1st year activities Spanish Erasmus team
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The document outlines the timeline and activities of an Erasmus+ project involving a Spanish school. It describes how the school was selected for the project in September 2016. They formed an Erasmus team of teachers and students to plan activities. In April 2017, the school hosted students and teachers from partner schools for a blended mobility experience, where they learned about geocaching, local history and culture through a program of activities. The mobility experience was positively evaluated. Work continued on publishing geocaches for the community.
1st year activities Spanish Erasmus team
- 1. ERASMUS SPANISH TEAM GEOCACHING IN AND OUT OF THE CLASSROOM – MINDS ON THE MOVE 30th JUNE 2016 The school coordinator informed the teacher staff and the School Council that our school has applied for an Eramus + project and we have already been pre-selected. SEPTEMBER 2nd SEPTEMBER 2016 We received the resolution corresponding to the projects selected in action KA219- Partners. Our project has been chosen. 9th SEPTEMBER 2016 The coordinator of the project informed the teachers and the School Council that our project has been approved and invited the school community to take part in it. In our school council meeting, the Town hall representative for Education and the president of ALCI, the most important business association, agree to cooperate with us. The coordinator hangs a list on the bulletin board of the teachers' room so that the teachers who are interested in the project can join the Erasmus team. 18th SEPTEMBER 2016 First meeting with the teachers who have joined the Erasmus team. It is agreed to appoint two teachers who will work as coordinator assistants with our headmistress’ approval. The teachers are - Juan Miguel castilla Sillero and Lidia María Campaña Barranco. A budget manager is also appointed, Margarita Rodríguez Mazón. Besides it is agreed that every Tuesday from 10:00 to 11:00 there will be project meetings with the coordinator, assistants and teachers involved in the activities carried out at that moment. This list of teachers will be uploaded to our education authorities website: SÉNECA. For the first year, the first time our work in a Erasmus project will be recognized as teachers’ extraworking hours and a certificate will be granted to teachers. IES MORAIMA Cuesta del Bujeo S/N 18300 Loja (Granada) SPAIN Telf.: +34 958322109 - 600161165 Fax +34 958327207 E-mail: [email protected]
- 2. 30th SEPTEMBER 2016 Notification of the agreement grant issue by the National Agency. It is signed on the 19th October 2016. OCTOBER IES MORAIMA Cuesta del Bujeo S/N 18300 Loja (Granada) SPAIN Telf.: +34 958322109 - 600161165 Fax +34 958327207 E-mail: [email protected]
- 3. 4th OCTOBER 2016 In the weekly meeting, together with the Head of Studies, Germán Aragón (Expert in evaluation) we choose the students on the 4th Year of ESO as the most suitable group to take part in our project. In order to choose the best group, the teachers designed a questionnaire and an evaluation sample to be used in the students’ selection. https://moraimaerasmus.wordpress.com/2017/06/26/how-to-become-an-erasmus- team-member/ 24th OCTOBER 2016 In the afternoon, we meet with all the students who want to be part of our team. The students are interviewed and the 24 students are chosen. The Spanish Erasmus team is created. https://moraimaerasmus.wordpress.com/acerca-de/ 26th OCTOBER 2016 First meeting with students. The teachers present the project and it is agreed to split students into groups to start working on the required activities for our first TPM1 in Sintra: logo contests, Erasmus Club board, videos about our town and school, a blog or weebly and file with information about geocaching in our region. A common google drive is created to upload the work we do and important information to be share. Our blog has been created: https://moraimaerasmus.wordpress.com/ Post about Geocaching: https://moraimaerasmus.wordpress.com/2016/11/13/primera-entrada-de- blog/ Filming the video: https://moraimaerasmus.wordpress.com/2016/11/22/filming-the-video-of-loja %f0%9f%8e%ac%f0%9f%8e%a5/ Video , our town: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPLGnVpCjsY Video, our school: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tH3xi2FswgE In our blog: https://moraimaerasmus.wordpress.com/2016/11/22/filming-the-video-of-loja%F0%9F%8E %AC%F0%9F%8E%A5/ Erasmus Corner: https://moraimaerasmus.wordpress.com/2016/11/16/making-noticeboard-and-the- blog/ 27 OCTOBER 2016 Meeting with the teacher of plastic education, Francisco Quesada, for the elaboration of the competition guidelines. Meeting with the teachers of history, Bernarda Rus, the technology teachers, IES MORAIMA Cuesta del Bujeo S/N 18300 Loja (Granada) SPAIN Telf.: +34 958322109 - 600161165 Fax +34 958327207 E-mail: [email protected]
- 4. Francisco Rozúa and Jóse Antonio Ruiz, the art teacher, Francisco Quesada and the coordinators: https://moraimaerasmus.wordpress.com/2016/11/13/logos-contest/ 08/11/2016: Collection of documents about the competition rules. 09/11/2016: Distribution and information in all class groups about the competition and its guidelines.11-15 November: Collection of logos in the competition department during the school breaks. 22/11/2016: Deliberation of the winning logo, together with the jury. Our jury is composed of the Erasmus team students, the art teacher, the technology teachers, the history teacher and the coordinators who will choose the best logo to represent the school during the 1 TPM in Portugal. 23/11/2016: Exhibition of participating logos in the hall of the our secondary school. We choose the We choose the winner: https://moraimaerasmus.wordpress.com/2016/11/ NOVEMBER 17th NOVEMBER 2016 Our students work hard for two weeks to get their tasks done. In the afternoon we meet with the team to collect their videos, logos and revise the blog they have created for this project. 27th NOVEMBER – 3rd DECEMBER First transnational mobility to Sintra (Portugal). Participants: Francisco Ramírez Cañizares, Headmaster Deputy and Carmen Ortiz Cuesta, Project Coordinator. https://moraimaerasmus.wordpress.com/2017/06/04/our-traveling-teachers/ After the meeting we create our group in “My Twinspace”. All our students have their user and password to start contact and work on the Etwinning, a safe space for them all. We will try to contribute to it as much as possible. DECEMBER 13th DECEMBER Meeting to write the commitment agreement for the Erasmus families. Headmistress, head of studies and coordinators. 19th DECEMBER 2017 Meeting with the students to start working on the first blended mobility. We revise what we have done so far so as to be sure the students have all done their tasks. Then we invite the students to suggest activities and proposal for our activity program of our blende mobility. 21th DECEMBER 2016 Meeting with the families. Information about the project and agreement signature. CHRISTMAS TIME IES MORAIMA Cuesta del Bujeo S/N 18300 Loja (Granada) SPAIN Telf.: +34 958322109 - 600161165 Fax +34 958327207 E-mail: [email protected]
- 5. After our meetings with the students, they decide to go geocaching on their own. This is the first practical approach to geocaching and it is a total success. Geocaching has caught on and our students are willing to work: https://moraimaerasmus.wordpress.com/2017/01/08/the-first-caches%F0%9F%8E %92%F0%9F%91%9F%F0%9F%94%B0/ JANUARY 24th JANUARY 2017 Coordinators meet in the morning to finish off the program of activities to be presented to teacher and students. In the afternoon meeting with students. 26th JANUARY 2017 Meeting with the teachers to present the first draft on the Spanish program for the blended mobility. The same day, the coordinator meets with the Town Hall representative for Tourism. We present our program of activities. LINK: https://www.facebook.com/areaturismoloja/?hc_ref=PAGES_TIMELINE&fref=nf The cooperation between us has been a complete success since the Tourist Office in our town has found “Geocaching” a very interesting topic which is completely new for them. As a result, they offer cooperation to organize the blended mobility and they will include our project in their website as a very positive and attractive new proposal for tourists who come to our town. They will also agree to take part in a round table to talk about the possibilities that “Geocaching” can offer to our town visitors. IES MORAIMA Cuesta del Bujeo S/N 18300 Loja (Granada) SPAIN Telf.: +34 958322109 - 600161165 Fax +34 958327207 E-mail: [email protected]
- 6. FEBRUARY 14TH FEBRUARY 2017 The coordinator finish the activity program to be present to teachers with the approval of our headmistress and headmaster deputy. This document will be taken to the TPM 2 in Bolléne (France): https://moraimaerasmus.wordpress.com/2017/04/08/timetable/ 21st FEBRUARY 2017 Meeting with the students to update the work. We collect the materials they have produced: logblog, pins with the logo and the first cache they have produced: cache de la cruz de Loja. Teachers are absolutely proud of the students’ work since they have created it on their own, they have registered it and tried it with the help of the other members of the team. Great work!! OUR LOG BLOG IES MORAIMA Cuesta del Bujeo S/N 18300 Loja (Granada) SPAIN Telf.: +34 958322109 - 600161165 Fax +34 958327207 E-mail: [email protected] NAME DATE NAME DATE NAME DATE
- 7. PROJECT PINS https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC70VJP_geocache-de-la-cruz-de-loja- granada-virtual-tour IES MORAIMA Cuesta del Bujeo S/N 18300 Loja (Granada) SPAIN Telf.: +34 958322109 - 600161165 Fax +34 958327207 E-mail: [email protected]
- 8. Students and teacher agree on a set of task to be done for the Spanish mobility in April. The same students choose the group they want to work with and deadlines are set to revise the work done. Task chart 28th FEBRUARY to 3rd MARCH 2017 TPM 2 to Bollène in France. The physics and chemistry teacher and coordinator attendant, Juan Miguel Castilla Sillero and the project budget manager, Margarita Rodríguez Mazón attend this mobility. https://moraimaerasmus.wordpress.com/2017/06/04/our-traveling-teachers/ MARCH 7th MARCH 2017 Coordinators’ meeting with our TIC teacher, Estefanía Muñoz, one of our maths teacher, Carlos Mañas and head of studies, Germán Aragón to prepare the evaluation questionnaires for the mobility, the guidelines for the maths photo contest. We agree on preparing a questionnaire for each of the cache trails on paper and an online one to evaluate the whole mobility, both for teachers and students. The maths department will be in charge of the maths contest. Teachers will produce guidelines, collect the pictures and choose the two winners. 10th MARCH 2017 Meeting with the students to match couples and find hosting families for all our Erasmus guests. There are more guests than host families so we will have to ask some students in the 4th year who are not involved in the project to help us. Hopefully, we’ll find enough families. 21ST MARCH 2017 Meeting with The Erasmus team to supervise the state of art in our program activities so far. The cache trails have been designed and a proper draft is presented. Hopefully they will be published in a week or so. APRIL IES MORAIMA Cuesta del Bujeo S/N 18300 Loja (Granada) SPAIN Telf.: +34 958322109 - 600161165 Fax +34 958327207 E-mail: [email protected]
- 9. 4TH APRIL 2017 Meeting with host families to present our program of activities. No modification is required and we are ready for our partners’ arrival. 10TH APRIL 2017 Unfortunately, our caches have been revised and there are some problems. Publication won’t be possible before our partners’ arrival. We meet on Monday, even though we are on holidays to find a solution. We need a plan B. Finally, we find a way out and we can see and look for caches using only our user. All partners will log in using our user and password. We’ll keep on working to publish them properly. 20th and 21st APRIL 2017 The Erasmus team, teachers and students meet at the school in the afternoon to prepare the decoration for the welcome event. Students have made the decoration themselves and the group of students and teacher of interior design have produced a wonderful cloth poster and another paper one. https://moraimaerasmus.wordpress.com/2017/05/01/movility-spain%F0%9F%92%83/ 22nd to 29th APRIL 2017 The first blended mobility takes place. 26 students and 11 teachers arrive in Loja to learn more about Geocaching, our history, culture and folklore. The whole program was fulfilled and the evaluation by our partners has been quite positive. MOBILITY PROGRAM OF ACTIVITIES: https://moraimaerasmus.wordpress.com/2017/04/08/timetable/ GETTING READY TO GO GEOCACHING IN OUR TOWN: https://moraimaerasmus.wordpress.com/2017/06/22/viewpoints-caches-in-loja/ It is important to point out that we have found great support and cooperation from our local authorities and the Loja’s Business Association ALCI. The tourism office workers have helped us to prepare the guided visit in town and the conference in one of the most beautiful buildings in Loja, El Pósito. Besides They contribute to our welcoming present with maps, notebooks and some other details. With respect the ALCI, they have contributes with leaflets about business and companies in town and the bottles of Loja’s water that we have given to all our visitors. We must also mention one of the best bakeries in town, Bonachera, who collaborate with us in the distribution of Loja’s “roscos” as the final present found in the last cache in the viewpoint multicache activity. All the students who found the cache get a ticket for a sweet prize in this shop. Finally, as part of our program, we have asked the flamenco association in Loja, “La Peña Flamenca” to organize for teachers and parents IES MORAIMA Cuesta del Bujeo S/N 18300 Loja (Granada) SPAIN Telf.: +34 958322109 - 600161165 Fax +34 958327207 E-mail: [email protected]
- 10. a flamenco show. Parents and teacher have enjoyed a wonderful evening event which has helped us to meet each other. Summary of the week in pics. https://moraimaerasmus.wordpress.com/2017/05/01/movility-spain%F0%9F%92%83/ A warmest welcome with music thanks to our youngest students, Marta Sanjuán and the music teacher, Ramón Rodríguez, both are members of the Erasmus team: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6j_PBtEZ7lA&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CvHmOGwLMY&feature=youtu.be 11th May 2017 Meeting with students and coordinators to evaluate the blended mobility and organization of the future work. We still have to register and get published our caches. Unfortunately after the mobility most of the caches are lost and must be replaced. Besides, there are so important modification to be done if we want them to be formally published in www.geocaching.com The group of students agree to keep on working on them as soon as they have finished their final exams that will be at the beginning of June. We also agree to turn our blog into a weebly since it is much more dynamic and attractive for the students. Finally, in coordination with the PE department, at the beginning of June, the three groups of 2º YEAR of ESO will go geocaching to the mountain. In order to do it, our Erasmus team will prepare a slideshare presentation to teach them what geocaching is and how to get ready for it. https://moraimaerasmus.wordpress.com/2017/05/ 28th MAY TO 2nd JUNE 2017 TPM 3 to Vilnius in Lithuania. The English teacher and coordinator attendant, Lidia Campaña Barranco and the project coordinator, Carmen Ortiz Cuesta attend this mobility. https://moraimaerasmus.wordpress.com/2017/06/04/our-traveling-teachers/ 2nd JUNE 2017 2nd Year ESO students go geocaching with their PE teacher. https://moraimaerasmus.wordpress.com/2017/06/19/new-generations-of- geocachers/ 6th JUNE 2017 Meeting of Erasmus coordinator and attendants to evaluate Lithuanian mobility and organize the work to be done before of the summer holidays. We set a meeting with the students to supervise the work to publish our caches, the creation of our weebly and the most important item is to decide the students who will attend the mobility in IES MORAIMA Cuesta del Bujeo S/N 18300 Loja (Granada) SPAIN Telf.: +34 958322109 - 600161165 Fax +34 958327207 E-mail: [email protected]
- 11. Italy and Greece. We decide that the work they have done and their participation in all the activities carried out so far will be the main point in order to choose students. As a consequence we ask our students to write down a description of their participation in the project and this, together with the teachers’ recommendation will be the base to choose students for mobilities. 9th JUNE 2017 Meeting with the students. We congratulate our students for the great work they have done to prepare the geocaching experience for their partners in the school. With respect to the work to be done, they are still working on the caches and our weebly and it seems they won’t be finished till the end of June. The coordinators collect the students’ descriptions of the project work done and their preferences for the mobilities. A list with the teachers’ final decision will be upload to our common google drive. 22nd JUNE 2017 Even though our Town Hall and the AlCI, the most important business association in town, have been cooperating with us from the very beginning of this project, we have finally signed a cooperation agreement with the Town Hall and we’ll do the same with the ALCI shortly. https://moraimaerasmus.wordpress.com/2017/07/03/cooperation- with-local-authorities-and-associations/ 27th JUNE 2017 We have convened a meeting on the last Tuesday of this year before summer holidays because we want to ask our students to finish the work, talk about the Twinspace contests and make a proposal for this summer. We will ask our students in nearby villages to create caches based on food and those done in Bollène before the end of July and in August the students from Loja and teachers who desire to go with them will visit their partners to search for their caches. Let’s see if it is possible. 5th JULY 2017 Our students have done it once more. Today it has been published the multicache based on the French model. We are already organizing a geocaching experience with the Spanish team and their parents to search for them. IES MORAIMA Cuesta del Bujeo S/N 18300 Loja (Granada) SPAIN Telf.: +34 958322109 - 600161165 Fax +34 958327207 E-mail: [email protected]
- 12. This is the work we have done during this first year in the most challenging project we have ever taken part in. https://moraimaerasmus.wordpress.com/2017/07/03/first- year-outputs/ We hope next year we can keep on improving our command of the topic and producing more and better caches. Certainly, it has been a very demanding as well as motivating project for both students and teachers of the IES Moraima. Let’s keep on the move. IES MORAIMA Cuesta del Bujeo S/N 18300 Loja (Granada) SPAIN Telf.: +34 958322109 - 600161165 Fax +34 958327207 E-mail: [email protected]