Let's get social - the course has started

We have 13 enthuastic students of which 4 is coming to Portugal with us. The start was great and we are really looking forward to experiences it'll give us.

You are more than welcome to read our blog.

Let's get social! Course plan

Reeta and Sirpa have worked out a detailed plan for our course "Let's get social!". We plan to bring some students from this course with us to the IEOL meetings in Portugal, Italy and Spain. Also, one part of the course will be contact with students from partner organizations.

Here is a link to the plan: Let's get social!

We would very much like to hear your comments about the plan, so that we can make the course even better!

Meeting evaluation Poland

Here is a link to the feedback summary of the meeting in Lublin:

Evaluation of meeting in Poland

Meeting evaluation Finland

Here is a link to the feedback summary from the kick-off meeting in Finland:

Evaluation of kick-off meeting

Summer is coming to Finland

Greetings from sunny Finland! We are getting ready for our summer holidays, and wanted to share with you this photo from a weaving class. It reminded us of this wonderful time when nature comes to life here.

Hello dear partners!

We are following with the workshops about information technology as you already know. Next Tuesday, we have a new session.

We are almost at the end of the academic year and at this time, we have a lot of different activities in the centre and some of them are outside, in the streets, since the temperature is excellent. As an example, we have made a "MayCross" in our playground. This is a traditional party that is celebrated in Andalucia to welcome the spring and there you can find a lot of flowers and traditional decorative objects. Here you have a photograph.

Our students that are taking place in the course so as to get the official certificate have already done the examination and the results have been great. Almost all of them have passed them.

In the next weeks, we have a "cultural week". There are a lot of activities: poetry, dance, theatre, manual crafts, conferences.

We would like to share all this activities with you all.

Best wishes from you partners in Spain

Course plan for next year

The Valkeakoski team has made a course plan for next year, incorporating contact lessons and online work. Here it is:
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Course: English in authentic environments
Duration: 9 Sep. - 25 Nov. 2010 and 13 Jan. - 21 April 2011
Contact hours: 12 + 12
Teacher: Sirpa Paavilainen

Course description:
The aim of the course is to use a foreign language in authentic environments, to learn about your own and other cultures and to use social media tools for interaction. The participants will meet face to face every other week, and meet online between lessons. Contact lessons will consist of meetings with foreign visitors and guided visits to local places of interests, such as museums. The language of the visits and guided tours is English. There will also be contacts with European partners. The students will have an opportunity to travel with the teachers to meet partners in Portugal, Spain or Italy (additional cost). An ICT teacher will participate in the course to assist in using social media. The course is suitable for everyone, regardless of language skills (not for absolute beginners). Spanish and Italian can be used in communicating with European partners. The students will benefit from having the possibility to use the Internet outside of class.
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This text (in Finnish, of course) will be published in our course catalogue . We would like to hear your comments about our plan. What do you think?