MoTech – Grundtvig: Learning Partnership Project

Minutes from the International Workshops and Consortium Meeting

Klaipeda/Plunge (Lithuania) 12/06/2015 – 15/06/2015

Multilateral meeting participants: Lithuania: Plungės suaugusiųjų švietimo centras

1. Rita Smilingienė (Projet coordinator) 2. Laima Galvanauskienė 3. Mantas Smilingis (at the conference) 4. Amilija Buivydiene (at the conference) 5. Adomas Kripas (at the conference) 6. Violeta Černeckiene (at the conference)

Poland: Centurm Edukacji Nauczycieli w Koszalinie

7. Katarzyna Sobanska 8. Anna Walkowiak 9. Zenon Decyk 10. Małgorzata Kacprzak

Cyprus: European University Cyprus 11. Dimitrios Vlachopoulos 12. George Tsokkas 13. , Kyriakos Neofytou 14. , Maria Christofi

Sweden: Östra Grevie Folkhögskola 15. Sven Jarvi 16. Elli Lazarevska 17. Gordana Bojcevska 18. Mi Mollberg

Turkey: Dost Eli Derneği 19. Mevlut Yıldırım 20. Bilal Yavas

France: Institut E-Seniors 21. Françoise Pettelat 22. Denis Massard 23. Anne Claire Delatouche

1st Meeting day (12/06/2015) Visiting Curonian Spit National Park with a Guide Due to the circumstances that not all project partners could arrive on the 11th of June and participate in the coordinators’ meeting, social activities were carried out during the first day. Partners were invited to visit the Curonian Spit which is an outstanding example of a landscape of sand dunes that is under constant threat from natural forces (wind and tide). After disastrous human interventions that menaced its survival, the Spit was reclaimed by massive protection and stabilization works begun in the 19th century and still continuing to the present day.

The route of the tour went through the Hill of Witches, Cormoran colony in Juodkrante, Dead dunes, Nida town, Parnidzio dune and the Sun watch on it. In the evening a ferry took us back to Klaipeda where we met with all meeting participants for a welcome drink in a café next to the hotel. 2nd Meeting day (13/06/2015) Introduction

• Reviewing the meeting agenda together • Setting the tasks for partners working on the final report and

outcomes

Work on the common part of the final report and outcomes of the project. The coordinators of the partner institutions and partner team members worked on the common part of the final report and a layout of outcomes of the project. The work was organized in small groups every of which had its task. To the end of the working day we had the draft of the final report and the draft of one of our outcomes “Manual of experiences of using

ICT in teaching and learning Process” prepared by Dimitrios Vlachopoulos.

3rd meeting day. Hands-on international workshop “Broadcasting Your Lesson” (14/06/2015) This workshop was held by the Lithuanian team (Donatas Bukelis, ICT consultant and lecturer) and the participants were trainers and educators that work for in the project partner organisations. The objectives of the workshop were to introduce tools for preparing and sharing learning material online using tools for slide broadcasting, creating video tutorials and broadcasting them. During the workshop were introduced such sharing tools:

Including Internet technologies such as YouTube in the classroom is imperative to meet the educational needs of the young adult generation. In this training we learned how to broadcast our lessons by using tools:

4th meetingday. (15/06/2015) The last project meeting day started with the Final Project Conference “Improving Adult Education Through the Use of ICT Tools”. There were 30 participants at the conference (project teams and guests from Plunge, Klaipeda, Telsiai region adult institutions and schools). The conference was opened by Adomas Kripas, the headmaster at Plunges suaugusiuju svietimo centras.

The project coordinator Rita Smilingiene presented the project in a nutshell for the conference guests. Speakers from all participating countries presented their topics: Dimitrios Vlachopoulos, PhD Director at Distance Education Unit European University Cyprus made a report on the topic “ICT and Digital Immigrant Integration: Facing the challenges in teaching/learning process”;

Sandra Jasionaviciene, lecturer from Lithuanian University of Educational Sciencies reported on “Teaching Academic Writing at University with a WIKI”;

Elija Čenkutė, EFL teacher at „Saules“ gimnasium, Plunge shared her experience on the topic “The Use of ICT for Student-centered Learning”;

Sven Jarvi, teacher from Ostra Grevie folk high school in Sweden presented the experience “How MoTech has promoted the use of ICT at Ostra Grevie folk high school”;

E-seniors team from France introduced their local experiences on

the topic “Acquired ICT Skills in Practice: Geomedia and Cultural Heritage Walk Through the Historical Center of Paris with Usage of an ICT Application”;

Katarzyna Sobańska a teacher trainer from Centrum Edukacji Nauczycieli in Koszalin presented the topic „Becoming reflective teachers and students thanks to the use of ICT tools”;

Bilal Yavas from Dost Eli Konya in Turkey reported on “Adult

Education and Adult Computer Education in Turkey”; Raimonda Baltmiškė, EFL teacher from „Žemaitės“ gymnasium in

Telsiai, Lithuania was a participant of the Grundtvig learning partnership project „iTongue: our multilingual future“. She introduced the project and the outcomes of it – tools to make foreign language learning easier for adults.

After the conference project participants were invited to visit The Cold War Museum and Zemaitijos National park. There are only three such museums in the world.

Evaluation of the meeting and gala dinner with the ceremony of handing in certificates of participation to the project partners were the last events at the project meeting in Lithuania.

The last photo of the participants of the project before saying “Good bye”.