SECOND PROJECT MEETING IN MACEDONIA

  • Our Macedonian partner Mr. Dragan Jankosky invited the group in April to the second project meeting. Partners met at Skopje and were transported to Krusevo by a mini bus. St. Cyril and Methodij school consists of 3 separate village schools in Svetomitrani, Presil and Bucin. At all places we were warmly welcome from teachers and children with folk dance in traditional costumes.

    We had a look at the everyday school life, at teaching methods and resources, especially ICT educational equipment and practice. Our Lithuanian partners demonstrated a lesson with "Plickers", one of our favourite ICT issues of the working programme. For the dissemination of our activities a regional TV channel („Tera“ from Bitola) accompanied our visit to all three schools and took scenes and interviews with teachers. Their report was broadcast a day later in an area of about 250.000 people by cable TV (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8bD4qSXssM). 

    After school the mayor of Krusevo invited our group to his office. He appreciated our project and expressed his thanks and support (http://krusevo.gov.mk/?p=4165).

    In the evening we gathered in the meeting hall of our hotel for the project conference. In an illustrated Powerpoint presentation the coordinator gave a review of the project work that had been done during the past months: recordings for the „School radio“, the setting up of the project website, our first teamviewer meetings, self constructed educational computer games, a partner place game made on „learningapp.org“,  early experiences with Plickers, Jumpidoo, Kahoot and QR-code.

    We discussed the tasks of the following period, especially the use of our Twin Space for class communication and technical aspects for our e-book, for which the Irish partner had already made a sample. Another theme was the joint evaluation of the first project year. 

    Next morning the project team was at school again to take some audio recordings with Macedonian children for the „School radio“.

    In the afternoon the whole group and some teachers of the hosting school visited Ohrid which is a famous historical place under the protections of the UNESCO. The Macedonian partner school choose this place for the theme of the protection of the cultural heritage as an example for all partner schools how to implement this important item of the joint work program.