Thursday 9th March
15:00 Sintermeertencollege
Charo: an introductory presentation with Juan Carlos
Hamid Hamidi, Laura Pattikaihattu: The immigrant experience
Friday 10th March
09h00-12h30
Sintermeertencollege
Members meeting
1. Next Meetings
June meeting in Toulouse 2006. This meeting will not be an ordinary meeting where we will go through given assignments. It will be more a meeting like our first one held in Toulouse 2005 - with invited associates who will deliver some seminars on important ICT topics. Richard and John presented some names of people who should be invited to this meeting. Richard also suggested that we get the help from Russel Tarr. and Caroline Faithorne in Toulouse. This suggestion was accepted by the whole group. Our next ‘ordinary’ meeting will be held in Stockholm in October 2006. Here we will present given assignments. During this meeting we will decide what to bring up in this meeting.
2. Discussion about E-HELP website and different “micro-sites”.
One of the issues discussed was what we should have on our website. The suggestion was that the website we have is used for different presentations, teacher contacts, for associates but bigger projects should be hosted on “micro-sites”. These can and will look a bit different but its necessary to do this for several reasons; we need to divide the responsibilities; we only have a certain amount of space available on our site and we want people to find the resources useful. This idea raised some discussions: the ability to control (by membership / log on) these websites and also the diversity of the layout of the micro-sites. Another issue was the need of a professional logo.
3. Course in Toulouse Summer 2007.
Several members emphasized the importance on making an outline for the Course that will be held in Toulouse 2007 (summer). They especially stressed the need of a structure that includes topics and ideas that can be presented to the public as soon as possible. In the afternoon the members continued with this topic and made the following statements and decisions. Identifying two strong sides. ICT and the English Language are the strength of this course. Target groups. We have several different target groups. The members mentioned; teachers/educators who are in the process of starting to use ICT, maybe already started their first own website and now want to learn more. Some teachers/educators who already have their own website but lack ideas about how to develop it further. Teachers/educators who use English as a second language and see the use ICT as a possibility for further development.
Course Days: Monday-Sunday. The course will be given during 5 days. In this suggested period will also be some time for social activities. Twenty participants in groups of four. The Toulouse Course will have 20 participants. Several questions were raised about how these individuals would be recruited and what impact we could have on this process… Several members talked about these participants working in groups. It was suggested that the group size would be five groups of 4 individuals.
4 main courses. When we discussed the focus on the Toulouse Course we identified four themes/topics:
1. Construction of a website
2. Video
3. Activities, quizzes
4. Communication
First day particularly important. It was suggested that everybody stay together the first day and build up a good social connection. It was further suggested that every day should start with all participants together. Identify each part and progress. It’s important that each part of the course is clear and easy to identify as an essential part of the progress. It’s also important to see that progress during the week… Each person should clearly be able to follow their own progress.
Final advantage - own website. In the end of the course each participant will have their own website and they will know how to use a few programs that can enhance this site. The individual courses. We need to allow flexibility with the given courses. It could be a possibility to sometimes get a part in another language (Spanish was suggested). Some parts could also be given at a few different levels; for beginners, for normal users and maybe something for the ones that have more experience…
Logo and merchandize. We need to get these ideas in print as soon as possible so we can start to inform others about the course. A professional logo, flyers, “merchandize”,… should be created and these should be sent to country agencies, institutions, schools, etc…
4. Budget update
Richard went through the expected changes within the administration for Comenius and how these changes affected us. Basically it meant that the sent Progress Report had not been received yet and the next financial period (and payment) is delayed. The project therefore only has 7000-8000 Euros left but this is not a problem according to Richard. Richard also said that we follow our plan well. There are a few suggested changes:
We will have another meeting – in Toulouse in June (2006). This will not affect the total budget for meetings since we have under spent a bit.
Richard also showed a reduction in “Sub-contracting” (from suggested 79 640 Euros to 59 640 Euros). These sums have been moved to “Equipment and materials” (increase from 25 445 Euros to 34 445 Euros) and “Other costs” (increase from 18 605 Euros to 29 605 Euros). The reason for these changes are several – we want to have the possibility to invest in some more necessary software, maybe some more video cameras etc…; some costs were not accounted for (e.g. bank transactions at over 1000 Euros so far!) and the Internet costs for members at the same time as we haven’t been able to invite institutions. When we invite individuals (associates) we can only pay for the travel, the hotel, the meals and loss in salary – nothing else. If we engage an institution we can ask for content, specific expert themes and pay for it. One part we will investigate now is “merchandize” – a professional logo, flyers, t-shirts, etc… After we have decided enough about our future course we will order this.
Presentation Guido van Dijk: Moodle in Sintermeertencollege
13h30 – 17h30
Presentations and workshops
Using Adobe Premiere, a hands on exercise (Richard Blezer)
Albert van der Kaap (NL), "Webquests and more"
19h00 Hotel Monopole
Members meeting.
Members discussed the nature and format of the final e-Help course.
Date: The assumption at this time was that this is to be run in July 2007. This has since become problematic and in its fully-approved Comenius guise will not take place realistically until Easter 2008.
Duration: was provisionally established as 5 nights. To keep flight costs to a minimum this must include one Saturday night.
Target audience: teachers/teacher trainers building websites for the first time, in developing ICT skills specific to the history classroom and ICT to support second language acquisition in history.
Course providers (e-Help members) to be present all week.
Programme: whole course meeting every morning then break up into modules optional courses to be defined at Toulouse, Stockholm meeting.
Day one – Websites
Day two - Digital Video
Day three – Quizzes, Captivate, IWB, PowerPoint etc.
Day four – VLE, Forums, Blogs, Wikis, RSS.
Marketing. It was agreed to commission a professional company to design an image for e-Help. Les and Nico to investigate possibilities with their contacts.
Saturday 11th March
am:
Ed Waller Presentation: "Can you get the best out of a VLE? Guided Research of the Roman Empire"
Ed Podesta Presentation: "Web 2.0"
pm: lunch Sintermeertencollege
During lunch - Anders presentation of his oral history video work.
John’s presentation of his oral history video work.
Social event: Maastricht: visiting the caves and "Sightseeing Maastricht"
Sunday 12th March
9:00-11:00 Hotel Monopole
Members meeting.
Microsite responsibilities:
Resistance – John
Children and WWII – Anders
Women – Andy
Immigration – Nico
Associates for Toulouse meeting. Names to be proposed in next two weeks
John to investigate possibilities for consultancy agency
For Toulouse meeting
Richard – To organise Toulouse meeting. Develop Heritage theme, examine teaching history in different European countries, add seminars and articles to website and forum. Redesign pilgrimages website and activities with Russel T.
John – Resistance microsite, interpretations and use of ICT, seminar on use of forums for history teachers, simulations.
Andy – Women microsite, workshop material on setting up and managing your own forum, maintenance of education forum and e-help website.
Anders – WWII children microsite, CD Windows file of presentations to RJ-N, continue Swedes and SCW, tutorial on using Premiere.
Terry – Evaluation write up, dissemination possibilities with BBC History magazine, impact resource collection, database of newspaper articles.
Dan – Report to HA and dissemination, course materials on webquests, contribute to Nico’s microsite.
Juan Carlos and Rosario – continue to devise new activities and resources, contact French and Italian teachers currently teaching history through English, Video children in SCW.
Nico – Immigratio microsite, e-Help logo and domain name, contribute to women in 1950s.
Dalibor – Publish material already produced, video of interviews, digital storytelling on Czech women in 1950s.
Minutes by Richard Jones-Nerzic from notes by Les Albiston and Anders MacGregor-Thunell.
