Are You Lost Yet Booklet

AREYOULOSTYET

St r u ga, 2021

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You h old a book let in you r h an d cr eat ed du r in g a 10 day you t h exch an ge in St r u ga Nor t h M acedon ia. Th e exch an ge t ook place 21.-31.10.2021 on t h e t opic of cr eat in g an on lin e m agazin e or Zin e. Par t icipan t s f r om Est on ia, Belgiu m , Nor t h M acedon ia an d Lit h u an ia cam e t oget h er t o sh ar e t h eir cu lt u r e, in t er est s, sk ills an d k n ow ledge, all of w h ich w e collect ed in t o a 34 page Zin e r epr esen t in g all of u s as a gr ou p an d each of u s as an in dividu al cit izen of t h e Eu r opean Un ion .

In t h is book let w e h ave gat h er ed an in t r o abou t Er asm u s+, t h e pr ogr am t h at m ade t h is en t ir e pr oject possible. Som e of ou r par t icipan t s w r ot e u p t est im on ials abou t t h eir exper ien ce in Er asm u s+.

Som e in f or m at ion an d ou r per son al exper ien ces in Nor t h M acedon ia, t h e cou n t r y t h at h ost ed ou r pr oject an d pr ovided t h e cu lt u r al lan dscape t o m ake all t h is possible. As t h e m ain t opic of t h is exch an ge w as lear n in g h ow t o cr eat e an on lin e m agazin e w e give t h is t opic t h r ee seper at e pieces, lear n in g f r om t h e local exper t s, in spir in g cr eat ivit y an d t h e act u al pr ocess w e w en t t h r ou gh t o ach ieve ou r goal.

Erasmus+ is an EU Commission funded programme, established in 1987.The programme offers mobility and cooperation opportunities in higher education, vocational education and training, school education (including early childhood education and care), adult education, youth and sport.

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This is actually my first project so far, and I am enjoying every part of it. I like to be among young people, be creative and also learn new things, so this is the perfect opportunity for me to be productive and have fun at the same time. The creative day and visiting Ohrid were the best experiences I've had so far, and I am looking forward to many new projects in the future.

Marija

In the beginning I was disappointed with the project. I thought it was something completely different at the beginning. But my opinion changed as the project went on. I learned a new way to learn different subjects, I found myself in conversations with people I would never have otherwise, I had a lot of fun and learned more than I could have expected.

Roger

It all started with the great need to learn, to travel and to meet other people. The great program for youth people that changed my life completely, and gave me an opportunity to grow on different levels: personally, professionally and mentally. The programme is called Erasmus+. Today I work as a trainer and facilitator, and being a youth worker is my passion in life.

Elena

Ou r you th exch an ge took pl ace in Str u ga, Nor th M acedon ia. Nor th M acedon ia is a l an dl ock ed cou n tr y situ ated in Sou th easter n Eu r ope, bor der in g Bu l gar ia to th e east, Gr eece to th e sou th , Ser bia an d Kosovo to th e n or th , an d Al ban ia to th e west. Th e popu l ation is abou t 1.8 m il l ion . Th e capital city is Sk opje, wh er e m ost of u s en ter ed th e cou n tr y via th e air por t.

W e stayed at th e Sol fer in o h otel in Str u ga. Str u ga is a town with a popu l ation of appr oxim atel y 17 th ou san d, l ocated on th e sh or e of l ak e Oh r id. W e took two tr ips du r in g ou r pr oject, th e fir st on e was to th e town of Oh r id.

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It is a Un esco h er itage site, n ot on l y a pl ace of h istor ic sign ifican ce bu t al so of ou tstan din g n atu r al beau ty . Th e secon d tr ip was to a vil l age cal l ed Vev?an i, wh ich is al so a sel f decl ar ed in depen den t r epu bl ic (a m icr on ation ) with a popu l ation of appr oxim atel y 4000, wh er e we visited th e l ocal spr in gs. Som e of u s even becam e citizen s of Vev?an i Repu bl ic by pu r ch asin g its passpor ts.

W e h ad a t ou r t o Vev ch an i d u r i n g t h e d ay. Ev er y on e l i k ed t h e aw esom e n at u r e an d en joy ed . Som e p eop l e ev en got t h e Vev ch an i p assp or t an d becam e ci t i zen s t o h av e bet t er m em or i es f r om t h e ex p er i en ce. W h en w e cam e back d r aw i n g t h e r i v er of l i f e w i t h Er asm u s w as w h er e ev er y on e ex p r essed t h ei r cr eat i v i t y. Al so l at er w e h ad m or e r ef l ect i on t i m e w h i ch m ad e u s ev al u at e w h at w e l i k ed an d l ear n ed f r om t h e p r oject .

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In this project we developed and improved our creative skills with multiple different activities. We learned to draw people's faces, starting with simple lines and shapes to more complicated and more detailed drawings. Then we made comics with our characters in different languages. It was really fun to make a full story in different languages, that somehow made sense. The next workshop was blackout poetry. We picked words that suited us from already made text from different books. Then using those words we picked out randomly, we created many types of poems. We were given the opportunity to express our eternal state of mind through painting. The last activity of the day was creating origami from small colorful pieces of paper. The next day after learning the process of creating magazines we tried to create fake news with out of context articles and pictures from magazines in different languages. For our last creative activity we made our own small exhibition in the restaurant and outside for everyone to enjoy.

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We learned to how to plan/make an online magazine. We had Jolanta Ciopcinska and Selina Niemi come in teaching us how they made their own magazine called Voices. We also had a journalist named Shefkije Alasani come and let us question her. In the process we got to know the pros and cons of writing articles We all had our own section we wrote in in magazines. the magazine and had to research about the things we chose to write about. We learned to set deadlines so we could make it easier to manage everyone's part. We also learned how others made their magazine. The photos in the magazine should always be free of copyright and should always have the source near the photo, it should be written as a story not just question and answers. When writing about something you should think about the 5 W?s and H rule (what, who, when, where, why and how).

The main text should all be the same font and size. The layout should be Title, preface (small text with overall information) then the main text.

Don?t use crazy backgrounds they make it harder for the reader to see the content on the page. We also had to give them to people to proofread to make sure we wouldn?t make mistakes. The back cover can be used as advertisement and dissemination.

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After gaining information from our local experts about the realities of publishing an online magazine and about the journalistic process in general we divided into groups based on interest to work on our individual parts of the magazine. We had one person responsible for proofreading, one for design and one as a manager to make sure everyone is on pace and keeping track of the number of pages we?ll end up having and in general keeping people focused

Everyone spent between two hours and most of the day working on their content, the topic of which they selected themselves to insure they would have enough interest and passion for the topic.

Onve people were done with their content it was sent over for proofreading to ensure correct spelling and grammar as well as keeping the language more or less consistent across the magazine. As he content came in design was constantly working on the layout and designs of the separate articles, this was the longest part of the process as it stretched on into the next day and many different people made adjustments to their own articles and made suggestions on other peoples ones.

We used Lucidpress, a paid for service for designing magazines as well as many other types of content. As we weren?t very familiar with the program to start with the beginning of the process was slow but as we got into the groove we managed to do changes as soon as the thought of the change arrived.

In the end we exported the pdf version of the magazine 10 times because of small fixes and edits to the design and layout that came up on the exporting process.

This was the process in which we managed to make our online magazine Are You Lost Yet Struga 2021 in around two days.