International projects and activities in Veliki Bukovec Primary School - October 2011.

1. International projects
Terezija Šalamon, School Principal
Stela Pavetid, English teacher
OŠ Veliki Bukovec

3. 1993.
Years of dedication to developing ICT literacy skills

4. Encouraging and promoting various forms of 1995.
teaching, competitions and projects

5. 1995.

6. 1995.

7. 1998.

8. 1999.
Our first
international
project – a bit
exotic for our
region

9. 2000.

10. 2000.
Enthousiastic teachers and pupils influence others
with constant support by the school Principal

11. 2003.
Login@Europe
First prizes!

12. HNOS 2005.
Croatian national
educational Standard
– we are always ready
for new forms of
teaching and learning

13. 2006.

14. 2007.
Connection with the local
community
ICT workshops and
courses for parents and
members of the local
community

15. CARNet e-learning 2008.
pilot project
"Logo - online school of
programming"
Virtual school with 11-year-olds

16. 2008.
Traditional winter
school of
programming

17. 2009.
Professional
development via
webinars

18. 2009.

19. 2010.

20. 2010.
Lifelong
learning week
- Traditional
workshops and
seminars for
teachers and
parents about
various types of
learning and
educational
technologies

21. 2010.
eTwinning projects

22. Safer Internet for kids 2011.
- National campaign which started in
our school
- involved all pupils and their parents

23. 2011.
Safer Internet Day – our pupils presented their activities in
Zagreb – Zrinjevac park

24. Awarded pupils in the project 2011.
“Safer Internet for Kids"

25. 2011.
Guests in Educational programme at
National TV

26. • Live@edu service enabled the teachers at our school to
communicate and collaborate more easily online; it
facilitated inviting teachers to the teachers meetings and in
addition to that, we use digital documents (ordinances,
plans, curriculum)
• Live@edu enables flexible creation of user accounts and
groups, which is suitable for the dynamics of the school
environment
• Opportunity for the teachers to enjoy the advantages and
possibilities of e-mail and collaboration (organising
meetings, exchanging documents, joint projects)
• Implementation into the teaching process – teaching
children about various forms of online communication and
collaboration, organising teams, work on projects and
creating and publishing digital portfolios

27. International projects

28. Twinny’s adventures
Language and Geography project
- a cartoon caracter who travels via e-
mail and visits schools all around Europe
– writes a blog about what he has seen
and experienced
- joint blog and video-conferences
-80 partner schools
-Most distant
partner school -
La Reunion Island

31. Play @nd learn
ICT educational project
- designing interactive educational
computer games on various topics
for different age groups
- topics: Christmas, Maths, English
language, Internet Safety
- 8 partner schools
- children from 5 to 15
years of age

33. Architecture in my city
Math project – with a focus on communication
and collaboration
- learn Maths in English
- solving various mathematical problems
(measuring, areas, volume, sketches)
- online chatting and video conferences covering
various topics
- partner school: Lycée et Collège Sainte-Anne,
)
BREST, Francuska)
- awarded with European Quality Label

35. Chat with little French
students
“Architecture in my city"

36. Video conference
with French
school St Anne
from Brest about
the topic of social
network safety

38. Global Children's challenge
• engages children at a classroom level to record their
activity level, keep them healthy and take part in a virtual
walk around the world learning about health, nutrition,
exercise and the places they visit over the 50 days of the
event.
• The 'virtual' journey around the world has a factual
discovery focus, allowing kids to learn about other
countries, towns, cities, and the day-to-day lives of similar
aged children from different cultures all around the world.
• During 25 dana we travelled from Australia to Norway and
we made over 7 million steps

41. Short summary or what is important
1/2
• We are open for new ideas and different, even
exotic types of education
• Support of the school Principal – financial,
technical and moral faith in capabilities of the
teachers and the pupils of our school
• Enthousiastic teachers who bring projects to
our school
• Positive and a bit “contagious” atmosphere of
collaboration in school

42. Short summary or what is important
2/2
• Presentation of activities outside school – to
the parents, local community, media
• Keeping the connection between the
traditional school environment and local
community with modern possibilities of
international collaboration
• Availability of ICT to both pupils and teachers

43. Contacts
• terezija.salamon@os-bukovec.hr
• stela.pavetic@os-bukovec.hr
• lidija.kralj@os-bukovec.hr