Projectmeeting in Brioude

From 8th to 12th May 2007 teachers from all the 10 Digiskills schools met at Lafayette high school in Brioude. During this projectmeeting all the partners worked on ICT very conscientiously. They presented what they had done with their students such as a webTV, some podcasts or an online radio. New web 2.0 tools were shown to the participants who were really impressed. They also did some 'international cooking': various Greek, Danish, Swedish, Spanish, German and French recipes were tasted and it was a success.... Great job!

Project Phaedra and Digiskills

On May 7,the teachers of 1st Lykeio of Menemeni ,Despina Kourouzidou and Dimitra Avgerinou present the activities of our school in the framework of the project "Phaedra":The equality of the two sexes.The title of the project is:"women over ages and in every day life".The products are a printed leaflet and a film in which digital skills have been developed. The teachers also present our project "Digiskills" to other teachers who are working in the area of West Thessaloniki . The teachers and their group ,students of A' and C' class, visited the school of Tourism and went on a tour at Monopigado where they were hosted by the women-bakers association.

Community MyBlogLog rocks!

Since some months I focus on several Social Networks like MyBlogLog. This community belongs to Yahoo now and offers each owner of a blog to be part of other communities. Actually, there are e-digiskills, DigiLifeBlog and IT-ANWENDUNGEN part of that growing Network.

Introduction about Digiskills in Häggvallskolan

On the 7/3 Mattias Johansson of Häggvallskolan Sweden, introduced the Digiskills project for teacher students during there meeting. The students had many interesting questions, and altogether it was a successful introduction

eTwinning Project DigiSkills at DIDACTA

On 3rd of March, the responsable persons as to eTwinning DigiSkills have been invited to Didacta - biggest learning exhibition in Germany. Robert Conings, Gert Rosiers and Hans Feldmeier tried to tell something about the idea of eDigiSkills and Comenius DigiSkills in Köln. Robert and Hans showed some websites, blogs and platform Dokeos to the audience.

Digiskills project meeting in Patras

From 16th to 20th January 2007 teachers from all the 10 Digiskills schools met at 20th High School in Patras. During these days we had various work sessions where we talked about the achievements and further plans of this project year. But we also made plans for a new project year, whose application will be on 30th March. Apart form the 'serious' moments we had moments fulll of joy and friendship like on the last evening when Kaity distributed gifts. Moreover we had a reception at the town hall, where the vice mayor welcomed the Digiskills teachers. We also paid a visit to the governor of Achaia, who was delighted to have so many European teachers in his office. Our hosts also offered us a cultural programme. We visited Achaia Claus wine factory in Patras and made a trip to Olympia where some partners had a Digiskills race. It's unknown who won. Many thanks to our hosts Costas, Makis and Maria!

E-zine Sedmak

In 13-year-olds ICT lessons at the school Pod Marjankou students created the e-zine Sedmak as part of the project School Magazine. In the project " School Magazine" we are nearly finished with learning the basic ICT skills: (briefly) as REPORTERS the children wrote an article, they saved it in the shared folder, as HEAD REPORTERS they chose 5 of the articles and copied them in one document, as EDITORS they went through the chosen articles and corrected the possible formal, grammatical or stylistic mistakes, as GRAPHIC ARTISTS they planned the front page of the newspapers - logo, its name - put in the pictures and photos and they made the final format of the page.This wasn´t the only thing we did this year. I prepared e-zine Sedmak and the students also became internet media journalists. The work in this field is in its early stages. The aim is to try publishing on the internet, so that the students have the skills to use e-zine in other subjects, e.g. Czech lessons or EFL lessons.

Improving Reading and Information Literacy in ZS Pod Marjankou

In January 2006 our school joined a 2-year project which is financially supported by the European Social Funds. It is aimed at improving reading and information literacy. Teachers and students of 4 schools in Prague are working not only on developing the skills which would help the students to read and understand various texts easier, but also on the abilities to work with different sources of information. One of the most popular sources used by the students nowadays is the internet. That is why the teachers also try to prepare tasks which make the children use the computers. In the picture a group of 12-year-old students are looking for the necessary information about a football match between Chelsea and Arsenal which they were planning to see with their English teacher in December. Of course, they also had to find the way to the Chelsea stadium by London underground!!!

Don Quijote blog

The Spanish class 12 of Richard-Wagner Gymnasium has created a blog about a book they have read: Don Quijote de la Mancha de Miguel de Cervantes (adapted version Easy Reader, Klett Verlag). Each student summarized one chapter and added a picture that refers to the chapter he/she wrote.

School Development Day in Bayreuth

During a School Development Day in Bayreuth (Bavaria), C0MENIUS project coordinator Mrs Uschi Schmack informed about the new COMENIUS program. Mr Hans Feldmeier spoke about eTwinning. Both introduced our project DigiSkills in general.

Meeting of DigiSkills partners

From 10th-15th October 2006, 22 teachers from 8 European Countries have had a meeting at Regenstauf near Regensburg/Germany. All talked about the objectives and results of DigiSkills project and eTwinning DigiSkills as to the last year. EU-Project Coordinator Mrs Uschi Schmack, RWG Bayreuth, told about the details of the programme and Mr Hans Feldmeier, hosting institution Regenstauf, was in charge of the organisation. All worked well!

Quality label

Proposal: we could discuss the possibility to receive the national quality label and fill in the application form during our meeting in Regenstauf. I guess that Hans could help us because he already has received the label for his school. Afterwards we can try to get the European quality-label.

Start of a new project year

The DigiSkills group at project meeting in Thesssaloniki in January 2006

On Sept. 1st, 2006 the second project year of our DigiSkills project begins. All partners of project year 1 got the permission from the EU to go on. So the DigiSkills group will include 10 schools again. The first project meeting will take place in Regenstauf from 10th to 15th October 2006. At this meeting we will decide about the 'roadmap' of our project in year 2.

Logo Generator

On the one hand, this Logo Generator is not a serious logo maker. It´s only a parody of a Web 2.0 Logo. On the other hand, everybody is able to create a simple logo. Check out and feel free to use it!

Medioambiente desde Guaza

Here you find a blog about the environment in Tenerife created by the Spanish digiskills partner school Guaza.

Etwinning website eDigiSkills@School

Last week I was able to update our Etwinning website. Please have a look at http://www.e-digiskills.de In addition, all partners should add their e-learning activities regarding the involvement of students on the Etwinning Blog http://e-competences.blogspot.com

Sharing photos online

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Flickr ist almost certainly the best online photo management and sharing application in the world. Show off your favorite photos to the world and to your Comenius and Etwinning partners. Have a look at one of my photos from Barcelona.

Digiskills on elearningeuropa.info platform

Our project 'Developing digital skills at school' has been put on the webpage of elearningeuropa.info. elearningeuropa.info is a a platform where new material on e-learning topics and activities in Europe is published. Moreover it is a database of projects undertaken by European actors in all e-learning areas. Interesting e-learning projects are published there to show that eLearning in Europe is alive. After one week our project Digiskills had 125 visits!

Network MUTANDI

Digiskills will be a parallel project to COMENIUS 3 Network MUTANDI (Mutual Approach Towards New Directions). The main topics of MUTANDI are: School education in a European context – distribution of innovative teaching and learning methods & ICT. Coordination is up to Charles University of Prague (Czech. Rep.). 27 partners from 22 countries are involved.

Learning Portal RWG

Richard-Wagner-Gymnasium Bayreuth has created its first own virtual learning environment. We now use the Dokeos platform (http://plattform.rwg-bayreuth.de) to exchange information, dates, documents, pictures and other useful things among teachers and also between teachers and pupils. Various teachers have created a course. There are already 8 language courses, 2 ICT courses and one maths course. A lot of important documents for teachers have been uploaded, so that they can download these documents at home. This is very comfortable. But of course it will take some time to develop the platform, it has just been a beginning. We hope the other project partners will follow our example and report about what is going on at their school.

Meeting of project teachers

The meeting of language teachers in Toender (DK) was very interesting. There was a lot of information about new methods of learning and teaching. All participants from foreign countries were divided in small groups. It was a high level of ICT-teaching.

webalbum

This webalbum allows all participants of DigiSkills to build, manage and share their own albums. Thanks to Robert´s advice. Feel free to use foto.com!

School development

On 12th Nov 05 there has been a school development event for teachers in Coburg/Bavaria. COMENIUS Promotors (PAD) Uschi Schmack and Hans Feldmeier informed about EU-projects, and electronic learning environment like ejournals, etwinning, platform dokeos and lo-net. The workshop was called "Schools on the way to Europe"

eJournal

EJournal is a tool for producing contents on the Internet. Everybody is able to publish text, photos, pictures, voice or video clips. Publishing on the Internet is very easy. There is no need to know about html. Get in touch with www.schooljournals.net Hans Feldmeier working with his laptop

eTwinning partnership

DigiSkills is ready to start it´s own eTwinning project. eTwinning Partners are:

PTS Maasmechelen, Belgium

Realschule Regenstauf, Germany*

20th High School of Patras, Greece

lycée La Fayette, France

Häggvallskolan, Sweden

ZŠ Pod Marjánkou, Prague, Czech Republic*

IES Guaza, Spain

1st Eniaio Lykeio of Menemeni, Greece

RWG Bayreuth, Germany

New Blog

It´s high time to create a Blog for our Comenius 1.3 project and eTwinning project.