Working days: Monday-Friday, 29th October to the 2nd November, 2018

Time: 09:00-17:00

Duration per day: 9 hours

Attendees: 36 participating students and 17 accompanying teachers

Agenda: Overview of the aims and structure of the LTTA3 of the “My Smart School” project.

Executive Overview: The LTTA3 of the “My Smart School” project was hosted by Agrupamento de Escolas do Forte da Casa, Forte da Casa – Portugal, in 29th October to the 2nd November, 2018.

The partners in this project are: Italy (the coordinator), Poland, Macedonia, Turkey and the host of the event Portugal.

The goals of the exchange were:

1. to involve students in their own learning with a view to attaining better results and becoming more motivated;

2. to develop students' transversal skills - computer literacy, critical and creative thinking, personal and social capability;

3. to develop intercultural understanding and acceptance;

4. to develop communication skills in English;

5. to promote European values and develop cohesion among European citizens.

The exchange presupposes three parts:

1. Introduction and team building

2. Topic-related activities using ICT tools (Animoto)

3 Spaces for cultural awareness

Introduction and team building

First day

1. Welcoming the guests by the School Principal
2. Team building activities – building towers of confidence
3.  Reviewing the project (coordinator)
4. Presentations of partners concerning the topic aimed for the LTTA3 and as described in the application form.
5. Visiting Lisbon Oceanarium – a very smart structure representing the world sea life preservation

Topic-related activities:

Second day

1. Workshop with digital libraries and similar tools for building one

2. Practice of building specific digital platforms for libraries and visiting Vila Franca de Xira – the most important city in the municipality that presents a unique building as library: Factory of words.

Third day

1. Working on presentations using Animoto
2. Team Meeting

Fourth day

1. Cultural awareness day: visiting the point where Europe ends

Fifth day

1. Working on presentations using PowToon
2. Groups giving presentations
3. Selecting winners
4. Certification
5. Farewell party

DETAILED MEETING MINUTES - FIRST DAY (MONDAY, October the 29th)

Introduction and team building

First day

The first day of the LTTA1 started with a morning session and welcoming from the director, followed by a team building activity – towers of confidence, that appeals to creativity, collaborative work and has the aim of breaking each closed group by integrating students of all the partner nationalities,

After the break, all the participants were introduced with the daily working agenda. The purpose of the activities was for the students to become acquainted with each other, to cooperate as a team, to socialize and develop their communication skills in English. The games used were “say” or “do” and “towers of confidence” – both developed the interaction among students who didn’t know previously and had to work in a cooperative, creative and critical way.

The working session of the first day ended with a visit to the library of the municipality – Factory of Words in Vila Franca de Xira.

The participating students were satisfied with proposed activities, they were very cooperative and showed a genuine interest for learning, sharing their ideas and contributing for the effective completion of the working session.

MEETING MINUTES - SECOND DAY (TUESDAY, October the 30th)

Topic-related activities:

Second day

1. Workshop on digital libraries
2. Practice on app for creating digital access to books

The second day of the LTTA1 started with the introduction of the daily agenda activities. Students attended a “lesson” on how to create digital libraries and put books and information at anyone reach.

The session was provided by Cristina Cruz – history and librarian teacher – a well recognised trainer in the field.

The afternoon was dedicated to the application of the apps introduced in the morning.

 MEETING MINUTES - THIRD DAY (WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 31st)

Third day

• Classes presented by teachers and students
• Literature and app for boosting learning
• Visit to the Lisbon Oceanarium

According to the agenda, the third working day was divided in two parts: one filled with presentations about literature classes using smart apps to make it more interesting and conveying a new way of learning.

The afternoon all students went to visit the Lisbon oceanarium – the visit also included a workshop on endangered species: how to be smart to preserve the oceans.

Before leaving to the oceanarium, coordinator teachers found a place to meet and to discuss issues related to the ongoing project:

1. Departure time
2. Europass
3. Invoices
4. Agenda
5. Evaluation of presentations and winners
6. Online questionnaires
7. Reports
8. eTwinning
9. Justification
10. Workshop
11. Dissemination grid
12. Facebook page
13. Date for last LTTA in Italy.

Since this meeting is a LTTA, the meeting had to be brief but fruitful conveying the main issues – which it did.

MEETING MINUTES - FOURTH DAY (THURSDAY, November, the 1st)

Fourth day

Cultural awareness day

The 1^st of November is a national holiday in Portugal – so the whole group took the time to get to know some of the most iconic points of Lisbon and its surrounding: Belém – smart sailors ‘village from where they sailed across the oceans in the 15^th century, Cascais: river and sea, Guincho – the open ocean, Cabo da Roca – where Europe ends and Sintra – the romantic village.

MEETING MINUTES - FIFTH DAY (FRIDAY, November the 2^nd)

Fifth day

1. Working on presentations using Animoto
2. Groups giving presentations
3. Selecting winners
4. Certificates of Attendance
5. Farewell party

The last day of the LTTA started with a morning session of the students continuing with their work on the presentations. Students were helped and advised by the appointed teachers where needed. They were given guidelines for performing the presentations and all of the members in the groups were also encouraged to present a certain slide they were working on.

The presentations were performed during the morning session.

Before lunch we performed the LTTA evaluation and handled the certificates of attendance.

The coordinator of the project, Michelina Di Rienzo once more expressed her gratitude for all the work done by the partners and the host country and thanked all the participants for their efforts and job well done.