Adria meeting agenda

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GRUNDTVIG LEARNING PARTNERSHIP

IEOL

PROJECT MEETINGS

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“Eur.adi.po.net”

Educational Institutions with European Dimension

via Dante n. 4; 45011 Adria (Rovigo) - Italy

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Adria meeting (20^th-24^th February 2011)

(work: 21st-22nd February 2011)

agenda

Trainers	Learners
Sun 20th February Arrivals and accommodation at the hotel Leon Bianco (Adria)	Sun 20th February Arrivals and accommodation at the hotel Leon Bianco (Adria)
Mon 21st February 8:45 Adria – Via F. Cavallotti,10 ex- Istituto Magistrale Badini Welcome	Mon 21st February 8:45 Adria – Via F. Cavallotti,10 ex- Istituto Magistrale Badini Welcome
9:00-10:30 Adria – Badini work on project: first session Presentations by each partner and discussion about interim evaluation of courses, and good practices as well as challenges identified so far 1 10:30-11:00 coffee break 11:00-12:30 work on project: 2nd session Presentations by each partner and discussion about interim evaluation of courses, and good practices as well as challenges identified so far 2 12:30-14:30 lunch at “Ostello Amolara” Adria	9:00-14:30 Accompanied by Angela Pozzetti visiting Pomposa and Comacchio Lunch in Comacchio
14:30-15:30 freetime	14:30-15:30 freetime
15:30-19:00 visiting Padua	15:30-19:00 visiting Padua
20:00 Dinner at “Ostello Amolara” - Adria	20:00 Dinner at “Ostello Amolara” - Adria
22:30 Freetime	22:30 Freetime
Tue 22nd February	Tue 22nd February
9:30-10:30 Adria – Badini work on project: 3rd session Discussion about the last working period of the project: gathering a dossier of best practices. Introduction of the project Wiki for the dossier work. 10:30-11:00 coffee break 11:00-12:30 work on project: 4th session Discussion about possible new project. Ideas, suggestions, content,project type. 12:30-14:30 lunch at “Pizzeria Uncino” - Adria	9:30-14:30 Accompanied by Silvia Berardi visiting Ferrara Lunch in Ferrara
14:30-19:30 freetime (visiting Adria, shopping, etc.)	15:30-19:30 freetime (visiting Adria, shopping, etc.)
20:00 Dinner at “Ostello Amolara” - Adria offered by hosting organization - Contest on popular songs, Certificates of attendance	20:00 Dinner at “Ostello Amolara”- Adria offered by hosting organization - Contest on popular songs, Certificates of attendance
22:30 Freetime	22:30 Freetime
Wed 23rd February departure of Spanish, Portuguese and Polish partners	Wed 23rd February departure of Spanish, Portuguese and Polish partners
9:30-17:00 Guided tour in Venice with Luigi Francesco Cuoghi from Adria to Mestre by train Rialto, Piazza San Marco….	9:30-17:00 Guided tour in Venice with Luigi Francesco Cuoghi from Adria to Mestre by train Rialto, Piazza San Marco….
Thu 24th February	Thu 24th February
Departures of Finnish partners	Departures of Finnish partners

IEOL Tutorials

Dear friends,

Johanna and Reeta have set up a Wiki so that we could share our best practices. I promised them to make a youtube tutorial to help you in the process of participating in it. The two tutorials I have made are show below.

First, please wait for an email that I will sent you in the next couple of days. If you see tutorial nº1 you will see that you must have that email in hands to make that tutorial (setting up an account).

So, in short:
1. See tutorial nº 1 now, so that you know what email to expect in the next few days
2. When you get the email, please see tutorial nº 1 again to complete the wiki "subscription"
3. Then, see tutorial nº 2 to start editing!!!!

Sorry for the bad quality of the sound and video editing... to little time in my hands, and so many things to do....

Yours,
Filipe.

Dossier of good practices

Dear all!

During the last project period we need to produce a dossier of good practices (and challenges) of using social media in adult education. Since there was a lot of interest Filipe's presentation of wikis in the last meeting, we decided to establish an IEOL wiki for that purpose.

In a few days Filipe will send everyone an invitation to join the project's wiki. He has also promised to make a YouTube tutorial to teach everyone to use it. The idea is that everyone would join the wiki and explore it a little before our meeting in Adria, and we could then work on the structure of the wiki for the purpose of gathering good practices.

Good practices emerging

We anticipated many of the things that have now been confirmed as good practices. For instance, we already knew from the beginning that students need time to learn to master the different social media tools, but what was surprising was the great amount of time that was needed. Also, you have to tell and show several times, what the students are expected to do, how and to what purpose we use the tools and where to look for help. We gave them written instructions on each tool, which is a good practice, but not all found them on the blog. Peer tutoring worked fairly well, though, but only if you asked for help. Here we concluded: especially in the beginning take little steps, give time and don´t introduce too many tools.

What was surprising, was that they didn´t find using the Google-documents as their own work space for group work as rewarding as we would have expected. This might be partly due to different level of commitment in some students, partly to unclear perception of the role of the Google-document, but also to the assignments given. For later assignments we decided to narrow the topics of assignments down. Then, on the other hand, students have written really long good texts..

The Google- documents were intended for writing which was then commented on a language learning perspective. Inserting the comments proved to be the clearest and the least time consuming way to do this. Deadlines were given, but out of the teachers point of view they should also be keptJ

All in all, students enjoyed using the blog, and even with the little voluntary practice on using the Skype, that proved to be a success with the students who managed to use it.

Evaluation of meeting in Leiria

Here, finally (!), is the evaluation of our last meeting in Leiria.

Evaluation of Meeting 3

Preparation for meeting in Italy

Dear all

Our next meeting in Adria is getting nearer! The Italian partners have made an agenda that (at least to me) looks really good. In order to have a good and productive meeting, there are a few things that we all need to prepare in advance. Here is a reminder:

1. Make sure that your students evaluate the course they are participating in. If you have trouble using the Google questionnaire in English, please let me know. Filipe has solved the problem by making a Portuguese version with the same questions. Anyway, the most important thing is that we get comparable feedback data.

2. Gather good practices and challenges from your courses concerning learning to use social media tools. We will discuss these in our meeting.

3. We will also have to discuss what to do during the last project period. Please think of ideas and suggestions that we can all discuss together. This also concerns ideas for a new project.

Explaining Social Media through ice creams

An interesting video on the possibilities of social media: