ELvis

ELvis LLP project

A little History:EUROJOURNAL 1999 – 2002GB(2), SE, FR, DE, IT, NLStudents reported in an internet ‘Newspaper’ on life at school and in their living environment.

EUROLINK 2002 – 2005NL, GB(1), BE, DE, FR, IT Different schools ‘led’ different projects: Logo Competition, Recipe Book, City guide, ‘PPT Our School’, Stereotypes, Romeo & Juliet; the students’ own take on the final Act.

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EUROLINK II 2005 – 2007NL, GB, (FR and BE 1yr), DE, IT Calendar (2), Fashion Show, Fairy Tale, Book Quiz (Holes, by Louise Sachar) and story project (story in installments)(Partnership abandoned a year prematurely as the number of participating schools threatened to be too low)

EUROcitizenLINK 2007 – 2009 NL, LT, DE(2), BESurvey on Wellbeing of Kids in our schools (modelled on UNESCO survey), Survey on ‘How European’ students and parents feel, Winnie’s research projects, Calendar(2) Foreigners-Friends Poetry project, Recipe Project, Play: Europeans on the Moon

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Problems: Schools drop out when grants fail to come their way No continuity or durability Dependent on individuals Only a few subjects, teachers and students involved

On top of that: The world has changed but our schools have not

ELvis LLP project

We wanted to tackle all this and formed the

ELpartnershipNL, BE, DE(3), IT, GB, LT, RO, CA, TH

Aims: - a durable partnership, cooperating on more levels; - changing the way we educate by learning from each other; - becoming less dependent on European grants.

Challenges: - Making the ELpartnership a household name in the schools, standing for: daring, fun, ICT-led, and worthwhile learning;

- staying together as a group, while circumstances change.

Delegates at meeting December 2008

ELvis LLP project

The New LLP/Comenius project:ELvis (EuroLink Virtual International School) 2009 – 2011NL, B, D(3), IT, GB (RO & LT)

Virtual Learning Environment: (If possible) ‘Inquiry based’ projects on: History, Social Science, Science, German, French English one common project Exchanges between individual schools (Gulpen – Lecce / Ihlow – Gulpen) Management and Staff exchanges and job shadowing, staff development Two Annual Project Meetings

ENGER FREIGERICHT

IHLOW LECCE

The VLE

ELvis LLP project

We chose It’s Learning as they were:

1. Enthusiastic about what we are trying to achieve;2. Flexible enough to try and adapt to our wishes;3. Willing to treat all 9 participating schools as if we were 1 school;4. Good at training and knowledge exchange.

https://elvis.itslearning.com

GULPEN WESTERLO

WROUGHTON

Projects

All projects should be interactive and done/visible on- line; We wanted to have one common project;There will be a number of projects between (a limited number of) schools;Every school is free to offer one or more projects;Projects can be long or short.

ELvis LLP project

ELvis LLP project

Role of Teachers

Teachers are facilitators and partners in learning, not the supreme beingTeachers support by teaching HOW to research – research methodologyTeachers are also action researchers – improving their research skills and providing material for professional development and publication.Objective – Both students and teachers are accredited

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Sequence of events

Most projects should be on line by 1 December; Projects will be chosen by 15 December;Super users will be trained in January;The first projects can start after that training;First results should be visible in Wroughton in March;Projects can run until the end of the school year.

https://elvis.itslearning.com

ELvis LLP project

Other ActivitiesWe will meet at least 3 more times: - Wroughton (UK) March 2010, - Gulpen (NL) autumn 2010 - Lecce (IT) spring 2011; Teachers/managers and support staff are encouraged to do job shadowing;There will be exchanges between schools;We aim to arrange ‘social activities’ accessible for staff in all participating schools;Etc., etc....

ELvis LLP project

ELvis LLP project

Hans Venderbos

Head of English Sophianum GulpenInternational Relations Upper School