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E.S.P.A.European Schools Project Association was founded in 2005
collaborative open network organization European Schools Project that started in 1988Comenius3 thematic networks ECOLE and COMP@CT
inspiring experiences and expertise that all members of the international ESP-Association make available to their fellow members, and to all others. Teleprojects and e-Journalism are the main educational concepts based on computer supported collaborative learning (CSCL)
Culture quest Let’s sing together eJournal
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History
1989: ESP conference first ideas launched in German: Lone Hagen and Thomas Peters
’90es: Das Bild der Anderen for teachers of German in the Netherlands. Thomas Peters
1995 Das Bild der Anderen:, German/German edition: Lone Hagen & Annie Ring Knudsen sponsored by The INFA project,DK
1995 ’The Image of the Other’ – teachers of EnglishGerard Koster & Jan Eric Remmelts (NL) in collaboration with Danish and
Dutch teachers and consultants. Cartoons by Ber van der Rijdt sponsored by European Platform for Dutch Education
1996 ’L’Image’ for teachers of French. Jan Pover (NL)1997 ’The Image of the Other’ and L’Image inserted on the ESP website by
Henk Sligte.2003: The Image of the Other portal Viljenka Savli, SI, Francisca Soares, PT,
Kirsten M. Anttila, DK2004 Italian version - T'Immagino/M'Immagini
Dutch version - Intern@tionale Interculturele Bruggen2005: Spanish version2007: Danish & Slovenian versions Emanuela Atz IPI BZ Emanuela Atz IPI BZ
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It is a CSCL project in which teachers and their students use e-mail to exchange information, data, opinions, etc., on many different subjects with
colleagues and peers abroad.
What is The Image of the Other project?
The Image of the Other materials…meant to be used in language lessons
… one of the basic ideas has been twinning of students and classes
… feature collaboration in an international perspective… promote the building of collaborative environments.
… involve students (from the age of nine and upwards) and teachers from all over the world
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Objectives / purposes
The exchange of information, data, opinions, done through the internet aims at…
… creating a real collaborative environment wherestudents collaborate and interact using the different technological
tools;… improving the students’ writing skills
… opening the students’ horizons through getting and letting to know different cultural and social realities;
… giving teachers and students basic materials and instruction for starting the project.
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THE IMAGE PORTAL: www.europeanschoolsproject.org/
Eight different language versions
Find a partner
News
Best practice
Discussion - forum
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STUDENT'S LETTERSSet of 10 letters for students with
useful guidelines how to write about given topics.
General Rules for letter-writing
1: Introduction 2: My home 3: My School 4: My hobbies 5: Details 6: My diary 7: Do you really know each other? 8a: My hometown and my region 8b: My country 9: Showing you around 10: The Image
EVALUATION
Materials for project evaluationEvaluation-teachers (PDF) (doc) Evaluation-students (PDF) (doc)Take a poll - for teachersYour opinion about the projectThe Image project is... Where have you learned about it? Project attainability
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Easy to access and download; Can be edited according to individual needs; Introduce new vocabulary and grammar structure; Make use of ICT; Try to create a collaborative environment; Great variety of activities that can be done by the students:
• reports• emails• questionnaires• songs and essays• photos and drawings• presentations• Web Pages• interactive materials