BRATISLAVA MINUTES
During Monday and Tuesday Richard and Anders prepared the meeting by discussing several parts that needed to be discussed and decided on. The meetings that followed were a result of this planning.

WEDNESDAY MEETINGS
MEMBERS: Richard Jones-Nerzic (Slovakia: The British International School, Bratislava), Anders MacGregor-Thunell (Sweden: Hvitfeldtska Gymnasiet, Gothenburg), Juan Carlos Ocaña (Spain: IES Parque de Lisboa, Madrid), Dalibor Svoboda (Sweden: Fredrika Bremer Gymnasium, Stockholm), Terry Haydn (UK: University of East Anglia), Andy Walker (UK: Dartford Technology College), John Simkin (UK: Spartacus Educational) and Johannes Ahrenfelt (UK: (UK: Historical Association).
WELCOME/INTRODUCTION: Richard J-N welcomed the members of E-Help and introduced the school plus gave us some of its history as well as certain statistics.
BASIC PLAN: Richard J-N and Anders M-T have during the last two days gone through important issues that need to be addressed when they planned these days. Most of them will be discussed during this first session. Richard J-N will chair the meeting. He has been the coordinator who has planned all previous activities and he is the host member of this last meeting. This is the best way to guarantee certain consistency.
AGENDA: We started by taking a look of this week’s agenda. This is a different kind of meeting – we will discuss, prepare and deliver the course outline of E-Help which on Saturday will be evaluated by some associates. We will also make a trip to Brno in Czech Republic. This social event has been planned and prepared by Dalibor S. That’s basically it. NOTE that two previous planned meetings has become one – this one!
ORIGINAL PLAN FOR THIS PROJECT AS DESCRIBED IN THE PROGRESS REPORT
Richard went through the revised original plan from the progress report. He showed us how we have met most of the criteria we originally set up. This last meeting was not an exception except the fact that we are here in Bratislava September 2008 instead of Norwich June 2007.
EVALUATION – EVALUATORS
We will have four evaluators (associates) on the spot here in Bratislava when we deliver our course modules. They have been chosen since they represent great experience of European projects as well as the target group of our 5-day course.
We will later give all our associates the possibility to evaluate our modules “on-line”. They will be able to watch our module suggestions at our website and then do an on-line survey. This will be an important continuous feed back evaluation for the project.

THE E-HELP BUDGET (SECTION 2 – FINAL REPORT)
Richard showed the group what we have spent and talked about how much remained from the second year of the project. He also presented a plan on what to do with this remaining sum. In the end we discussed the last 20% which will be paid after a successful final report.
BUDGET SUGGESTION FOR THE REMAINING PART OF PERIOD 2: We will use around €17000(?) on the meeting in Bratislava (out of €28000). The rest of the money should go to:
Software: 8 Balesio AllCapture, 3 Adobe Captivate and 3 Adobe Articulate Quiz maker
Website: UNITEDHOSTING Silver + domain name + secure server with a sign up for the course
Member institutions: The work that has been put into the modules and this meeting generated costs for the participating institutions If we have some money left it should be divided according to the following principle: every institution receives one share except the coordinating one who receives two.
This suggestion was supported by the group.
LAST 20%: We will be able to get some, hopefully the majority of the last 20% if our final report is accepted. This final report together with everybody’s work with modules, Richards work with the website and Richard + Anders work with the final report will decide how much out of these 20% we actually will receive (the acceptance of our project is essential – if we don’t get it accepted we don’t have a backing for a continuation). IST (International School of Toulouse) was formally responsible for the project up to this summer (August 2008) and we therefore relay very much on their account for most of the project period.

OUTCOME REPORT (SECTION 3 – FINAL REPORT)
This part will include:
1. BOOK. One of the ideas that was discussed at the Stockholm meeting was to publish some of the great work both members and associates has done in a book. The meeting is still positive to this idea. We will talk more about it this week and take a decision towards the end of this meeting.
2. MICROSITES: We have a lot of e-help material hosted on our own websites. It’s important that we all put the e-help logo on these microsites. The members agreed to do that.
3. THE EDUCATIONAL FORUM: The Educational Forum has been very successful! The only comment that was made is that it should show E-Help better. Andy Walker promised to look arrange that.

4. E-HELP WEBSITE (with an archive of our activities: modules and previous lectures + workshops): We have paid €7 000 for the service of UNISERVITY CMS. This website does not work very well so the members decided to do the following:
Suggestion: Richard presented a suggestion which included moving our domain from Uniservity to UNITEDHOSTING and there create our own website.
Further suggestion: We should pay for this solution five years to make sure we have a website after the project expires.
Improvement: We should purchase descent screen capture software to every member (Balesio AllCapture) and make sure we all use it when we create our modules – to be published on our website. Responsibility: Richard is willing to chair the responsibility for the construction of this website. Content: All the meetings. Archive of seminars. All the modules…
All the above suggestions was supported by the meeting.
SUGGESTION 5 DAY COURSE (JULY 2010 Saturday/Sunday-Thursday/ Friday):
DAY 1
DAY 2
DAY 3
DAY 4
DAY 5
KEYNOTE
KEYNOTE
KEYNOTE
KEYNOTE
KEYNOTE
"Build your own website"
"Communication"
"ICT in the classroom"
"Video"
"Interaction"
John / Anders
Andy
Terry
Richard / Dalibor
Juan Carlos / Johannes
WEBSITE
MODULES
MODULES
MODULES
MODULES
WEBSITE
MODULES
MODULES
MODULES
MODULES
LUNCH
LUNCH
LUNCH
LUNCH
LUNCH
WEBSITE
MODULES
SOCIAL EVENT
MODULES
CONCLUSION
REINFORCEMENT
REINFORCEMENT
SOCIAL EVENT
REINFORCEMENT
EVALUATION
DINNER TOGETHER
DINNER TOGETHER
SOCIAL EVENT
DINNER TOGETHER
DINNER TOGETHER
Website = Dreamweaver (template), Photoshop (each member will receive an URL + a website for a year), Free version (open office type) + coding…
Communication = Blogs, video conferences, Wikis, pod casts, screen capture, VLE, Moodle, Forum, etc…
ICT in the classroom = IWB / Smart boards, MS Office (PowerPoint), etc…
Video = Cameras, software (Premiere, Moviemaker…), digital storytelling, etc…
Interaction = Games, Hot Potatoes, Quizzes, Captivate, Articulate, etc…
CHOSE MODULES: The course participants will chose their modules before they arrive to the course which will give the e-help members the necessary time to prepare and help out during the course.
NOTE: During the whole course there will be a “e-help and website room” available where one e-help member and a few students (“experts”) will be at hand to help with any practical website problems. The e-help member will also be able to answer other questions…
This preliminary plan was accepted by the members
THURSDAY MEETING (MORNING)
During the morning session we identified the different modules the members are working one:
Member
ICT
History
Other
microsite
Juan Carlos
(Module 1)

Captivate
Photoshop
Scanning
Video

EAL
Sources/Archive		 Assessment
Multilingual 		1870-1929
Women’s History
Juan Carlos
(Module 2)

Articulate
Quiz – Survey Mindmap

EAL   Microsite - chose
John Simkin
(Module 3) 		Dreamweaver
Photoshop

Local History
Sources
Empathy

 Personalized learning (Differentiation in hypertext) Women’s History
WWI
John Simkin
(Module 4) 		Forum Oral History Research Cold War
Eastern Europe
Anders MacGregor-Thunell (Module 5) Digital Camera
DV / Video
Dreamweaver
Photoshop 		Archive
Local History
EAL 		Project teamwork
Active learning
Multiple Intelligence
Research 		19th Century
Anders MacGregor-Thunell (Module 6) DV / Video
Photoshop
Dreamweaver
Flash

Oral History Interviewing
EAL

Personal Social Education
Multiple Intelligence
Research 		Children WWII
Anders MacGregor-Thunell (Module 7) Dreamweaver
Forum		 Interpretation
Evaluation
EAL 		Multiple Intelligence Weimar Republic
Andy Walker
(Module 8) 		Half-baked software
Content generator 		Causation Lesson planning with ICT Women’s History
Andy Walker
(Module 9) 		Forums
Setting up forum 		Role Playing Citizenship To come…
Weimar / Nazi Germany
Terry Haydn
(Module 10) 		Power Point Interpretation
Significance 		Various
Terry Haydn
(Module 11) 		Internet collections
Impact resources 		Interpretation Various
Johannes Ahrenfelt
(Module 12) 		Dreamweaver
Photoshop
Fireworks
Johannes Ahrenfelt
(Module 13)

Flash
Drag/drop

Causation
Chronology 		Thinking skills UK 1954
Johannes Ahrenfelt
(Module 14) 		Flash
Diagrams 		Chronology
EAL 		Literacy
Essay planning
Johannes Ahrenfelt
(Module 15) 		Word Comprehension
EAL 		Reading skills
Dalibor Svoboda
(Module 16)		 “Digital storytelling”
Photo story 3
Audacity 		Interpretations
EAL		 Women
WWII
Resistance
Dalibor Svoboda
(Module 17)		 DV (Digital Video) Bilingual
EAL 		20th Century
Richard Jones-Nerzic (Module 18) MovieMaker Historiography Cold War
Richard Jones-Nerzic (Module 19) DV cameras in the classroom Role Play
EAL 		Multiple Intelligence Child Labor
Versailles
Pilgrimage
 
This identification of modules will expand. At the end of this meeting we discussed to add another column or two; themes and transversal policies. We will discuss this during our social event to Brno and come up with some ideas for tomorrows meetings...
 
FRIDAY MEETING
1. Minutes – presentations
2. Module outlines (design Template)
  • History skills
  • EAL skills
  • E-help themes
  • Transversal
3. Delegate – Tutor notes (Template)
4. Saturday Agenda
Other stuff
  • Send AW template for module outline
  • Capture/compress/upload Dalibors videos
  • Bratislava History Project – Power of Good
  • All Capture Trial
  • Purchase – Adobe, AllCaptive, UnitedHosting
  • Dreamweaver
  • E – 2 org.
1. We started this day with a presentation. The new coordinating institution is Hvitfeldtska Gymnasiet and the Principle of Hvitfeldtska Gymnasiet is also new: Mikael O Karlsson. Everybody presented themselves to Mikael O Karlsson (who also presented himself)
2. Richard sent the proposal of the project around and told everybody to have the main aims in mind when they finish their modules.
3. We started to clarify specific parts: themes, the historical value, EAL, educational objectives and links to historical microsites...
4. Terry presented some of the main aims (two hand-outs) of the national curriculum of UK:
KEY CRITERIAS
  • Chronological understanding
  • Cultural, ethnic and religious diversity
  • Change and continuity
  • Cause and consequence
  • Significance
  • Interpretation
SKILLS AND PROCESS
  • Historical enquiry
  • Using evidence
  • Communicating about the best
The meeting agreed to the fact that these aims are basically the same in most countries so we will try to adjust the modules to this curriculum.
5. EAL:

1.1 – Vocabulary, definitions, synonyms
 1.3 – Consequences
1.6 – Interpretation, language
2.1 – Hypotheses, conditional
2.2 – Register
2.3 – Presenting, Sequencing, “Everything”….

The meeting identified several different aims within EAL
6. E-help themes (e.g. interactivity) - We went through some of the suggested themes and saw that we have covered some of them. We also noticed that we have added several new themes of all-European value.
7. Transversal
Once again we went through the proposal; the aims (2.2), Innovation (2.3), Pedagogical and Didactic Approaches (2.4), Target Groups and Expected Impact (2.5), Duration/Year 1/Year 2/Year 3/, Envisaged outputs (3), Description of Outputs (3.1), the website and discussion forum (3.1), Project Partners Contributions (3.1), Residential Course (3.2), Evaluation (5), Dissemination (6)…
8. Criticism after the first report: After a year we sent in a report that was approved. We went through this report and especially discussed the criticism we received. We noticed that most of the critique has already been dealt with.
9. Evaluation: We went through the evaluation process. We identified some aims:
Get CV’s of the evaluators (their credentials are very important), qualitative analysis of the whole project (and the course themes - filmed discussions), written evaluation (a few questions on at least two side A4), constructive criticism is at this point very important

We ended this meeting with setting up the agenda for tomorrow: AGENDA – SATURDAY:
1. Introduction – 5 minutes
2. Evaluation (Terry) – 10 minutes
3. Short presentation of the five products – 50 minutes
  • Book (Terry)
  • Microsites (Juan Carlos)
  • Forum (John)
  • Website (Richard)
  • Course (Richard starts…)
4. Course
- Overview of the 5 days
- Themes
- Modules (20 minutes – max.). We will present the modules in the following order:
a. John
b. Terry
c. Anders
d. Juan Carlos / Charo
e. Richard
f. Dalibor
g. Johannes
h. Andy (he will not be present but his modules will be shortly presented)
5. Dissemination
6. Evaluation
BASIC OUTLINE FOR THE MODULES
Our presentation of the modules needs to be consistent. Richard presented a mold that everybody could use. The members though it was a good idea and they will work on adjusting their modules to the following MODULE DESCRIPTION (½ a page):
Module Title: (As a question)
E-Help theme(s):
  • MONDAY “Build your own website”
  • TUESDAY “Communication”
  • WEDNESDAY "ICT in the classroom"
  • THURSDAY “Video”
  • FRIDAY “Interaction”
Module objectives:
ICT –
History –
Educational objectives -
EAL –
Transversal Policies –
  • Promote equal opportunities between women and men
  • Contribute to the fight against racism and xenophobia
  • Promote ICT in education and eLearning
  • Prepare the enlargement of the Union;
  • Tackle the future challenges to education and training systems and lifelong learning
  • Promote the European Year of education through sport 2004
E-Help micro site resource –

After this the members worked on adjusting their modules. Before we left BISB we agreed on the following things:
1. We need to leave the hotel at 08.30
2. We will start the presentation of the modules at 10.00
3. AGENDA – SATURDAY:
1. Introduction – 5 minutes
2. Evaluation (Terry) – 10 minutes
3. Short presentation of the five products – 50 minutes
  • Book (Terry)
  • Micro sites (Juan Carlos)
  • Forum (John)
  • Website (Richard)
  • Course (Richard starts…)
4. Course

- Overview of the 5 days
 - Themes
- Modules (20 minutes – max.) 1-2 members should present before lunch
a. John
b. Terry
c. Anders
d. Juan Carlos / Charo
e. Richard
f. Dalibor
g. Johannes
h. Andy (not present but his modules are)

5. Dissemination
6. Evaluation
 
SATURDAY MEETING
This day was spent according to the Agenda we put up yesterday:
1. Introduction – 5 minutes
2. Evaluation (Terry) – 10 minutes
3. Short presentation of the five products – 50 minutes
  • Book (Terry)
  • Micro sites (Juan Carlos)
  • Forum (John)
  • Website (Richard)
  • Course (Richard starts…)
4. Course
- Overview of the 5 days
 - Themes
- Modules (20 minutes – max.) 1-2 members should present before lunch
a. John
b. Terry
c. Anders
d. Juan Carlos / Charo
e. Richard
f. Dalibor
g. Johannes
h. Andy (not present but his modules are)
5. Dissemination
6. Evaluation
 
SUNDAY MEETING
Last meeting at Hotel IBIS Bratislava at 11.00. The members decided the folowing:
  • Richard will change the templates of the Tutor notes and Delegates notes
  • Richard might also make an instruction about how to use AllCapture
  • The template deadline for the modules for all members is October 15th
  • The deadline for all members AllCapture instructions is November 15th
  • Everybodys microsites should be finished/updated before November 15th
  • As part of the dissemination all e-help associates will be alerted by all the updates
  • Richard and Anders will do the Final Report but they will need information from IST
  • Anders will contact IST and present their tasks in the Final Report. He will also ask for the missing items of importance as well as school licences.
  • Richard will work on our website
  • John will put an article about e-help on Wikipedia
  • Richard will look at Facebook/My Space and see how we can use these forums for dissemination
  • Anders will contact Nico about the receipts and the transfer of the website
  • Andy will change the logos on the forum
The group discussed some more ideas - this discussion will continue on the Education Forum and on our website...

This was it - we started this project with a preparation meeting in Madrid November 2003. Now we finished the project nearly five years later in Bratislava. Thank you all for five great years. I hope that we now enter phase two - several good e-help courses...