Activities

Our project has a topic thread which is the Digital Citizenship Curriculum for Secondary Education, which will be our most important tangible output. But during its construction, lots of activities have been programmed in order to fulfill the objectives of the project. For a summary with all the activities of the project, click here (excerpt from the project).

A Day without the Internet

The last activity from our project consisted on an experiment. We wanted to show our kids how difficult it was to spend a whole day without the internet, and how dependant we had become on its use. In the meeting the coordinators had in Slovakia we arranged that each school would take the experiment in the way it fit best with their work. For example writing diaries, filming testimonies or deprive students from mobile telephones during a day.

Please have a look at these three samples:

Testimony video

Day without internet sample from Spain.mp4

Diaries

Experiment

Fifth and last display of our PLE

During our project, we have been working on our Personal Learning Environment, that is, the different applications and software which we usually use. In this last part of the project we have produced the last display, number 5, which refers to those apps used to PUBLISH content.

Link to the document with printable cutouts

Link to the folder with all the displays

Information about the activity

Students newsletter 6.pdf

Last newsletter of the project

The students from France who belong to their Erasmus Club have written the last newsletter of our project. A newsletter about the risks of the internet.

Along with Identity Theft and Cyberbullying, which really affects the teenagers today, they give 10 tips of advice to stay smart and safe on the internet.

Device Free Dinner

We want to join the "#devicefreedinner" (dinners without mobile) initiative. This initiative is originally from www.commonsensemedia.org, an NGO from the United States that is very important internationally in the promotion of digital citizenship.

We are aware that in an increasingly technological society it is necessary to look for quality times to spend with our children and family. Lunch, or dinner, is an ideal time to talk with our children, talk in family, meet their concerns ...

Therefore, all the schools from France, Slovakia, Portugal, Latvia, Hungary and Spain which participate with us in Erasmus, we organised a contest to create creative baskets, so that during these moments (lunch and dinner) all Family members deposit their mobile phone and agree not to use them.

Have a look at the Spanish mini-site for the occasion on this link or the sample photo gallery besides.

Cestas #comidassinmovil

Two last posters of the series!

These are our last two posters published for the Digital Literacy poster series. The first one is about tips for been safe online, and the second one a compilation of the 5 most important internet risks. Hope you like them!

With these two posters we complete the set of posters of our project.

For the complete collection of printable posters click here: Document or Folder

Students from Latvia produce their Student's Newsletter

Students from our school in Latvia have produced the last newsletter. A summary of the fantastic mobility we held last March to the little town of Sastin-Straze, in Slovakia, from where we travelled to the mountains in the North and to the capital city of the country. Thank you for this detailed summary of the mobility and for your personal views of it!

Students' newsletter5.pdf

Fourth display of our PLE (Personal Learning Environment)

The fourth display of our PLE has been published. On this occasion it is about communicating. We have showcased the three most important communication categories, social networks, email and videoconference.

Link to the document with printable cutouts

Link to the folder with all the displays

Information about the activity

Teachers' Newsletter #5

Education is abou life. We must teach our students how to live in this digital world. This issue of our Teachers' Newsletter is about this, about teaching them how to live and survive in a digital and technified world. Instead of prohibiting, we should make them aware of all the risks. That is what education is about.

teachersnewsletter5.pdf

Raps. Internet Risks

On the second term of our second school years we started with the topic of internet risks. Raps have always been a sort of protest, so we thought that students would like the idea of protesting about what they didn't like about the internet. The students from our schools created lots of raps, but after a selection process, each country selected the one which was going to represent them in the mobility to Slovakia. Here they are.

France rap.mp4

France

Hungary rap.mp4

Hungary

Latvia Rap.mp4

Latvia

portugal rap.mp4

Portugal

Spain Rap.MOV

Spain

Third display of our PLE (Personal Learning Environment)

The third display of our Personal Learning Environment (PLE) has just been delivered. On this occasion the "Organization" apps have been added. These apps, websites or resources are good means to organize or cure information on the web, for example files can be stored and shared in Google Drive or Dropbox, music or audio files in Spotify or Soundcloud, and Pinterest is good for curing photographs found on the web. Symbaloo and Edshelf are a good way to organize web links.

Link to the document with printable cutouts

Link to the folder with all the displays / Information about the activity

Two new posters added to our collection

We have added to new posters to our collection, showing two of the topics of our fourth term: Netiquette and Social Communication.

In total there are now eight posters published and there will be twelve of them when the project finishes.

For the complete collection of printable posters click here: Document or Folder

Internet Risk flyers

One of the objectives of our project is to promote awareness of the risks of the internet. That is why making students work on these flyers make them think, read, summarise, etc.... Each school designed their own leaflet or flyer, as the objective was to hand them our to parents, or to distribute through local libraries or school premises.

You can have a look at the flyers created in this folder.

Videoconferences about our school systems

During the month of December we held this term's videoconferences. Spain was matched with Latvia, Slovakia with Portugal, and France with Hungary. For this videoconference, we talk about our school systems. Here is a sample of questions which were asked and answered by students:

1. When does your school year start and when does it finish?

2. What grading system do you have?

3. Do you have any extracurricular activities/ after-school activities)?

4. How many foreign languages do you study?

5. How many pupils are in one class?

6. How long are the lessons and breaks?

7. What do you usually do during the break time and where do you spend this time?

8. Do you have any special events, like discos, concerts or parties in your school?

Photograph from the conference Latvia - Spain

9. What time does your first lesson start and how long is your school day?

10. Do you have to do any homework or do you study only at school?

11. Are you allowed to leave your school territory during the school day?

teachersnewsletter4.pdf

Teachers' Newsletter #4

The teachers's newsletter has just been released. Written by teachers to teachers, with important information to teach nowadays in a digital world.

This issue is focused on this term topics: Fake news, footprints and risks of the technologies.

Videodictionaries

Getting to know other European countries cultures is a must in this kind of projects, that is why from the very beginning coordinators envisaged this activity to make students aware of the difference of cultures and languages with the objective to make them understand that we are united in a common project despite this diversity ("United in Diversity" as the European Union motto goes).

For this we matched the different countries two by two to film teenage expressions in the other country language. Students had fun speaking different language expressions and idioms while at the same time watching what the other country had recorded for them. Here are some examples:

videlfromlatvia.mp4

videofromspain.mp4

videofromfrance.mp4

videofronportugal.mp4

videofromhungary.mp4

Students' Newsletter #4

In October 2018 the students from Portugal have released the new Student's Newsletter about this terms' topics:

An article about the Teachers' Meeting in Resende
Dangers of Free Wifi
Safe Online Communication
Netiquette
Online Shopping
Social networks - How to use them safely?

Thanks Cristiana Ribeiro for its design! ;)

Erasmus Newsletter 4.pdf

Short-Movies competition

During the last term of the 2017/18 school year we held our "Short-Movies Competition" whose topic was "Risks on the Internet". Each school made their students work in groups to create short-movies to apply for an inner competition. At the end, each school chose their their nominee movie, just like for the Oscars! Due to holidays and calendars, we needed to postpone the votation for the winner for the first weeks of the school year 2018/19, right after the summer. After the voting (each school voted for their 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th favourite videos) the winner was the video presented by the Spanish School. Please find here the infographics with the score, the activity information and the six videos.

To read the terms of the competition click here

Short movie Spain.mov

Short movie France.mp4

Short movie Portugal.mp4

Short movie Slovakia.avi

Short movie Latvia.mp4

Short movie Hungary.wmv

teachersnewsletter3.pdf

Teachers' Newsletter #3

What are creative commons? What is and how to avoid plagiarism? In this number of the Teachers' newsletter we deal with this issue. Stopping the culture of "copy and paste" is one of our goals. A difficult one, but a must in our schools. If we want to avoid plagiarism, we need to promote creativity and entrepreneurship.

Students' Newsletter #3

Students from Hungary have been in charge of writing and creating the third newsletter of our project.

They've made a summary of the mobility in Latvia and talked about Powerpoint and Prezi, this last online software created in Hungary and which meant a new conception of presentations as we knew them!

Great job, kids! Thank you for your work.

students newsletter3.pdf

Second display of our PLE

And now, we continue with the second part of our PLE (personal learning environment). On this display you will find "creation" software and apps, divided into 5 categories, Audio, Video, Stories, Graphics and Presentations. Of course the number of them is much bigger! but with this apps and software, students' and teachers' work achieve a higher level of quality!, getting rid of old-fashioned ways of creating content!

Print out logos document

Webquests Competition

During the second and third terms of our first school year we celebrated the webquest competition. Each country, in turns, created a webquest to develop students "content literacy" about local/regional/national cultural issues of each country. These are the webquests. If you need the answers, please contact eduardo.ruiz@vedruna.es

To read activity instructions click here

QR Code Competition

During the third term of the project we held the QR Code Competition (Spain has postponed it until the 15th of October to get support from the local council). The QR Code competition consisted of a "treasure hunt" in which students, in teams, had to discover secret QR codes hidden on universal literature masterpieces. With the help of their teachers or librarian, and/or the Erasmus group, and hint after hint, they browsed their libraries to get the final book using their mobile phones to capture the QR codes.

For a description of the activity click here.

Three new posters added to our collection

Three new posters have just been added to our set of digital literacy posters and infographics. This first one is about content search. The second one is about Fact or opinion; sometimes students confuse them when creating their assignments. Make sure they know the difference! And finally, the third poster is about search techniques on Google. Did you know this tricks to find more precise information on Google? Did you know that Google search bar can be used as a calculator, translator, worldwide click and currency converter?

You can see the three new posters below, and a link to the shared folder where you can find the six posters published so far.

studentsnewsletter2.pdf

Students' Newsletter #2

The Slovakian school has been in charge for producing the second Students' newsletter, where they give us their impressions about the last Mobility in Metz.

They also speak about web browsers, which is a content item our four second term and an article about the Carnival in Slovakia.

Thank you students for sharing your points of view and creating this beautiful newsletter, crossword included!

Teachers' Newsletter #2

Unwanted advertising, spam, phishing, hoaxes... they are some problems we can come across when using internet. In our personal lives, we find them very often... but the problem is even bigger when you are working with kids.

Maybe our part of the job is not avoiding these things to happen... as they will always do, but to help our students skills and strategies to cope with these problems and make them aware of the risks on the internet, with which they will need to learn to live, like it or not!

The newsletter has been produced by the Slovakian team with the collaboration of all of the other partner schools.

teachersnewsletter2.pdf

Videoconferences #127 new photos added to shared album

Videoconferences

There was a first round of videoconferences to talk about National Holidays. Each country decided which class or group of students to prepare a short presentation about national holidays which included some cultural aspects about them. Students spoke about their holidays and they also engaged in informal conversation lead by their English teachers who helped organised the events with a great enthusiasm!

For this first time, the matchings were Portugal-Spain, Slovakia-Hungary and Latvia-France.

Have a look at the photo album on the left.

A Giant PLE Display

At the beginning of our second term we started the activity called A Giant PLE Display. The idea is to construct a “giant” display, exhibition, panel… in a common space of the school, so that people see how it is becoming bigger along the project.

PLE means Personal Learning Environment, and it consists of the set of application/websites/resources that a person (teacher and student as we are talking on academic terms) needs to know in order to be a competent digital citizen.

First panel print-outs document

For the instructions of this activity please click here.

Webquests competition

From February to June we will be participating in the webquest competition, an activity to practise "content (or information) digital skills" which consists on looking for, finding, analysing and evaluating information on the internet.

Each country, in turns, will create their own webquest to send the other teams. The webquests must be based on cultural activities, through which students learn about other countries' cultures.

For the instructions of this activity please click here.

Erasmus Radio

During our mobility to Metz in France, our students recorded different radio programmes about each of the countries participating in the project. You can listen to the podcasts in this folder: https://goo.gl/gxzui3

Posters

During each of the six school terms in our project we will be creating posters and infographics to illustrate the contents worked in class. Have a look at the first three posters, those dealing with the definition of Digital Citizenship, pros and cons of the internet and internet time-line.

You can download all them from this shared folder (or click on each picture to download each of them)

All our posters here:

teachersnewsletter1.pdf

Teachers' Newsletter #1

Along with the Students' Newsletter, a separate publication is released every three months for teachers. It's the Teachers' Newsletter, a publication not only for the teachers belonging to the Erasmus+ groups in all of our schools, but also for those teachers interested in applying ICT methodologies in their lessons a work activity.

This newsletter is published by the Slovakian partners, but it will contain co-work from all the other countries in the next issues.

This activity is intended as a dissemination activity as well, it's not only giving information about digital literacy to teachers, but also to spread our project Citizen 3.0 among our schools and communities.

Students' Newsletter #1

One of the ongoing activities from the very first of the project till the end, in June 2019, is the publication of the Students' Newsletter, a publication created by students with the help of their English, Arts and ICT teachers.

Each term a different country will create a different issue, therefore in the next six school terms, we will have six newsletters created by Spain, Portugal, Slovakia, Portugal, France and Hungary.

We hope you like our first issue, in which we deal with the concept of Digital Citizenship, why it is necessary to be learnt, and which are the uses, pros and cons of the internet. There is also a timeline with the history of internet, since its origin, to the creation of Whatsapp, which might not be the last invention, but for sure, it's something that has changed our way of life.

students newsletter 1.pdf

Logo Competition (A2)

During the second month of our project, we held the "Logo Competition". It was a way to disseminate the project among our students, who, after participating the the "Digital Citizenship Definition (A1)", had enough information to design a logo which represented the project for the next two years.

After an inner competition within each school, the six finalists participated in a final vote, were the students from different countries could vote for the best logo (except that country logo).

Each country awarded 10 points to the first option, and 5 to the second one, being the logo from Hungary the winner. Congratulations to Benedek, from Hungary!

Winning logo: Benedek, from Hungary

For the activity instructions click here

Digital Citizenship Definition (A1)

During these days, students from our schools around Europe are working on the concept of "Digital Citizenship". This concept is the beginning of our project and it is important to find a common definition in order to focus on a same concept to develop our project. During the next days (the deadline is the 12th of October) each school will send their final definition so that a voting online system is available to chose the final and common version.

For activity instructions click here

Facebook accounts created

The different Facebook accounts have been created, so now we are all connected via this social network. Please following our project and the different partners projects as shown in the following links.

In this shared folder you have access to all the activity descriptions for further reference.

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