Project workshops

• Date: Thursday 5th – Sunday 8th November 2009
• Organizer: Arte-Via Cooperativa Artística e Editorial
• Participants: 38 (a Turkey partner was absent due to the family reasons)

• Information pack for the participants
• Lousã Wikipedia page
• Google maps: Lousã

List of workshop participants is available to registered users only.

Read the minutes of our first meeting.

All files have reduced resolution, not suitable for making paper photos! Thanks to José Antonio for these memories!

More photos can be found in some participants Facebook albums e.g. by Lukáš.

All videos have small resolution (320x180px) FLASH VIDEO format, in higher quality it was distributed on DVD. Files can be downloaded and previewed in the separate page.

• Date: Thursday 15th – Sunday 18th April 2010
• Organisers:
  • Ufficju Ta’ Konsulenza tal-Inginerija MacDAC, Iklin
  • St Theresa College, Birkirkara, MT-Malta
• Participants: 37 (Ireland was absent because of the closed airspace)

Informations for participants (page of organisers)

List of workshop participants is available to registered users only.

Read the minutes of the second project meeting.

• Blogging workshop: a CD with information by Mr. Joseph Micallef (a tutor)
• a social network for teachers focusing on Education and ICT in Education
• Video making workshop presentation by Mr. Raymond Bonnici (a tutor)

Partner's presentations:

• Tunahan (Turkey): Andirin Public Education Centre
  • andirin_public_education_centre.pdf

• Daniela (Romania): Web 2.0 and Pedagogy
  • eu_lets_ro_web2.pdf

• Jan, Veronika, Daniela (Czech Republic): Voting Systems in Teaching and Pedagogy
  • voting_system_malta_2010.pdf

• Franco (Malta): Entrepreneurship
  • entrepreneurship_review_franco.pdf
• Jonathan (Malta): Supporting Entrepreneurship Through Creativity & Innovation Methods
  • lets_creativity_malta_jcb.pdf
• Abdullah (UK): A study of methodology in teaching Entrepreneurism
  • some_methodology_in_teaching_entrepreneurism_jpe.pdf

Jonathan's album

All files have reduced resolution, not suitable for making paper photos! Thanks to José Antonio for these memories!

More photos can be found in some participants Facebook albums e.g. by Lukáš

All videos have small resolution (320x180px) FLASH VIDEO format, in higher quality it will be distributed on DVD. Files can be downloaded and previewed in the separate page.

• Date: 21st – 24th October, Olomouc
• Organizers:
  • Palacký University Olomouc
  • Joanna Pinewood Education Limited
• Participants: 45

Information about location, travelling etc.

Read the minutes of our third meeting.

• Team building (Daniela Navrátilová, Veronika Kainzová, František Látal; Palacký Univerzity, Czech Republic)
  • benefits_of_the_team_work.ppt
• Video analysis (Jan Řiha; Palacký Univerzity, Czech Republic)
  • External Link|Tracker: Free Video Analysis and Modeling Tool for Physics Education (official page for download)
  • Tracker files: cars.trk, free_fall.trk, pendulum.trk
  • videos: cars.mov, free_fall.mov, pendulum.mov
• Data logging (Lukáš Richterek; Palacký Univerzity, Czech Republic)
  • data_logging_101022.pdf

This section was moderated by Jonathan Borg (MacDAC Engineering Consultancy Bureau, Malta)

• Working creatively in a project – older unemployed academics work for local enterprises (Angelika Grüne; Akademie 2. Lebenshälfte im Land Brandengurg e.V.,Germany)
  • campus_barum.ppt
• Adult Training on 1 : 1 Classroom Technology (Claudine Slater; Saint Theresa College, Malta)
  • lets_claudine_slater_presentation.ppt
• Search to Learn (José María Calvarro and Olga Martín; Centro de Educación de Adultos, Caceres, Spain)
  • from_oil_to_soap.ppt
  • galileo_folder.ppt
• Workshop on Solar Panels (Krzysztof Bahrynowski; Joanna Pinewood Education Limited,Great Britain)
  • investigating_solar_panels_for_teaching_electricity.ppt
• Let's create universe (Ester Simões and Tiago Norberto, Portugal)

This section was moderated by Mahmut Develi (Andirin Halk Egitimi Merkezi,Turkey)

• Workshop on numeracy (Krzysztof Bahrynowski; Joanna Pinewood Education Limited,Great Britain)
  • basic_numeracy_revision_for_everyone_revision_aritmetica_basica_para_todos.doc
  • calculating_ratios_in_cooking.ppt
• Teaching binary numbers (Kevin Francis Harrington; County Dublin Vocational Education Committee, Ireland)
• teaching_binary_numbers_-_using_vak_learning_styles.ppt
• Helping parents to learn again … some mathematics (Gabriel Taga and Nicolae Angelescu; Universitatea Spiru Haret Bucuresti – CTID Ploieşti, Romania)
  • four_squares_de_modificat.ppt
  • why_learn_thales_theorem.ppt
• Workshop on Gardening (Aidan Cooper; Joanna Pinewood Education Limited, Great Britain)
  • the_dormant_seed2.doc
  • Aidan's video aidan_agriculture.flv

All files have reduced resolution, not suitable for making paper photos! Thanks to Olga Martín for these memories!

All videos have small resolution (427x240px) FLASH VIDEO format, in higher quality it will be distributed on DVD. Files can be downloaded and previewed in the separate page.

• Date: Thursday 31st March – Sunday 3rd April 2011
  • Actual meeting days: 1st and 2nd April
  • Arrival day: 31st March
  • Departure Day: 3rd April
• Organizer: SPIRU HARET UNIVERSITY – CT Ploieşti
• Topics: Digital Skills, Learning to Learn, Foreign Languages
• Agenda:
  • Workshop agenda
  • Management meetings agenda
  • Friday workshops annotation
• Ploieşti city:
  • Ploieşti city hall official website
  • Ploieşti Wikipedia page
  • Google maps: Ploieşti
• Hotel: Prahova Plaza Hotel
  • People in rooms
  • Airport transport schedule
• Activities place: Colegiul National Mihai Viteazul (Michael the Brave National College), 300 m from the hotel and 200 m from Spiru Haret Centre)
• Meals: in two restaurants 100m from the College – first two in KS pub and the last two in BULEVARD restaurant (see Google maps)
• Saturday trip: Peles castle 65 km north from Ploiesti, recently voted among the most beautiful 10 castle in Europe (Wikipedia page)

• Presentations template
• banner for MS Word
• Questionaire for learners
• Questionaire for staff

• Gabriel Taga, Cristina Ionescu-Marian: One letter – Ten sounds – One world
• Daniela Ionescu, Roxana Iordache: Creating interactive presentations
  • Supporting material: E-learning
• Mahmut Develi, Başak Akı : Teaching Speaking

• Malta (Jonathan Borg and Franco Curmi, MECB): Virtual and augmented reality in education
  • Supporting material: 10min step by step explanation of how to do your own augmented reality of any 3D objects for example atoms, particles etc. on Youtube.com
• Czech republic (Jan Říha, Veronika Kainzová and Daniela Navrátilová): Stephen Wolfram and Mathematica
  • Supporting material: Wolfram alpha computational knowledge tool
• Ireland (Kevin Harrington): I-CANDO. Teaching Digital Skills to Adult Learners: A Case Study

• Spain (Jose M. Calvarro Fernandez and Jose Antonio Sanchez Garcia): Reading Don Quixote
  • Supporting material – videos:

    Filename	Filesize	Last modified
    arabe.mov	3.2 MiB	2011/03/31 09:11
    bulgaro.mov	1.8 MiB	2011/03/31 09:11
    irlandes.mov	4.0 MiB	2011/03/31 09:11

  • Videos: project partners reading
• Portugal (F. Javier Barragán): Cultural Studies and Italian Language teaching
  • Supporting material: An Italian Song
• Germany (Marga Taylor, Angelika Grüne and Gisela Pasenow): Learning to learn

• Read the minutes of our fourth meeting.
• Read the Aidan Cooper's Case Study of the Poiesti Adult Learners workshop.
• Read the Maria Perry's minutes from two meetings within related projects.

All files have reduced resolution, not suitable for making paper photos! Thanks to José Antonio for these memories!

Some photos are shared by meeting participants, e.g. via Facebook:

• Lukáš Richterek

All videos have small resolution (427x240px) FLASH VIDEO format. File can be downloaded and previewed in the separate page.

• Date: Wednesday 29th June – Saturday 2nd July 2011
  • Actual meeting days: 30th June and 1st July
  • Arrival day: 29th June
  • Departure Day: 2nd July
• Organizer: County Dublin Vocational Education Committee (Co-ordinator)
• Topics:
  1. Interpersonal, intercultural and social competences, and civic competence
  2. Communication in the mother tongue
• Dublin city:
  • Dublin in Wikipedia
  • Tallaght – place of the meeting
  • Tallaght in google maps
• Hotel:
  • Maldron Hotel in Tallaght (booking reference: STIL290611, Stillorgan College for Further Education Group)
  • Location
  • Flybus: straight bus from the airport to Tallaght
• Meals (please, let Kevin know about any special dietary requirements)
  • Menus for the Thursday 30/06/2011 and Friday 01/07/2011 dinners
• Place of meeting activities: County Dublin’s Vocational Education Committees Head Office in Tallaght
• Agenda:
  • Provisional schedule
  • Agenda leaflet
  • Framework of enjoyable learning
  • Template for presentations

• Let's learn some basic Irish

• Creative Approaches to Communications (Rosemarie McGill, Ireland)
• Adult Learning in St Theresa College (Aaron Borg, Malta)
• Let’s Promote Citizenship through Volunteering (alias Portugal for foreigners) (Arte Via, Portugal)

• Cross Cultural Communication (Enda Kenny, Ireland)
  • Cross-Cultural Communication – workshop outline
  • Cross-Cultural Communication ­– group work material
• Overview of European projects (Denise Shannon, Leargas, Ireland)
• Background to LET’s Do It Project (Kevin Harrington, coordinator, Ireland)
• The Project’s Website (Lukáš Richterek, Czech Republic and Jonathan Borg, Malta)
• The Evaluation of the Project and Development of Book (Frank Fabri, Malta)
• The Questionnaires and the Framework of Enjoyable Learning Approaches (Kevin Harrington, coordinator, Ireland)

• Read the minutes of our fifth meeting.

Some photos are shared by meeting participants, e.g. via Picasa, Facebook, …:

• José Antonio
• Lukáš Richterek

All videos have small resolution (427x240px) FLASH VIDEO format. File can be downloaded and previewed in the separate page.