The European Schools Project: a Support System for Teletrips

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The European Schools Projecta Support System
for Teletrips
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International Symposium 98Schools and the
InternetTokyo, July 1-2, 1998Henk
Sligtehenks_at_educ.uva.nlUniversity of
Amsterdamco-founder chairman boardEuropean
Schools Project

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Overview

• History of ESP
• Teletrips or Teleprojects
• ESP as Support System
• The Future

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Amsterdam - Telegraph Creek
FIDO-Net BITNET EARN JANET UUCP
Research Project
1987-1988
Geography English Language
6 teachers 80 pupils
ADIDAS-net
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From Peter Hyde at Tahltan School in Telegraph
Creek, British Columbia, Canada 6 years ago we
didnt even have telephones here and we
had to rely on short wave radio, so to be able to
send messages in this manner is a big change for
us. We only get mail trucked in here once a we
ek, so electronic mail is certainly faster than
the regualr mail!! The first concept which is ver
y difficult for Europeans to understand about
northern B.C. is distance. Our nearest neighbour
is a village, 120 km from here. Our population
in this village is 350, and our neighbour, Dease
Lake, has a population of 400. It is a 770 km
drive to our nearest town, called Terrace. It
has a population of only 16,000. Along the drive
to Terrace you only pass through 3 villages, non
with more than 500 people living in them. This is
so different from Europe! Imagine driving 770 km
from Amsterdam and only passing through three
little villages!
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Hai Folks, here we are again! With all kinds of q
uestions about fashion. 1) What kind of clothes d
o you wear? 2) Do the girls wear dresses or do gi
rls wear the same as boys do? 3) Do you have je
ans, here in Holland most of the boys
and girls wear jeans like 501-Levis, Lee, Edwin
etc. 4) Do you have gel for your hair? 5) And th
ings like hair-pins? 6) Do you Do you wear specia
l wedding-dresses on your wedding day? 7) Are t
here sepcial rules for your wedding, do you have
to be a virgin? 8) Which color do you wear on you
r wedding day? 9) Are there fashion magazines? 1
0) Do you wear earrings? 11) Do you have swimming
clothes? 12) Do you wear make-up?
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Hi! My name is Donna. I am 17 and in Grade 9.
Pretty bad eh?! There are no guys or girls my ag
e in this school. As a matter of fact there are
only 50 students in this school form
age 5 to my age. Just like some of you guys, "I d
ont like some of the teachers in this school",
but I do like my Teacher, David.
One thing I dont like about school is that it
starts at 845 in the morning. My birthday is i
n January, and I have one brother and a
sister who has a son and new baby girl. My mom
is in my home town, so my boy friend (21) lives
with me at my place.In the future I would like t
o graduate, then get married and have children,
all within the next 3 or 4 years.
There is not much excitement around this little
village, so there is a lot of drinking (I dont
drink any more), so it's nice to have a motorbik
e or something to keep you amused.
Bye, Donna. P.S. Write soon!!! This is neat!!!
Like really Rad!
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The first European Triangle
1988
Ecology Poetry
Amsterdam Großburgwedel Lenham
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The Orchard Near us in an orchard full of apple
trees and sheep Lambs are being born and you can
hear them bleat I think the lambs get scared of
vehicles roaring past I wonder how long the orcha
rd will last Theyre going to build houses on the
orchard people say I think the sheep and everybo
dy wish theyd go away Theyve been planning it f
or 20 years so I think they will
People say it sad you know people love it still
Sarah Barrow
100 poems
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mail 13 To esp-uk Date Mon, 05 Jun 89 0021
18 MET hello guy FxCK YO
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-- esp-uk
via FidoNet node 2500/209 UUCP ...!mcvax!hp4nl!
uvabick!sconar!esp-uk sconar.UUCP
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TELEMATICA Hello boys and girls and teachers f
rom Great Brittain and Germany I write this l
etter because I've done some things that isn't
right.I've written some things like "fxck you", I
hope of curse you'll excuse me, and I didn't hav
e hurt you. I oppologize me very much. I better
give no more examples because my
teacher Mister Claassen might again get angry,
as the first time and I hope there isn't going to
be any war between Great-Brittain and Germany w
ith the Netherlands between it to. I hope you wi
ll get this message and will write as soon
can back. bye bye from the crazy Roy Rxxxxxx who
have send you the craziest letter there was. A'
dam 23-6-89
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Numbers in 1991-1992
1991
30 projects 16 topics 75 teachers 1500 pupils
etcetera
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Numbers??

• xxxx teachers
• thousands teleprojects
• 100 conversation topics
• tens of thousands pupils
• 25 countries

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ESP in the World
Denmark Germany United Kingdom Belgium Sweden
Norway Finland Spain France Italy Portugal
Iceland the Netherlands
Estonia Slovakia Poland Russia Czech Republic
Slovenia Lithuania Bosnija-Herzegowina
Canada
USA
Japan
Brazil
Chile
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Teleprojects

• Telematic Cooperation
• Designed, planned evaluated by teachers
• Conversation-topic
• Learning by doing, by inquiry
• Exchange of results
• Mutual foreign language
• Maximal conditions for interactivity Golden
  Rules

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Learning effects

• Intrinsic motivation pupils
• Communicative language skills
• Deeper insight in domain of conversation
• Intercultural insight knowledge
• Telematic skills
• Living in the information communication society

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Topics Languages

• German
• French
• English
• Spanish
• Portuguese
• Dutch
• Latin
• etc

• Image of the Other
• Aquadata
• Terradata - Radiodata
• Second World War
• AIDS
• Me and the Media
• Environment Health
• Women over the World
• etc 100 topics

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The quality of ESP

• Teachers as volunteers participate drop-out
• Quality of interaction in projects
• Quality of support from the Other the
  collective
  
• Creating a support system for and of teachers
  and pupils
  
• Culture of generosity

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Implementation of support

• International Supportstructure
• WWW-environment
• Educational ideas and materials
• InRealLife-Conferences

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International Support

• risc_at_esp.educ.uva.nl central point
• mutual link with national coordinators national
  points of information
  
• provide information resources on Web
• intermediary for finding project partners
• archive of projects, publications, information
• link to other educational nets (WfS, IEARN)

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The ESP Web-structure

• Support for the projects
• Aquadata, Image, Energy, Bild
• Support for the organisation
• project-database, lists, listproc, forms
• Extension for projects
• resources, shared workspace, chats
• Building Information infrastructure
• school home pages
• links

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Conferences

• 1. London
• 2. Amsterdam
• 3. Gro?burgwedel
• 4. Humlebaek
• 5. Lenham

• 6. Toledo
• 7. Schwerte
• 8. Amsterdam
• 9. Cambridge
• 10. Leuven

11. Portoroz 12. Copenhagen
13. Tartuu ESTONIA

• Teacher conferences
• Evaluating designing projects
• Improving ESP as a collective

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The future

• More cooperation
• official government initiatives
• other school networks
• Primary education
• (Virtual) Teacher Education College
• Enhancing the Web-structure
• Create, Collect Publish Good practice!

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Welcome for Japanese teachers and pupilsin ESPs
teleprojectsand our 13th conference in Tartuu,
Estonia
http//www.esp.educ.uva.nl