Cultural Feast
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Project Location
Country: 
Romania
City: 
Turda
Organization
Organization Name: 
Scoala cu clasele I-VIII "Andrei Saguna"
Organization Type: 
0
Website
http://culturalfeastturdaromania.wikispaces.com
Project Type
Education up to 10 years
Project Description
Description Frase (max. 500 characters): 
Cultural Feast Turda Romania was created as a means of learning, necessary for teaching local Geography that can be used and improved by future generations.
Project Summary (max. 2000 characters): 
"Cultural Feast-Turda, Romania" is a part of an international cooperation eTwinning project, developing a learning unit of the Science curriculum area. It is a project for young students and its main aim is to create a learning situation related to local Geography based on web 2.o tools. This project, finalized in a wiki site, is divided into 10 pages and it is particularly useful tool for the students from our school for learning the local Geography. "Cultural Feast Turda Romania" is an open project that supports improvements in the coming years, not only in terms of information about a city where students live, but also about its presentation. It will be filled with quizzes, crosswords, puzzles, maps, games using Web 2.0 tools specific to the age of students to make it interactive, attractive.
How long has your project been running?
10/2010
Objectives and Innovative Aspects
What are the specific objectives of the project and what are the instruments used to achieve them?: 
The project is integrated into the 4th grade curriculum. The project objectives were designed to be observable, specific, standards-based and focused on 21st century skills. Students will use division to calculate the population density of Turda city, will exercise capacity and understanding of a text in English and in their mother tongue by making advertisements and reports, translation and composition of texts. They will look for historical, geographical informations by using the Internet and they will process them using the Web 2.0 tools. They will sing the Romanian folk songs.
Results
Describe the results achieved by your project How do you measure (parameters) these. (max. 2000 characters): 
Cultural Feast project aimed to develop students' 21st century skills ,absolutely necessary for the younger generation to join the society.Cultural Feast is an online project of international cooperation, held in the eTwinning platform so it developed especially collaboration and communication skills. The site files activities has been proved critical thinking . The students have asked significant questions related to their living universe and have found answers by organizing the wiki. Even if they are young, the students have ICT skills. They have proved those working in the computer lab. They used attractive, spectacular and appropriate web 2.0 tools. They respected communication and online work rules.
How many users interact with your project monthly and what are the preferred forms of interaction? (max. 500 characters): 
The project is visited each month from students from different countries . So in last months have been about 400 visitors (100 in December) from Romania, U.S., Poland, Greece, Turkey, Switzerland, Holland, Italy, France, Portugal. The project is promoted by eTwinning and by the wiki.
Sustainability
What is the full duration of your project (from beginning to end)?: 
Less than 1 year
What is the approximate total budget for your project (in Euro)?: 
Less than 10.000 Euro
Specify: 
We didn't need funding
Is your project economically self sufficient now?: 
strada Razoare, nr.3, Turda, jud. Cluj, Romania, cod 401099
Since when?: 
12/2011
When is it expected to become self-sufficient?: 
02/2012
Transferability
Has your project been replicated/adapted elsewhere?: 
Yes
Where? By whom?: 
Yes.In my school by my colleagues in the local Geography lessons.
What lessons can others learn from your project? (max. 1500 characters): 
The project is a pattern of curriculum integration. Can be used as a wiki pattern. Princely Palace page contains treasure images that can be used in other projects. The Web 2.0 tools from the project could be used for presentations, posters, evaluations, movies.
Are you available to help others to start or work on similar projects?: 
Yes
Background Information
Barriers and Solutions (max. 1000 characters): 
The main barriers were lack of communication with some partners in the big project Cultural Feast (http://www.etwinning.net/en/pub/profile.cfm?f=2&l=en&n=37157). The students were lack of English language.
Future plans and wish list (max. 750 characters): 
The project could turn into a multilateral Comenius project, and its final product would be a touristic booklet. In this case, could be involved all the students of participating schools. It can also be developed through a national monthly magazine in order to describe places in Romania. There are in the city the ruins of the Roman camp hosting the Legion V Macedonica and the copy of Lupa Capitolina in Rome. So the project could be continued with a historical project one. Cultural Feast Turda, Romania is an open project that can be improved in the future with new information and new Web 2.0 tools. It could be used drawings and funny sound effects in a 3D animated world,quizzes, speaking avatars,crosswords, puzzles etc. to make it interactive and engaging for students.