Finally it appears that the web page question has been resolved. The problems the project was having centred, in part, on the web pages that still remained to be created. Now we have seen the appearance of two wonderful web pages created by Nikos in Greece and Stella in Cyprus. This, at least for me, was the quid of the former troubles. How can you go ahead with the project when the web pages the work has to be shown on don't even exist?
Now they do.
The Greek page here is really a wonderfully clean neat page that is good to look at and now has all the information it ought to have had from the beginning. I understand that to do this Nikos has had to give up on the person who was helping him and do it all himself. I has been worth the effort.
The Cypriot page is a refreshingly young looking one that shows what can be done with web pages on projects and makes me quite envious.
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
Friday, January 9, 2009
January 2009
Yesterday was our first day back at school, but it wasn't the "first day back" for the work on the Comenius project.
Throughout the whole of the Christmas period there has been a blizzard of messages flying across Europe all about the participation of the different members of the project. The problems that we have had are probably the typical ones that any project goes through but what has been revealing about this situation is that we have all be unable to avoid them. We are involved in a project in which we hope our own students will see the many things they have in common with students from other countries around Europe and that they will also see the differences, but will see them as being nominal and not fundamental. Yet despite this being the declared objective of the project the teachers involved in it have not been able to avoid differences surfacing that, for a while, seemed to threaten the viability of the project.
Since then things have calmed down, the preverbial water has flowed under the bridge, and I am happy to say that things are now largely back on course.
What has also happened is that among the countries involved a very like minded group has appeared, like minded to the extent that we are already thinking of future projects together. This is good as it promises the chance of running future projects with people who are all working from the same game plan, a distinct advantage.
Throughout the whole of the Christmas period there has been a blizzard of messages flying across Europe all about the participation of the different members of the project. The problems that we have had are probably the typical ones that any project goes through but what has been revealing about this situation is that we have all be unable to avoid them. We are involved in a project in which we hope our own students will see the many things they have in common with students from other countries around Europe and that they will also see the differences, but will see them as being nominal and not fundamental. Yet despite this being the declared objective of the project the teachers involved in it have not been able to avoid differences surfacing that, for a while, seemed to threaten the viability of the project.
Since then things have calmed down, the preverbial water has flowed under the bridge, and I am happy to say that things are now largely back on course.
What has also happened is that among the countries involved a very like minded group has appeared, like minded to the extent that we are already thinking of future projects together. This is good as it promises the chance of running future projects with people who are all working from the same game plan, a distinct advantage.
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