August 2016
P y h ä j o e A.V.I.T.A.E n K u u l u m i s e t – 2 3 . 4 . 2 0 17
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Social media By Ema Bujnakova, Slovakia Last week I read an interesting article about the pros and cons of social media. There is no doubt that social media has a huge influence on young people. I must say that it doesn’t only affect young people, but people of all ages - my mother spends more time on social media than I do. Why does she spend so much time there? Because she is connected with people important to her job. This is really a great feature of social media, bringing people together that are interested in the same things as you are. Thanks to my mother, I have explored Twitter lately and was surprised at how interesting it can be. Of course I use Facebook, YouTube and Instagram too, but Twitter is something new for me. I have discovered such amazing resources for recipes there. It is easy, just write the hashtag with the food you want to explore and there are
thousands of tweets with information. It is also easy to follow interesting people, react to their posts and connect with them. We all know Facebook and its power. I used to spend hours and hours on Facebook, posting, but most of all chatting with friends. It is very useful to go to Facebook when you need to connect with people and reach them very quickly. On the other hand, I spent so much time on Facebook chatting instead of going out with friends. One day I decided to reduce it and it was great. Now I prefer real meetings with friends and talking to them and it really is better. I have also learnt that it is very important to think about what I am going to post or comment. It can be beneficial or dangerous when applying for a job. Did you know that companies check your internet activity? Social networking is nice, but
we need to have a set time to spend on it. There is a danger that you are so involved in reading different posts that you forget to live your own life. There is also a big danger of cyberbullying especially for children. Social media exists and we need to learn how to behave and how to use it to be beneficial and not harmful for us.
AVITAE DAY Hotelova akademia, Slovakia
We decided to organize the AVITAE day on the last day of school in June. It was our task to decide what we would do. We are a team of students who participated in the exchange visits. It was our last year of participating in the project, because next year we will leave our school and will have to prepare for the final exams. We decided to prepare a presentation about AVITAE project and invite all teachers and students to visit our classroom. To make it nice and interesting, we also prepared some sweets and a coffee corner for the teachers, where they had an opportunity to talk to the AVITAE participants and read the AVITAE newspapers. Students and teachers visited out classroom and learnt about our visit to Denmark, Greece, and Tenerife and also about the
visit of all project partners in our school in October. Most interesting and exciting part was talking about staying in the host families and getting in touch with other cultures and ways of life. We presented also our twinspace and the webpage of the project. It was so nice to see the students eager to talk to us and listen to our stories. There is no doubt that they would like to participate in such a project next year. AVITAE project was the most valuable experience that we had during our studies. We learnt not only about innovation and entrepreneurship, but also about our partner countries. We had an opportunity to learn how different and how similar we are, we were able to collaborate and create things together in international teams and it was really amazing.
Made by Jeremia Toppari from Finland.