Unit-IV; Professional Sales Representative (PSR).pptx
FINAL REPORT: eTwinauts in the (in)visible cities
1. eTwinautas en las ciudades (in)visibles
eTwinauts in the (in)visible cities
PROJECT REPORT DECEMBER 2014
Olga Martínez Cancelas | Klasické a španělské gymnázium Brno (CZECH REPUBLIC)
María del Carmen Buitrón Pérez | CPI Viaňo Pequeno Trazo (SPAIN)
2. Marco Polo describes a bridge, stone by stone.
“But which is the stone that supports the bridge?” Kublai
Khan asks.
“The bridge is not supported by one stone or another”,
Marco answers, “but by the line of the arch that they form.”
Kublai Khan remains silent, reflecting. Then he adds: “Why
do you speak to me of the stones? It is only the arch that
matters to me.”
Polo answers: “Without stones there is no arch.”
“
Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino, tr. by William Weaver, London: Vintage Books,
[1972]1997 p. 74
3. This novel starts with the dialogue between Marco Polo
and Kublai Khan, the emperor of the tartars: a good
example of intercultural dialogue and understanding.
4. This parable of the bridge in Italo Calvino’s novel Invisible
Cities illustrates very well how little elements build together
a useful and meaningful whole. Without the elements, the
whole is just something abstract and without the whole as a
structuring principle, the elements are simply disorganised,
separated.
This perfectly explains our first idea of creating a project
to build something meaningful together, to experience from
the distance the power of cooperative learning
5. FIRST STONES OF THE BRIDGE...
2 partner schools:
Klasické a španělské gymnázium Brno (Czech Republic)
CPI Viaňo Pequeno (Galicie - Spain)
started our first eTwininng project
and
as a tribute to Italo Calvino's book
we decided to call it
“Matemáticas para viajar a las ciudades (in)visibles”
“Mathematics to travel to the (in)visible cities”
[February-July 2013]
Project's language: Spanish
6. This first experience grew up and continue with
“eTwinautas en las ciudades (in)visibles”
“eTwinauts in the (in)visible cities”
[ December 2013- December 2014]
13 professionals
106 students
5 partner schools:
1 Czech Republic (Brno)
2 Spain (Galicia, Formentera)
1 Italy (Albino)
1 Norway (Moss).
9. CLEAR
OBJETIVES
- To build a space for multicultural collaboration.
- To raise awareness on the importance of valuing
and preserving human world heritage
and foster respect for other cultures.
- To improve communication skills.
- To discover new European cities, their citizens,
their traditions and customs.
- To build and share knowledge
with people from different countries.
- To develop ICT skills and competencies in Mathematics,
Literature, History, Art, Chemistry, Physics,
Foreign languages …
- To put into practice Project based learning | CLIL methodology
12. 2013/2014
EUROPEAN CULTURE AND CIVILIZATION | MUSIC AND CULTURE | MATHEMATICS
PHYSICS | CHEMISTRY | SIGN LANGUAGE | LITERATURE | HISTORY | ART
UNESCO HERITAGE | TECHNOLOGIE | INTERNET SAFETY | GAMIFICATON
SPANISH LANGUAGE | ARCHITECTURE
ACTIVITIES
23. EVALUATION
- EVALUATION MATRIX
- SURVEYS
- REFLECTIONS
ALL RESULTS AND CONCLUSIONS ARE PUBLISHED HERE:
http://new-twinspace.etwinning.net/c/portal/layout?p_l_id=34155703
26. Things we have learnt
- To respect other cultures
- To work in teams with students/teachers from our school
and from abroad
- To know better each others
- How to manage electronic resources
- How to assess critical information
- Develop communication skills
- The power of cooperation
- Spanish language in a multicultural environment with
native speakers
OUTCOMES
28. But also... we have learnt how to deal with difficulties
- Adjust schedules for meetings
- Bad Internet connection in rural areas
- Embarrassment of the students communicating in
foreign language
- Promoting cooperation in a big group of students
- Communication among partners
… and we got good inputs to feed our project:
PRIZES AND RECOGNITIONS
- Spanish, Czech and Italian Quality Label
- European Quality Label
- Czech National Award
OUTCOMES
30. a book is a space which the reader must enter, wander
round, maybe lose his way in, and then eventually find an
exit, or perhaps even several exits, or maybe a way of
breaking out on his own.
We pretended not to write a book but to develop a project
in which all of us, members of a school community, were
going to enter, wander round, maybe lose our way in, find
an exit, perhaps several exits...
“ Italo Calvino
![Marco Polo describes a bridge, stone by stone.
“But which is the stone that supports the bridge?” Kublai
Khan asks.
“The bridge is not supported by one stone or another”,
Marco answers, “but by the line of the arch that they form.”
Kublai Khan remains silent, reflecting. Then he adds: “Why
do you speak to me of the stones? It is only the arch that
matters to me.”
Polo answers: “Without stones there is no arch.”
“
Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino, tr. by William Weaver, London: Vintage Books,
[1972]1997 p. 74](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7)