From national projects to the international ones with the help of ECOLE Project

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From national projects to the international
oneswith the help of ECOLE Project

• Anne Villems
• Viktor Muuli

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Who has participated in international
collaborative projects?
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Think and tell us!

• How many teachers from your school have
  participated in national projects?
• international projects?
• ?

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How many teachers at your school have
participated

• in national collaborative projects?
• in international collaborative projects?
• Norway
• Finland
• Czech Republic
• Latvia
• Estonia

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EU Comenius in Estonia

• 64 schools have participated during 1998-2001 in
  Comenius activities
• Only 4 have been project coordinators
• In addition there exists friendship school
  movement

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Many problems with international projects

• Experience
• Teamwork
• Finding partners
• Language problems
• Intercultural problems
• Find a project to participate
• Fit the project into curriculum
• etc.

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What is ECOLE?

• European COllaborative LEarning network
• Comenius 3 project
• Roots in European School Project (from 1998)
• 10 institutions from The Netherlands, Italy,
  Denmark, Spain, the Czech Republic, Estonia,
  Sweden, Norway, Portugal and Slovenia

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Best club

• Join ECOLE Best Club
• ECOLE Best Club is a meeting point for the
  teachers with valuable international project
  experience and those who are on their way to
  start cooperation on international level

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Adopters and Chasm, by G. Moore

• Chasm Second Crack
• First Crack
• 1 2
  3 4
  5
• 1Innovators 2 Early adopters 3 The early
  majority 4 The late majority 5 Laggards
• (Enthusiasts) (Visionaries)
  (Pragmatists) (Conservatives)
  (skeptics)

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Evaluation

• As tool to overcome chasm
• To help create stable, regular projects
• Helps to improve existing projects
• Helps to understand, where we are just now

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Help us

• Please send us questionaires, you are using
• Other examples, how you evaluate your projects
• Anne.Villems_at_ut.ee
• Viktor.Muuli_at_ut.ee
• http//www.ecolenet.nl/

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Questions?