Products in the Project
As our project is coming to an end, here are the planned results.
Here's our checklist: (colour code: COMPLETED - IN PROGRESS - NOT YET DONE)
- a website
- a booklet with lyrics of the songs in the original language and in English + the stories invented by the children,
- final DVD: including the six traditional songs along with the project song, video of the final concerts,
- a meeting of the children recorded in a Travelogue (travel diary or journal) written during the visit,
- a common (multilingual) project song,
- online quiz recapping all knowledge.
1. Project Logo
We do believe that the more children are involved in the project work, the more successful a project will be. Therefore, the project logo was created during the Italian project meeting. The students from Zsombó, Armagh, Zambrów and Stigliano were working together.
2. Project Mascot: Cometek
The project mascot was created by the Polish team and symbolizes the participating countries and unity. The children of the participating countries could vote for the best mascot. The name of the mascot was also voted by the partner countries' children.
3. Website
The website has a vital role in the project (>>> see website tutorial). This is the place where
- all the materials are collected (i.e. photos, videos, drawings, stories, activities and evaluation, meetings, teaching resources, dissemination, project products, videoconference lessons, recognitions, useful links etc.);
- students can have discussions in the Pals Corner or make friends in ShoutBox;
- teachers exchange messages in ComDiGro;
- we have multilingual blogs to spread the news in several languages;
- children can play with educational games and watch videos that help learning English;
- teachers exchange ideas about teaching methods and resources;
- anybody can get to know our countries, towns and villages or the participating schools a bit more.
4. Folk Song Booklet
We collected the 6 traditional songs chosen by the participating countries. We were working on these songs through several activities: we were singing, illustrating the songs, wrote stories, created a choreography and performed a dance – we have become part of our own culture while getting to know other cultures as well.
Click here to see the collection of our illustrated folk songs.
5. Project Song (March)
This is our most important common project product. The march was created during the meeting in Italy in the frame of a student workshop. The lyrics were translated into the partner countries' languages.
6. Travelogue
The most joyful moment of the project was the happiness of the students from Zsombó, Armagh and Zambrów who had the chance to represent their schools in Italy.
Their travel memories along with their own comments and photos are available here.
7. Ultimate Quiz
At the end of the project we invite students, parents and teachers to be part of the very last quiz to see how much we learnt thanks to the project.
8. Project DVD
It is important to spread our work. That is why we tried to find an easy and cheap way to make it available and tangible for everybody, especially for the children who were part of this adventure. Therefore, we decided to collect all the significant materials on a project DVD: the project song in different languages, the final concerts and other videos.
9. European Journey of Cometek
This video tells about the wanders of our project mascot who teaches us about folk songs, dances and instruments of the partner countries. The name of the main character was chosen by the partner countries' votes.
Click here to see the video.
10. Project Calendar 2013
We would like to remember our project that is why we chose the best moments and created a calendar with photos referring to the activities done about a year ago. All the partners got this calendar that supposed to be placed in the classroom – a piece of memory for every month.
Click here to see the calendar.
11. Multilingual Audio-Pictionary
We combined the vocabulary of the different folk songs with different languages, and nice images with audio. And there it is: teach and learn in a more creative and funny way when it comes to vocabulary.
Click here to enjoy our audio-pictionary.
12. Project Trailer
A 'trailer' is a kind of promotion or preview about a film or a project. We created this short video to present our project which was based on knowledge and fun. Enjoy!
Click here to watch.
13. Fifty E(ssential) Tools for Project Work
The various areas of intercultural project work (e.g. documentation, dissemination, sharing, collaboration, communication etc.) require special skills and are mostly based on the use of ICT. We did a lot of different activities in the past two years, which means we used several ICT tools. We wanted to create a handy guide about the tools one might need when doing such projects.
Click here to read our guide.
14. Final Concerts
During the project meetings, schools performed concerts presenting their own culture and also singing some songs of the partner countries. Therefore, we created a medley of these concerts to transfer the ambiance of these special events. This medley is also available on the project DVD.
Click here to watch.