The Lithuanian partner school Endriejavo Pagrindine Mokykla invited for the first „Short-term joint staff training event“ between July 3rd - 7th 2017. Ms. Egle Skoleviciene and her team welcomed the representatives of all 7 partner schools to train their ICT skills under the guidance of various tutors. All partner schools had finished their school year so that they were free for this training week, but some of them had to leave their teachers’ evaluations and documentations weeks or cooperations meetings. 

A well balanced mix of working sessons, social events and some excursions cared for an instructional and pleasurable week.  Partners were accomodated in a Klaipeda hotel but the school bus brought them to the empty school building in Endriejavas, where the working sessions took place.

On the agenda was the finishing of the e-books. This had already been done by partners in the period since the last project meeting in Macedonia in April.

The main theme was the handling with Aurasma for the dominating theme „A juwel in town“ next autumn. Aurasma is a free app for iOS and Android devices. It uses advanced image recognition to blend a 3D image/video onto a 2D image. These blended images are called “Auras”. When someone holds the Aurasma app over a pre-marked picture, it will bring that picture to life. Partners should use this app to present a „jewel“ of their town, this may be a point of interest, a historical site or place of local importance. After demonstrating the pre-prepared Lithuanian Aurasma example, the Irish coordinator Mr. O’Beirn practised Aurasma on the smartphone for everybody, the Lithuanian school explained „Studio Aurasma“ (on the Aurasma website). 

Our ICT trainer Mr. Gerald Grahammer introduced Tynker coding to create interactive html5 simulations and presentations in several lessons over the week. Tynker is an alternative to Scratch junior and we decided to replace it. 

The Spanish partners demonstrated high quality audio recording with 2 pupils that came back to school from holiday for this purpose. Mr. Leonardo Loianno from Spain gave the partners an introduction to the Audiacity software to edit audio files. 

For the evaluation of the first project year the Lithuanian partners suggested Surveymonkey, an ideal tool that can be tailored to our needs. Partners were invited to work out the questions that suit best for our Primary school pupils to get a comprehensiv overview on what pupils have done and which activities they liked best. 

Our Portuguese partners showed us an example how to make little games for the mobile phone or online playing on learningapp.org. Partners tried themseves by copying and adapting an existing sample and replace the images and texts with their own ones.

All these trainings made partner fit for the project tasks of autumn 2017 until the next meeting in April 2018.

 

Ms Egle Skoliviciene offered her visitors an interesting frame programme. She took them to the amber coast near Klaipeda and to a local beekeeper. On Thursday July 6th was the Lithuanian National Day with folk dance from pupils of the school.