Project description

Introduction

Nowadays, many schools are newsletter or newspaper publishers… We, with this project, chose to continue our previous Comenius project “The Voice of teens”, and publish again our European multilingual magazine! Our students shall write new articles in their mother tongue and in English language too. This school magazine will be as a regular school newspaper in two versions (paper version and on-line edition) with texts in columns and other interactive features.

So, we want to transfer the experience which we obtained to the younger students and to new colleagues in our schools. The new journey (edition) of our magazine “THE VOICE OF TEENS” will last 1-2 years.

Guidelines

We had focused on some common problems of our students:

·  Poor expressive ability in their own mother tongue

·  Difficulties in writing and reading in English language

·  Lack of mutual knowledge.

We consider that the common work, by writing an internet and paper magazine, will bring the students very close and help them to pass over the above problems. Students will become more responsible and will understand that it is possible to work together. The distance and sometimes the different reality are not the basic obstacle. It’s nice to make efforts to remove the barriers.

Aims and objectives

·  To improve the linguistic and ICT competences

·  To awaken and reinforce creativity and innovation

·  To obtain skills in foreign languages,

·  To learn how you work collaboratively, create friendships through this international cooperation, using the tools of ICT

·  To encourage the learning of modern foreign languages

·  To support the development of innovative ICT-based content, services, pedagogies and practice in lifelong learning

·  To enhance the quality and European dimension of teacher training    

  To support improvements in pedagogical approaches and school management

Work process - collaboration and distribution of tasks

e.g.

·  The Italian partner will provide the needed servers and the site for the project

·  The Italian, Greek and Bulgarian partners will edit the magazine

·   The Slovakian partner will evaluate the work

·  All will write the articles for the magazine and will manage the magazine’s sections. (In each country the students are working in groups, share ideas, develop proposals, write articles, make web pages and pdf files, and send their work to the editor for building the issue).

The roles will be changed next period (probably next semester…) and all partners will participate and will distribute the tasks.

Schedule

1^st month – each team from each country introduces itself

2^nd month – the pupils from each country read the first and the second issue of the Magazine and choose their favorite article. They write their impressions and present their point of view about the topic. They propose the best article and sent an announcement to the editor. The teachers coordinate the work, teaching pupils about Writing, & Publishing Articles in Newspapers and Magazines, communicate with their colleagues in other countries via e-mail, skype or face to face meetings.

3^rd month - the pupils from each country read the third and the fourth issue of the Magazine and choose their favorite article. They write their impressions and present their point of view about the topic. They propose the best article and sent an announcement to the editor. The teachers coordinate the work, teaching pupils about Writing, & Publishing Articles in Newspapers and Magazines, communicate with their colleagues in other countries via e-mail, skype or face to face meetings.

4^th month - the pupils from each country read the fifth and sixth issue of the Magazine and choose their favorite article. They write their impressions and present their point of view about the topic. They propose the best article and sent an announcement to the editor. The teachers coordinate the work, teaching pupils about Writing, & Publishing Articles in Newspapers and Magazines, communicate with their colleagues in other countries via e-mail, skype or face to face meetings.

5^th month – working in groups and collaboratively the students from each country prepare 3 articles 0f 200 words (format: doc file and htm/html file) and send them to the editor. The editor builds the 7^th issue of the Magazine.

6^th month – paper version release

7^th month – internet version release

8^th month – presentation to the public and authorities

9^th month - evaluation

The edition of the 8^th issue depends on the partners’ decision.

 

Expected Results - "Project outcomes" production

·  Better knowledge of European affairs and Development of the awareness of the surrounding world

·  Advantages of practical use of foreign languages

·  Teachers and pupils creativity

·  Development of the idea of partnership among schools

·  Sharing experiences to other teachers and schools

·  Publishing and Presenting new issue/s of our magazine via internet and on paper

Criteria of Project Evaluation

Ø The participation of students

Ø The sense of organization and communication

Ø The successful fulfillment of program objectives (ability of understand and use foreign languages, ability of being together and working together, respecting the objectives and the deadlines).

Participants 

1	Karoussi Helen	Β2
2	KaroussiFotini	Β2
3	Katerinakis Romanos	Β2
4	Kapsalis Thanos	Β2
5	Kessissoglou Jason	Β2
6	Lathourakis Nikos	Β2
7	Lampi Eliana	Β2
8	Lampis Elias	Β2
9	Lykourinou Ireneη	Β2
10	Maragou Vassiliki	Β2
11	Mourtzakis Anastassios	Β2
12	Mystiloglou Georgios	Β2
13	Nomikos Loukas	Β2
14	Ntalenga Denissa	Β2
15	Dine Vasilisς	Β2
16	Pantazi Alexia	Β2
17	Saroglou Anastassia	Β2
18	Galatianos Konstantinos	Β1
19	Abazai Fabio	Β1
20	Gavriilidis Kostas	Β1
21	Giannopoulos Dimitris	Β1
22	Dimitriou Maria	Β1

Teachers

Stavriana Soubassi
Katerina Fyssaki