Erasmus+
KA219 Project
“ Digital vs
Traditional”
Project
No: 2020-1-TR01-KA229-092872_1
Meeting in France
7-11 February
2022, Uzerche
Mobility
Report
Activities realized during the Mobility
7.02.2022, Monday
·
Opening Ceremony: all the participants attended the
official opening ceremony of the mobility in the school canteen, with the opening
speech by the headmistress, Mrs Bedou and the Academic director for
international opening (DAREIC), Mr Mathelin.
·
Visit of the school in 4 groups by the French students.
·
General meeting:
o Presentation of our school, the French
Education System and our school’s previous EU projects.
o Presentation of the different teams.
o Presentation of the topic “Learning
science” and the connected activities organized during the week). In order to increase the levels of achievement
and interest in sciences, two main activities are organized. The first one was
intented to be about Astronomy with a traditional observation of Mars before
the meeting and a collaborative work during the meeting using robots. However
the pandemic situation made it impossible: first, the observation of the
apparent retrograde motion of Mars had to be made in Autumn 2000 which was much
too early in the project. The results had to be studied during the meeting in
France initialy planned in May 2021 and postponed to February 2022. From this
was kept the idea of a collaborative work using robotic programmation. The second activity focuses on movement and mechanic interactions. the different teams have to build and launch water rockets and
film the take-off in order to calculate the speed of the rocket by pointing on
the video (decomposition of the movement). This collaborative work in groups
aims to improve the use of ICT and mathematical skills. The students have to
record short explanatory videos of the different steps of both activities (see p.7).
· Visit of the Library: foreign students, together with a French
class, attented a presentation of the Library and its resource.
·
Teachers meeting: all the coordinators and participant
teachers joined the project meeting during one hour before the lunch and half
an hour after it.
o
Firstly, the coordinator Murat Aksoy gives an
assessment of the project’s progress. The date of the next mobilities decided
during the Turkish meeting are confirmed.
o The Spanish
coordinator Ana Delia Ramos Rodríguez gives
information about the next meeting in Spain from 4 to 8 April, concerning the
flights, the accommodation at the hotel and the local transportation.
o
The Spanish coordinator also explains that it
was impossible to complete the first issue of the magazine before the meeting
in France because it is a hard job for the students to arrange the various
contributions that sometimes are in different formats (such as pdf…). She
confirms that all the contributions have to be in Google doc format, text and
pictures in a same file. She recalls the 8 selected topics (the country, the
city, the school, the Erasmus team, music, food, tourist attractions and testimonials)
and which ones are missing for each country. Concerning the testimonials, each
team has to give one from a student, one from a family, one from a teacher and
one from the coordinator (that means 4 testimonials for each country). The
deadline is on February 28th.
o
The coordinator presents on a Powerpoint the
draft of the 2nd issue of the magazine and ask each team to send him
all the needed information, especially a complete report with pictures after
each mobility. He will continue to collect data till the final meeting in
Latvia in December 2022, then the report of the Latvian mobility will be added
at the beginning of January so that the pdf of the complete Magazine could be
send immediately to each partner. It will be under the responsibility of each
partner school to print for its own use the necessary copies of the Magazine.
o
The coordinator explains that since the
project is extended by 6 months the official end should be at the end of
February 2023, but let say that all the evaluation process and the final report
have to be completed before the end of January.
· Lunch at the school canteen.
· Music Workshop: All the students participated the Music
Workshop which was prepared by the school Music teacher Gwladys Zohin with her
students from the 7th grade. Each team performed 2 songs from its
country. Foreign and French students sang then together.
· Workshop n°1 “robotic programming”, part 1: learning how to program. After a general presentation
by the Science teacher Joël Poussain, 10 mixed
groups of 4 students from the different schools learned how to program small
robots using the software « Scratch ».
· Dinner at school with the administration
staff.
8.02.2022, Tuesday
·
“Safer Internet day”: foreign students attended a presentation in the Library about password
security on Internet.
·
Walk in Uzerche: All the students walked from the school to
old train station and the Paper factory to meet the mayor. After that, they
visit the old city center, especially the abbatial church and the city gate
“Bécharie”.
·
Visit to the Mayor of Uzerche: The mayor Jean-Paul Grador welcomed all
the participants in the assembly hall of a former Paper factory transformed in
a municipal cultural center. Participants introduced themselves and gave the
official presents. They visit the auditorium “Sophie Dessus”.
·
Teachers in the Classroom: Foreign teacher attended classrooms and
taught the lessons they prepared before they came to France. Feedbacks from
both the students and the teachers were positive.
·
Students in English lesson: foreign students attended an English
lesson about stereotypes concerning French people.
·
Lunch at the school canteen.
·
Workshop n°2 “water rocket”, part 1: after a general presentation by the Science teacher,
12 mixed groups of 4 students from the
different schools tried first to
build efficient water rockets. Then they were given at least 2 tries to launch
their rocket, with the possibility to improve their construction. Each take-off
had to be filmed and timed.
·
Dinner in a Reunionese restaurant: typical food from La
Réunion, French island in the Indian Ocean.
9.02.2022, Wednesday
· Boarding school: foreign students visited the boarding school and had a meeting with the
school boarders who presented their life at school.
·
Teachers meeting: the French coordinator presents a
Gantt chart illustrating the remaining tasks of the project (see p.8):
o Magazine issue 1 (P11): collect of the last data before the end
of February. Presentation during the mobility in Spain.
o Entrepreneurship contest (P13): the Polish coordinator Anna Szajerska
explains that this task will be realized mainly during the mobility in Poland
in May, but some preparation work will have to be done before coming. More
accurate information will be given by the Polish team during the Spanish
mobility.
o Photography exhibition (P15): this task is to be done before the
mobility in Poland in May. In each school, students are free to take photos of
traditional and/or digital subjects. Transformed or edited pictures are
accepted. Every participant will receive a certificate for their work. The
school will choose at least 20 photos to build an exhibition in the corridors
of the school. The photos have to be printed on paper format A5, but more
digital and imaginative presentations can be done too. The exhibition has to be
opened to the public, parents, press… with
a report in various medias (newspapers, social media…). This activity can be a
good occasion to organize workshops with professional photographers, artists…
before or during the exhibition. 4 pictures from each school will be selected
to be brought to Poland and added to the Polish exhibition (this would need
space enough for these extra 20 pictures).
o A more precise schedule for tasks P16
(social media) et P20 (eTwinning application) will be decided later.
o Evaluation and final report (P21-22): January 2023.
·
Workshop n°1 “robotic programming”, part 2: robot competition. The 10 teams had to program their robot for 2 different challenges: “following
the path” and “getting out the maze”.
·
Lunch at the school canteen.
·
Visit of Turenne, Collonges-le-Rouge, Branceilles, Curemonte and
Beaulieu-sur-Dordogne (for teachers / free activities in family for students).
10.02.2022, Thursday
·
Visit of Limoges (world famous for the porcelain and enamels): cathedral, central
market, medieval streets, porcelain dealers.
·
Visit of the Higher National School of Art: the different activities of the school either
traditional and digital were presented to the participants, especially the 3D
printing on ceramics.
·
Farewell ceremony: all the participant students and teachers attended a common meeting
with the parents in the school’s playground. Final speeches from Mrs Bedou and
the Mayor of Uzerche, Jean-Paul Grador.) who delivered the certificates to all
participants. The ceremony ends with a shared moment around a buffet of sweet
specialities.
11.02.2022, Friday
·
Art workshop: the initial work was intended to be about “glitch art” (distortion of
a digital picture by entering words or sentences in its code), but the
impossibility to use the Computers’ room transformed the activity into more
traditional art (painting). This proves that when digital tools don’t work,
traditional practices still do!
·
Workshop n°2 “water rocket”, part 2: calculation of the speed. Since no video of the
rockets’ take-off was usable for the calculation of the speed, the Science
teacher gave the foreign students other digital work already practiced in our
school for the ICT certification (PIX), such as using a metadata of a picture
to find the exact place it was taken, calculate distance and speed between 2
hiking photos... or decrypting morse code in a wav file… Congratulations to
Ahmet and Ahmet Efe from the Turkish team who succeeded efficiently in every
task!
· Final meeting (rewards and evaluation): all the participants attended the evaluation meeting.
Rewards were given to the wining groups of students for:
o
the best robot challenges (“following
the path” and “getting out the maze”): Levin (TR), Louane (FR), Ivan (LV) and
Lucas (FR) tied with Maria (RO), Eric (ES), Simon (FR) and Charlotte (FR).
o
the most beautiful rocket: Karina (RO), Coline (FR), Natalia (PL) and
Claire (FR).
o
the best take-off: Ahmet (TR), Antonio (ES), Raphaël (FR) and Quentin
(FR).
All the
participants played a Kahoot on our school and the activities of the week. Then
they filled an evaluation form (see p.9).
·
Lunch at the school canteen.
·
Visit of Brive-la-Gaillarde (for teachers / free activities in family for
students).
C3-P9 Meeting in Uzerche (France) / Learning Teaching
Training Activity:
Learning Science
Description of the
activity:
- Describe the content, methodology and expected results of the activity.
- How is it going to be related to or integrated with the normal activities of
the involved schools?
In order to
increase the levels of achievement and interest in sciences, two main
activities will be organized.
The first one was intented to be about
Astronomy with a traditional observation of Mars before the meeting and a
collaborative work during the meeting using robots. However the pandemic
situation made it impossible:
-
the observation of the
apparent retrograde motion of Mars had to be made in Autumn 2000 which was much
too early in the project,
-
results had to be studied during
the meeting in France initialy planned in May 2021 and postponed to February
2022.
From this we kept the idea of a collaborative
work using robotic
programmation: in the
first workshop, mixed groups of students from the different schools will learn first
how to program small robots using the software « Scratch », then these
teams will be in competition for different challenges (following the path,
getting out the maze…).
The second activity will focus on movement and mechanic interactions: the different teams will have to build and
launch water rockets, film the take-off and then calculate the speed of the
rocket by pointing on the video (decomposition of the movement). This collaborative
work in groups aims to improve the use of mathematical skills (calculating
speed…).
The students will record short explanatory
videos of the different steps of both activities.
These activities are already offered to the
students in our school. Robotic programming is in the ICT program of 8th and
9th grades. Movement and mechanic interactions are also studied in Physics
during the 8th and 9th grades.
Please explain how this
will be achieved and what the expected benefits are.
Etwinning will be used before the meeting especially
for the robotic programmation. Partner students will get information about
« Scratch » and examples of the possible challenges and may also ask
French students questions to better understand the work they will do together.
How is participation in
this activity going to benefit the involved participants?
The main aim of this meeting is to increase the
levels of achievement and interest in sciences through different activities,
either digital (robotic programmation, processing movement data…) or not (water
rockets building).
We hope it will contribute to develop
Scientific and Mathematics skills such as:
use of proportionality, programming/
algorithmic programming, search for information, accepting error to progress…
We also aim to develop collaborative work based
on communication within mixed groups of students from the different schools.
This means developing different skills: respect for others, sharing tasks,
autonomy, taking responsibility within a group, critical thinking…
Then we would like to develop, in our school
and others, Peer training, i.e. the creation by the participating students of
efficient teaching tools that could be used by other students after the meeting
(video explaining the calculation of water rockets’ speed).
Evaluation of the Meeting
in Uzerche - 7-11 February 2022
From 1 = “not good enough / not interesting” to 5 = “very good / very
interesting”
- Accomodation in the family / at the hotel
- Lunch at the canteen
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- Activities
3a. Robotic programming
3b. Water rockets
3c. Meeting with school boarders
3d. (traditional) Art
Do you think the
activities were connected enough with the topic of the meeting?
Yes: 34 / No: 1
Any comments about
the activities:
😊Amazing, well prepared, perfectly organised, love it, will never forget.
Congrats to the organizers. Fun, funny. Develop imagination and creativity,
creative. Perfect timing
☹Too long
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- Visits
4a. Uzerche
4b. Limoges
4c. Visit of the School of Arts in Limoges
4d. Collonges, Turenne, Beaulieu (teachers)
4e. Visits organised by the family (students)
Any comments about
the visits:
😊Perfectly organised, beautiful, good and friendly places, exceptional
places, interesting.
Love Limoges, Uzerche,
Collonges-la-Rouge. Enjoy nature.
Opportunity to
self-improve
☹Too much walk. Some people don’t speak English. Need more information
about the history of Uzerche.
Something you like
particularly during the week?
All: visits, people,
accommodation, food…. Meet new people. Getting to know culture and people from
every country. Great experience. Hospitality of the French team.
Workshops and trips:
water rockets, robots, English lesson, Kahoot / Limoges, School of Art.
Visits organised by
the family, bowling.
Timetable always in
front of my eyes
Visit each other after
school. Stay with my French friends. Spend time with our new friends.
Something you
dislike during the week?
The language barrier
at some moments between students.
Robotic programming.
Food at the school
canteen. Too much bread. Food. Only croissants available for breakfast.
Breakfast.
😊Too short
