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Project
form
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PROJECT
TITLE |
On-Line Communication amongst European Schools |
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Short
Summary |
Knowledge in the area of the New Technologies has become a basic
requirement in today's labour world. Thus to provide the
students with some sort of formation in that area must be one of
the concerns of today's education, whatever their curriculum.
How to handle the New Technologies in contexts of communication,
how to use the internet to communicate with others, to look for
information and to do search work are valuable skills for the
students' future working life/career.
In a multilingual and multicultural Europe to know foreign
languages becomes a valuable skill for European citizens, not
only to communicate with the others, but also as an
integrating part of their civic, democratic and human education.
The learning of foreign languages plays an important role in an
education process which goes beyond the linguistic skills,
involving aspects connected with the one's personal and social
development. |
| School:
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Escola Secundária Braamcamp Freire-Pontinha |
| Country: |
Portugal |
| Partner
schools:
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Open to any school willing to participate. |
| Classes:
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Open to any student willing to collaborate. |
| Project
team: |
Julieta Lopes, João Carreiro. |
| Project
coordinator:
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Julieta Lopes |
| Contact
person (name,
surname, e-mail address): |
Julieta Lopes- julietalopes@mail.telepac.pt |
| Link
to the
Project:
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Future
School web page |
| Collaborative
work at school:
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Open to any teacher willing to participate |
| Technological
tools:
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Microsoft Internet Explorer; Microsoft Word; Microsoft
Frontpage; Microsoft Photo Editor, Microsoft Excel; HP Precision
Scan LTX; Microsoft Power Point; Microsoft Outlook Express;
others. |
| Socrates
Programme:
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YES
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NO o |
| Distance
Collaboration (among
Partners): |
YES
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NO o |
| RESOURCES |
Internal
(from your school) |
External
(outside your school) |
Costs |
| Human |
Participating teachers
and students. |
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| Facilities
(rooms, labs, etc) |
Computer room;
Library;
Copy room |
Municipality of Odivelas. |
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Equipment
(PC,
videorecorder, cameras...) |
Computer;
Skanner;
Printer;
Fax
machine;
Copy machine. |
Personal computers;
Personal skanners;
Personal printers. |
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| Funds |
School budget;
ESP funds. |
Socrates Programme;
Municipality of Odivelas. |
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| Other |
Internet resources. |
Internet resources. |
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Objectives |
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Overall objectives |
To reinforce the European dimension of Education;
To know other European Educational Systems, other pedagogical
practices and other European schools;
To involve the school community in activities in the context of
the European Union. |
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Specific
objectives |
To learn how to layout an on-line school newspaper;
To make use of the New Technologies in an educational context;
To establish on-line communication among European schools. |
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Study
skills |
To learn how to use the specific software
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To improve communication skills in English. |
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Social
skills |
To contribute to the development of the idea of European
Citizenship;
To encourage
the spirit of cooperation, autonomy and participation/
intervention;
To promote intercultural relationships. |
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Subjects involved
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Foreign language;
Native language;
New technologies. |
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PROJECT
DESCRIPTION |
| Duration: |
School
year:
From:
To:
To be continued. |
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Children worked on the Project |
for ______ hours a
day
/ a
week
/ a
month
Impossible to quantify, since it is to be carried out as an
extra-curricular activity. |
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Teachers worked on the Project
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for ______ hours a
day
/ a
week
/ a
month
: Impossible to quantify, since it is to be carried out as
extra-lessons work |
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Work
has been done
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in
the class / at home
Work has been done both in class/school and at home . |
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Short description of how the Project has been
carried out
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1)
How the work will be organized either in class and at home:
It is expected to be carried out either as team/group work.
or individual work.:
Students’ work is expected to be tutored by the responsible
teachers.
2) How the work will be shared among participants:
All
participating schools are expected to work together on the
project development , namely in the building of the newspaper's
on-line edition and collaborating on it;
During the inter-schools visits partners will work together in
defining work strategies, as well as on the evaluation of the
work they are doing.
Participating teachers and students will share the outcome of
their work on the common web pages.
3) How resources are to be used/managed:
Human resources:
Tutorial, team, cooperative work. It will also be provided the
necessary computer qualification to the participating teachers
and students.
Material resources
will be managed in a way to make possible the project
accomplishment and allow all the intervenients’ participation. |
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USE
OF TECHNOLOGICAL TOOLS
Short
description of how technological tools have been
used |
Technological
tools
(videocamera/camera/digital
camera/computer/Internet/scanner/printer) |
Computer, internet, scanner, printer, photocopy machine, others |
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Users
(teachers/children/experts): |
Teachers and students. |
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Where
(at home/at school):
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At school and at home. |
How |
To collect and work out information, to write
articles/texts/reports, to make the on-line paper, to
intercommunicate, etc.
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| WORKPLAN |
| Activity |
Responsable |
Expected
outcome |
When
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Work meetings with the partner schools to organise, carry out,
and evaluate the common work; |
Coordinating teacher |
Planning, coordination and evaluation work |
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Computer formation |
Coordinating teacher |
To know how to use specific software |
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Establishment of contact with other European schools, inviting
them to participate on the On-line edition of “What’s Up?!”; |
Project team |
To get partners |
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Creation of an on-line Edition of the European Club Newspaper
"What's Up?!".*
* "What's Up?!" is a school newspaper in English that has been
published for ten years, under the coordination of teacher João
Carreiro. Along these years the newspaper has counted on the
collaboration of students of other European Schools (Italy;
Germany; Poland; Cyprus; Romania), working as a link between
those schools and ours. The newspaper covers a wide range of
subjects, mostly centred on the
students' interests.
With the creation of an online-edition we expect to enlarge the
newspaper's European dimension, opening it also to the
participation of other European teachers. |
Project team |
On-line edition of the school newspaper, What’s Up?!;
Intercommunication amongst European Schools.
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Use of oral and written conversation sites on the internet to
establish intercommunication among partners. |
Project team |
Intercommunication amongst European Schools |
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Use of new strategies (namely educational software) to improve
the learning and teaching of English as a foreign language;.
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Linguistic coordinator |
Language skills improvement
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Use of evaluation forms to evaluate the Project impact. |
Project team |
Evaluation |
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| PROBLEMS/BARRIERS |
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| WAYS
TO OVERCOME
PROBLEMS/BARRIERS |
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| EVALUATION |
| Evaluation
worksheets of operative
objectives |
It will be done using evaluation forms/tables to evaluate the
project progress and its impact and relevance amongst students
and teachers, at the school and, eventually, at the local
community. |
| Feedback
from students |
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| Feedback
from parents |
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| Feedback
from teachers |
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| Other |
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OUTCOME
DISSEMINATION |
| Wall-charts
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| Article
on school/local/district
magazine |
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| Brochure |
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| Multimedia
products |
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| Exhibition |
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| Website |
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| Seminar/Panel
session |
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| Other |
Through the on-line edition of "What's Up?!";
The school internet page;
Participation in thematic shows. |
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REFERENCE
BOOKS |
Manuais de utilização de software específico |
I allow to
publish the above information on the ECOLE website
(www.ecolenet.nl) : YES
o NO
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