coordinators, teachers