Vialonga CATRi WIP (work in progress...)

Here you can see one of the groups working. If you pay attention you notice they are working with a compact digital camera instead of a miniDV (we have 2) because they prefer working with the mpeg format instead of avi... We'll see what happens...

EV 2,3 de Vialonga | Here we are...

Vialonga Group of Schools – EB 2,3

This group of schools (AEV) consists of three nursery schools (children from 3 to 5 years old), six primary schools (children from 6 to 10 years old) and a secondary school (young people from 11 to 16 years old).

The main school of this cluster – EB 2,3 - has almost 1000 pupils - 130 teachers, and was built in the late 80’s, and, by that time, welcomed many pupils coming from former Portuguese colonies (most of them in Africa). Currently, with the new European reality, this school has been also receiving many pupils from Western Europe countries like Ukraine, Romania, Moldavia or Russia (with complete families coming to Portugal). It's a regular peripheral school.

The school is located 15 km north from Lisbon, Portuguese capital city, in a special social and economic environment with several problems related to that. Some of these problems are school abandon and unfruitful learning. Considering that, school has been challenged by the creation of diversified professional courses which may prepare young people with little or no interest in school to be active citizens.

The needs of these pupils’ families and the necessity of their total integration led, in 1996, the Ministry of Education to establish that our schools formed a Território Educativo de Intervenção Prioritária - TEIP, which means a group of schools with special needs due to social, economic and cultural problems of the local resident population.

The involvement in European Projects started six years ago and nowadays is an excellent opportunity to change students' perspective of school, showing different (European) horizons, helping them to grow and be more interested in knowledge and learning.

At the present time AEV - EB 2,3 is involved in two LLP European partnerships – Comenius : CATRi (MLP - 2008.2010) and ARS LONGA, FILM BREVIS (MLP - 2007.2009). Both related to ICT and video learning.

The CHIEF guidelines, as far as we understood them, offer a whole lot of learning opportunities for students and teachers. We are willing to participate! The idea of having another school from Portugal involved is also very interesting and... new!

http://projectos.ese.ips.pt/vialonga/
http://cityandtheriver.blogspot.com/
http://www1.pshg.edu.ee/film/

Season's Greetings

We wish you a
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
Buon natale e un felice anno nuovo!
Priecigus Ziemassvetkus!
Linksmu sventu Kaledu ir Laimingu Nauju Metu!
Wesolych Swiat Bozego Narodzenia i szczesliwego Nowego Roku!
Feliz Natal e Próspero Ano Novo!
Frohe Weihnachten und ein glückliches Neues Jahr!

And the winner is...

This is the winner logo. Congratulations to Jonathan! Good work!

Why vote?...

Voting is a citizenship right. The right to choose according to our beliefs. Use it fairly...
We have 66 contestants and 8 schools directly involved. It's easy to see if something's wrong!
May the best logo win!

PS - There won't be a third run...

Logo Competition

CATRi - Logo competition

This post will have, within a week, all the candidates for the partnership logo contest. Stay tuned...
PS: We will use electronic vote for the election and the final day will be 31st of December. The results will be published on January, 1st.

CATRi - Regulation for the European partner school competition

Logo for the European project - City and the River - CATRi

Regulation

1.

The contest is for all students of the nine school partners participating in the European project - CITY AND THE RIVER, from now on identified as CATRi.

2.

a) All projects presented must be originals of the participating students;

b) Teachers may apply if associated with students;

c) Logo copies of existing projects will be disqualified.

3.

a) Projects must be published, by their own schools, until the end of November 2008, in the CATRi blog. They will be numbered, sequentially, by order of publication in the blog, for later voting;

b) Author’s names must be omitted until the final election.

4.

The following criteria will be considered while selecting the winner logo:

. Creativity/Originality;

. Identification with the name (CATRi)|concept of the project;

. Colours used: in spite of being allowed the use of other colours, in an appellative way, preference should be given to logos using European colours (blue and yellow);

. The logo must be used in reduced and enlarged sizes.

5.

a) The election will take place online, on the blog’s project, and will be confirmed by the nine partner school coordinators of the project;

b) The election will take place in the first week of December 2008;

c) The results will be published, using the blog, on the second week of December 2008.

6.

The prize for the winner logo will be a compact digital camera, delivered during the first year movie project presentation in Budapest (April | May 2009).

CATRi at work...

Hello, here are some pictures of the partners in the last Sicilian meeting. Work, work, work... (and a little rest) :)

Meeting in Brolo

These are the final dates for the meeting in Brolo:

September 29 to October 3.

CATRi - calendar

Here's the CATRi calendar. Not to add any stress to our lives. Just to keep in mind... :)

CATRi - The two year Strategy... Wellcome!

Here's the complete partnership summary. Let's start! :)
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A wandering look over the European cities makes us aware of the river within. There's a wealthy relation going on between the two elements, not always peaceful, not always in harmony, but perpetual and long lasting.
This project shall be that "close look" and will show the pupils how to understand the historic, political, social and cultural elements that determined the birth and development of the European capitals. The partners will decide if the city to work on each country will be the city capital or some other city with a much more relevant relation with a river.
The 27 capitals of the European Union will be distributed between the partner schools (no more than 3 for each school), and the pupils will work in research activities, selection and analysis/organization of all information available developing the common European skills agreed by the partners, representing for all the subjects in school and life. If the partnership will get final approval, Ankara or a Turkish city, though not a EC capital, will appear as the 28th city.
By studying the relation that cities have had during the past centuries with their rivers, working on several different perspectives (geography, history, economy or culture), pupils will produce and direct a documentary movie for each capital.
Using the knowledge gathered during almost one year, the pupils will work afterwards on an emancipation project: they must develop projects involving their schools and all European capitals about which they already worked and produced a movie.