Here are the results of the surveys conducted in all the partner countries.
Monday, March 1, 2021
Sunday, February 28, 2021
The end
It has been a wonderful adventure working on this amazing project. We have learned so much about other countries and their culture. We have met many new friends and experienced new things.
Thank you all for being a part of it in one way or another. <3
Wednesday, February 17, 2021
Saturday, February 13, 2021
Virtual meeting in Greece
From 1st till the 5th February 2021 the fifth and last pupils' exchange of the project took place, totally online. It was our second virtual meeting after Italy's last December. So, now, we were prepared and we knew what to expect and make the most of it!
Some partners were at school (Greece, Spain, Croatia, Italy) and some were at home (Poland, Cyprus). The mobility was hosted on the Zoom digital platform (Main Room and International Groups Rooms), with the support of the Twinspace as a reference point for the daily schedule with tasks and links to the materials.
Then, A City Game (Escape Room game) followed during which the pupils had the chance to get to know Patra and the surroundings doing quizzes that eventually led them to the partner school, the 2nd Primary School of Paralia.
The winners of the City Game were: 1st - Milosz (PL) 2nd - Anna Maria (CY) 3rd - Federico (IT)
The last task of the day was a guessing game, called Pop-up Museum, in which students had to guess the use of cultural items presented by the partners! Some of the guesses were really funny and nowhere close to the reality!!!!! The day ended after 2 full hours of collaboration and communication!
Some partners were at school (Greece, Spain, Croatia, Italy) and some were at home (Poland, Cyprus). The mobility was hosted on the Zoom digital platform (Main Room and International Groups Rooms), with the support of the Twinspace as a reference point for the daily schedule with tasks and links to the materials.
DAY 1
On the 1st day of the meeting, we introduced ourselves (teachers and students) and then we watched a video with a 'Welcome song' by the Greek students. The song was based on a popular Christmas song but lyrics were added by the Music teacher, Miss Stella Koskina, who wished all partners to have a Happy Year full of success and joy.
On the 1st day of the meeting, we introduced ourselves (teachers and students) and then we watched a video with a 'Welcome song' by the Greek students. The song was based on a popular Christmas song but lyrics were added by the Music teacher, Miss Stella Koskina, who wished all partners to have a Happy Year full of success and joy.
Then, A City Game (Escape Room game) followed during which the pupils had the chance to get to know Patra and the surroundings doing quizzes that eventually led them to the partner school, the 2nd Primary School of Paralia.
The last task of the day was a guessing game, called Pop-up Museum, in which students had to guess the use of cultural items presented by the partners! Some of the guesses were really funny and nowhere close to the reality!!!!! The day ended after 2 full hours of collaboration and communication!
DAY 2
On the 2nd day of the meeting, we started with Patra's Carnival, the biggest festival in the city! We watched a video that showed the History of the Carnival as well as what modern Carnival looks like in the city. The video is published by the City's Carnival Committee. Then the students played a game on Patra's Carnival. Finally the Greek students had prepared a Carnival dance they showed:
They also showed a video with the Greek pupils playing the Italian games.
Then everyone watched a video with the Spanish students playing the Italian games!
DAY 3
On the 3rd day of the meeting, we were divided into 6 teams (as in the 6 partners) and each international team entered a different ZOOM room with the country's teacher responsible for the tasks. The first task was the creation of online collaborative posters with the tool
https://www.postermywall.com/. Each poster described a painting/sculpture and each country had chosen 2. The group members had to download the 2 images, find information on the Internet about them and add it in the poster. It wasn't an easy task as all this collaboration and communication had to be done online!
The second task was the drawing of a painting suggested by each partner country. So the group members continued with their group and drew the country's painting adding it in a padlet. This was a very creative task which excited many although some expressed their lack of skill!!! Yet, the padlet had many different efforts!!!
DAY 4
The 4th day of the meeting began with a traditional Greek song:
Then there was a 'traditional dishes' exhibition, where the Greek students presented some of the most popular dishes of their country.
Then, all the students watched a presentation on UNESCO Cultural Heritage sites of the Peloponnese, which was presented in Genially.
A quizizz followed with questions based on the presentation.
The next task was watching a common Google presentation with memes that all partners had added. It was a huge presentation as many students loved the task and it was definitely a very funny one!!!!
Having filled our padlet with drawings from the previous day, it was time to look at them closely and grade the artistic skill of the students. All paintings got 1-5 stars as well as comments!
'Art Walk Festival' is a great event in Patra (for the last 5 years) as street artists draw huge walls of blocks of flats changing the colour of the city! A short video the partners watched shows this amazing work!
The final task of the day was the selfies, a very popular pastime of young people! But we wanted our selfies to look more like a painting!!! So the students took their selfies and uploaded them on https://goart.fotor.com/ choosing a famous painting and then looking at their slfies changing into the style of that painting! The result was so beautiful and surprising that they were all excited and filled our padlet with their 'artistic selfies'!
DAY 5
On the 5th and last day of the meeting, the Greek partners showed a video with a traditional song, called 'kalinifta' that comes from the villages of Southern Italy around Solento and the lyrics are written in 'Grekanika', a mixture of Greek, Italian and local dialects.
Then, the first task of the students was to add 10 questions and answers in their common Google Doc about 'Painting & Photography' of their country.
Then, a quiz was given to all the students (and teachers!) with questions on the visit's topics about all 6 partner countries.
The winners were: SergioSP, Andreas/Giorgos GR/ Athina/Rafaela GR.
The winners of the 'Photo competition', the 'City Game Escape Room' and the 'Draw a famous painting' were then announced and given a digital badge!
Another quiz followed with questions about the host country, Greece, and everything that was presented to the guests! The winners of this game were: Matija CRO, Alex CY, Malgorzata PL.
All the participants then completed the Evaluation Surveys and added some posts in the page's Twinboard with their impressions of the meeting.
A final video was shown with moments from the whole project and the project coordinator, Miss Helena Gustović Ljubić ended the meeting with a very emotional 'goodbye' speech!
On the 2nd day of the meeting, we started with Patra's Carnival, the biggest festival in the city! We watched a video that showed the History of the Carnival as well as what modern Carnival looks like in the city. The video is published by the City's Carnival Committee. Then the students played a game on Patra's Carnival. Finally the Greek students had prepared a Carnival dance they showed:
The meeting continued with our 'Photo Competition'. The students voted for the best photos of the 4 elements of Nature in a padlet.
Next, it was time for the 'Recreated paintings'. The students watched photos of 2 recreated paintings/sculptures from each country and searched the Internet (as fast as possible) to find the name of the painter and the title of the painting! A great way to learn more about each country's Art! A game followed with all the recreated paintings which ... were amazing!
Finally, the Greek students showed their partners traditional Greek Games they play in the playground and held a poll asking them which of the 5 games they liked the best! Here are the results:
Then everyone watched a video with the Spanish students playing the Italian games!
DAY 3
On the 3rd day of the meeting, we were divided into 6 teams (as in the 6 partners) and each international team entered a different ZOOM room with the country's teacher responsible for the tasks. The first task was the creation of online collaborative posters with the tool
The second task was the drawing of a painting suggested by each partner country. So the group members continued with their group and drew the country's painting adding it in a padlet. This was a very creative task which excited many although some expressed their lack of skill!!! Yet, the padlet had many different efforts!!!
DAY 4
The 4th day of the meeting began with a traditional Greek song:
Then there was a 'traditional dishes' exhibition, where the Greek students presented some of the most popular dishes of their country.
Then, all the students watched a presentation on UNESCO Cultural Heritage sites of the Peloponnese, which was presented in Genially.
The next task was watching a common Google presentation with memes that all partners had added. It was a huge presentation as many students loved the task and it was definitely a very funny one!!!!
Having filled our padlet with drawings from the previous day, it was time to look at them closely and grade the artistic skill of the students. All paintings got 1-5 stars as well as comments!
'Art Walk Festival' is a great event in Patra (for the last 5 years) as street artists draw huge walls of blocks of flats changing the colour of the city! A short video the partners watched shows this amazing work!
The final task of the day was the selfies, a very popular pastime of young people! But we wanted our selfies to look more like a painting!!! So the students took their selfies and uploaded them on https://goart.fotor.com/ choosing a famous painting and then looking at their slfies changing into the style of that painting! The result was so beautiful and surprising that they were all excited and filled our padlet with their 'artistic selfies'!
DAY 5
On the 5th and last day of the meeting, the Greek partners showed a video with a traditional song, called 'kalinifta' that comes from the villages of Southern Italy around Solento and the lyrics are written in 'Grekanika', a mixture of Greek, Italian and local dialects.
Then, the first task of the students was to add 10 questions and answers in their common Google Doc about 'Painting & Photography' of their country.
Then, a quiz was given to all the students (and teachers!) with questions on the visit's topics about all 6 partner countries.
The winners were: SergioSP, Andreas/Giorgos GR/ Athina/Rafaela GR.
The winners of the 'Photo competition', the 'City Game Escape Room' and the 'Draw a famous painting' were then announced and given a digital badge!
Another quiz followed with questions about the host country, Greece, and everything that was presented to the guests! The winners of this game were: Matija CRO, Alex CY, Malgorzata PL.
All the participants then completed the Evaluation Surveys and added some posts in the page's Twinboard with their impressions of the meeting.
A final video was shown with moments from the whole project and the project coordinator, Miss Helena Gustović Ljubić ended the meeting with a very emotional 'goodbye' speech!
Saturday, February 6, 2021
Friday, February 5, 2021
Wednesday, February 3, 2021
Tuesday, February 2, 2021
Thursday, January 7, 2021
Virtual meeting to Italy - the voices of the protagonists!
Here's a video with the voices (and faces!) of some of the protagonists of the virtual mobility to Italy...this is what they said about this new, "digital" way of participanting in an Erasmus project!
Monday, January 4, 2021
The virtual meeting to Italy
On 2-3-4-9-10 December 2020 the fourth pupils' exchange of the project took place, totally online. At the beginning of the project, nobody could have imagined that this would be running as a virtual mobility but, on the other hand, we feel we have succeeded in "reinventing" the way of "doing Erasmus", facing the problems related to the management of an international project in the middle of a global pandemic by turning critical issues into opportunities. While on the one hand the pandemic has heavily affected the project by preventing a real exchange, on the other hand the virtual mode has allowed us to involve a much larger number of students from the 6 participating countries (about 120, in total).
The mobility was hosted on the Zoom digital platform (Main Room and International Groups Rooms), with the support of the TwinSpace as a reference point for the daily schedule with tasks and links to the materials.
DAY 1
The first day was really emotional for all of us...after a long time, we returned to "do Erasmus", leaving aside the bad thoughts and problems related to this difficult period. With great joy, pleasure and a touch of emotion, the virtual mobility kicked off with an online welcome ceremony. After the welcome and the official greetings from the IC A. Gabelli School Principal, Adriana Battaglia, a group of Italian pupils gave a performance playing, singing and dancing to Sicilian folk music.
After the introductions of the participants to break the ice, the first activity was the CITY GAME, which we transformed into an original virtual tour of the most representative places in Misterbianco...through gamification, students from all participating countries discovered the hosting town thanks to a breakout room full of information and new multimedia contents, accompanied by the voice of Emily, the pupil who played the role of "virtual touri guide". The Mother Church, Campanarazzu, the Roman Baths, Piazza Mazzini, the Museum of Carnival Costumes and much more, in the form of quizzes and games to find a secret code... After the winner was announced, the students interacted discussing the activity they had just done and the main places of interest in the city... and everyone seemed to have had a good time!
The first day flew by! It was really nice to connect with our foreign partners again and rekindle the Erasmus magic...
DAY 2
The second day was entirely devoted to the work in international teams, with tasks focusing on the collaborative creation of Google Slides presentations on UNESCO sites and Modern Wonders in Italy, Croatia, Poland, Cyprus, Spain and Greece,. We also worked on an interactive itinerary of modern architectural wonders by using the app Tripline.
The six international groups, supervised by one or more teachers, worked in six Zoom rooms to learn about the monuments in each country, decide on how to organise the group work and share the tasks to create the final products remotely using digital tools together.
The day was very challenging, but rewarding...There were some technical difficulties (as expected!), but collaboration, communication, creativity and shared use of digital tools are the key words to sum up a fruitful experience!
DAY 3
We started the third day with a "tasty" surprise... the Italian pupils talked about their eating habits through a showcase of some of the most typical Sicilian foods: cornetti, arancini, cannoli, cartocciate, paste di mandorla and frutta martorana are definitely a must when visiting Sicily. Food is an integral part of the Sicilian cultural identity, so participants were given a virtual "taste" in front of the webcam...The food was much appreciated!
After that, the activities focused on describing each participant's favourite places, through a digital map created with Padlet. Next, pupils could interact by posting questions and comments on the map in real time.
Finally, we talked about traditional Sicilian games: La Campana, La gara dei tappi, Pugnu Cutugnu and Un, Due, Tre Stella. We showed a video tutorial made by the Italian students before the visit to "demonstrate" and explain the rules of the games to their foreign friends. It was interesting to interact immediately afterwards, comparing the games in each country to find similarities and differences. We are looking forward to getting some videos where partners can show us their interpretation of the games!
DAY 4
On the fourth day, we were proud to show off the natural and cultural beauties of Sicily! A visit to Misterbianco would not be such without getting to know the true spirit behind the local community's passion for Carnival and its extraordinary costumes. We put together a video to show the Carnival parades and the Museum of Carnival Costumes...but that wasn't enough...a wild group of young 'cavemen' broke in and made us experience the energy and light-heartedness of Carnival, thanks to their cheerful dancing.
Usually, one of the 5 days would be devoted to a trip to a local UNESCO World Heritage site...and here again, we could not miss the opportunity to let our partners discover the exceptional artistic, cultural, architectural and natual beauties of Sicily, which right now boasts 7 UNESCO sites. We therefore created an interactive map of Sicily's UNESCO sites with the app Thinglink, through which the students were able to read information and watch photos/videos of the most representative places in Sciily, visited every year by tourists from all over the world.
The day ended with an interactive quiz on Sicilian UNESCO sites, played in random international teams, and the announcement of the winners. All students did a great job!
It was really nice to see so much interest, curiosity and amazement for our land...our hope is that any time soon our friends from Croatia, Spain, Poland, Greece and Cyprus will be able to travel and visit some of these wonderful places.
DAY 5
The last day took us through a whirlwind of emotions: joy, happiness, excitement, but also a bit of sadness...we came to the end of an extraordinary week, which saw our school community at the centre of an international exchange of pupils, albeit in the unusual digital mode.
We started off with a 'special' Italian language lesson: our pupils, teachers for a day, got the other foreign pupils to go wild by singing and dancing with them to the tune of Claudio Cecchetto's famous 80s hit, Gioca Jouer...the perfect song to get them to memorise simple verbs through miming actions! Everyone felt the vibe and got involved from behind the screen...!
On their final day, the pupils prepared questions for the board game, the final product of the project. Two interactive quizzes about Italy and Monuments from all the partner countries were played to check what the students had learned over the past 5 days and winners were announced!
The partners used a Padlet to write some goodbye messages. At the end, pupils and teachers also filled in an evaluation survey to share their opinions about the experience. We were really pleased to receive very nice feedback from our friends!
The virtual visit was officially closed by the greetings from our headmistress, followed by another performance with typical songs and dances...Our pupils managed to convey all the passion, warmth and energy of Sicily and they were even asked for an encore!
The final greetings were a very special moment...we felt close, despite the physical distance across countries. Unforgettable memories will always remain in our hearts...We feel we have planted seeds of hope, optimism and resilience and we are really proud of what we all managed to do together, as a big international team. Grazie!
Thursday, November 26, 2020
Sicily is waiting for you!
Finally....we're ready to welcome you to Sicily through a virtual mobility. We know it will be different but we are working hard to give you a good time and enjoy the rest of our project! 2-3-4-9-10 December we will meet on Zoom and carry out the activities of the virtual visit devoted to Monuments and UNESCO sites.
Get ready to experience Italy!
Wednesday, November 11, 2020
Escape Room about the history of our hometowns
Another exciting challenge is waiting for you! This time it is a journey into the past. Thanks to this game (historical escape room), we will not only travel back in time but also learn interesting facts about the history of the partner countries. Great fun guaranteed because we all like escape rooms! Before starting the game, we encourage you to read our book with interesting information you will need during the game.
As proof of the solution, please send your selfie which will show that 1) you have entered the correct code and 2) you have opened the treasure chest.
Our history book
Our Escape Room
Tuesday, November 3, 2020
Escape Game Defend Explorant
As we announced some days ago our international project Bits and Pieces of Culture is back again!! This year new groups of pupils will carry out the project tasks online. Last week the Spanish Team had so much fun playing the Escape Game Defend Explorant, they answered questions and solved riddles concerning the project to help our mascot Explorant to get out of the vampire´s residence.
They did a good job and had a lot of fun!!
The happy winners with Explorant!!
Congratulations!!
Wednesday, October 7, 2020
How to be safe on the Internet
We start each new year with eTwinning and Erasmus projects by recalling the rules of safety on the Internet. We use various online tools during the implementation of project tasks, so this knowledge is essential. Last year, all the teams created posters concerning cyber safety rules. Read them and then take the quiz which you can find under the posters. Write your score in the comment below this post.
Remember to keep the Full-Screen option activated in order to see all the details on the slides. You can switch it on clicking on the three dots in the bottom right corner and then choose the two arrows.
Saturday, May 9, 2020
Saturday, March 7, 2020
See you soon!
Dear partners,
This is a post I'd never imagine I would write...but sometimes we should expect the unexpected and try to move on. We had been waiting for 7th March for a long time as this is the date we had chosen for your arrival in Sicily.
We are very sorry our mobility to Italy had to be cancelled due to the global sanitary crisis we are experiencing with Covid19. The Italian team had been working hard to offer a great programme to the 5 delegations of the other countries and was looking forward to hosting all the participants in Misterbianco, but unfortunately we will have to wait until the situation gets better and there are no concerns.
We wish we could have given you a fantastic time but fear not...we hope we will be able postpone the visit to May! All the teachers involved are trying their best to arrange everything again and we really hope we will break good news to you soon!
Licia Arcidiacono
Licia Arcidiacono
Tuesday, February 18, 2020
Colorillo
Croatia and Spain met one rainy morning to collaborate on a drawing. The topic was literature so the Croatian pupil drew Hlapić and the Spanish pupil drew Don Quixote. It was so much fun. Here are the video and some photos.
Monday, February 17, 2020
Modern Wonders Survey
The Spanish Team is busy preparing the activities for the workshops that they are going to do during the meeting in Italy in March. Last week, both teachers and pupils did a survey in Google Forms where they had to choose two important monuments from Spain. The 2 winner monuments were "The Alhambra" and "Dama Oferente". In Italy they will create an interactive map with the monuments from the different countries working in international teams.
Survey results
The Monuments
Alhambra de Granada
Dama Oferente
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