|
The ESP Association was founded
|
Good, or even very good, said the conference participants in their evaluations on the 19th ESP-COMP@CT-ECOLE conference March 10-13, 2005. The results of the evaluations forms were analyzed on April 3, 2005. You can read more about the results on the evaluation page of the ESP website. The next conference of the European Schools Project Association will take place in Amsterdam the Netherlands in March 2006. Surf to this Conference News eJournal to know more :-)!
|
|
|
|
Dozens of new Comenius and grass-root projects could be presented at the final plenary session of the 19th ESP-COMP@CT-ECOLE conference on Saturday, March 12, 2005. In the context of the conference also the new ESP Association was founded. The last plenum of the conference took place on board some miles away from Stockholm, on the cruise to Helsinki. More than 200 participants had performed challenging tasks in their working groups where current topics of ICT in education had been treated.
|
Beside the parallel sessions of the ESP conference itself there were workshops for Comenius 1 and Comenius 2.1 contacts, for non-native teachers of German, and for Open source.
The topic of the conference was “Learning Goes Mobile - a Collaborative Knowledge Building Conference on New Media, Learning and Schools”. The participants were able to conclude that both mobility and collaborative methods are needed to promote educational cooperation and teachers’ collaboration across borders.
|
|
|
"Hands on" favoured as a method
|
|
Teachers engaged in using ICT look for more and more pragmatic ways to organise educational work. It seems that “hands on” activities and functional ways of presenting innovations are replacing academic lecturing or "corporation" speeches, as well as stereotypical power point presentations, considered fairly irrelevant by the younger generation. The composition
|
of the participants was an interesting combination of the new net generation and veterans, and of newcomers and oldstayers as well.
Read more about the evaluation of the conference. Keep on surfing to the in Conference News eJournal.
|
|
