COMENIUS - SCHOOL PARTNERSHIPS

“Environmental Heritage: how to protect it?”

Project Meeting in Azores, October 2009

1 – LOGO:

Activity was made and well done during the first year of the project.

Logos are available on the webpage and blog.

2 - LANGUAGE GUIDE:

Activity was made and well done during the first year of the project.

Language guide is available on the webpage and blog.

Print: each school is free to find the best way to print it.

3 – BLOG - http://goaenvironment.webcindario.com/:

Activity to be continued but each school should improve it participation, respecting the blog calendar as possible and writing more comments. So each school will address the blog for 2 (two) weeks. In those two weeks, they must write an article in English (every article should be signed) related with two main topics:

1 - Climate change (from 1st November 2009 until 31st January 2010);

2 – Invasive species (from 1st February to 30th April 2010)

and the possibility of moderating all comments - 1 (one) moderator per school.

Each school would work only one in every 12 (twelve) weeks. Sweden will start to write the first article, then Azores, Spain, Romania, Turkey, Italy and so on.

But in the case that you have an interesting article that you want to include in the blog, and it is not supposed to be your week, you can also do it without any problem whatsoever.

4 - PAMPHLETS:

Activity should be concluded this school year.

To remember: The pamphlets will be the result of the study of places with environmental importance which will have the most relevant environmental heritage (natural and built) elements of those areas (e.g. fauna, flora, historical and architectural aspects, …).

Each school does the pamphlets in their mother tongue and who thinks it is very important translates it into English. Spain and Azores will do the pamphlets in English. During the students and teachers´ exchanges all the information should be explain in English in order to achieve communication and languages skills and competences.

Print: each school is free to find the best way to print the pamphlets.

Each school puts the pamphlets on the webpage if possible.

5 – NEWSPAPER:

 Articles in English with titles - Articles with the names of authors - Photos with subtitles - Completed articles as doc-files, pictures or photos separated as jpg-files (500 Kb maximum) - Number of pages: we will try 3 ( maximum) per school. The newspaper should have a pair number of pages (12, 14 or 16, not 15…)

 Deadline for articles and pictures: 30th March 2010. Each school must send all the material to Romania until 30th March 2010. Until then Romania sends mails to all schools asking about the material for the newspaper

 Each school will decide how to distribute it and print it if necessary - Put the newspapers in the webpage of the project – PDF file

6 – WEBPAGE:

Webpage created but should be improved (http://gaia.istituto-scalcerle.it/). Each school should improve its participation. First read the Gaia manual (available on the webpage – Europa; Prints; language guide and after info for webmasters) and in case of any doubt, send a mail to Beppi - Italy (beppi.zambon@tiscali.it).

Italian’s suggestion: to put pictures or photos with 72 Kb maximum; 250 pixels maximum. Italia can send mails to all schools asking about the material for the webpage. 7 - e-twinning Platform:

All schools are registered on the e-twinning Platform (www.etwinning.net).

Swedish’s suggestion: chat (after the meeting about climate change – December). Jan will be in charge of it.

8 - OTHERS IDEAS FOR ACTIVITIES:

 Calendar 2010: each school send to Spain 3 photos (1 of the school with students and 2 with typical places). Each school also sends 2 sentences in English and mother tongue related with the topic environment.

 Deadline: Silvia will contact with Manuel and give some feedback to all the group.

9 - EXCHANGES:

a) first year: mobility made and very successful.

b) second year:

Sweden – Azores October 2009 - 3 students Italy - Azores October 2009 – 2 students Azores – Italy March 2010 ( 6th to 13th ) – 3 students Sweden - Italy March 2010 ( 6th to 13th ) - ??? Italy - Sweden May 2010 - ??? Romania - Turkey April (19th to 23rd ) - ??? Turkey - Romania May ( 24th to 29th ) - ??? Spain - Turkey April (19th to 23rd ) - 2 teachers

Suggestions: - Students´ Exhibition at school during the exchanges; - Whenever a school is doing a students exchange with one partner, the host school can also host teachers from others schools at the same time.

10 – OTHERS ISSUES

 Communication and Cooperation:

Should be regular and fast; It is important to send mail to all partners at the same time.

 Evaluation of the project:

Progress Report (30 June 2009): Evaluation of school year 2008/2009: done; Final: Final Report (30 September 2010).

More information, each school should contact with their own National Agency.

 Strategies of Dissemination of the project: social communication; school newspaper; publications; cooperation with local companies or others local schools; (…)

 Others issues: we must put and use the official logo of the EU in all the products