We hope that you enjoyed the seminar and your stay in the Czech Republic.
Here are some photos and videos from the seminar.
If you want to add some comments, notes or contribute to the discussion go to GUEST BOOK, please.
Comenius team
WELCOME
Welcome to the blog of the Comenius Contact Seminar, Český Krumlov, 6th - 9th November 2008.
We hope that you enjoyed the seminar and your stay in the Czech Republic.
Here are some photos and videos from the seminar.
If you want to add some comments, notes or contribute to the discussion go to GUEST BOOK, please.
Comenius team
We hope that you enjoyed the seminar and your stay in the Czech Republic.
Here are some photos and videos from the seminar.
If you want to add some comments, notes or contribute to the discussion go to GUEST BOOK, please.
Comenius team
Welcome
Welcome to the blog of Comenius Contact Seminar, Český Krumlov, 6th - 9th November 2008.
We hope that you will find some useful information here and get in touch with other participants of the seminar.
Comenius team
We hope that you will find some useful information here and get in touch with other participants of the seminar.
Comenius team
Contact
Narodni agentura pro evropske vzdelavaci programy (National Agency)
Senovazne namesti 24
116 47 Praha 1
Tel.: +420 234 621 121, +420 234 621 120
Fax: +420 234 621 144
www.naep.cz
Katerina Bohacova
e-mail: katerina.bohacova@naep.cz
Senovazne namesti 24
116 47 Praha 1
Tel.: +420 234 621 121, +420 234 621 120
Fax: +420 234 621 144
www.naep.cz
Katerina Bohacova
e-mail: katerina.bohacova@naep.cz
Weather
Czech Republic is situated in a temperate zone, and there are four seasons of approximately all the same length. Temperatures in November are usually 5-10 °C but may fall down below zero at night.
Weather forecast on: http://www.accuweather.com/world-index-forecast.asp?submit=Go&zipcode=Cesky+Krumlov%2C+Czech+Republic
Weather forecast on: http://www.accuweather.com/world-index-forecast.asp?submit=Go&zipcode=Cesky+Krumlov%2C+Czech+Republic
Český Krumlov city
Český Krumlov is a unique architectural jewel, whose importance is underlined by the fact that it was included in the UNESCO List of the World Cultural Heritage in 1992.
Above the meanders of the river Vltava a unique complex of municipal housing developed, mainly in the 16th century, along with an extensive castle and chateau complex, the second largest in the country after the Prague Castle.
The historical seat of the Rosenberg family includes a variety of chateau buildings, the famous Hall of Masks, the unique Baroque theatre, the chateau garden with a Rococo fountain and the summer residence Bellaria with revolving auditorium, where seasonal theatre performances take place. The Cathedral of St. Vitus, a valuable architectural work of the Czech Gothic style, is a significant dominant of the town. Numerous cultural activities contribute to the lively atmosphere of the town, among them the International Music Festival, the Old Music Festival, exhibitions at the Egon Schiele Center, and the Five-Petalled Rose Festival (the rose was a symbol of the Rosenber family).
More information: http://www.ckrumlov.info/docs/en/kaktualita.xml
Above the meanders of the river Vltava a unique complex of municipal housing developed, mainly in the 16th century, along with an extensive castle and chateau complex, the second largest in the country after the Prague Castle.
The historical seat of the Rosenberg family includes a variety of chateau buildings, the famous Hall of Masks, the unique Baroque theatre, the chateau garden with a Rococo fountain and the summer residence Bellaria with revolving auditorium, where seasonal theatre performances take place. The Cathedral of St. Vitus, a valuable architectural work of the Czech Gothic style, is a significant dominant of the town. Numerous cultural activities contribute to the lively atmosphere of the town, among them the International Music Festival, the Old Music Festival, exhibitions at the Egon Schiele Center, and the Five-Petalled Rose Festival (the rose was a symbol of the Rosenber family).
More information: http://www.ckrumlov.info/docs/en/kaktualita.xml
Payment
The organisers will invoice you for these costs before the seminar. In case you do not pay the fee before coming to the seminar, you can pay in cash in the Czech Republic.
Seminar fee (500EUR) will cover organisational costs, conference documents, all meals, 3 nights’ accommodation (from 6th to 9th November 2008 in single rooms) and bus transport during the seminar.
Seminar fee (500EUR) will cover organisational costs, conference documents, all meals, 3 nights’ accommodation (from 6th to 9th November 2008 in single rooms) and bus transport during the seminar.
Workshops
Below you can find short information about three workshops that are going to take place on Saturday 8.11.2008.
Everybody will have the possibility to participate in two of them.
Workshop I.
Scriptorium. The book as an experience
In this workshop participants will play games inspired by ancient and medieval letters. They will be asked to actively experience various activities – card games, creative games, story making or role playing. This workshop shows teachers how to have fun with history of communication.
Ms. Klára Smolíková teaches secondary and college students and teachers of children. She contributed to the establishment of a new department of book studies for librarian students in the Secondary vocational school of commerce, services and crafts in the town of Tabor five years ago. In Prague she teaches a course of media literacy at the Faculty of Education. She writes methodical materials, worksheets and textbooks and she is an author of several children books.
Workshop II.
Using ICT tools in European project
My name is Pavla Sabatkova and I work as a teacher of English and an eTwinning ambasador. The aim of my workshop is to introduce blog as a suitable ICT tool in European project. All the participants will practise using blog to become familiar with editing some text, pictures or videos in the blog. I would like each participant to be able to create his/her own simple blog at the end of the workshop.
Workshop III.
What can library do for you?
There is no discussion about the fact, that libraries are very useful institutions, because they offer connection to many different sources of information. But what they really offer to schools, teachers and pupils/students? Some examples of activities which libraries can do to help you in your work are content of this workshop. We will try to define different types of libraries and focus on their services, especially for schools.
Lenka Hanzlíková is a graduated librarian, who has been working in library since year 1996. She is working at the Municipal Library of Prague (www.mlp.cz) on different positions since 1997. Her latest position is Head of the Communication Department, but she is interested in events and activities for children (not only „school“ children) in libraries for a long time.
Everybody will have the possibility to participate in two of them.
Workshop I.
Scriptorium. The book as an experience
In this workshop participants will play games inspired by ancient and medieval letters. They will be asked to actively experience various activities – card games, creative games, story making or role playing. This workshop shows teachers how to have fun with history of communication.
Ms. Klára Smolíková teaches secondary and college students and teachers of children. She contributed to the establishment of a new department of book studies for librarian students in the Secondary vocational school of commerce, services and crafts in the town of Tabor five years ago. In Prague she teaches a course of media literacy at the Faculty of Education. She writes methodical materials, worksheets and textbooks and she is an author of several children books.
Workshop II.
Using ICT tools in European project
My name is Pavla Sabatkova and I work as a teacher of English and an eTwinning ambasador. The aim of my workshop is to introduce blog as a suitable ICT tool in European project. All the participants will practise using blog to become familiar with editing some text, pictures or videos in the blog. I would like each participant to be able to create his/her own simple blog at the end of the workshop.
Workshop III.
What can library do for you?
There is no discussion about the fact, that libraries are very useful institutions, because they offer connection to many different sources of information. But what they really offer to schools, teachers and pupils/students? Some examples of activities which libraries can do to help you in your work are content of this workshop. We will try to define different types of libraries and focus on their services, especially for schools.
Lenka Hanzlíková is a graduated librarian, who has been working in library since year 1996. She is working at the Municipal Library of Prague (www.mlp.cz) on different positions since 1997. Her latest position is Head of the Communication Department, but she is interested in events and activities for children (not only „school“ children) in libraries for a long time.
Draft application form
On this website you can find English (EN), German (DE) and French (FR) version of Application form 2008 for School Partnership (it is not eligible for 2009).
The application form for 2009 will be published soon and should be similar to the 2008 one.
The application form for 2009 will be published soon and should be similar to the 2008 one.
What to bring
Typical food/snacks or drinks from your country/region. Don't bring too much!
Your favourite book written by your national author.
Martina´s favourite book
Saturnin is a 1942 humorous novel by Zdeněk Jirotka (1911-2003), The story is settled in atmosphere of the thirties ot the 20th centrury and is full of „English“ dry humour I like it. There are characters like the dangerous and clever servant Saturnin, the annoying Aunt Kateřina and her son Milouš, Uncle František, Doctor Vlach, and the narrator's grandfather. This novel is strongly inspired by work of English authors, esp. Jerome K. Jerome and by novels and short stories by English writer P. G. Wodehouse, which features the character of the servant Jeeves. It has been translated into English, Spanish and Italian.
Your favourite book written by your national author.
Martina´s favourite book
Saturnin is a 1942 humorous novel by Zdeněk Jirotka (1911-2003), The story is settled in atmosphere of the thirties ot the 20th centrury and is full of „English“ dry humour I like it. There are characters like the dangerous and clever servant Saturnin, the annoying Aunt Kateřina and her son Milouš, Uncle František, Doctor Vlach, and the narrator's grandfather. This novel is strongly inspired by work of English authors, esp. Jerome K. Jerome and by novels and short stories by English writer P. G. Wodehouse, which features the character of the servant Jeeves. It has been translated into English, Spanish and Italian.
Participants
Ms. Jaroslava Steidlová, Czech Republic
We would like to contribute to development of cultural learning. We think that one thing that children need is to learn how to learn, where they can find information about things they like. The know different types of resources like magazines, books, internet, … ICT and other thing but most of them need to know how they work, how can I find what I am looking for. It is really important to develop competence for collecting information using different types of resources. We do not want to forget to our responsibility to know our history that helps us though culture and artifact know our present days.
Age of pupils: 11-15
Ms. Jana Ferancová, Czech Republic
- to gain new experience- to find friends- to find out new information about partner schools and countries life and culture- to communicate in a foreign language
Age of pupils: 10-15
Ms. Jana Janečková, Czech Republic
We would like to exchange various materials about interesting places in our region and later we would like to organize exchange stays for students in order to practise English and to know something interesting about other countries.
Age of pupils: 10-15
Ms. Kateřina Kořínková, Czech Republic
We want to discuss by chat, email work on topics that are being currently taught in the different schools, discuss books, films and other topics friendly to our pupils. Visit your school and see your culture, tradition and find new friends. We are hoping the find the Basic school in England or communicate with other Europe schools by using English.
Age of pupils: 6-15
Ms. Christine Rauh, Denmark
We would like to find long term partner schools for a future Comenius project that are willing to exchange a big amount of students (app. 60) after having worked together for about a year on an email-project/a web-based project/ or a letter exchange. We want to do it in order to:improve the focus on intercultural learningincrease the pupils’ abilities of communication by various means of media increase the pupils’ knowledge of each other - in order to achieve greater acceptance and help them understanding of other people’s lives, possibilities, and cultures. English as a means of communication
Age of pupils: 12-14
Mr. Tapio Alppi, Finland
- intensive cooperation between partners- We want to give to our partners facts and experiencies about our culture and literature in our school and We want the same from our partners- We want to develope our ICT-skills with our partners
Age of pupils: 6-13
Ms. Stéphanie Menec, France
The team has as plan to accomplish a collection of poems, proverbs, news, pictures and drawings. - On a support as a book, as CD or a DVD.- The realization will be written in several languages and notably international, regional and minority languages (as the Breton language); put forward the multilingualism.- we would like to exchange about the dances, culinary and musicals traditions; Celtic and other cultures in the UE.- We would talk and develop a chapter about the sustainable development in our country and in the UE.
Age of pupils: 11-14
Mr. Papoun Mickael, France
Our potential project deals with local culture and gastronomy. How local traditions determine what we eat and influence local recipes. Our objective is the conception of a cookbook with related cultural facts.
Age of pupils: 11-16
Ms. Véronique Repeczky, France
Book’s creation in class.Writing in foreign languages lead the children to read what their friends write, and then, they feel able to read any other book, even written by famous writers.So, The envisaged partnership could lead to writing either a fairy tale, or an episode of a famous book such as Harry Potter, or a fantastic short story, etc etc, using the different cultures and countries involved, in order to compare different kinds of literature, (and point at the fact there are many common points between them).
Age of pupils: 11-15
Ms. Linda Pipet, France
Our project is about memories : memory of human beings, of old works, of lanscapes, of traditions and many other things … what is interesting for us is to see the links between peoples, between generations, between countries, that is why we are applying for the Comenius partnership.
Age of pupils: 11-15
Mr. Jean Requejo-Carrio, France
My project is to build with pupils the European identity. Yes we are European citizen, but how can we feel European? Yes we are all different, but we can unify ourselves by studying our common culture. I would like to study several European books, learned between 11 and 15 years old, at the same time, with the same progression, reading the same texts and making the same evaluation with the others teachers-partners. Our culture comes from the Greece civilisation, so I would like to study the “Odyssey” by Homer, Ulysses the sailor on the Mediterranean sea. Our culture comes also from the Celtic civilisation and our culture is mixed, we are equal between men and women, so I would like to study “Tristan and Iseult”, a famous love story in the Middle-Age. We can choose books in the literature of Italy or Spain in the 16th century (like Cervantes) or England (like Shakespeare), in France with the classical 17th century (Molière for example),or Voltaire (Zadig) for the 18thcentury, or a german-romantic author in the 19th century …
Age of pupils: 11-15
Ms. Alexandra von Bargen, Germany
Childrens´ rights: How can they be put into practice in every day school-life? How they can be implemented in education and how can pupils participate in working them out? What is usually done in schools in other countries?
Age of pupils: 10-19
Mr. Dirk Ruynat, Germany
We are a middle-sized mixed Grammar School of some 550 students and about 60 teachers. Our school was founded in 1906. Our place Zeulenroda-Triebes can be found right in the middle of Germany. Our town is set in beautiful natural surroundings, including a big lake, lovely hills and extensive forests. (See www.zeulenroda-triebes.de) Some more details about us: Our school's policy favours diversity, so along with a strong focus on natural sciences we try to promote and feed our students' interests in language studies, sports, arts, music and drama as well. Infact we try to provide best facilities for studying in many ways, and we encourage our students to contribute to our school's and local community and to explore and develop all their individual talents. E.g. for several years we've been staging an annual musical production that unites pupils from various years. Our students are really interested in getting in touch with peers from other countries. They are just keen on trying their foreign language and communicative skills in real life situations. So over the last years we've been involved in several international exchanges, most notably a three-year-COMENIUS1-project as coordinating school (2002-2005). Right now we are looking for some new challenge, with particular focus on traditional students exchange as well as cooperation in various cross-curricular fields. Our final goal are living, longterm partnerships with other schools.
Age of pupils: 10-18
Ms. Marija Hirsch, Germany
We are open concerning the countries of origin of our potential partners. As the seminar and its topic are rather language- and book-centred, I expect the same of the ensuing partnership projects (possibly book exhibitions, tours of libraries, creation of a multilingual book project with texts written by students in their mother languages and foreign languages). Therefore it would seem advisable for the partners to be taught each other’s languages at school. At our school the modern languages are English, French and Italian.
Age of pupils:?
Ms. Veronika Gonzales Balzar, Germany
Mr. Mathias Donat, Germany
The envisaged school partnership is as yet a relatively open project in our school. A group of teachers has been formed to coordinate the partnership itself and the projects connected with it. Our school has already got a rather wide range of school partnerhsips with annual or biennial student exchanges, but still widening the scope and variety of such exchanges is certainly one of our main incentives to join the Comenius network. On the basis of this direct experience and personal contacts we also have been considering partnership projects in the fields of common academic student projects, maybe on the basis of more frequent and institutionalised contacts via internet and possibly some kind of cooperation in our theatre or music activities. If this sounds a bit vague, this is due to the still rather open phase of our considerations. We are only beginning to move into the Comenius network and we will be happy to receive inspriation from other schools.
Age of pupils: 10-19
Ms. Kerstin Schliephake, Germany
Collaboration with schools from different countries, contacts between pupils besides the project
Age of pupils: 10-16
Ms. Zoltanne Skultety, Hungary
We can collect legends and stories about our city or our country and make a book with illustration drawn with Paint programme. Children from special classes can translate the stories into English or German, in IT classes pupils can use Word programme to make the book. We with partners can make an own story about all our countries.
Age of pupils: 6-14
Ms. Hannah Curling, Ireland
The Comenius Partnership will help to encourage understanding of different cultures among our students through links with other schools in various European countries. The project will also help to promote the improvement of English and ICT skills by looking at texts and the creation of books by others and themselves.
Age of pupils: 11-13
Mr. James Neary, Ireland
WE HAVE BEEN IN COMENIUS PARTNERSHIPS IN THE PAST AND WE ARE CURRENTLY LOOKING FOR PARTNERS. WE WOULD LIKE TO HAVE A PROJECT WITH CULTURAL RATHER THAN SOCIAL/POLITICAL DIRECTIONS. WE HAVE BEEN INTERESTED IN A PROJECT THAT LOOKED AT CIRCUS IN THAT IT WAS AN EARLY EXAMPLE OF INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION WITH NO RELIGIOUS/MILITARY IMPLICATIONS. IT CAN BE SEEN IN LITERATURE AND CINEMA BUT IT HAS THE POTENTIAL FOR PERFORMANCE AND THE OPPORTUNITY FOR STUDENTS WITH SPECIAL NEEDS TO PARTICIPATE.
Age of pupils: 12-18
Ms. Angela Andolfi, Italy
I HAVE ALREADY WORKED IN THE SCHOOL FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF EUROPEAN IDENTITY AND I WOULD LIKE TO EXPAND WORK IN THE SCHOOL WITH CONCERN TO IDEAS OF CULTURE AND DIFFERENCE THANKS TO THE PARTNERSHIP
Age of pupils: 14-18
Ms. Vinci Simonetta, Italy
Creating a close partership whit schools from different localities to improve the learning experiences, broaden their horizons and develop knowledge of other viwpoints, lifestyle, culture.
Age of pupils: 11-14
Ms. Kristina Urbonienė, Lithuania
This project will give the opportunity to create partnerships all over Europe and it will let me share good experience with other teachers. I will present my school to the colleagues from other countries. Our students will participate in this project willingly because IT is integrated in the learning and teaching processes and children are familiar with it. They will improve their communicative, digital, social and language competences. Our school will find partners in other countries.
Age of pupils: 11-18
Ms. Jurgita Vaitiekuniene, Lithuania
Pupils will create an e-book named “The legends of European cities”. By doing this students from different countries will have close acquaintance with cultural heritage and legends of cities foundation in Europe. Reading of the e-book in native and foreign languages will develop the communicative competence as well as broaden students’ knowledge, skills and experience in information technology. All of this study will relate pupils directly to improvement of their learning.
Age of pupils: 6-17
Mr. Knut Lyshaug, Norway
We hope and expect to get in contact with other schools working towards similar aims. (Create composite texts with images, illustrations etc. both manually and using digital tools. Process digital texts and discuss the effects, Use library and digital information channels, get to know several authors around Europe). And maybe there is a chance to start working towards a Comenius partnership-project.
Age of pupils: 6-13
Ms.Alexandra Pinto, Portugal
Learning about European Tourism and Culture, Student’s exchange
Age of pupils: ?
Ms. Marilena Andreescu, Romania
- CREATIVE USE OF ICT IN EDUCATIONAL PURPOSE;- EUROPEAN CULTURAL HERITAGE AND ICT;- TRADITIONAL AND MODERN IN CELEBRATING FESTIVALS;- INVOLVING PUPILS IN CREATING DIDACTIC MATERIALS, USING COMPUTER
Age of pupils: 7-15
Mr. Dumitru Adrian Cepan, Romania
On the school year 2007-2008, following the project “The Economy based on knowing” that is presently unrolling cooperating with the Local Comunity (authorities, parents etc), our school has got 20 computers, permanently connected on the internet. Taking into account that in our summer holiday it had been initiated a twining project with a school from Poland, it is desired the creation of an electronic on-line book, to present local informations from different fields of activity (economical, social, cultural). We want to find new schools from different countries that want to work in a future e-book Comenius project.
Age of pupils: 6-16
Ms. Madalina Mateut, Romania
This kind of cooperation opens a window to the world which completes the knowledge from books. Knowing different aspects of European schools and finding solutions to the problems will motivate the application of new management strategies in our school. We think that this cooperation will contribute to enhancing the quality and to reinforce the European dimension by encouraging innovation in pedagogical methods. Both teachers and students involved in the project achieve relevant abilities both for professional and personal life, such as solving problems, creativity, innovation, team work.
Age of pupils: 15-19
Ms. Žnuderl Aleksandra, Slovenia
- foreign language and culture exchange- exploring new teaching methods
Age of pupils: 6-15
Ms. Ana Isabel Pardos Tejero, Spain
I would like to find a partner to work with in a Comenius project (preferably linguistic project)
Age of pupils: 12-18
Mr. Javier Martínez Gonazález, Spain
Reading Skills: Projects on the common-shared creation of a book.Use of ICT to show the results to the community.European dimension of the project to create a space to share experiences and work
Age of pupils: 12-18
Ms. Rocio Sanchez Millan, Spain
Communication in English in written form; intercultural and interpersonal communication if possible. Cultural communication.
Age of pupils: 11-12-16
Ms. Ana M. Cadórniga Varela, Spain
We would like to contact schools with pupils of the same age of ours . We are especially ineterested in cultural and language projects.
Age of pupils: 14-18
Ms. Araceli de Frutos, Spain
- Culture: tradition, history, literature, music, gastronomy and so on.
- Differences and similarities between the partnership countries.
Age of pupils: 12-16
Ms. Deniz Alptekin, Turkey
As an English teacher I believe that culture is an inseparable part of language, therefore language can not be taught without raising awareness of its cultural context. I think reading skill, along with others, has an important place in that it provides cultural content for the readers by means of the ideas and illustrations on texts or other reading materials. Since this seminar includes the idea of culture and book combination,I plan to suggest the idea of raising cultural knowledge and competences via books, or even common e-books. My first aim is to create a common e-book or a web-site which will be continuously held updated with school partners I will meet. I plan to call this e-book “e-culture”.
Age of pupils: 10-15
Ms. Gonca Karacayr, Turkey
We are going to make a project about culture through folk music.Before taking part in the seminar, my colleagues and I will search about Turkish folk music and how songs are composed and sung.I will present examples of Turksih folk music to my colleagues from different countries.I will also bring a book of Turkish folk songs for the participants in the seminar.My aim to take part in the contact seminar is to find European partners to develop a Comenius project for the next call for proposals.If we are able to find partners for the projects, they will also make searches about the source of their traditional folk music.During the implementation of the project, students will learn to sing each others` folk songs and how they are revealed.In this way, they will have chance to learn and practise a foreign language.The project will also contribute to develop cultural diversity and intercultural dialogue among students and teachers By introducing Turkish folk songs to European partners while they introduce theirs to us.
Age of pupils: 7-15
Mr. Pınar Doğanay, Turkey
In Bartın many students live in places far away from modern big cities.Some of these students have never had any communication outside of their small villages or cities. When they do contact the otside world or different cultures their lives usually change. We want to meet different cultures and also prove that differences between nations are not problem, on the contrary they are wealth of cultures. We believe that all the nations can go hand in hand.
Age of pupils: 7-15
We would like to contribute to development of cultural learning. We think that one thing that children need is to learn how to learn, where they can find information about things they like. The know different types of resources like magazines, books, internet, … ICT and other thing but most of them need to know how they work, how can I find what I am looking for. It is really important to develop competence for collecting information using different types of resources. We do not want to forget to our responsibility to know our history that helps us though culture and artifact know our present days.
Age of pupils: 11-15
Ms. Jana Ferancová, Czech Republic
- to gain new experience- to find friends- to find out new information about partner schools and countries life and culture- to communicate in a foreign language
Age of pupils: 10-15
Ms. Jana Janečková, Czech Republic
We would like to exchange various materials about interesting places in our region and later we would like to organize exchange stays for students in order to practise English and to know something interesting about other countries.
Age of pupils: 10-15
Ms. Kateřina Kořínková, Czech Republic
We want to discuss by chat, email work on topics that are being currently taught in the different schools, discuss books, films and other topics friendly to our pupils. Visit your school and see your culture, tradition and find new friends. We are hoping the find the Basic school in England or communicate with other Europe schools by using English.
Age of pupils: 6-15
Ms. Christine Rauh, Denmark
We would like to find long term partner schools for a future Comenius project that are willing to exchange a big amount of students (app. 60) after having worked together for about a year on an email-project/a web-based project/ or a letter exchange. We want to do it in order to:improve the focus on intercultural learningincrease the pupils’ abilities of communication by various means of media increase the pupils’ knowledge of each other - in order to achieve greater acceptance and help them understanding of other people’s lives, possibilities, and cultures. English as a means of communication
Age of pupils: 12-14
Mr. Tapio Alppi, Finland
- intensive cooperation between partners- We want to give to our partners facts and experiencies about our culture and literature in our school and We want the same from our partners- We want to develope our ICT-skills with our partners
Age of pupils: 6-13
Ms. Stéphanie Menec, France
The team has as plan to accomplish a collection of poems, proverbs, news, pictures and drawings. - On a support as a book, as CD or a DVD.- The realization will be written in several languages and notably international, regional and minority languages (as the Breton language); put forward the multilingualism.- we would like to exchange about the dances, culinary and musicals traditions; Celtic and other cultures in the UE.- We would talk and develop a chapter about the sustainable development in our country and in the UE.
Age of pupils: 11-14
Mr. Papoun Mickael, France
Our potential project deals with local culture and gastronomy. How local traditions determine what we eat and influence local recipes. Our objective is the conception of a cookbook with related cultural facts.
Age of pupils: 11-16
Ms. Véronique Repeczky, France
Book’s creation in class.Writing in foreign languages lead the children to read what their friends write, and then, they feel able to read any other book, even written by famous writers.So, The envisaged partnership could lead to writing either a fairy tale, or an episode of a famous book such as Harry Potter, or a fantastic short story, etc etc, using the different cultures and countries involved, in order to compare different kinds of literature, (and point at the fact there are many common points between them).
Age of pupils: 11-15
Ms. Linda Pipet, France
Our project is about memories : memory of human beings, of old works, of lanscapes, of traditions and many other things … what is interesting for us is to see the links between peoples, between generations, between countries, that is why we are applying for the Comenius partnership.
Age of pupils: 11-15
Mr. Jean Requejo-Carrio, France
My project is to build with pupils the European identity. Yes we are European citizen, but how can we feel European? Yes we are all different, but we can unify ourselves by studying our common culture. I would like to study several European books, learned between 11 and 15 years old, at the same time, with the same progression, reading the same texts and making the same evaluation with the others teachers-partners. Our culture comes from the Greece civilisation, so I would like to study the “Odyssey” by Homer, Ulysses the sailor on the Mediterranean sea. Our culture comes also from the Celtic civilisation and our culture is mixed, we are equal between men and women, so I would like to study “Tristan and Iseult”, a famous love story in the Middle-Age. We can choose books in the literature of Italy or Spain in the 16th century (like Cervantes) or England (like Shakespeare), in France with the classical 17th century (Molière for example),or Voltaire (Zadig) for the 18thcentury, or a german-romantic author in the 19th century …
Age of pupils: 11-15
Ms. Alexandra von Bargen, Germany
Childrens´ rights: How can they be put into practice in every day school-life? How they can be implemented in education and how can pupils participate in working them out? What is usually done in schools in other countries?
Age of pupils: 10-19
Mr. Dirk Ruynat, Germany
We are a middle-sized mixed Grammar School of some 550 students and about 60 teachers. Our school was founded in 1906. Our place Zeulenroda-Triebes can be found right in the middle of Germany. Our town is set in beautiful natural surroundings, including a big lake, lovely hills and extensive forests. (See www.zeulenroda-triebes.de) Some more details about us: Our school's policy favours diversity, so along with a strong focus on natural sciences we try to promote and feed our students' interests in language studies, sports, arts, music and drama as well. Infact we try to provide best facilities for studying in many ways, and we encourage our students to contribute to our school's and local community and to explore and develop all their individual talents. E.g. for several years we've been staging an annual musical production that unites pupils from various years. Our students are really interested in getting in touch with peers from other countries. They are just keen on trying their foreign language and communicative skills in real life situations. So over the last years we've been involved in several international exchanges, most notably a three-year-COMENIUS1-project as coordinating school (2002-2005). Right now we are looking for some new challenge, with particular focus on traditional students exchange as well as cooperation in various cross-curricular fields. Our final goal are living, longterm partnerships with other schools.
Age of pupils: 10-18
Ms. Marija Hirsch, Germany
We are open concerning the countries of origin of our potential partners. As the seminar and its topic are rather language- and book-centred, I expect the same of the ensuing partnership projects (possibly book exhibitions, tours of libraries, creation of a multilingual book project with texts written by students in their mother languages and foreign languages). Therefore it would seem advisable for the partners to be taught each other’s languages at school. At our school the modern languages are English, French and Italian.
Age of pupils:?
Ms. Veronika Gonzales Balzar, Germany
Mr. Mathias Donat, Germany
The envisaged school partnership is as yet a relatively open project in our school. A group of teachers has been formed to coordinate the partnership itself and the projects connected with it. Our school has already got a rather wide range of school partnerhsips with annual or biennial student exchanges, but still widening the scope and variety of such exchanges is certainly one of our main incentives to join the Comenius network. On the basis of this direct experience and personal contacts we also have been considering partnership projects in the fields of common academic student projects, maybe on the basis of more frequent and institutionalised contacts via internet and possibly some kind of cooperation in our theatre or music activities. If this sounds a bit vague, this is due to the still rather open phase of our considerations. We are only beginning to move into the Comenius network and we will be happy to receive inspriation from other schools.
Age of pupils: 10-19
Ms. Kerstin Schliephake, Germany
Collaboration with schools from different countries, contacts between pupils besides the project
Age of pupils: 10-16
Ms. Zoltanne Skultety, Hungary
We can collect legends and stories about our city or our country and make a book with illustration drawn with Paint programme. Children from special classes can translate the stories into English or German, in IT classes pupils can use Word programme to make the book. We with partners can make an own story about all our countries.
Age of pupils: 6-14
Ms. Hannah Curling, Ireland
The Comenius Partnership will help to encourage understanding of different cultures among our students through links with other schools in various European countries. The project will also help to promote the improvement of English and ICT skills by looking at texts and the creation of books by others and themselves.
Age of pupils: 11-13
Mr. James Neary, Ireland
WE HAVE BEEN IN COMENIUS PARTNERSHIPS IN THE PAST AND WE ARE CURRENTLY LOOKING FOR PARTNERS. WE WOULD LIKE TO HAVE A PROJECT WITH CULTURAL RATHER THAN SOCIAL/POLITICAL DIRECTIONS. WE HAVE BEEN INTERESTED IN A PROJECT THAT LOOKED AT CIRCUS IN THAT IT WAS AN EARLY EXAMPLE OF INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION WITH NO RELIGIOUS/MILITARY IMPLICATIONS. IT CAN BE SEEN IN LITERATURE AND CINEMA BUT IT HAS THE POTENTIAL FOR PERFORMANCE AND THE OPPORTUNITY FOR STUDENTS WITH SPECIAL NEEDS TO PARTICIPATE.
Age of pupils: 12-18
Ms. Angela Andolfi, Italy
I HAVE ALREADY WORKED IN THE SCHOOL FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF EUROPEAN IDENTITY AND I WOULD LIKE TO EXPAND WORK IN THE SCHOOL WITH CONCERN TO IDEAS OF CULTURE AND DIFFERENCE THANKS TO THE PARTNERSHIP
Age of pupils: 14-18
Ms. Vinci Simonetta, Italy
Creating a close partership whit schools from different localities to improve the learning experiences, broaden their horizons and develop knowledge of other viwpoints, lifestyle, culture.
Age of pupils: 11-14
Ms. Kristina Urbonienė, Lithuania
This project will give the opportunity to create partnerships all over Europe and it will let me share good experience with other teachers. I will present my school to the colleagues from other countries. Our students will participate in this project willingly because IT is integrated in the learning and teaching processes and children are familiar with it. They will improve their communicative, digital, social and language competences. Our school will find partners in other countries.
Age of pupils: 11-18
Ms. Jurgita Vaitiekuniene, Lithuania
Pupils will create an e-book named “The legends of European cities”. By doing this students from different countries will have close acquaintance with cultural heritage and legends of cities foundation in Europe. Reading of the e-book in native and foreign languages will develop the communicative competence as well as broaden students’ knowledge, skills and experience in information technology. All of this study will relate pupils directly to improvement of their learning.
Age of pupils: 6-17
Mr. Knut Lyshaug, Norway
We hope and expect to get in contact with other schools working towards similar aims. (Create composite texts with images, illustrations etc. both manually and using digital tools. Process digital texts and discuss the effects, Use library and digital information channels, get to know several authors around Europe). And maybe there is a chance to start working towards a Comenius partnership-project.
Age of pupils: 6-13
Ms.Alexandra Pinto, Portugal
Learning about European Tourism and Culture, Student’s exchange
Age of pupils: ?
Ms. Marilena Andreescu, Romania
- CREATIVE USE OF ICT IN EDUCATIONAL PURPOSE;- EUROPEAN CULTURAL HERITAGE AND ICT;- TRADITIONAL AND MODERN IN CELEBRATING FESTIVALS;- INVOLVING PUPILS IN CREATING DIDACTIC MATERIALS, USING COMPUTER
Age of pupils: 7-15
Mr. Dumitru Adrian Cepan, Romania
On the school year 2007-2008, following the project “The Economy based on knowing” that is presently unrolling cooperating with the Local Comunity (authorities, parents etc), our school has got 20 computers, permanently connected on the internet. Taking into account that in our summer holiday it had been initiated a twining project with a school from Poland, it is desired the creation of an electronic on-line book, to present local informations from different fields of activity (economical, social, cultural). We want to find new schools from different countries that want to work in a future e-book Comenius project.
Age of pupils: 6-16
Ms. Madalina Mateut, Romania
This kind of cooperation opens a window to the world which completes the knowledge from books. Knowing different aspects of European schools and finding solutions to the problems will motivate the application of new management strategies in our school. We think that this cooperation will contribute to enhancing the quality and to reinforce the European dimension by encouraging innovation in pedagogical methods. Both teachers and students involved in the project achieve relevant abilities both for professional and personal life, such as solving problems, creativity, innovation, team work.
Age of pupils: 15-19
Ms. Žnuderl Aleksandra, Slovenia
- foreign language and culture exchange- exploring new teaching methods
Age of pupils: 6-15
Ms. Ana Isabel Pardos Tejero, Spain
I would like to find a partner to work with in a Comenius project (preferably linguistic project)
Age of pupils: 12-18
Mr. Javier Martínez Gonazález, Spain
Reading Skills: Projects on the common-shared creation of a book.Use of ICT to show the results to the community.European dimension of the project to create a space to share experiences and work
Age of pupils: 12-18
Ms. Rocio Sanchez Millan, Spain
Communication in English in written form; intercultural and interpersonal communication if possible. Cultural communication.
Age of pupils: 11-12-16
Ms. Ana M. Cadórniga Varela, Spain
We would like to contact schools with pupils of the same age of ours . We are especially ineterested in cultural and language projects.
Age of pupils: 14-18
Ms. Araceli de Frutos, Spain
- Culture: tradition, history, literature, music, gastronomy and so on.
- Differences and similarities between the partnership countries.
Age of pupils: 12-16
Ms. Deniz Alptekin, Turkey
As an English teacher I believe that culture is an inseparable part of language, therefore language can not be taught without raising awareness of its cultural context. I think reading skill, along with others, has an important place in that it provides cultural content for the readers by means of the ideas and illustrations on texts or other reading materials. Since this seminar includes the idea of culture and book combination,I plan to suggest the idea of raising cultural knowledge and competences via books, or even common e-books. My first aim is to create a common e-book or a web-site which will be continuously held updated with school partners I will meet. I plan to call this e-book “e-culture”.
Age of pupils: 10-15
Ms. Gonca Karacayr, Turkey
We are going to make a project about culture through folk music.Before taking part in the seminar, my colleagues and I will search about Turkish folk music and how songs are composed and sung.I will present examples of Turksih folk music to my colleagues from different countries.I will also bring a book of Turkish folk songs for the participants in the seminar.My aim to take part in the contact seminar is to find European partners to develop a Comenius project for the next call for proposals.If we are able to find partners for the projects, they will also make searches about the source of their traditional folk music.During the implementation of the project, students will learn to sing each others` folk songs and how they are revealed.In this way, they will have chance to learn and practise a foreign language.The project will also contribute to develop cultural diversity and intercultural dialogue among students and teachers By introducing Turkish folk songs to European partners while they introduce theirs to us.
Age of pupils: 7-15
Mr. Pınar Doğanay, Turkey
In Bartın many students live in places far away from modern big cities.Some of these students have never had any communication outside of their small villages or cities. When they do contact the otside world or different cultures their lives usually change. We want to meet different cultures and also prove that differences between nations are not problem, on the contrary they are wealth of cultures. We believe that all the nations can go hand in hand.
Age of pupils: 7-15
Venue
Accommodation will be provided by Hotel U města Vídně****.
For further information about the hotel, please have a look at their website: http://www.hmv.cz/index.php?lang=en
Please be advised, that extra nights (both before and after seminar) must be arranged on your own.
For further information about the hotel, please have a look at their website: http://www.hmv.cz/index.php?lang=en
Please be advised, that extra nights (both before and after seminar) must be arranged on your own.
How to get there
Transfer from Prague to Český Krumlov will be organised for participants arriving on the first day of the Contact seminar. All who would like to go to Český Krumlov with an arranged bus should meet on Thursday November 6th at 3 p.m. at Senovážné náměstí, Prague 1 (bus leaves at 3.30 p.m.).
For those who will come earlier will be available one office room in the Czech National Agency to leave their luggage there (Senovážné náměstí 24, Praha 1).
The easiest connection from Prague Airport to Senovážné náměstí is:
● Take the bus number 119 from Prague Airport to the terminal station DEJVICKÁ (the bus leaves every 10 minutes). Change to underground (metro) green line A. Go to Můstek station.
Be careful, because there are 2 exits - take the exit “Václavské náměstí”. Then one stop by any tram to JINDŘIŠSKÁ stop or 5 minutes by walk.
● Take the bus number 100 from Prague Airport to the terminal station ZLIČÍN (the bus leaves every 15 minutes). Change to underground (metro) yellow line B. Go to Náměstí republiky station.
Be careful, because there are 2 exits - take the exit “Masarykovo nádraží”. Then one stop by trams n.3, 14, 24 to JINDŘIŠSKÁ stop or 5 minutes by foot.
People arriving at Prague´s railway stations are expected to come directly to the Senovážné náměstí.
● If you arrive at HOLEŠOVICKÉ NÁDRAŽÍ (Holešovice Station) take underground (metro) red line C to Hlavní nádraží station (The Main Station).
● From HLAVNÍ NÁDRAŽÍ (that is the railway station as well as the underground station) it takes 5 minutes by foot to get to Senovážné náměstí.
Map of the Czech republic: http://maps.google.cz/
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