Culture and Traditions of my Homeland

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Culture and Traditions of my Homeland

• Vassiliki Niarrou
• eTwinning Ambassador,
• Teacher of Informatics, 2nd Technical School Of
  Nea Smyrni, Athens, Greece

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Culture and Traditions of my HomelandThe process

• 2nd Technical School of Nea Smyrni, Athens,
  Greece Ices Leon Hurez, La Louviere, Belgium
  e-twins!
• Finding each other - Finding a subject
• Aims and Pedagogical values
• Work method
• Communication
• Outcomes
• An open invitation

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Culture and Traditions of my HomelandFinding
each other

• Maurice Medici and Vassiliki Niarrou first met in
  Brussels in early 2005, in a conference like this
  one
• They exchanged their e-mails
• Theyd like to start a partnership
• Both registered their schools in the
  eTwinning.net
• Used the twinfinder tool to find each other
• Both talked with headmasters and other teachers
• Took permission
• Found colleagues willing to help
• Found a group of students
• Reassure the availability of a PC with Internet
  connection, web-camera and microphone

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Culture and Traditions of my HomelandFinding a
subject

• Conversation in the classroom brainstorming
• Students ideas
• Teachers ideas
• Common interests
• E-communication of the teachers and exchanging of
  ideas
• 3 possible subjects
• Voting for the most interest and prototype
  subject
• And the winner is
• Culture and traditions of my homeland!

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Culture and Traditions of my HomelandAims and
pedagogical values

• Description
• The project intended to help students to exchange
  information about culture and traditions of their
  countries and by this, getting familiar with each
  other's civilization and comprehend the ways of
  everyday life. Besides the differences or the
  similarities they are going to discover in each
  country's traditions, they will realize that
  culture is a common wealth for all humanity and
  needs to be preserved

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Culture and Traditions of my HomelandAims and
pedagogical values

• Aims for the Greek students
• exchange of information about culture and
  traditions of both countries, and getting
  familiar with each other's civilization and
  comprehend the ways of everyday life
• get familiar with Greek unknown traditions
• practice on a foreing language (English)
• train their abilities in ICTs
• use special software and create a web-site and
  multimedia presentations

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Culture and Traditions of my HomelandAims and
pedagogical values

• And more aims
• learn how to work on a project as a team
• develop communication skills
• collaboration, responsibility and consistency of
  programming, research, gathering and evaluating
  sources
• gain multilevel knowledge

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Culture and Traditions of my HomelandWork
method General description

• Duration 3 months
• Language Greek, English and French
• Cooperation model teacher with group of students
• Teaching subject
• English Language
• Multimedia Applications
• Internet programming tools
• Information Society
• Tools
• E-mail, Chat (Skype), Videoconference (msn
  messenger)
• Word, PowerPoint
• DreamWeaver (for web pages), Flash (for
  multimedia presentations)

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Culture and Traditions of my Homeland Work
method The students

• Greece
• Two classes 20 students aged 17-19 years
• Both classes in the department of Informatics of
  a technical high school
• Belgium
• One class 9 students aged 15-16 years
• Class of the English Language lesson

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Culture and Traditions of my Homeland Work
method Project Method

• Organization in small groups of students with
  common interests
• Determination of the research subjects
• Collection of the material during free time
  before the end of the classes or on organized
  visits at libraries, etc.
• from books, Internet, interviews, etc
• Translation
• Material texts, photos, videos, etc

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Culture and Traditions of my Homeland Work
method Integration to the curriculum

• Creation of the Web-Site during the lesson
  Internet programming tools
• Creation of the Multimedia CD-ROM during the
  lesson Multimedia Applications

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Culture and Traditions of my Homeland Work
method Collecting and sorting information

• Research on traditions
• Religion related traditions (Christmas, carnival,
  Easter, etc)
• Social life traditions (birth, marriage, death,
  etc)
• Special traditions (for good luck, fertility,
  etc)
• Research on culture
• Music
• Folklore dances and songs
• Traditional costumes
• Theater (shadow theater)
• Popular art, etc.

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Culture and Traditions of my Homeland
Communication

• Exchanging information
• on-line meetings were scheduled on a weekly base
• Exchanging material of a different topic every
  week
• Using e-mail to exchange texts, photos and
  presentations
• Upload new material on the Web-Site
• Socializing
• Chat on Skype every two weeks
• Videoconference on msn messenger once a month

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Culture and Traditions of my HomelandOutcomes

• Multilingual Web-Site (in Greek and in English)
• Multimedia CD-ROM
• Poster and a Flyer
• Presentation of the e-Twinning project in a
  school celebration
• Following up revival of specific traditions

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Culture and Traditions of my HomelandFollowing up

• Christmas

• Carnival

• March Bracelets

• Easter

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Culture and Traditions of my HomelandAn open
invitation

• Follow up options
• Partnerships based on more specific subjects
• Folklore dances
• Legends
• Traditions in every day life
• Traditional occupations
• Comparing ancient cultures and many more.
• A network of European Schools working together to
  make a digital library for Traditions from all
  Europe
• An open invitation to you join a project about
  traditions!
• Sent me an e-mail vniarrou_at_sch.gr
• See our work until now http//2tee-n-smyrn.att.sc
  h.gr/index_twin.htm

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Thank you very much!

• Vassiliki Niarrou vniarrou_at_sch.gr