1. Project summary Summary: By means of creative challenges Belgian and Spanish youngsters share their passion for ICT and the internet, explore the world of Web 2.0. and become aware of internet copyright. 2. Country (City / Region) State: Belgium City: Malle 3. Company/organization/institute presenting the project Organization: Immaculata Instituut 4. Type of organization Select type: School 5. Project coordinator Name and Surname: Bart Verswijvel E-Mail: bartverswijvel@telenet.be 6. Website The website of the project: http://creativecommonsetwinning.wordpress.com 7. Please select the category in which you candidate your project Youth Education Project. Select Project Users by age: Up to 18 years Helping youth step in the job market: NOT Helping youth step in the job market Creativity and Social Innovation: NOT in Creativity and Social Innovation 8. How long has your project been running? From: 01/12/2009 9. Targets and Elements of Innovation Please explain the targets and the background of your project: Our project aimed at several objectives: Creative commons: we wanted the students to become aware of the existence of Internet copyright. Collaborative learning: the students work independently but at the same time they taught each other in an informal way. The teachers didn’t give any frontal step-by-step instructions. Creativity: creative freedom was given as much as possible. Responsibility: each student built his own blog. Communication: Spanish and Belgian students worked on the same tasks and exchanged material and results. Dissemination: as coordinators of the project we had the intention of offering all information and instructions for anyone wanting to adapt or copy our project. What does it try to achieve and how: In this project our students acquired competences to communicate in a digital way using web 2.0 tools with respect for the work of an author (Creative Commons License). Which opportunities/problems does it address to: As educators of millennium learners we think that the focus we put in this project should be a part of education. We think that besides the attention for issues like safe internet, attention should be given to copyright and respect for the work of an author. Pupils (and teachers) often copy and paste without giving at least credit to the author. Please explain what is unique or special in your project: This project was unique and special in several ways. First of all their was the organization (configuration) of the project. Each student was responsible for his own blog and all blogs were linked to the project blog. This configuration offers everything needed for meaningful project work. We considered the ownership of the tool by the student as very important. The project didn’t stop at the end of the lesson! Students had to take full responsibility. For none of the tasks mentioned above frontal teaching was involved. All the students taught each other or worked independently. The project was also unique because we only used online material and programmes of WEB 2.0 but at the same time we wanted my the students aware of the existence of Creative Commons Licenses. Also the complete project was presented under Creative Commons License and we want to share it as much as possible. All presentations, tutorials, descriptions are shared in this project. We think that this project has great potential of replication. We can also mention the spin off website we made in this project: http://bvpics.wordpress.com. As mentioned above , we think that Creative Commons Licenses are an essential part in the education of new millennium learners. 10. Results Describe the results of your project as per today: We present this project in a realistic, honest way. From the project blog (http://creativecommonsetwinning.wordpress.com) all the contributions of the pupils can be reached. As mentioned above, it was from the start an objective to share everything so that (elements of) this project can be used by any one interested. So we think that this project is really a good source of inspiration for teachers who think of setting up an online co-operation with classes from different countries. How does it fulfill the users’ needs: We wanted to our pupils to acquire communicative competences. We think that the things they have learned are tranferable in new circumstances because we gave full responsibility to our pupils during the learning process. How many users interact with your project per month and what are the preferred forms of interaction: In the Belgian and Spanish school about 50 pupils took part in the project. Since the 2 groups of pupils have a different mother tongue, we used non verbal communication and English as lingua franca. How has it improved the quality of educational and/or training services: / How has it improved the participation of professionals, children, youth and other stakeholders: This project remained on the level of the class, but as mentioned elsewhere, we tried to disseminate our experiences, both on the project’s blog as at several conferences where we presented the project. How does it promote the use of ICT for the educational and cultural development by professionals, children and youth: / Describe how you measure (parameters) these results: In both schools the project work was integrated in the curriculum. (In Spain this only counted for a grroup of students). 11. Sustainability What is the full duration of your project: Less than 1 year 12. Transferability Has your project been replicated/adapted elsewhere: Yes Specify: he project has been disseminated in many ways. In Belgium is was presented at 2 conferences: Monitoring Day in Alden Biesen and Ecomedea Europe in Hasselt (May 2009). The project was also presented at the national eTwinning awards where we won the overall prize of 2009. In Spain the project was presented at the in-service Teachers training center in La Almunia and at the Aragon ICT school meeting (June 2009). Creative Commons was also elected as eTwinning project of the month in Spain. What lessons can others learn from your project: I think we provide as much information as possible. We think that other teachers can copy the structure of our project but that they are free to add other elements. We are available to help others starting or working on similar projects: We are available to help others starting or working on similar projects. 13. Background information Background: This project is an eTwinning project. I found my partner in the database of www.etwinning.net and we took our time to discuss everything before starting with our pupils. We used email but also Google docs for our communication. We learned a lot from each other and we wanted to use many different tools. An overview: Wordpress, Rock You (slideshow), many different (online) tools for picture adaptation (http://bvpics.wordpress.com), Polldaddy (polls), RSS-feeds, Counter (free choice), Moviemaker, Blip.TV (movie hosting), Gmail chat, Synthasite, Scribd, Picasa, Camtasia, Sony Vegas, Google calendar, Google docs Form, Esurveyspro, Hot Potatoes, Flash meeting, Box.net (online storage) Barriers: We didn’t discover that many barriers. In the Spanish school the participation to the project was not compulsory for a group of pupils. Some blogs haven’t been finished by those pupils. Solutions: Next year we will devote more time of the school year to the project. When pupils take part it will be a part of the curriculum. Future plans and wish list: Next year we will continue the cooperation between the same schools. We will work together on a similar basis. We will also have a third partner. We were invited by a school for teacher training. During the traineeship of about 5 months of one of the future teachers, a group of students will take part under his/her supervision. In the renewed project we will also put the emphasis on creativity, web 2.0 and Creative Commons License. The outcomes of the cooperation will be media products where school life will be presented. Privacy Law Do you authorize the FMD to the treatment of your personal data?: I do authorize the FMD to the treatment of my personal data
By means of creative challenges Belgian and Spanish youngsters share their passion for ICT and the internet,
explore the world of Web 2.0. and become aware of internet copyright.
Our project aimed at several objectives:
Creative commons: we wanted the students to become aware of the existence of Internet copyright.
Collaborative learning: the students work independently but at the same time they taught each other in an
informal way. The teachers didn’t give any frontal step-by-step instructions.
Creativity: creative freedom was given as much as possible.
Responsibility: each student built his own blog.
Communication: Spanish and Belgian students worked on the same tasks and exchanged material and results.
Dissemination: as coordinators of the project we had the intention of offering all information and instructions
for anyone wanting to adapt or copy our project.
In this project our students acquired competences to communicate in a digital way using web 2.0 tools with respect
for the work of an author (Creative Commons License).
As educators of millennium learners we think that the focus we put in this project should be a part of education. We
think that besides the attention for issues like safe internet, attention should be given to copyright and respect for the
work of an author. Pupils (and teachers) often copy and paste without giving at least credit to the author.
This project was unique and special in several ways.
First of all their was the organization (configuration) of the project. Each student was responsible for his own blog and all blogs were linked to the project blog. This configuration offers everything needed for meaningful project work. We considered the ownership of the tool by the student as very important. The project didn’t stop at the end of the lesson! Students had to take full responsibility.
For none of the tasks mentioned above frontal teaching was involved. All the students taught each other or worked independently.
The project was also unique because we only used online material and programmes of WEB 2.0 but at the same time we wanted my the students aware of the existence of Creative Commons Licenses. Also the complete project was presented under Creative Commons License and we want to share it as much as possible. All presentations, tutorials, descriptions are shared in this project. We think that this project has great potential of replication.
We can also mention the spin off website we made in this project: http://bvpics.wordpress.com.
As mentioned above , we think that Creative Commons Licenses are an essential part in the education of new millennium learners.
We present this project in a realistic, honest way.
From the project blog (http://creativecommonsetwinning.wordpress.com) all the contributions of the pupils can be
reached. As mentioned above, it was from the start an objective to share everything so that (elements of) this
project can be used by any one interested. So we think that this project is really a good source of inspiration for
teachers who think of setting up an online co-operation with classes from different countries.
We wanted to our pupils to acquire communicative competences. We think that the things they have learned are
tranferable in new circumstances because we gave full responsibility to our pupils during the learning process.
In the Belgian and Spanish school about 50 pupils took part in the project. Since the 2 groups of pupils have a
different mother tongue, we used non verbal communication and English as lingua franca.
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This project remained on the level of the class, but as mentioned elsewhere, we tried to disseminate our
experiences, both on the project’s blog as at several conferences where we presented the project.
In both schools the project work was integrated in the curriculum. (In Spain this only counted for a grroup of
students).
he project has been disseminated in many ways. In Belgium is was presented at 2 conferences: Monitoring Day in
Alden Biesen and Ecomedea Europe in Hasselt (May 2009). The project was also presented at the national eTwinning awards where we won the overall prize of 2009.
In Spain the project was presented at the in-service Teachers training center in La Almunia and at the Aragon ICT school meeting (June 2009). Creative Commons was also elected as eTwinning project of the month in Spain.
I think we provide as much information as possible. We think that other teachers can copy the structure of our project but that they are free to add other elements.
This project is an eTwinning project. I found my partner in the database of www.etwinning.net and we took our time to discuss everything before starting with our pupils. We used email but also Google docs for our communication. We learned a lot from each other and we wanted to use many different tools. An overview:
Wordpress, Rock You (slideshow), many different (online) tools for picture adaptation (http://bvpics.wordpress.com), Polldaddy (polls), RSS-feeds, Counter (free choice), Moviemaker, Blip.TV (movie hosting), Gmail chat, Synthasite, Scribd, Picasa, Camtasia, Sony Vegas, Google calendar, Google docs Form, Esurveyspro, Hot Potatoes, Flash meeting, Box.net (online storage)
We didn’t discover that many barriers. In the Spanish school the participation to the project was not compulsory
for a group of pupils. Some blogs haven’t been finished by those pupils.
Next year we will devote more time of the school year to the project. When pupils take part it will be a part of the
curriculum.
Next year we will continue the cooperation between the same schools. We will work together on a similar basis.
We will also have a third partner. We were invited by a school for teacher training. During the traineeship of about
5 months of one of the future teachers, a group of students will take part under his/her supervision. In the renewed
project we will also put the emphasis on creativity, web 2.0 and Creative Commons License. The
outcomes of the cooperation will be media products where school life will be presented.
