| m PARTICIPANTS Bremen (GER) : Andrea Holzinger, Saskia Laackmann, Manfred Runge, Werner Fabisch Aywaille (BE): Collette Franck, Jacqueline Vanstalle, Valerie Fafchamps, Sophie Defise Château du Loir (F): Chrystelle Capdecomme, Valier Baraille Ourense (ES): Elisa Álvarez Fernández, Raquel Pato Lorenzo, Amparo Vázquez Vivas AGENDA - multilingual dicitionary - evaluation - final report Multilingual Dictionary Collette and Jacqueline present the final version of the multilingual dictionary in printed form which is to be given to the travelling students. The digital version will be put on the blog (including galego). Evaluation Within the project we are obliged to evaluate the project. Elisa will set up a questionnaire and send it to the partners. Parents and students should be asked to fill it in. Final report By 30/9/2010 all partners have to submit an intermediate report and send it to their national agency in the corresponding language. The following was discussed: - There is no longer a joint part included. - Concerning problems each country should describe them according to their individual situation. - As the final product is the blog and several films and booklets Andrea advises not to send any printed material or CDs or DVDs as all the relevant results can be seen on the blog. - All the intended activities were achieved. by Andrea Holzinger |
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4/5/10
Minutes of the Comenius Conference in Spain 16th March 2010 to 21st March 2010
10/30/09
Minutes of the Comenius Conference in Belgium 21st to 25th October 2009
PARTICIPANTS
Aywaille (BE): Collette Franck, Sophie Defise
Chateau du Loir (F): Valier Baraile, Stéphane Duarte, Patricia Guitton
Ourense (ES): Elisa Álvarez Fernández, Almudena Alonso García, Carmen Babarro, Amparo Vázquez Vivas
Bremen (GER): Andrea Holzinger, Christian Braun , Christel Spielhoff, Irene Janoschek
Portugal: Eléuterio Santos
AGENDA
Ø meeting in Spain
Ø next activities
MEETING IN SPAIN
Elisa Alvarez pointed out that 19 March 2010 will this year be holiday in Spain. This usually means that most families spend the weekend with their family in the countryside. This might cause problems. The host families will be informed. Belgium can arrive on 17 March and can stay until 21 March. Germany and France are easy on arrival dates and will arrive on Tuesday. Elisa explained the advantages of the airports Madrid and Porto and said it would be possible to arrange a minibus from Porto and back when contacting her before.
The number of travelling students is fixed (4 students by partner), not so the number of teachers.
NEXT ACTIVITIES
Belgium
is going to research production of «tools» for leisure activities (like musical instruments or sports equipment), looking as well for older local productions.
France
will focus on the subject “dancing”. Within that they plan to research history of dances and regional aspects.
The positive aspects, such as basketball, horse riding, swimming, dancing, going out and shopping, will appear in a photo report.
They ask for a comparative with the other partners.
Spain
School has just started and further proceedings have to be worked out, but they plan to work on local festivities as magosto, carnival etc.
Germany
The participating German students are now in their courses for their final exam (Abitur). The project has to be organised as an extra-curricular activity which cause troubles as students have different timetables and already many afternoon lessons. Some students still work out a questionnaire on computer use, others a personal insight into their leisure time. Problem is furthermore that most students are not in the participating teachers’ classes any longer. So future results can not be safely promised.
Thinking of the presentation of a collective work or final product, for the meeting in Spain the partners arranged that the travelling students will prepare 2 to 3 regional activities (dance or games) that they will have to explain so that they can be practised by all, and presented to the others as different workshops.
Furthermore we decided on an exchange of handmade Christmas cards. Teachers and students are asked to send them to a partner.
Referring to the final report, Andrea Holzinger remarks that there is a common part that we should work out together. She points out as well that we should not forget to mention the item of “evaluation”, e.g. how was evaluated?, feedback from pupils, opinion polls, written communication of personal experience, etc.
by Andrea Holzinger and Elisa Álvarez
PS: Germany will ask students to send at least one to a partner and one to the German coordinator to check their work. The Christmas cards could as well be displayed in the meeting in Spain.
Aywaille (BE): Collette Franck, Sophie Defise
Chateau du Loir (F): Valier Baraile, Stéphane Duarte, Patricia Guitton
Ourense (ES): Elisa Álvarez Fernández, Almudena Alonso García, Carmen Babarro, Amparo Vázquez Vivas
Bremen (GER): Andrea Holzinger, Christian Braun , Christel Spielhoff, Irene Janoschek
Portugal: Eléuterio Santos
AGENDA
Ø meeting in Spain
Ø next activities
MEETING IN SPAIN
Elisa Alvarez pointed out that 19 March 2010 will this year be holiday in Spain. This usually means that most families spend the weekend with their family in the countryside. This might cause problems. The host families will be informed. Belgium can arrive on 17 March and can stay until 21 March. Germany and France are easy on arrival dates and will arrive on Tuesday. Elisa explained the advantages of the airports Madrid and Porto and said it would be possible to arrange a minibus from Porto and back when contacting her before.
The number of travelling students is fixed (4 students by partner), not so the number of teachers.
NEXT ACTIVITIES
Belgium
is going to research production of «tools» for leisure activities (like musical instruments or sports equipment), looking as well for older local productions.
France
will focus on the subject “dancing”. Within that they plan to research history of dances and regional aspects.
The positive aspects, such as basketball, horse riding, swimming, dancing, going out and shopping, will appear in a photo report.
They ask for a comparative with the other partners.
Spain
School has just started and further proceedings have to be worked out, but they plan to work on local festivities as magosto, carnival etc.
Germany
The participating German students are now in their courses for their final exam (Abitur). The project has to be organised as an extra-curricular activity which cause troubles as students have different timetables and already many afternoon lessons. Some students still work out a questionnaire on computer use, others a personal insight into their leisure time. Problem is furthermore that most students are not in the participating teachers’ classes any longer. So future results can not be safely promised.
Thinking of the presentation of a collective work or final product, for the meeting in Spain the partners arranged that the travelling students will prepare 2 to 3 regional activities (dance or games) that they will have to explain so that they can be practised by all, and presented to the others as different workshops.
Furthermore we decided on an exchange of handmade Christmas cards. Teachers and students are asked to send them to a partner.
Referring to the final report, Andrea Holzinger remarks that there is a common part that we should work out together. She points out as well that we should not forget to mention the item of “evaluation”, e.g. how was evaluated?, feedback from pupils, opinion polls, written communication of personal experience, etc.
by Andrea Holzinger and Elisa Álvarez
PS: Germany will ask students to send at least one to a partner and one to the German coordinator to check their work. The Christmas cards could as well be displayed in the meeting in Spain.
6/4/09
Bremen - Das Viertel
As already seen by some of you in Bremen. I would like to show you in a very personal approach the district I live in and like very much.
Enjoy!
by Ányos
(movie created by Ányos Szabo and Jan-Hendrik Hahn)
Enjoy!
by Ányos
(movie created by Ányos Szabo and Jan-Hendrik Hahn)
6/3/09
Abuse of Alcohol - Binge Drinking
During our course studies we worked out different presentations on the topic abuse of alcohol. E.g. we thought of places where the so-called binge-drinking (excessive drinking) takes place, researched statistics and damages caused by alcohol. This is what we we found out about the topic and presented during the meeting in Bremen:
Meeting points to drink in Bremen
First we tell you something about the “Discomeile”. The “Discomeile” is a street near the main station, where you can find many different discos and bars. Examples for discos are “Stubu” and “La Viva”, they promote themselves with free entrance up to 11 pm. At “1€ Bar” you can get every alcoholic drink for one euro.
Each disco has their own discopromotion´, for example “Tequila Party”,where you can drink the whole night tequila for one euro. Another one is “It’s your birthday”, it means, if you come with eight friends you all get free entrance and a bottle of vodka for free.
Furthermore in Bremen there are also special events where many people drink a lot of alcohol:
At the “Freimarkt” (big fairground happening once a year and lasting for 2 weeks) is a “Bayernzelt” where many people sit in and drink liters of beer.
The carnival parade is another one. There you go with different wagons through the city and also drink a lot of alcohol.
During the World- and European championship many people met at the “Domshof” in the city centre of Bremen to watch the match and enjoy the great atmosphere. There public viewing of important Werder Bremen matches (e.g. German cup final) takes place too.
A Northern German tradition is the “Kohlfahrt”. The adults go with a little wagon, play games and drink quickies, in the end they go eating.
Last but not least many youth celebrate house parties, these are meetings just to drink, where everybody brings some alcohol with them. Often they play drinking games, mostly with cards and cubes.
by Christopher & Jennifer
Statistics of Binge Drinking
Our topic was statistics of alcohol abuse. The first statistic of our presentation was “binge drinking among students of university of Stuttgart”. There is information about the students and their behaviour regarding alcohol cosumption given.
The interviewed students are undergraduate women and men, so we can say that men drink more often than women.
On the one hand most men say they drink excessively 1 or 2 times in a week. On the other hand many women say they never drink alcohol.
The second statistic was “beer cosumption in Germany” and the interviewees were over 14 years.
It shows that most people said that they never drink beer but it can also be seen that more than a quarter of the interviewees consumed beer either every day or several times a week.
Our last table was “patients at hospital with alcohol poisoning 2000-2006”. It shows that the number of patients at hospital has constantly been rising.
During our work with this topic, we also came across the consequential damages. They are for example that your liver and your brain gets severe damages. Your body suffers from underfeeding and is toxicated. At that stage when you don’t give your body alcohol you are subject to detox syndrome.
by André and Anna-Lena
statistics taken from:
www.destatis.de, www.uni-stuttgart.de
Finally you had the chance to see a movie made by Dennis and Stefan capturing the topic of alcohol abuse and an alternative to it. This is the result:
(Song 2 not by Blur, music used is under no license and was provided by Medienzentrum Nord Bremen)
Meeting points to drink in Bremen
First we tell you something about the “Discomeile”. The “Discomeile” is a street near the main station, where you can find many different discos and bars. Examples for discos are “Stubu” and “La Viva”, they promote themselves with free entrance up to 11 pm. At “1€ Bar” you can get every alcoholic drink for one euro.
Each disco has their own discopromotion´, for example “Tequila Party”,where you can drink the whole night tequila for one euro. Another one is “It’s your birthday”, it means, if you come with eight friends you all get free entrance and a bottle of vodka for free.
Furthermore in Bremen there are also special events where many people drink a lot of alcohol:
At the “Freimarkt” (big fairground happening once a year and lasting for 2 weeks) is a “Bayernzelt” where many people sit in and drink liters of beer.
The carnival parade is another one. There you go with different wagons through the city and also drink a lot of alcohol.
During the World- and European championship many people met at the “Domshof” in the city centre of Bremen to watch the match and enjoy the great atmosphere. There public viewing of important Werder Bremen matches (e.g. German cup final) takes place too.
A Northern German tradition is the “Kohlfahrt”. The adults go with a little wagon, play games and drink quickies, in the end they go eating.
Last but not least many youth celebrate house parties, these are meetings just to drink, where everybody brings some alcohol with them. Often they play drinking games, mostly with cards and cubes.
by Christopher & Jennifer
Statistics of Binge Drinking
Our topic was statistics of alcohol abuse. The first statistic of our presentation was “binge drinking among students of university of Stuttgart”. There is information about the students and their behaviour regarding alcohol cosumption given.
The interviewed students are undergraduate women and men, so we can say that men drink more often than women.
On the one hand most men say they drink excessively 1 or 2 times in a week. On the other hand many women say they never drink alcohol.
The second statistic was “beer cosumption in Germany” and the interviewees were over 14 years.
It shows that most people said that they never drink beer but it can also be seen that more than a quarter of the interviewees consumed beer either every day or several times a week.
Our last table was “patients at hospital with alcohol poisoning 2000-2006”. It shows that the number of patients at hospital has constantly been rising.
During our work with this topic, we also came across the consequential damages. They are for example that your liver and your brain gets severe damages. Your body suffers from underfeeding and is toxicated. At that stage when you don’t give your body alcohol you are subject to detox syndrome.
by André and Anna-Lena
statistics taken from:
www.destatis.de, www.uni-stuttgart.de
Finally you had the chance to see a movie made by Dennis and Stefan capturing the topic of alcohol abuse and an alternative to it. This is the result:
(Song 2 not by Blur, music used is under no license and was provided by Medienzentrum Nord Bremen)
6/1/09
Meeting in Bremen - host students' comments
photo taken by Janin
3RD Meeting in Bremen - Comenius - EXCELLENT!!!
Dennis
It was a very good week for me. You got to know new people and we did a lot together what has strengthened the communal spirit. After initial problems we finally talked more what has helped to get to know each other better. Anytime I would participate in such a project again.
Leif
It was really Fanny!
Stefan
So far a well organised project with interesting and likeable participants from a different culture.
Hendrik
Awesome!
Ányos
Last week was very exciting and it made a lot of fun.We need our corres back and miss them very much...
Janina and Charly
Last week was very funny and I got more confident in speaking English.
Janin
The week from 12 May to 17 May was very interesting. It was fun to get to know new people from different cultures.
Melanie
This week was interesting and educative. I liked it very much.
Jessica
A big attempt to have fun with four different cultures and to get to know each other better.
Olesja
The visit of the partners of the Comenius project was very interesting for us and them and they learned much about Bremen. They were all very nice and we did our best to make them feel comfortable.
André
The meeting in Bremen was a huge success that I won't forget in my lifetime because I got to know exciting cultures and people.
Anna-Lena
The week was very educative for me as I got to know different people and their different culture.
Jenny
I liked the week with the Comenius partners very much because I was able to get to know very many nice people from other countries and further more was able to improve my English a little.
Christopher
Spanish easygoingness met German hustle and bustle what led to some nerverecking situations but provided as well the opportunity to brush up or enrich English language skills!
Tobias
(missing ones will follow)
Minutes of the Conference in Bremen
PARTICIPANTS
Bremen (GER) : Andrea Holzinger, Christel Spielhoff, Christian Braun, Frauke Eitmann
Aywaille (BE): Collette Franck, Jacqueline Vanstalle, Sabine Rennotte
Château du Loir (F): Chrystelle Capdecomme, Stéphane Duarte, Flavie Menager
Ourense (ES): Elisa Álvarez Fernández, Raquel Pato Lorenzo, Carmen Babarro, Pablo López Díaz
AGENDA
- Final meeting in Spain
- Meeting in Belgium
- Travelling students
- Intermediate report
- Other
Final meeting in Spain
Andrea presents the fact that it would be very helpful to agree upon the dates of our last meeting in Spain in 2010, taking into consideration all the problems we have according to final exams, evaluations, holidays, etc. After several proposals, the final dates for Spain are the week from the 14th to the 19th March 2010, as further on it will be impossible to arrange a convenient common date.
Meeting in Belgium
The headmaster of the Belgian school sets a fixed date for our stay in Belgium that should be from 21st to the 24th October 2009. As the partners seem to agree, these dates are accepted, even if it implies to reduce our stay for one day.
Travelling students
As there are more French students in Bremen as expected at the beginning, Andrea Holzinger tells us that it would be a reward for the German host students to take them on future travels; so she asks for the possibility of finding hosts for almost two more students in Spain. Elisa Álvarez answers that she will look for a solution and thinks that there won’t be any problem.
Intermediate report
By June 2009 all partners have to submit an intermediate report and there are several items that should be almost similar.
The item related to “Problems” should include the following points:
- Finding dates for common meetings: holidays, evaluations, etc.
- How to work out topics, workshops, etc. regarding our project in lessons? No relation with the different curricula.
- Difficulties in finding hosts
- The whole project’s coordination is strongly influenced by the restrictions of some school headmasters
- Money coordination
Other
Colette Franck presents her problems with our blog as they have worked out different booklets talking about the negative and positive aspects of leisure time [she presents a copy of each of the 9 booklets for each partner]. She asks for a way of putting these results on the blog.
Elisa tells that by means of an internet tool called SCRIBD (www.scribd.com) it is possible to publish several digital formats on the blog.
by Elisa
Bremen (GER) : Andrea Holzinger, Christel Spielhoff, Christian Braun, Frauke Eitmann
Aywaille (BE): Collette Franck, Jacqueline Vanstalle, Sabine Rennotte
Château du Loir (F): Chrystelle Capdecomme, Stéphane Duarte, Flavie Menager
Ourense (ES): Elisa Álvarez Fernández, Raquel Pato Lorenzo, Carmen Babarro, Pablo López Díaz
AGENDA
- Final meeting in Spain
- Meeting in Belgium
- Travelling students
- Intermediate report
- Other
Final meeting in Spain
Andrea presents the fact that it would be very helpful to agree upon the dates of our last meeting in Spain in 2010, taking into consideration all the problems we have according to final exams, evaluations, holidays, etc. After several proposals, the final dates for Spain are the week from the 14th to the 19th March 2010, as further on it will be impossible to arrange a convenient common date.
Meeting in Belgium
The headmaster of the Belgian school sets a fixed date for our stay in Belgium that should be from 21st to the 24th October 2009. As the partners seem to agree, these dates are accepted, even if it implies to reduce our stay for one day.
Travelling students
As there are more French students in Bremen as expected at the beginning, Andrea Holzinger tells us that it would be a reward for the German host students to take them on future travels; so she asks for the possibility of finding hosts for almost two more students in Spain. Elisa Álvarez answers that she will look for a solution and thinks that there won’t be any problem.
Intermediate report
By June 2009 all partners have to submit an intermediate report and there are several items that should be almost similar.
The item related to “Problems” should include the following points:
- Finding dates for common meetings: holidays, evaluations, etc.
- How to work out topics, workshops, etc. regarding our project in lessons? No relation with the different curricula.
- Difficulties in finding hosts
- The whole project’s coordination is strongly influenced by the restrictions of some school headmasters
- Money coordination
Other
Colette Franck presents her problems with our blog as they have worked out different booklets talking about the negative and positive aspects of leisure time [she presents a copy of each of the 9 booklets for each partner]. She asks for a way of putting these results on the blog.
Elisa tells that by means of an internet tool called SCRIBD (www.scribd.com) it is possible to publish several digital formats on the blog.
by Elisa
5/29/09
Third meeting in Bremen - May, 12th to 17th 2009
PROGRAM 3rd MEETING IN BREMEN
COMENIUS – 12th to 17th May 2009
COMENIUS – 12th to 17th May 2009
With thanks to:
Werder Bremen, Bremer Sport Club, Wassersport Verein Woltmershausen, Europaschule SZ Utbremen, Europa Punkt Bremen, Jakob Bieger, Susanne Otzen, Könecke Fleischwaren
2/1/09
Minutes of the Comenius Conference in Château-du-Loir
21st to 25th January 2009
PARTICIPANTS
Aywaille (BE): Collette Franck, Jacqueline Vanstalle, Christiane
Château du Loir (F): Chrystelle Capdecomme, Stéphane Duarte, Patricia Guitton
Ourense (ES): Elisa Álvarez Fernández, Raquel Pato Lorenzo, Almudena
Alonso García, Roberto Fernández López
Bremen (GER) : Andrea Holzinger, Christian Braun, Frauke Eitmann, Christel
Spielhoff, Irene Janoschek
AGENDA
- Final presentation of the program
- Final Result
- Visit to Germany
- Europass
Final presentation of the program
Chrystelle Capdecomme and Stéphane Duarte presented the program (see individual file).
Final Result
Elisa Alvarez pointed out that the final result will be a CD /DVD containing the blog.
She explained that each country works on their own on the main topic. This is due to individual possibilities of each participating school.
Then each country presented their plans:
SPAIN
They are going to create a series of short films, explaining different possibilities of leisure activities in Ourense, including interviews with English subtitles, short documentary films, and so on.
GERMANY
Andrea informed about their plans. They will proceed with writing texts on leisure possibilities as already started and seen on the blog.
They have also already distributed the questionnaire on leisure activities. A group of students will evaluate them and create a presentation. This will as well be available on the blog.
For the future they might also make interviews. The form of presentation is yet unknown but the idea of creating a video is likely.
BELGIUM
Colette tells us that interviews and a questionnaire have been done, but texts on them have to be created.
She presents their plan of creating a small book on the negative aspects of leisure time, focusing on 3 main questions, including drawings and a photo report.
Topics:
1 - Abuse of alcohol
2 - Abuse of TV
3 - Abuse of new technologies (computers)
The positive aspects, such as basketball, horse riding, swimming, dancing, going out and shopping, will appear in a photo report.
Jacqueline talks about her collaboration with the science teacher of their school respecting the physical consequences dealing with this topic. Related to this activity they plan to visit a Museum in Liège, where they will get information about former leisure activities, their history and traditions.
FRANCE
Chrystelle informs us about the workshops they have set up in France. The students work in different workshops and later presented their work themselves involving the partners (students and teachers). They are going to create a newspaper on current leisure activities and during the workshop we got extracts of what was already initiated, articles written by the participating students and teachers as well, concerning their leisure activities, as for example TV series, weekend or holiday trips, sports, computer and social networking websites (e.g. facebook), expectations of the COMENIUS project, etc.
Visit to Germany
Germany proposed the partners to arrive on Tuesday 12 May in the evening to make it possible to start with the programme on Wednesday 13 May in the morning. Departure will be on Sunday 17 May.
France and Spain can make this possible. Belgium might just be able to arrive on Wednesday. We still decided on this arrangement and Germany will keep this in mind when setting up their programme.
It is possible for France to bring along 7 students instead of 4. For 2 student we can not yet guarantee 100% a placement in a family of our students but we will definitely accommodate them privately (e.g. Irene’s house).
They presented as well the possibility to accommodate teachers at Townside, a low-budget backpacker-hostel in Bremen (http://www.townside.de/english/).
Europass
For Germany it is possible to get Europass mobility certificates for the travelling students. This information has already been passed on to all partners by email. The Spanish national agency does not accept Comenius for Europass mobility. So each country has to check on their own whether they will get this for their students (see email on EUROPASS).
We would furthermore very much like to thank all the French people involved in this visit for making this a succesful and inspiring visit and exchange. All the more as this was the first time with students meeting each other.
by Elisa and Andrea
12/20/08
Press release - meeting in Ourense (Spain)
Here are some extracts from the local press:
La Región - Xornal Escolar, 26th november 2008
La Región - Xornal Escolar, 26th november 2008
12/1/08
Minutes of the Comenius Conference in Ourense
19th – 23rd November 2008
Participants:
Ourense (ES) Elisa Alvarez, Raquel Pato, Hortensia Alonso, Almudena Alonso, Carmen Babarro (and various others)
Chateau du Loir (F) Stéphane Duarte, Patricia Guitton
Aywaille (BE) Collete Franck, Jacqueline Vanstalle, Sabine Rennotte
Bremen (D) Andrea Holzinger, Christian Braun, Saskia Laackmann, Werner Fabisch
Agueda (Portugal) Eleuterio Santos
AGENDA
Presentation of video made by Spanish students in cooperation with Casa de Xuventude
Opening of meeting
Fixing next meetings
Organisation of student exchange
Discussion of project outcome and communication exchange
A group of Spanish students who run an association for promoting and making short films presented their short film (Sueños reales – Real Dreams). They informed about their associaton, their future projects and cooperation with the youth center "Casa de Xuventude“. There followed a discussion with them about the finances and the total amount of time they spent for realizing this film and for work in their association. They then explained also some other films of them which are accessible on You tube (http://es.youtube.com/user/Symonathus) and also on http://www.producciones-atcc.blogspot.com/ .
Meeting opened by project coordinator Elisa Alvarez.
France: week from 17th to 25th January 2009
Germany: week from 9th to 16th May 2009
Belgium: 11th to 15th November 2009
Spain: final meeting in 2010 (including a trip to Portugal which was sadly not admitted and the initiating force of the project)
3 to 4 students chosen by the partners accompany the teachers. Students accommodate each other. As some German students might be slightly older the Belgians also offered to accommodate them in their homes for the Belgium meeting in case there are difficulties. The students should be chosen not just by their language ability but by social skills, their dedication, freetime interest or social background. Students will be prepared for their visit by an exchange of personal profiles written by them. This should inform about their leisure interest and practice too.
Spain distributed a questionnaire on leisure activities. The schools will continue working on that, maybe readjusting it for their purposes and exchange the results. Belgium further suggested to widen this with incorporating others than students (e.g. relatives, parents...).
Concerning the future final product we suggested to exchange our work via a blog. Elisa will set up the blog and send us the password. This allows all the participating countries to put on their material. We also decided to have a "What’s On“ category for an exchange of information of current activities of the region. This allows the users to decide freely on the material they want to study further and students can access it in their freetime as well. During the exchange students should write diaries. The idea of a diary on leisure activities will be taken up further and can be realised in different ways according to teacher’s or students’ interest and needs. (audio, audiovisual or written form)
All the material produced in those 2 years can then be put on a CD-Rom or DVD with a user-friendly navigation.The idea of using Skype for students’ communication was discussed. It is dependent on the student’s timetable and their technical equipment. That’s why we decided to keep this in mind for future but prefer for now to let them communicate via a chat. This also can be an option once the students got to know each other as our experience tells us that they initially prefer to write in the foreign language.
Germany asked the partners to regularly communicate via email to shortly inform others about their present work (not in detail) because otherwise we will maybe quickly lose the communal spirit in the daily routine.
Apart from this meeting Spain did a great job in this initial meeting. They managed to let the partners get to know each other in a very relaxed and friendly atmosphere. They gave us an insight into their school and the freetime activities of the region plus we got to know the associated partners. We were not just informed but experienced Ourense. This was done in a very hearty way and we were never stressed out but inspired. So the foundation for a good project is laid and it is up to us what will be the outcome.
by Andrea Holzinger
First meeting in Ourense - November, 19th - 23rd
PROGRAM 1st MEETING IN OURENSE
COMENIUS – 19th to 23rd november 2008
With our best thanks to:
- Concello de Ourense, Delegación de Educación
- Casa da Xuventude (Rosa and Benito)
- Escola de Gaitas
- Escuela Oficial de Idiomas (Francisco J. Trevejo, Teresa Villar)
11/29/08
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