How do the students find a theme?
As all partners agreed, the big problem is: the trainees need to be motivated.
Together we tried to find ways to reach the youths.
We found four different possibilities:
1. Individual Interview
The trainer talks with single trainee about the subject to fix his theme. After he
interviewed all trainees he compares his information with the results of his
colleague from the partner country. Then the transnational trainer team fix
the themes by giving concrete proposals to the trainees.
2. Group Interview
The trainer offers a meeting for all trainees that are interested in E.O.L.
Here each trainee tells about his interests. The trainer sends these informations
to the transnational partner group , they discuss these interests and afterwards
the transnational trainer team makes proposals about the concrete collaboration
of each transnational trainee team.
3. Common Activity
Each partner group organizes locally a common activity for the trainees, which is
close to the private interests of the youths (fishing, picknick, car racing, movie, disco, whatever).
The trainees take fotos, sounds, impressions out of this activity and share their
impressions with their transnational partnergroup which went through a similiar (not necessarily the same)
avtivity.
4. List of themes
The trainer prepares a list of themes and makes this list compatible with a similar list of the
trainer in the partner country. The trainees choose the theme from the list and the trainers
take care that each trainee finds a transnationla partner in that way.
How do the students work on a theme?
a) single rotation
The classroom in which the EOL takes place is devided into three
working areas:
1. The central place is a big table
on which the students gather and work out their themes by writing,
discussing, translating, searching and combining foto, text or
sound material.
2. On the multimedia station the trainees can digitize, workout and prepare
foto material, texts and sounds for the online communication.
3. The online computer offers the facillitiy to chat and to fill in the
contents to the online blackboards.
Each single student rotates from the "central table" (where he prepares his
online activities) via the "multimedia station" to the "online computer".
b) team rotation
A team of two students rotates through the three different stations
discribed above. So one student can support the other. For example
the student who is chatting with the transnational partner gets help
from his local partner in the way that the "support partner" looks
for correct translation of words in the dictionary (book) .
c) outside activity
Students and trainer undertake an outside activity which motivates the youths
to communicate (soccer, picknick, cinema, car race, party, etc.). The same
happens in the partner country. After that activity, trainees and trainers meet
again to share feelings, impressions and opinions. Trainees share their
experinces with the transnational partner (fotos, recordings, text).
1. How many of the youths like the idea of that activity?
2. How many youths took part?
3. What concretely happened during that activity?
4. What did you like or did not like?
How do the students present their product?
After three weeks of preparation and five session of E.O.L. the trainees will have a portfolio
which contains all kind of material they collected. The trainees present their products as printouts
of the online blackboards in an exhibition. Other trainees, family and the community can see
what they have done during nine weeks of EOL.
details: Examples/World Tune
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