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Project plan of TTLT Comenius multilateral project 2012- 2014

Coordinator: Alajarvi school

Partners: Vimpeli school, St.Denis Loches France and JC Maxwell,

Milan

In these lines you will get the idea of the project who was planned by Janne

Visto from Alajarvi, with the collaboration of Martin Chatagnon from Loches,

Juha-Pekka Anttila from Vimpeli and Maria Grazia Cupini from Milan.

Here is the report written by Janne Visto:

Schedule and contents

Milan preliminary meeting in November where we discussed the mobilities, found dates for

them, came up with technical solutions and dealt with problems of timetables and

schedules. We have groups and teams responsible for different areas of expertise, and

our teams and coordinators met for the first time.

Our plan is as follows (not the final version, but the one to be discussed with all the

participants, teachers and students alike): partner schools start to convey teaching to

each other in all (or almost all) school subjects included in the school curriculum once a

week. So each school sends one lesson every week, but also receives two or three

lessons from the partner schools. All this happens via a simple netbased programme

which does not require a lot of investment and extra effort to learn.

The lesson might include normal frontal teaching, a slide show, photos, a short video clip,

Powerpoint presentations, Word documents or some other types of media. The lesson

doesn’t have to be too complicated or technical. Teachers should also have a quite liberal

choice in what they teach and they shouldn’t feel restricted by the course they are

currently teaching. The contents of the lessons are “teacher-based” but “student-

activated”. When we as teachers get the information (based on the schedule planned

together) where and when their lesson takes place, we can start working and refining the

material beforehand according to everyone’s own interest. Our networking conference in

Oulu showed well how keen the students are to take part in the action when they get the

right tools and subjects. Upper secondary schools are great pools of student resources –

in some cases they master the technology better than we. One ambitious goal of the

project is also to achieve and maintain an archive of lessons “for posterity”, and to use

these entities later when the project is over. For this all technical problems need to be

solved, and maybe also some legal and moral matters how different countries allow their

students to be filmed.

An integral part of conveying teaching and information is also the mobility that Comenius

programmes offer. No student would like to say they are involved in an international

project unless they have a chance to visit. These student/teacher exchange visits could

be planned by using the same concept as in our teaching exchange. In our countries we

individually work on creating information packages, which will then be presented during the

visits

What’s the use of the whole project? It is a problem if we do things just to appear active,

but hopefully not a big one. One could also think that action is always good because of all

the activity it creates. Our main idea behind everything is that in optimal circumstances

technical expertise improves, activities promote two-way cultural interchange, we get

further information of school systems in other countries, we bring students/teachers closer

to each other, create new groups that spontaneously correspond on the Internet, give birth

to new contacts, increase the satisfaction of normal school work, give a chance to visit

other countries and schools. One big aim is to store all the information and material that

we create for further use.

First of all the Italian Comenius referent had to plan the timetable and the activities to be

done for the first Comenius meeting asking the Principal, students teachers and staff for

collaboration, it was essential to try to involve more and more students from different

specialization who were supposed to become the tutors of the European guests.

COMENIUS MEETING IN Milan 07.–11.12.2012

“Teach together learn together”

Place James Clark Maxwell

Via Don G. Calabria 2

20132 Milano- Italy

Wed. 07.11.

Arrivals during afternoon and accommodation in

Hotel Lombardia

16.00 Meeting at the hotel and information about Milan

And the places of interest ( city sightseeing optional )

19.00 Dinner to be defined

Thurs. 08.11.

9.10 welcome and visit workshops ( different departments) tutored by the students

9.50* Presentation of PP – students from lyceum, aeronautics and technical departments

11.00 presentation partner schools

12.30 Lunch in Pia Marta canteen

14.00 visit the centre of the town ( Duomo, Castello Sforzesco )

17.00 Return to hotel

20.00 happy hour at Bicocca viale Pirelli 14

20.45 Musical Priscilla at Arcimboldi

Fri. 09.11.

9.10- 12,00 *checking the equipment – planning videoconferences and videos SB

12.30 lunch at Pia Marta

15.00 visit museo della scienza e tecnologia or Brera art gallery RS

19.15 dinner with the colleagues Maxwell – Comenius partners Moby Dick

Sat.10.11

9.10- 12.00 * planning the mobilities and the future meetings

Free afternoon for shopping or visit Brera Art Gallery

Sun 11.11.

Leaving back home

*aula Tic Silvana Mazza – Salvatore Brandano- Sara Buonincontri- Paola Cappelli - Fabio Mancini- Pietro

Sarpa- Piero Valocchi – Rita Spinoni – Anna Roda- Giovanni Pennacchia – Maria Grazia Giovannini-Gabriella

Scribano

1) Vimpeli:

- MS Piia Latvatalo

- MS Oona Helander

- Mr. Esko Hyyppa

- Mr. Marko Timo

2) Alajarvi:

- Ms. Anne Yli- Sissala

- Mr. Kauko Kainulainen

- Mr. Janne Visto

- Mr. Erkki Akerman

- 3) Loches: Ms. Cécile Marand

- Mr. Martin Chatagnon

ELENCO PARTECIPANTI INCONTRO COMENIUS

Data: 08 novembre 2012 Ore: 09.10 – 11.00

CLASSE NOME POWER POINT

2Cr Bianchi Christian- Giambelli Jacopo

Calvi Mattia Schito Marco Drago Matteo

Milan

4 DR

3DR

3CR

*Celant Alvise – *Mascherpa Giovanni

–* Polito Carmelo

Tromboni Giorgio – Roncaglio Daniele

Monguzzi Mirko

Bertoli Davide – Puteri Francisco

Extra activities

School Subjects

Milano historical

background

5 ASL *Cassis – *Nazares

*Lo Presti

School Presentation

5 AM – 4AM *Creta Luca –* Argenton Gabriele

*Avenido Stefano

Mechanical department

4 AO– 5AO *Perricone Thomas – Bellavia Alessia

*Cancelliere Luca- *Morchadi Tarik

Electronics department

3AM Cipres Charles Ian

*tutor liceo scientifico laboratori 5ASL * tutor aeronautica 4Dr * tutor meccanica elettronica

1- Gruppo Vimpeli 1Loches 1 Alajarvi

2-Alajarvi 2Vimpeli 2 Loches

3Loches 3 Alajarvi 3 Vimpeli

TTLT – Teach Together, Learn Together

From November 7th to November 11th we had

the pleasure of visiting Milan for the first

Comenius meeting between four different

schools, Alajärven lukio, Vimpelin lukio, Istituto

di Istruzione Superiore Statale James Clerk

Maxwell and Groupe Scolaire St. Denis.

Alajärvi and Vimpeli are two partner schools in

central Finland in a region called Ostrobothnia.

Our Italian partner is a school specializing in aeronautics and it is situated in Milan,

northern Italy. Our French partner is an international school in Loches, France, and it is an

international school situated in the Loire Valley. This preliminary meeting was arranged

efficiently by our Italian partners to pave way for the upcoming project TTLT – Teach

Together – Learn Together. The staff of the partner schools and some of the students of

James Maxwell took part in this conference, and we also tried out working tools for the

project by establishing Skype and Internet connections and testing the feasibility of

Polycom and Adobe videoconference programmes. The students participating in this

looked very happy to be talking with foreign friends.

Our programme in Milan was varied: after our

distinguished French and Finnish delegations (10

persons) were met at the hotel on the day

of the arrival, Maria Grazia Cupini, the local

coordinator, took us for an evening walk to get to know the immediate surroundings, the

Piola area and Corso Buenos Aires to mention a few places, and we immediately felt

welcome. After that there was no official meeting, but the next morning we took to the

Istituto James Maxwell, where we were met by most of the staff, students and exchanged

little gifts. Headmaster Giuseppe Sammartino, or in Italian “Dirigente Scolastico,” gave us

his greetings in his office.

Our delegations were soon divided into smaller working groups, and the students took us

on a short tour of the premises and different departments to see all the labs, workshops

and equipment that was part of the curriculum of the school, with flight simulators, robotics

labs, and meteorological equipment. We also

saw how

students did with their air traffic controller and pilot training. Then we all gathered together

in a classroom to present each other and the schools respectively, enjoyed enthusiastically

made good quality powerpoint presentations and videos made by partner schools. It was

wonderful to see how much effort everyone had been put in the presentation and overall,

the Italian students were eager to talk to us and exchange ideas.

Our group was also offered a wonderful lunch in the Pia Marta canteen on the following

two days, and Italian food became familiar to us in all its aspects during long and

productive meals and fruitful conversations which helped us in future co-operation. On

Thursday after lunch we had time to go see some sights in the centre of Milan such as

Duomo, La Scala and Castello Sforzesco, the exlusive malls, the wonderful Piazzas

around, and the overall lovely ambiance and atmosphere of the city. Some of us even got

to swirl around the mosaic bull that brings good luck. Many of

us came downtown the next days to find out more about Milan and

to see it basking in different lights.

After returning to our hotels we had time to

start planning the project further based

on the information that we had got the same

morning, and using the ideas of the

delegations and the staff of James

Maxwell. Language problems were all

overcome with good co-operation and by using any means and

languages necessary to get the message across. The main objective was to familiarize

ourselves with all those people involved in the Comenius partnership, exchanging contact

details and coming up with practical solutions to our plans. Then our hosts offered us a

musical experience in the Arcimboldi theatre where they were showing a play called

Priscilla, based on an Australian hit film of 1994, and containing lots of hit songs that

helped understand the musical, which of course was in Italian. Needless to say, but I think

we all learned to speak at least some Italian during the visit. We arrived back at the hotel

after midnight, curious to find out what decisions

could be made next.

Friday morning it was time to plan and establish

connections to the partnering countries and their

schools. After some initial difficulties we got some

connections to work, but quite many technical issues

were still unfinished. With an optimistic attitude and

thinking of using different solutions for the actual

process of conveying teaching to each other and

storing information for

further use, we will most

definitely be making

progress. And judging by

the faces of girls and boys in the partnering schools during their free conversations on line

we could see that everything was not in vain. The morning hours before lunch were used

entirely for this sole purpose of getting everything to work.

After a refreshing lunch our path continued to the Museo della Scienza e Tecnologia. We

got a guided visit by an Italian colleague’s husband, who had a lot of knowledge of the

work of Leonardo de Vinci and many other fields of the exhibition which showed us man’s

inventions on land, under water and in the air, and after a brief visit to the hotel to sum

everything up, our teams were taken to Moby Dick, a restaurant chosen by our hosts, to

have a farewell dinner. Signor Sammartino wanted to take us downtown to see the sights

of the historical centre after dark, and we thank him for his time.

Saturday morning we

decided to work really hard to

solve some unfinished issues

and find common ground in

timetables, technical

solutions, dates and contents

of mobilities, rules for

participation in visits, and find

something really concrete to

take back to our countries,

and ideas of how to sell the

project and to get everyone involved. Everything went well, but we still have things to do –

the project will last until spring 2014, and by then we are much wiser of how we did.

After putting our noses to the grindstone, we still had a few moments to ourselves to do

interesting things in Milan. Whether it was shopping, sightseeing, planning the project or

enjoying a good meal, I think all the participants got good basic knowledge of what was to

come and how to proceed. Then it was time to pack and get ready for Sunday morning’s

flight from Malpensa and Linate airports, depending on whether you were French or

Finnish. Our teams got on so well in creating personal contacts that Saturday evening all

of us gathered together

for one more meal in the

Moulin Rouge restaurant

near the hotels. Sunday

was the day of travelling.

The Finnish groups got

home around midnight,

the French before us some

time in the afternoon, and we

all sent each other

greetings.

How do we go on from here?

On Saturday we made a timetable for the spring term. Every week there will be teaching

between two partner schools if the synchronized school schedules allow it. Some

sessions involve all schools, but most of these are between two partner schools. Each

school should inform the receiving school two to three weeks in advance about the

contents of the lesson and when it is sent. The contents of the actual lesson is decided by

the teacher who is in charge of how the information is passed on. The ideal situation is

that the students do all the work and brainstorming based on the teacher’s suggestions,

and they also take care of the lesson contents.

For the project there is already a planned outline, which all

the partner schools know, and teaching begins the first

school week after Christmas if all the technical

problems have been solved by then. Each school is meant

to inform the other schools of the lessons they give, its

time and contents about two or three weeks in advance. All

the lessons will be recorded, saved, and stored for future

use, and they will be part of the publications of this

Comenius project. So far we have been trying to

establish contacts between the member schools via the

French Polycom system, and there have been advances.

All this teaching will continue until spring 2014.

Events in spring and mobilities

In March 21 persons will visit Vimpeli: 5

teachers from Italy, two teachers from France,

four students from Italy, and ten students from

France. Vimpeli is the host, but also students

and teachers from Alajärvi will participate in the

meetings – both its official activities and leisure

time. The students will be accommodated in

host families, and the visit will take place March 6th – March 10th. The date was changed

because we needed to synchronize our timetables better, and we also think that the

French representatives wanted to see Finland in its late winter glory – let’s hope for a

sunny spring.

There will be a visit to Loches, France, to the Loire Valley, and 1-2 teachers and 4-5

students from Vimpeli and as many from Alajärvi will take part. The dates are May 15th –

May 19th. We have to decide how these students are chosen. Probably our Student

Council will help in the application and choosing of participants. The idea is to send a

group of students representing all aspects of school curriculum subjects, and in the target

country they will give out presentations based on the school subjects they did in their

native country.

The students interested in taking part in these mobilities can already start of thinking of

good ideas. The rules, the insurances, the travel arrangements will be planned soon, and

there are groups consisting of teachers and students alike who can give suggestions. If

you have questions, you can direct them to the persons responsible. Alajärvi is the main

coordinator; address your questions to Janne Visto ([email protected]). In Vimpeli,

talk to Juha-Pekka Anttila([email protected]). In Milan the person in charge is

Maria Grazia Cupini ([email protected]), and in Loches it is Martin Chatagnon

[email protected]). All these schools also have extensive home pages on the

Internet, and more information can be found there in general and regarding our project.

Alajärvi: http://www.japo.fi/kk/lukio/ (check under the title “kansainvälisyys”)

Vimpeli: http://www.peda.net/veraja/vimpeli/lukio

Loches: http://www.saint-denis.net/ (check under the title “ouverture sur le monde”)

Milan: http://www.maxwell.mi.it/