(This is Comenius-the man.)Following a Comenius Contact Seminar held in Cesky Krumlov last year in the Czech Republic, an agreement was reached between three schools to co-operate on a Comenius Project with the working title “From Euroblog to Eurobook” . ( Sept.2009 until August 2111).
The schools taking part in the project are:
SPAIN-IES La Marina-(Javier Martinez Gonzalez-overall project co-ordinator ). The school has 400 students and 60 staff and is 15 kms from Santander.
GERMANY-Werkmeister Gymnasium-(Alexandra von Bargen). The school has 450 students and 43 staff and is situated in a small town in Baden-Wurttemberg.
IRELAND-Carndonagh Community School-(Jim Neary). The school,with 920 students and 87 teachers, is situated in the Inishowen peninsula in the Northern part of The Republic of Ireland.
(Other schools may be invited to join the project. )
THE PROPOSAL
It is proposed to work towards the production of a printed book which will be written and illustrated by students and staff of the schools of the partnership. This will be printed and distributed at the end of the second year of the project. Schools will exchange information and set up a website which will provide a forum, a medium, a platform for an e-based magazine and act as a focal point of the project as the schools prepare for publication of the printed book. Staff and students from all subject areas will be targeted and the participation of students from all levels of academic performance will be encouraged and facilitated.
The major aim of the project is a fundamental improvement of reading and writing skills by creating an awareness of the essential importance of these skills. This should be achieved not only by the traditional methods like handwriting or book reading, but also by use of modern technologies like ICT, that helps to establish the European dimension. Students of the different countries should get as much as possible into contact with each other to exchange their personal and cultural reading experiences and produce materials (website, blog, e-magazine etc.). In the second phase they should work together in order to create a multilingual “European book” that reflects the outcomes of the exchange of experiences, ideas and knowledge during the first phase. The book will contain texts written by the students of every participating country that are linked together by a little central theme that can be found in every text.
This is bthe kick-off. Here we go. Do you fancy joining us?
