ICT IN SCHOOLS

1、ICT IN SCHOOLS Breaking the walls of classrooms Crossing the borders between subjects Melting ice among people Bridging teachers and pupils Promoting mutual understanding, cultural awareness and respect among people of various countries, ages and backgroundsErikaLoloJozefuboWhere are we from?Slovaki

2、aWho we are:Erika PetrakovSecondary School of Nursing, PreovTeaching: Informatics MathematicsVice president of the European Schools Project SlovakiaAccredited trainer of the Open Society Institutes Electronic Publishing Development ProgramJozef MedveckSecondary Grammar School of P. O. Hviezdoslav, D

3、oln KubnTeaching: English language Slovak languageELT INSET trainerWinner of Slovak minister of education prize for introducing ICT in Slovak education udovt (Lolo) MaorPrimary School of R. Dilong, TrstenTeaching: Music lessons Slovak languageDeputy principalWinner of Slovak minister of education pr

4、ize for the most active teacher in Slovak national projectINFOVEK (Infoera) in 2001ubomr najderFaculty of Science P. J. afrik University, Koice, Teaching: Didactics of informatics Programming, algorithms, complexity Seminars of secondary level informatics Pedagogical practice - informatics Member of

5、 several commitees and boardsTeachers from the different types of schools, who teach different subjects What was the main project goal?To show possibillities of collaboration among teachers and pupils around the European Union, enhace cultural awareness and the spirit of togetherness across EU.We al

6、l participated Spring Day in Europe 2004 project, together with 5677 schools from all EU countries, ten new member states and three candidate countries. This project gives schools the opportunity to debate and celebrate the enlargement of the EU. How ICT joined us in collaboration - latest exampleGo

7、es across bordersWhat did we do?Together with our pupils and students we participated various kinds of activities offered through the main website of project Such as: preparing various mini projects exchanging information about culture among students to learn more about each

8、 other participation in chats, video-conferences organizing various debates with politicians, connected with European enlargement painting pictures and art exhibitions organizing sports events environmental activities etc. What are we specially proud of?Our own idea through the use of ICT to make a

9、virtual choir of young people singing the European anthem togetherEuropean anthemWho participated? 20 schools of various levels from elementary through secondary up to university level 348 pupils and students singing 28 teachers organizing, coordinating, and processing their version of song 34 teach

10、ers processing the song and digitally putting together all voices, creating website and making CDs 1 sponsor to support small rewards for participantsEuropean anthemWhat were the expected results? To enable as many pupils to sing the European anthem “virtually” together, to celebrate the Spring day

11、2004 the beginning of the first spring of newly-enlarged EU. To create new versions of lyrics of EU anthem. One or more versions of regional folk songs. To collect the existing texts in various European languages. Making a website publishing all necessary information for the activity and the expecte

12、d contributions. Preparing a CD-ROM.What was the course of the project?IDEA Searching forand processingInformationresources for anthem,useful software, etc.Using resourcesplaying singingrecording in digital formTransfering information via e-mail, FTP, videoconferencesPresentation of informationthrou

13、gh creatingweb pagesFollow-upburning CDs, feedbackfrom participants6 phases of the teleprojectsimplementationWhat procedures did it require? record the song in CD quality (44,1 kHz, 16 bit, stereo) cut out empty pieces noise reduction amplify the sound amplitude set effects to the musical file fade

14、in or fade out record the sound to the disc compress a new file *.wav to *.mp3 upload the new musical file to FTP serverDuring the song recording and its digital processing it was necessary to:Which working and communication tools did we use?During the joining in teleproject we used following tools:

15、MS Internet Explorer for www browsing MS Front Page Editor, Netscape Composer and Macromedia Flash for creation webpagesPaintbrush and IrfanView for drawing and converting picturesXara Webstyle for creation interactive push buttonsEnglish-Slovak Lexicon for translation of the textsCoolEdit and Gold

16、Wave for songs recording and arrangementBladeEnc and MP3 Compressor for compressingWinAmp and Windows Media Player for playing and listening to digital media filesMicrosoft Outlook Express and Pegasus Mail for sending and receiving e-mailsFTP client for uploading filesMicrosoft Netmeeting and Yahoo

17、Messenger for videoconferencesOfficial webpage of the teleprojecthttp:/lst.science.upjs.sk/2004/springday/index.htmlBreaking age limitsThe teleproject was suitable for whatever age category. Pupils in the first grade (forms 1 - 4)learned and practised how to connect the multimedia equipment (microph

18、one, headphones, loudspeakers, MIDI keys) to the mainframe computer Pupils in the second grade (forms 5 - 9)learned how to set the loudness and quality of the recording became familiar with SW that are necessary for recording, arrangement and compressing of the songsPupils at secondary schoolsacquir

19、ed skills for the cutting out of unwanted (empty) parts of the songs, for the adjustment of sound amplitude, for parameters changes of the musical file (frequency, bass, channels), for various effects application, for sound converting in other file.Breaking limits pedagogic outcomesThis teleproject supported the awareness of European dimension in Slovak schoolspromoted creativity and activity of pupils and studentsdeveloped their musical and esthetic feelings as well