E-mail exchange topic from Greece

· Labour organizations make demostrations during this day. What do workers in your country do to celebrate it?

· When and why did people around the world start celebrating the First day of May?

· What do you do during this day? (Is it a bank holiday? Do you have any traditions?)

· Do you celebrate the First of May?

QUIZ

Goal:

To create a common quiz to be performed online, which includes general questions about important issues that have to do with our nations.

Procedure:

1. Pupils will prepare information on what they think it is important to their nation.

2. Each school will prepare a total of 25 questions.

3. The questions will be written following the enclosed patterns. There are two possibilities:

a. Multiple choice

b. Short answer

4. Some questions could include images (not more than 8 images per school).

5. Each school will send their questions by mail to the coordinating school.

6. The coordinating school will create a common quiz using “HOT POTATOES” computer program.

7. The quiz will be posted online.

8. The quiz will work in a randomized way and each game will consist of answering 20 questions (the total number of included questions will be 150). Students will know their mark immediately.

9. In order to improve students’ learning process, it is important to prepare a feedback for the failed answers carefully.

Topics:

· Languages: basic vocabulary, greetings, idiomatic expressions in our language.

· Geography

· Celebrities

· Tourism

· Others (currency, flag, official languages...)

Timing:

· 30^th April. Each school will send their questions to the coordinating school.

· 30^th May. The coordinating school will post the quiz online.

CASTRO DAIRE MEETING AGREEMENTS

• E-MAIL EXCHANGE. We agreed to continue with the same structure suggested in Duisburg:
o Each participating school, by turns, will suggest a topic.
o Students will write an e-mail and send it to all colleagues according to the grid.
• In order to improve e-mail exchange, teachers will encourage their students writing e-mails.

• School activities, such us the PLEDGE, will be posted onto the blog to guarantee their diffusion to all students.

• A QUIZ including questions from all participating countries will be done using Hot Potatoes computer program. More detailed instructions of this activity will be posted onto the common blog by the coordinating school.

• The final Comenius activity consist of reaching conclusions. Each school will perform this activity in a free way. In order to share conclusions they will be posted onto the common blog before the 31st May.

Castro Daire meeting

We would like to thank the coordinating school and congratulate them for they wonderful organisation and the time spent during the meeting in Castro Daire.

Email exchange / Easter traditions

Dear all,
since spring seems to finally arrive even here in the north and Easter is approaching, we suggest the following topics for your email exchange:
- Are there any Easter holidays in your country?
- What do you in your country traditionally do on Good Friday and/or on Easter Day?
- Do you know anything about the roots of these traditions?
- Do you have anything special to eat at Easter?
- Do you and your family still celebrate Easter traditionally or do you just enjoy the few days off?
Greetings from the German team!

CASTRO DAIRE MEETING

10th-14th March 2010

AGENDA

1. General ideas about the development of the project.

2. Presentation and exchange of the activities:

• Germany

• Greece

• Poland

• Portugal

• Spain

• United Kingdom

3. Evaluation of the project (1st part)

• Collection of the evaluation sheets.

3. Evaluation of the project (2nd part)

• Problems to be solved

4. Sharing and publicising the pledge develop to preserve national heritage.

5. Design of the third term activity: Quiz.

6. Conclusions and end of the project.

Students mails

New calendar for the students e-mail exchange:

15th March GERMANY
6th April UNITED KINGDOM
19th April GREECE
3rd May POLAND
17th May PORTUGAL
1st June CATALONIA