Monday 23/9

We started the day with three different presentations; 

1. "First Mobility and Mother Tongue Education" done by the Swedish partners

2. “The Importance of Examining Cultural Values and Historical Places as a Lesson Subject in Multicultural Classrooms” done by Turkish partner Murat AY

3. “How to Use Intro Maker Tools and Some Web 2.0 Tools” done by the Turkish partners Gulname Polat and Ayhan Sezdirmez

We finished the day off by meeting the District Director of Education where he explained the Turkish school system and the Swedish and Italian partners got to compare theirs to it. 

Tuesday 24/9

The main focus of the day was web tools. We started with coming up with different topics for videos and presentations that we would create using different web tools. We came up with the eight following topics:

• National days, celebrations/festivals and folk dances 

• Cultural diversity, social norms and welcoming guests 

• Dishes and traditional products

• Important literary works

• Wedding traditions

• Traditional sports

• Historical places 

• Popular characters and heroes 

Each partner has to create eight videos, one for each topic, before the third mobility in Italy.

Then we had presentations and workshops in regard to the following tools:

• Filmora

• Canva

• Renderforest

Wednesday 25/9

On Wednesday the partners got to visit the pilot school in Anamur. 

The school is both a primary and secondary school, one teacher is responsible for one class. The school goes from grade one to grade eight. In grade eight students are thirteen years old. 

The Swedish and Italian partners got to see all the classrooms. Each classroom has a smartboard hidden by a whiteboard, enabling teachers to use both at the same time. The students are sat in desks which they share with a desk mate. Besides the classroom we got to see the offices of the principal and assistant principal, the breakroom of the teachers and the rooftop. 

The classes with the refugee students are held in another building next to the main school building, in the building there’s a nursery as well. In there the students are of different ages and all teaching is done in Turkish, without the help of English, although the teacher uses image support. The students are put into classes based on their knowledge of the Turkish language and once they have reached a sufficient level of understanding in the language are they placed in the standard classes. 

After the lesson the partners got to follow the class outside to the yard where a few weeks prior the teachers had buried several pottery objects. The students got to dig them up and brush off the dirt and act as archaeologists. 

After the Swedish and Italian partners had explored the school and visited several lessons, it was time to visit the school’s greenhouse. 

The greenhouse was located just down the street from the school. Anamur is a city famous for its bananas, so it makes sense the school would have a big greenhouse for their production. 

Thursday 26/9

On the last day in Anamur the partners got to visit the Mamure Castle. It is one of the most ancient parts of Anamur and the castle is believed to have been built by the Romans either in the 3rd or 4th century. The Swedish and Italian partners were taken on a guided tour of the castle grounds by the Turkish partners while the history of the place was explained. 

The castle is surrounded by a moat on the land side where turtles swim. The road on the rampart connects the 39 towers and a lot of battlements to each other. There are 3 main yards within the castle; west, east and the south, which are separated from each other by high walls. 

In the yard at the west there is an outer castle, a small complex of a single minaret mosque, the ruins of a Turkish bath (hamam), a fountain, warehouses and cisterns. In the east, there is an inner courtyard which has 7 bastions in different shapes on the high wall constituting its northwest border.