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Data processing - Classroom Activities - Article writing and editing
Vassiliki Kollia asked from the partners to briefly present
their work with the pupils.
Heinz Wagner from Kurier spoke about the meetings he had with the
pupils from Schwechat both at their school and Kurier. More specifically,
he met twice the pupils in their school, and once in Kurier. Before
pupils' visit in Kurier, Heinz Wagner asked them to write individually
profiles of their school, in order to do the compilation of the
reports in the newspaper and provide Heinz Wagner with one profile
for their school. During their visit in Kurier, the pupils wrote
also the first draft of the articles. The pupils worked in groups
of 4 to 5 persons. The articles written have been presented to the
partners. The only point to underline is the fact that these articles
referred only to the preferences and attitudes of the Austrian pupils
(see Annex, Draft articles from
Austria). Teachers from Schwechat as well as the journalist
have been asked to work further with the pupils in order to include
also the opinions of the youngsters in other countries.
Manfred Lohr toke the floor and presented more in depth the school
activities (see Annex, Activities
of BG & BRG Schwechat). He also spoke about the meetings pupils
had with the journalist as well as the way the teachers integrated
the project activities in several subject areas.
Then, Vassiliki Kollia presented on behalf of Bernd Klewitz the
activities of the pupils in Gymnasium Philippinum in Germany. In
Philippinum they have in their social studies curriculum a topic
prescribed "Political culture in Germany and the European Union".
In this context teachers prepared related texts from a standard
book on "Politics in Germany" and newspaper articles. Most of these
articles were taken from the Internet - partly in English, as this
is a bilingual course. Incorporated were also the results of the
Shell Studie 2000. Pupils were asked to read and summarize the above
mentioned material, collect further information and make a presentation
in the classroom. They have further discussed the material and evaluate
it. Then, they have selected information, reorganized it, analysed
different text types, and prepared short presentations. The big
problem Philippinum is facing is the fact that there is no journalist
and newspaper to collaborate with. Heinz Wagner from Kurier agreed
to assist more closely the pupils in their work.
Dagmar Schaeffer from Ellinogermaniki Agogi presented the activities
of the schools in Greece. She spoke about the problem both schools
have faced, meaning the fact that pupils moving from Gymnasium to
Lyceum have been splitten in three different classes. So, the teachers
had to be very flexible in order to find time and place to gather
the pupils as well as to involve the other pupils that the previous
year did not participated in the interviews. Dagmar Schaeffer pointed
out that the discussions have started already in May 2000. She also
referred to the meetings the pupils had with the journalist. One
last problem that has been mentioned was the availability of PCs.
Pupils don't have access all the time to PCs and the Internet. Thus,
it has been decided to print all the results and distributed them
to the pupils. Finally, Dagmar Schaeffer presented the timeline
to be followed. More specifically, it has been decided that a second
discussion of the journalist with the pupils at their schools will
take place either on 13th or 15th December
2001. Pupils will receive specific guidelines on how they should
write their articles. Pupils by then should have worked in groups,
each group being responsible for one question. Since the questions
are few, one question may be at the same time be the subject of
work for two groups. Then, each group will look more closely the
results, in order to see what other topics could be relevant to
the analysis of their own topic. The pupils should also locate resources
and write the first draft of their articles. The last meeting with
the journalist will take place in the middle of January 2001.
Olga Megalaki from ECCHAT presented the activities of the French
schools (see Annex, Activities
of French schools). The main problem they are facing is the
fact that they have started with a delay their work and they are
trying to catch up the other schools. There was also a problem finding
a new journal after "Le Monde" refused to participate. So, the first
contact of pupils with the journalist occurred with a delay in comparison
to the other countries.
Then, the steps of our work till the editing of the articles have
been discussed and agreed. More specifically, the articles will
be published at the end of February 2001 - beginning of March 2001.
In their final version the articles should be ready by 15th
February 2001, in order to be send to Ellinogermaniki Agogi for
their translation in the four languages. Then, the translated articles
will be re - distributed to the newspapers involved in order to
be included in the publications.
Vassiliki Kollia should provide the teachers with a list of the
Logbooks they should send.
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