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eTwinning - mon der snart kommer færøske skoler med?

Claus Berg fra eTwinning's danske National Support Service (NSS) præsenterede i dag projektet på en konference om internationalisering i det færøske uddannelsessystem.

Powerpoint-præsentationen kan ses i flashversion herover. Vælg fuldskærm for bedre at kunne se siderne og for at de inkludererede links kan bruges. Hvis nogle af dem ikke er klikbare, kan du også downloade selve ppt-filen.

Som det fremgår tilbyder vi lærere fra skoler på Færøerne, at de kan registrere sig og deltage i eTwinning på linje med danske skoler - vælg land 'Danmark' og region 'Færøerne'. Dette implementeres snarest muligt, formentlig omkring den 1. september 2009. Grønlandske skoler har tilsvarende ordning.

Skrevet 2009-08-27, 19:50 af Claus Berg i kategorien eTwinning  |  Kommentarer[0]

eTwinning Uger 2009

1. Et anbefalingslotteri: Få en kollega til at registrere i eTwinning, så kan du vinde en præmie!


2. En resurse-opbygnings konkurrence: bidrag til Desktop's nye "resurser", så kan du vinde en præmie!


3. En video-konkurrence: lav en samarbejdsprojekt video, og du kan være på skærmen i 2010 på eTwinning konferencen i Sevilla.
    


4. Online uddannelsessessioner: lær om nyttige online værktøjer ved at deltage i en session, der ledes af eTwinning koordinatorer og eksperter.


5. Et begynderprojekt: bliv inspireret og involveret ved at deltage i et eTwinning begynderprojekt, som styres af en eTwinning ekspert-lærer.


6. En "eTwinning Grupper" meningsmåling: forespørgsel på temaer til lancering af en ny EU-tjeneste kaldet eTwinning Grupper.


7. Et kreativitets spørgeskema: Fortæl os om dit syn på kreativitet inden for uddannelse, så kan du vinde en tur til kreativitet-konferencen i Stockholm.


8. En tegnekonkurrence: Lad dine elever lære deres partnere at kende ved at lave samarbejdstegninger ved hjælp af et nemt online-værktøj. Den bedste tegning vil modtage en præmie! 

Skrevet 2009-08-17, 14:45 af John Kraaer i kategorien eTwinning  |  Kommentarer[0]

eTwinning-portalen - "Europæisk læringsdating"

Læring- og it-netværket på IT-Universitetet i København holdt mandag den 18. maj et af sine fyraftensmøder. Chefkonsulent Claus Berg fra UNI-C holdt oplæg om portaler og værktøjer til læringssamarbejder mellem skoleklasser i forskellige lande.  

Slides fra præsentationen ligger nu på slidesshare.com og kan ses embedded her på bloggen - og evt. downloades.

Ud over eTwinning's sider på etwinning.emu.dk og det europæiske site etwinning.net, blev der vist konkrete eksempler fra Bog & Sprog, der er startet som eTwinning-projekt om nordiske sprog, litteratur og kultur. Der blev vist slides stillet til rådighed af Ella Myhring samt eksempler fra det fælles, nordiske site bogsprog.emu.dk på EMU samt projektets aktive weblog.

Kommentarer og spørgsmål er naturligvis velkomne her på bloggen.

Fyraftensmøderne arrangeres af Læring- og it-netværket, der består af studerende, færdiguddannede og ansatte ved IT-Universitetet samt andre, der interesserer sig for koblingen mellem læring og it. Det er Jane Andersen, der står for arrangementerne. Skriv til jane(at)itu.dk, hvis du vil på mail-listen og inviteres næste gang.

Skrevet 2009-05-18, 23:31 af Claus Berg i kategorien eTwinning  |  Kommentarer[0]

Recipe for a nice bread

Hi

I promised some of you that I would post the recipe for the big flat bread we had for lunch. Here it is translated into english:

7½ deciliters of water

12,5 gr. yeast

1 table spoon of salt

2 table spoons of olive oil

100 gr of rolled oat (or another kind of flour for varriation)

around 800 gr of flour made from wheat

Desolve the yeast in the water together with the salt. Put the rest of the things into the bowl and stir maybe with an electrical beater. The dough is VERY sticky.

Put the dough in the fridge over night.

The next day. Take the dough out of the fridge and pour it into a squar baking form covered with bakingpaper on the inside. Let the dough raise to dobble size - it takes from 3-5 hours.

Put the bread into the middle of a COLD oven. Turn on the oven on 200 degrees C and bake the bread for about 45 minutes.

Good luck I hope you will enjoy this bread all over Europe now!

Ask if you have some questions.

signe.sloth3(AT)skolekom.dk

Skrevet 2009-03-29, 20:37 af Signe Sloth i kategorien eTwinning  |  Kommentarer[0]

Links and books

ONLINE VIDEOS

A very simple but powerful tools for use with your students!

http://www.storyofstuff.com/

Cradle to Cradle approach to Design by William Mc Donough  

http://video.google.co.uk/videosearch?q=waste%

www.ted.com - Ideas worth sharing! Follow the link below for a taster of the education section.

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/ken_robinson_says_schools_kill_creativity.html

BOOKS

The Limits to Growth: The 30-year Update by D.H. Meadows, Jorgen Randers, and Dennis L. Meadows

Overshoot: The Ecological Basis of Revolutionary Change by William R. Catton

The Collapse of Complex Societies (New Studies in Archaeology) by Joseph Tainter

Cradle to Cradle by Michael Braungart and William McDonough

Beyond Growth: Economics of Sustainable Development by Herman E. Daly

ENVIRONMENTAL COMMUNITY GROUPS

http://totnes.transitionnetwork.org/

I have not had a TV for 6 years, so this is how I spend some of my time!

Fintan Keenan - fintankeenan-AT-cisdk-DOT-dk

Skrevet 2009-03-28, 12:02 af Signe Sloth i kategorien eTwinning  |  Kommentarer[0]

ECO Schools - report from a workshop

Eco schools - innovation and the environment

Two years aago we had a very wet summer in Danmark and some areas experienced heavy flooding. Teachers Helle Houjær and Lone Skafte Jespersen from Krogårdskolen saw this sad situation as an opportunity to get pupils motivated to learn more about the climate changes that we are undergoing. 
At the workshop Helle and Lone presented the work they had been doing in the class room.

To begin with the pupils went to a webpage where they could see how the rising of the sea level would affect their local area. This of course reulted in a lot of discussions about what to do to. The class decided to focus on heating of homes and thanks to Toyota, Europe the school had a thermal camera.

The pupils borrowed the camera and checked their own homes and made a report about the results.

Helle and Lone are looking for partners for an eTwinning project about consumption of electricity – how much power does your school use?

 Links:
The water is rising:
http://www.dr.dk/Tema/vandetstiger/index.htm

The intelligent house:
http://minbolig.elsparefonden.dk/

only in Danish – registration required to get full benefits but you can use an anonymous profile.

Central Eco-schools webpage
http://www.eco-schools.org/ 

Krogårdskolen's homepage:
www.krogaardskolen.dk

Skrevet 2009-03-27, 19:08 af Peter Rasmussen i kategorien eTwinning  |  Kommentarer[1]

Animal ethics dilemma

An internet-based learning resource, which can be used by teachers and students as part of an animal ethics course. The programme presents dilemmas of animal use from different ethical perspectives using role-play, and aims to develop one's own ethical view and provide a better understanding of the ethical views of others.

The programme is constructed as a computerized roleplay -game with five cases that the students can explore through several different ethical perspectives. Access to programme template "Create your own case" will soon beadded, enabling students or lecturers to create their own cases.

The discussion of ethics is important to students of any ages. But if you want to use the programme at a pre- upper secondary level / university level the questions have to be simplified.

As we see it:

The programme can be used  in an eTwinning context

• as an inspiration to teachers and students


• as training in reflection and discussion of ethical issues


• in web conferences with partners

thus enabling them to make questionnaires about cultural differences and so on.

Skrevet 2009-03-27, 18:50 af Lone Nielsen1 i kategorien eTwinning  |  Kommentarer[0]

CO2nnect - report from a workshop

How can Co2nnect be used in classrooms all over Europe?

On the webpage you will find:

- The webpage is available in 17 languages, Romania being the most active country so far!

- A map of the schools allready registred

- online registration. The webpage runs for the rest of 2009. If it is a succes it might continue if fonds are there??.

-  You can see the total CO2 emition on the schools registred

- Students can write down good ideas on new projects on the frontpage.

-Upload photos from their projects

- Ones you register you will get some help to start up your project at your school.

- On the homepage you will find some information on how to calculate the emition of CO2 if you ex go 10 kilometers by car.

- There is a professor linked to the project whom you can ask if you have some problems with any of the issues on climate.

- Within the homepage there is a partner search function linked up to eTwinning.

The whole idea is to get students to talk to their parents, the teachers at the school inct. the headmaster and the local community about choosing a more green alternative form of transportation. (Walk /run).

Results from the a studentproject (The project won a price in a competition and the students are going to Slovenia to present their results from the project):

- The students made some reesearch on the means of transportation from the railwaystation to their school. They found that the buss was the most populare form of transportation. They found it hard to motivate the students to take the bike or walk instead of riding the bus. They did not come up with a solution on how to get the students more fit and ride the bike which would have been a great, but then again the project did only run for 6 weeks! Ant the aim of the project was to think of alternative energy. The students did well they even made a hydrogenpill and biodiesel from sunfloweroil.

 Discussion:

- Students know the facts, but they do nok care! What do we do to make them care?

- Maybe a competition between schools or classes, how much can you cut down on your CO2?

- Maybe make a goal on redusing the CO2 by 20 pocent each student will have to come up with a solution on how to reduse their CO2 emition by 20 precent? Maybe working with the food and money perspective as well?

- At 18 the students have a car and they want to ride it ofcourse! We have to get to the parents but how? If the students really are going to cut down on their CO2 it is going to happen at home.

- To compair on food as well, rice compaired with popatoes, meat from Denmark compaired with imported meat. What is the kilomerers on the things you buy?

- We have to use reverse teaching, where the students teach their parents.

- Could it be an idea to make a database online where you can find the kilometers on the things we buy? I'm thinking a site where you can find the kilometers on ex 100 gr. of beef from New Zealand if you live in Denmark?

- If  anybody are interested in eco-management auditing scheme (EMAS) accredation, contact Fintan Keenan at fintankeenan (at) cisdk.dk from the Copenhagen International school.

- Maybe you can do it more visual. Ex show the students how many trees will it takes to consume the amount of CO2 a plane emites to go from Denmark to ex. Italy!

We had a really good discussion in this workshop and I think there were a lot of good ideas and a good base for new peojects.

Skrevet 2009-03-27, 14:54 af Signe Sloth i kategorien eTwinning  |  Kommentarer[0]

Healthy Food for a sick Planet - report from a workshop

What we eat has an impact on the climate, but it is difficult to change habits. Flakkebjerg Efterskole took up the challenge and put on the diet. 

Eva Skov and Erling Noer, teachers at Flakkebjerg Efterskole, led this workshop.

The school’s values:
We want ot empasize sustainability and understanding for the interaction with nature.
Vision – the sustainable efterskole – cooperation with the Eco council
They give the pupils tools to act. The competence of acting is as important as or more important than the academic competence.
The kitchen in Flakkebjerg efterskole is also based on sustainability.
The pupils get aware of how much more CO2 is emitted from meat than from vegetables.
It is not enough to be aware of eating vegetarian food, but it must be prepared in a way so that the pupils do not throw it in the garbage bin.

Project week:
1st week: pure vegetarian food and with as much local foodstuff as possible.
2nd week: some meat but still very co2-friendly.

Links:
www.flakkebjergefterskole.dk
www.ecocouncil.dk
www.lcafood.dk

The video about efterskoler is here:
http://www.efterskoleforeningen.dk/sitecore/content/Oplysning%20om%20efterskoler/Litteratur%20og%20Artikler/Film.aspx
 

Skrevet 2009-03-27, 14:39 af John Kraaer i kategorien eTwinning  |  Kommentarer[0]

The Climate Mystery - report from a workshop

Christian Fonnesbech begins his presentation telling how a story is build up.

The question - How does the climate change effect our helth and how can we prevent the climate changes? 

Climate Mystery homepage

In this workshop Christian asks the participants on how the Climate mystery could interact with eTwinning and how the schools could work together with the project. Some of the answars was

Chatting on the eTwinning platform. Develloping the story of mystery aparted by ending a part of the story and afterwards sending it to the next school as movie chapters.

MP3 sound file about the game

Skrevet 2009-03-27, 14:24 af Torben Thomsen i kategorien eTwinning  |  Kommentarer[1]

Johannes Lebech, MEP

Johannes Lebech

Part 1

Part 2

How does the food that you eat effect on the climate

Skrevet 2009-03-27, 11:47 af Torben Thomsen i kategorien eTwinning  |  Kommentarer[0]

Johannes Lebech, MEP

Johannes Lebech, MEP, made an interesting speech during the opening dinner of the PDW. If you click on "Link to file" below the photo you will be able to reach an mp3-file (22 mb).

Link to file

Skrevet 2009-03-27, 10:21 af John Kraaer i kategorien eTwinning  |  Kommentarer[0]

Opening of the climate PDW in Roskilde

Claus Berg (Danish NSS) Opens the climate change PDW in Roskilde -

Some of the fokus fields for climate teaching are that the climate changes dramaticly and fast. This influenses on our teaching.

Its possible to se his opening on YouTube

Skrevet 2009-03-26, 18:51 af Torben Thomsen i kategorien eTwinning  |  Kommentarer[0]

The PDW is now open

 The PDW in Roskilde is now open. Claus Berg from the Danish NSS opened the PDW - the climate changes is a challenge to everybody and especially to the teachers. He hoped that this seminar will contribute to an understaning of the climate changes.

Anne Gilleran from the CSS gave a short overview of the new features in eTwinning 2.0

She also revealed some the new initiatives like the learning events

- and ended by quoting Ban ki-Moon, Secretary-General.

"We are all part the problem of global warming. Let us all be part of the solution."

Skrevet 2009-03-26, 18:36 af John Kraaer i kategorien eTwinning  |  Kommentarer[0]

eTwinning "Games & Learning", QuickPoll 2

Here's is the second QuickPoll, related to the questions that Ella Myhring put up for discussion in her pre-conference workshop at the eTwinning Climate Change PDW in Roskilde.

What do you think?

Skrevet 2009-03-26, 14:31 af Claus Berg i kategorien eTwinning  |  Kommentarer[0]