WEB2CLASS COMENIUS-PROJECT
ACTIVITIES AND MATERIALS PRODUCED • Setting up of several Web tools like a website, a blog, a wiki, an e-magazine, a podcasting site and a social network; • Work sessions with students about podcasting, and storytelling; • Several presentations, videos and Voicethreads about several topics related to climate change; • Workshop in Thessaloniki on climate change for students involved in the project; • Conference on renewable energies for students and teachers; • Web 2.0 lecture for Chinese educators with the participation of students showing the use of smartboard technology; • Field activities and lab experiments with the students about the issues on climate change.
Jan Amos Komenský (1592-1670) was a Czech teacher, scientist, educator and writer. He is often considered as the founder of modern education for proposing an articulated universal education system in which every man had the right to access knowledge. The Comenius programme is one of the four pillars of the European Comission that sustains the LifeLong Learning Programme. The Programme is based on a decision by the European Parliament and the European Council that was signed on the 15th November 2006. It aims at implementing an action programme between 2007 and 2013 in the field of life long learning, called LongLife Learning Programme.
Multilateral partnership project, supported by the European Comission within the LifeLong Learning Programme.
Project Web2Class Web tools of the Project Website
Digital skills
Schools involved Coodinating School Max-Ulrich-von-Drechsel-Realschule Regenstauf
Partner Schools • Escola Secundária Manuel Teixeira Gomes, PT • Richard-Wagner-Gymnasium, GE • Kirkwall Grammar School, UK • Gymnasium Purkersdorf, AU • I.E.S. Alfonso Moreno, SP • Svendborg Gymnasium, DK • Neumann János Számítastechnikai Szakközépiskola, HU • 1st Geniko Lykeio Mnemenis Thessaloniki, GR
The main objective of the partnership is to ensure that Web 2.0 tools make an impact upon teaching and learning in the European classroom. Expertise in the use of Web 2.0 tools should be developed to a level that the skills taught will produce a positive impact in the curricula delivered across Europe, but also ensure that students will be able to contribute effectively to the virtual workplaces of tomorrow and develop competences for lifelong learning.
Blog Podcast
http://web2class.webs.com http://web2class.edublogs.org http://web2class.posterous.com
Magazine
http://tinyurl.com/bw5dhe
Social networking
http://web2class.ning.com/
We will focus on contents that support intercultural learning and centre on two thematic areas which are in the European focus at present: 2008 as the year of European Intercultural dialogue and of Expo 2008 in Zaragoza, Spain (theme of water and sustainable development) and the world climate conference 2009 in Copenhagen, Denmark. Through working in an interactive learning environment we will address issues brought about by climate change and of sustainable development in the first year and issues that arise through the mobility of workforces across Europe and the subsequent socio-economic implications of such migrations in the second year. We expect that cooperation via the www and face-to-face will be an incentive for autonomous and cooperative learning and help pupils become aware of today’s eminent problems and tackle them constructively.
eTwinning is an action that supports projects between at least two schools of two different countries. These projects are conceived and developed using information and communication technologies. One of the main goals of eTwinning is the development of digital skills among teachers and their use in education.