International projects

Terezija Šalamon, School Principal

Stela Pavetid, English teacher

OŠ Veliki Bukovec

1993.

Years of dedication to developing ICT literacy skills

1995. Encouraging and promoting various forms of teaching, competitions and projects

1995.

1995.

1998.

1999.

Our first international project – a bit exotic for our region

2000.

2000. Enthousiastic teachers and pupils influence others with constant support by the school Principal

2003.

Login@Europe First prizes!

2005. HNOS Croatian national educational Standard – we are always ready for new forms of teaching and learning

2006.

2007. Connection with the local

community ICT workshops and courses for parents and members of the local community

2008. CARNet e-learning pilot project

"Logo - online school of programming"

Virtual school with 11-year-olds

2008.

Traditional winter school of

programming

2009.

Professional development via

webinars

2009.

2010.

2010.

Lifelong learning week

- Traditional workshops and

seminars for teachers and

parents about various types of

learning and educational technologies

2010.

eTwinning projects

2011. Safer Internet for kids - National campaign which started in our school - involved all pupils and their parents

2011.

Safer Internet Day – our pupils presented their activities in Zagreb – Zrinjevac park

2011. Awarded pupils in the project “Safer Internet for Kids"

2011. Guests in Educational programme at

National TV

• Live@edu service enabled the teachers at our school to communicate and collaborate more easily online; it facilitated inviting teachers to the teachers meetings and in addition to that, we use digital documents (ordinances, plans, curriculum)

• Live@edu enables flexible creation of user accounts and groups, which is suitable for the dynamics of the school environment

• Opportunity for the teachers to enjoy the advantages and possibilities of e-mail and collaboration (organising meetings, exchanging documents, joint projects)

• Implementation into the teaching process – teaching children about various forms of online communication and collaboration, organising teams, work on projects and creating and publishing digital portfolios

International projects

Twinny’s adventures Language and Geography project - a cartoon caracter who travels via e-mail and visits schools all around Europe – writes a blog about what he has seen and experienced - joint blog and video-conferences

-80 partner schools

-Most distant partner school - La Reunion Island

Play @nd learn ICT educational project - designing interactive educational computer games on various topics for different age groups - topics: Christmas, Maths, English language, Internet Safety

- 8 partner schools - children from 5 to 15 years of age

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Architecture in my city

Math project – with a focus on communication and collaboration - learn Maths in English - solving various mathematical problems (measuring, areas, volume, sketches) - online chatting and video conferences covering various topics

- partner school: Lycée et Collège Sainte-Anne, BREST, Francuska) - awarded with European Quality Label

Chat with little French students

“Architecture in my city"

Video conference with French

school St Anne from Brest about the topic of social

network safety

Global Children's challenge

• engages children at a classroom level to record their activity level, keep them healthy and take part in a virtual walk around the world learning about health, nutrition, exercise and the places they visit over the 50 days of the event.

• The 'virtual' journey around the world has a factual discovery focus, allowing kids to learn about other countries, towns, cities, and the day-to-day lives of similar aged children from different cultures all around the world.

• During 25 dana we travelled from Australia to Norway and we made over 7 million steps

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• We are open for new ideas and different, even exotic types of education

• Support of the school Principal – financial, technical and moral faith in capabilities of the teachers and the pupils of our school

• Enthousiastic teachers who bring projects to our school

• Positive and a bit “contagious” atmosphere of collaboration in school

• Presentation of activities outside school – to the parents, local community, media

• Keeping the connection between the traditional school environment and local community with modern possibilities of international collaboration

• Availability of ICT to both pupils and teachers

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Contacts

• terezija.salamon@os-bukovec.hr

• stela.pavetic@os-bukovec.hr

• lidija.kralj@os-bukovec.hr