Previous work
08.03.2016 – 18.03.2016: Recruiting “Staff” at LHB for the Final Meeting in Puerto del Rosario
Susanne Auer, the project coordinator, recruited those students from the groups of project students who showed most commitment when working in the project, when filming and editing videos. (2 Fotos: Project Meeting March 16). These were the ones who were traveling to Fuerteventura. One very important further criterion in choosing these students was the fact that they had held contact with the Spanish and Finnish students they had met in Dortmund und Finland via “WhatsApp” constantly, meaning ALL THE TIME. One student even visited his new Spanish friends on a private basis during his holidays! As a firm group of 9 students turned out to be the “core EU group” Susanne Auer wished to take them all to the final meeting. After having received Mr Paul Alef’s (Former Head of the EU agency for the district government in Arnsberg) permission to use the money that had originally been for the meeting in Guadalupe for this meeting in Fuerteventura, she was very happy to be able to take these very motivated and committed students to the last meeting. Apart from recruiting the students, the following days were used to edit the last films and to provide them with the Erasmus+ logo and upload them.
Susanne Auer, the project coordinator, recruited those students from the groups of project students who showed most commitment when working in the project, when filming and editing videos. (2 Fotos: Project Meeting March 16). These were the ones who were traveling to Fuerteventura. One very important further criterion in choosing these students was the fact that they had held contact with the Spanish and Finnish students they had met in Dortmund und Finland via “WhatsApp” constantly, meaning ALL THE TIME. One student even visited his new Spanish friends on a private basis during his holidays! As a firm group of 9 students turned out to be the “core EU group” Susanne Auer wished to take them all to the final meeting. After having received Mr Paul Alef’s (Former Head of the EU agency for the district government in Arnsberg) permission to use the money that had originally been for the meeting in Guadalupe for this meeting in Fuerteventura, she was very happy to be able to take these very motivated and committed students to the last meeting. Apart from recruiting the students, the following days were used to edit the last films and to provide them with the Erasmus+ logo and upload them.
Some difficulties with the YouTube account lead to a delay in uploading. Some had to be uploaded in Fuerteventura. The teachers Julia Schweers and Jochen Steier had to help the students giving the film the necessary “finish”.
As you can see, the students still had difficulties in editing the films. We have learnt from this, that for a new project with students, there must be even more time to edit the films!
At the presentation in Fuerteventura, however, all films and other products were presentable on the fantastic festival the Spanish had organised!. ☺
At the presentation in Fuerteventura, however, all films and other products were presentable on the fantastic festival the Spanish had organised!. ☺
Meeting activities
10/04/16
Students and teachers from Germany, and students from Fuerteventura attend a surfing class in El Cotillo.
11/04/16
9:00 German group arrives to IES Puerto del Rosario. After welcome, they visit the school facilities with some spanish students.
10:00 Spanish and german students meet in rooms 33 and 34. They split in international teams (EMPLOYABILITY, SUSTAINABILITY, SOCIAL MEDIA AND PROJECT TV) They start preparing their presentation for the Closing festival that will take place on wednesday. They prepare some short speech in spanish and english, about the aims of their work, their activities, the main products and a final reflection about what they have learnt during the project. They also must prepare a powerpoint presentation to show on screen while they are speaking.
13:00 German students have lunch at school
17:00 All students (finnish group has arrived) visit the Majada Marcial Vocational college in Puerto del Rosario. We are received by Isabel Dominguez, deputy headmistress of the center and coordinator of the European projects. She shows us around the facilities and explains the different educational programs carried out there. Students show their interest and compare the vocational training programs taught in Fuerteventura to theirs.
Students and teachers from Germany, and students from Fuerteventura attend a surfing class in El Cotillo.
11/04/16
9:00 German group arrives to IES Puerto del Rosario. After welcome, they visit the school facilities with some spanish students.
10:00 Spanish and german students meet in rooms 33 and 34. They split in international teams (EMPLOYABILITY, SUSTAINABILITY, SOCIAL MEDIA AND PROJECT TV) They start preparing their presentation for the Closing festival that will take place on wednesday. They prepare some short speech in spanish and english, about the aims of their work, their activities, the main products and a final reflection about what they have learnt during the project. They also must prepare a powerpoint presentation to show on screen while they are speaking.
13:00 German students have lunch at school
17:00 All students (finnish group has arrived) visit the Majada Marcial Vocational college in Puerto del Rosario. We are received by Isabel Dominguez, deputy headmistress of the center and coordinator of the European projects. She shows us around the facilities and explains the different educational programs carried out there. Students show their interest and compare the vocational training programs taught in Fuerteventura to theirs.
12/04/16
9:00 Principal Mrs. Montelongo officially welcomes our guests.
Teams meet in rooms 33 and 34. They continue preparing their presentations. Roles are divided, and presentations are finished.
11:00 Students and teachers meet at the Aula Azul The Evaluation team prepares with them some interviews, to assess the impact of the project among students.
13:00 Visitors have lunch at school
17:00 Students record in groups the interviews, and the evaluation team collects all products.
After that, we visit the IES Puerto del Rosario Open day.
9:00 Principal Mrs. Montelongo officially welcomes our guests.
Teams meet in rooms 33 and 34. They continue preparing their presentations. Roles are divided, and presentations are finished.
11:00 Students and teachers meet at the Aula Azul The Evaluation team prepares with them some interviews, to assess the impact of the project among students.
13:00 Visitors have lunch at school
17:00 Students record in groups the interviews, and the evaluation team collects all products.
After that, we visit the IES Puerto del Rosario Open day.
13/04/16
9:00 Teams meet in rooms 33 and 34. They run rehearsals for the presentation on the evening festival, helped by teachers, to ensure a proper performance.
10:30 Coordinators meet. We comment on the mobility tool, that must be used to the final report. Susanne informs that she has already filled it up. We consider necessary that all teams name the activities using the same code. Susanne offers to send the other teams a copy of her work, so that the activity names are the same. Raquel remembers, that the application form is available on the Google drive folder we have shared. Here all teams can confirm the activities, and the codes used to name them.
11:30 General rehearsal. Festival conductor, Ana Montes de Oca shows us how the festival will run, and we make a first general rehearsal at the Aula Azul.
13:00 Visitors have lunch at school
17:00 We all meet at the Island Auditorium for rehearsal and preparation. All teams learn how they must get to the stage, how everything will run, and get ready for the Festival. Project TV and Mr. Steier prepare cameras for recording the whole event.
19:00 Closing festival takes place.
21:00 Cocktail at the Auditorium hall, offered by the catering department at IES Puerto del Rosario.
9:00 Teams meet in rooms 33 and 34. They run rehearsals for the presentation on the evening festival, helped by teachers, to ensure a proper performance.
10:30 Coordinators meet. We comment on the mobility tool, that must be used to the final report. Susanne informs that she has already filled it up. We consider necessary that all teams name the activities using the same code. Susanne offers to send the other teams a copy of her work, so that the activity names are the same. Raquel remembers, that the application form is available on the Google drive folder we have shared. Here all teams can confirm the activities, and the codes used to name them.
11:30 General rehearsal. Festival conductor, Ana Montes de Oca shows us how the festival will run, and we make a first general rehearsal at the Aula Azul.
13:00 Visitors have lunch at school
17:00 We all meet at the Island Auditorium for rehearsal and preparation. All teams learn how they must get to the stage, how everything will run, and get ready for the Festival. Project TV and Mr. Steier prepare cameras for recording the whole event.
19:00 Closing festival takes place.
21:00 Cocktail at the Auditorium hall, offered by the catering department at IES Puerto del Rosario.
14/04/16
10:00 Videoconference with Mr. Daniel Bellón, responsible for the EURES organization. He informs the students about the advantages, informations and help that the EURES organization provides to students and apprentices who want to apply for a job in another country. Students were very interested and asked a lot of questions.
12:00 Interview in Radio Archipiélago. Project coordinators from the three partner schools are interviewed for 30 minutes about the project, the activities and the results.
12:30 Cheese Tasting session with specialist from Majorero cheese Regulatory council. Mrs Rosa González teaches us how to taste the majorero cheese, the different varieties, and to recognize the scents and flavours from this important product.
14:00 Meal at the IES Puerto pedagogical restaurant.
16:00 Visit to the Desalination plant in Puerto del Rosario. Spanish, Finnish and German partners attend the visit. Chief engineer Andrés shows us all into the desalination plant in Puerto del Rosario. He welcomes us and starts explaining everything regarding the plant and its modules. Teacher Felipe J. Sánchez translates everything into English so that both, German and Finnish members follow all comments by the chief engineer. Bottom line, we all acknowledge the importance of desalination plants in the Canary Islands, especially Fuerteventura. Likewise, we are told how windmills may contribute in the future to provide the plant with greener energy.
10:00 Videoconference with Mr. Daniel Bellón, responsible for the EURES organization. He informs the students about the advantages, informations and help that the EURES organization provides to students and apprentices who want to apply for a job in another country. Students were very interested and asked a lot of questions.
12:00 Interview in Radio Archipiélago. Project coordinators from the three partner schools are interviewed for 30 minutes about the project, the activities and the results.
12:30 Cheese Tasting session with specialist from Majorero cheese Regulatory council. Mrs Rosa González teaches us how to taste the majorero cheese, the different varieties, and to recognize the scents and flavours from this important product.
14:00 Meal at the IES Puerto pedagogical restaurant.
16:00 Visit to the Desalination plant in Puerto del Rosario. Spanish, Finnish and German partners attend the visit. Chief engineer Andrés shows us all into the desalination plant in Puerto del Rosario. He welcomes us and starts explaining everything regarding the plant and its modules. Teacher Felipe J. Sánchez translates everything into English so that both, German and Finnish members follow all comments by the chief engineer. Bottom line, we all acknowledge the importance of desalination plants in the Canary Islands, especially Fuerteventura. Likewise, we are told how windmills may contribute in the future to provide the plant with greener energy.
15/04/16
9:00 - 14:00 Visit to Technology park, employment workshops in Pozo Negro and sustainable Aloe vera Farm in Tenicosquey.
The responsible from the Technology park, explains us what kind of business they are hosting, the advantages they offer companies, the possibilities for entrepreneurs to settle in the park, and the facilities they count on. Although they are quite new, and they are starting with their activities, they intend to help Fuerteventura to achieve a more diverse economy, through technical based industries.
The employment workshops in Pozo Negro experimental farm count on the founding of the European commision. They are thought for unemployed people until 40 years, and they provide them with experience and knowledge related to sustainable farming, and bio oriented production.
The Verde Aurora bio farm counts on self production of olive oil and aloe Vera, respecting the bio philosophy. The young owner of the farm has inherited it from his family, and has transformed a traditional farm into a modern business that combines high quality products with touristic oriented activities, with an important presence in the social networks.
9:00 - 14:00 Visit to Technology park, employment workshops in Pozo Negro and sustainable Aloe vera Farm in Tenicosquey.
The responsible from the Technology park, explains us what kind of business they are hosting, the advantages they offer companies, the possibilities for entrepreneurs to settle in the park, and the facilities they count on. Although they are quite new, and they are starting with their activities, they intend to help Fuerteventura to achieve a more diverse economy, through technical based industries.
The employment workshops in Pozo Negro experimental farm count on the founding of the European commision. They are thought for unemployed people until 40 years, and they provide them with experience and knowledge related to sustainable farming, and bio oriented production.
The Verde Aurora bio farm counts on self production of olive oil and aloe Vera, respecting the bio philosophy. The young owner of the farm has inherited it from his family, and has transformed a traditional farm into a modern business that combines high quality products with touristic oriented activities, with an important presence in the social networks.
Feedback on and impact of the Final Meeting and the Whole Project
03.05.2016: GERMAN TEAM REPORT
In this project meeting all teachers and students taking part in the project came together to learn about the last meeting in Fuerteventura and to give their feedback. All students – without exception – were very happy having been part of the team. Of course, they enjoyed mostly that they got into contact with other European youngsters and to share a little “slice” of their completely different life in Finland or in Spain on the Canary Island. 5 of the nine students spontaneously decided to spend their summer holidays in Fuerteventura, meeting their new friends again and improving their Spanish (one of the A-level students’ subjects is Spanish). They are now much keener on learning the language than before. They also found the visits to bio farms and the new desalting system in Fuerteventura very interesting. They were shocked about the fact that this desalting system is run by an oil-fired power plant. They were also shocked to hear that a special tax has to be paid by owners of solar systems. They were very amazed by the technology park in Fuerteventura which offers young start-up enterprises office areas and support. As their main school subject is either mechanical engineering or electrical engineering they said that they plan to study environmental technologies in order to improve electricity generating systems in the world, especially in sunny climates. Maybe in Fuerteventura ;-)
The teachers also enjoyed the exchanges and working with the colleagues from Spain and Finland. Through this project they had the opportunity to gain a lot of complex materials for teaching in the fields of “employability”, “sustainability” and “social networks”, and above all interesting films to show to their students and a Good Practise Guide for applying the medium “film” creatively by students in lessons. They emphasised the fact that all students involved in the project, no matter whether they had learning difficulties (youth training scheme classes like BVB or KSOB) or on whatever level they are taught at the LHB. The students worked more than the expected times and even used their holidays for filming or editing film material.
Looking back at the forum discussion in Dortmund about employability, the teachers underlined that most suggestions mentioned there, how teaching could be more effective for students and a more useful preparation for the working world, were covered in this project, as there were firstly, so called “soft skills” like motivation, interest in a task, responsibility, team abilities, communication abilities, respect, positive social behaviour, strong self-esteem. All teachers agreed that the latter had been improved in all participating students.
Secondly, also the so called “hard skills” language abilities, text reception abilities such as efficient reading and structuring information and processes were met through the project. How can this be learnt better than in making films? When reflecting on the role the school has got in order to prepare our youngsters for working life, the forum had presented the following results: interlocking theory and practical work, supporting responsibility and social behaviour and improving the students’ self-esteem. Remembering the meetings in Finland where all students managed to integrate all students from all nationalities into the processes of planning, sketching and making the film without discriminating students or recalling the meeting in Spain where all students in the end managed to present their part of the project in English and Spanish in front of an high-rank audience (the Head of the PAD in Spain and the Minister of Education for the Canary Island), we came to the conclusion that this project had exceeded all expectations!
In this project meeting all teachers and students taking part in the project came together to learn about the last meeting in Fuerteventura and to give their feedback. All students – without exception – were very happy having been part of the team. Of course, they enjoyed mostly that they got into contact with other European youngsters and to share a little “slice” of their completely different life in Finland or in Spain on the Canary Island. 5 of the nine students spontaneously decided to spend their summer holidays in Fuerteventura, meeting their new friends again and improving their Spanish (one of the A-level students’ subjects is Spanish). They are now much keener on learning the language than before. They also found the visits to bio farms and the new desalting system in Fuerteventura very interesting. They were shocked about the fact that this desalting system is run by an oil-fired power plant. They were also shocked to hear that a special tax has to be paid by owners of solar systems. They were very amazed by the technology park in Fuerteventura which offers young start-up enterprises office areas and support. As their main school subject is either mechanical engineering or electrical engineering they said that they plan to study environmental technologies in order to improve electricity generating systems in the world, especially in sunny climates. Maybe in Fuerteventura ;-)
The teachers also enjoyed the exchanges and working with the colleagues from Spain and Finland. Through this project they had the opportunity to gain a lot of complex materials for teaching in the fields of “employability”, “sustainability” and “social networks”, and above all interesting films to show to their students and a Good Practise Guide for applying the medium “film” creatively by students in lessons. They emphasised the fact that all students involved in the project, no matter whether they had learning difficulties (youth training scheme classes like BVB or KSOB) or on whatever level they are taught at the LHB. The students worked more than the expected times and even used their holidays for filming or editing film material.
Looking back at the forum discussion in Dortmund about employability, the teachers underlined that most suggestions mentioned there, how teaching could be more effective for students and a more useful preparation for the working world, were covered in this project, as there were firstly, so called “soft skills” like motivation, interest in a task, responsibility, team abilities, communication abilities, respect, positive social behaviour, strong self-esteem. All teachers agreed that the latter had been improved in all participating students.
Secondly, also the so called “hard skills” language abilities, text reception abilities such as efficient reading and structuring information and processes were met through the project. How can this be learnt better than in making films? When reflecting on the role the school has got in order to prepare our youngsters for working life, the forum had presented the following results: interlocking theory and practical work, supporting responsibility and social behaviour and improving the students’ self-esteem. Remembering the meetings in Finland where all students managed to integrate all students from all nationalities into the processes of planning, sketching and making the film without discriminating students or recalling the meeting in Spain where all students in the end managed to present their part of the project in English and Spanish in front of an high-rank audience (the Head of the PAD in Spain and the Minister of Education for the Canary Island), we came to the conclusion that this project had exceeded all expectations!