Report Comenius meeting Gent 8-14 February 2006

1 2006

1.1 Evaluation movies

1.1.1 Troisdorf

There was a difference in sound quality

solution: connect extra micro

It is good that children could hear the mothertongue

Because of the number of pupils a choice is made to film only some families

1.1.2 Cento

because of the number of pupils there was a chance to end up with a boaring video

The children didn't know each other at the beginning of the roject

The last years comenius kids were involved in presenting the school

letter for Finland

Also problems with the sound quality

1.1.3 Gent

There were technical problems to open the different discs

It took quit some time to make the films

editing takes time

A textbook was sent with

1.1.4 Turku

opening the videos gave some difficulties

Please send info how the disc has been burned

Now we know how to handle the camera

1.2 Puppets

1.2.1 The making off

Troisdorf

Documentation will follow

It took a lot of time to make the puppets

Few children?

It was a long work for little children

Cento will ask for the names of the puppets in an E mail

Children worked out the body but clothes made by ...

Family members:

father & Mother, 2 boys & a girl

Cento

Children couldn't displace themselves in the storys of the other countrys

We made up a questionary to gather the info

Each child made his own puppet

We used 500 euro to pay an expert to make the puppets

Family members

Father, mother, boy & girl

Gent

Erics Family

Mother,father, grandfather, a boy & 3 girls

Turku

Kevins family

Mother,father,boy, girl, hamster

The puppets were based on a drawing

Also some atributes were made

We wrote a description of every member

1.2.2 exchange

Finland creates a puppetfamily for Belgium with information from Germany

Belgium creates a puppetfamily for Germany with information from Italy

Germany creates a puppetfamily for Italy with information from Finland

Italy creates a puppetfamily for Finland with information from Belgium

All puppets were exchanged in Evelines class

We took pictures of all puppet families

1.2.3 report website

A picture to present all families

A written presentaton of all families

Report + pictures to documentate the making off.

All text in word please!

1.3 Homeculture

Finland describes a day in the life for the puppetfamily inGermany with information from Belgium

Belgium describes a day in the life for the puppetfamily in Italy with information from Germany

Germany describes a day in the life for the puppetfamily in Finland with information from Italy

Italy describes a day in the life for the puppetfamily in Belgium with information from Finland

1.3.1 Task:make a story?

The children have the task to write a story," a weekend at the home of..."

Therefore they need some information

1.3.2 Wich info do we need

Make an empty mindmap with questions for info

collecting/clustering

info daily life

games

relaxatie

celebration

timing

meals

music

tv

solving problems

pocketmoney

...

send

Finland sends empty mindmap to Belgium

Belgium sends empty mindmap to Germany

Germany sends empty mindmap to Italy

Italy sends empty mindmap to Finland

before 3 march

to Eveline before 23 feb

1.3.3 collecting info

Collect the info about the home culture and fill in the mind map

send back info

Before the 17th march

Troisdorf to Gent before the 10th march

1.3.4 make a story

You receive the info

Write the story without dialogues

The story tells a weekend at the family

send

Finland sends the story to Germany

Belgium sends the story to Italy

Germany sends the story to Finland

Italy sends the story to Belgium

before 10th April

1.3.5 play/film

= 26 may 2006

This is the first episode of the soap!

aprox.5 minutes

Only the puppets who are speaking move!

Start the film with an introduction of the family

You get the script without dialogues from another partner

The weekend ends with saying goodbye

why?

kids decide

reason for a big tour

who?

argue and...

luggage

translation:choise

text like in a silent movies

subtitles

...

send to?

disk to all partners

The land where puppets are going to:travelling puppets + disk

1.4 website

1.4.1 content

a weekend at...

film of every country

1.5 evaluation 2005/06

joint evaluation report (like we did in Cento)

questions will be disseminated to all partners

answer and send back

period:may?

editing by Didier

June

2 2006.07

2.1 soap

2.1.1 second episode

= 3 November 2006

something is missing

2.1.2 thirth episode

= 30 January 2007

seasons greeting new year christmas

2.1.3 forth episode

= 1 April 2007

party

2.1.4 fifth episode

= 11 may 2007

homecoming

2.1.5 souvenir

travellers get them everywhere and take them in their suetcase

travellers collect souvenirs

scale

2.1.6 technical

For each episode, 5 discs are made

Send to all partners but don't show the kids

Show only the previous episode of the visitors coming

Send 2 discs to Gent as a back up!

For each episode we use a new disc

Give info about how the disc was burned (program)

Security:back ups!!!!!

Set up a workpath so we can exchange ideas in Cento

2.1.7 exchange

Each time the puppets are send forward to the next country

We send a letter or a postcard home

2.1.8 website

a picture of the visiting puppets with the children in the class?

We talk about this in Cento

2.2 visit Cento

2.2.1 3 November - 9 November

2.2.2 start in Rome - ends in Bologna

2.2.3 content:

workpath for the editing

exchanging experiances about editing

2.3 Visit Gent

2.3.1 11 may - 15 may

2.3.2 content

(1) evaluation 2006-2007

(2) viewing all soaps?

(3) …

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Report Comeniusmeeting Gent 8-14 february 2006