Achievements

EDUCATIONAL SESSION IN LONDON, UK
 

The first part of the meeting was dedicated to the discussion of the upcoming steps and activities to carry out and to implement for the future development of the P.IN.O.K.I.O. project, specifically:
 
-    Introduction of the work and of the activities developed by The Mosaic Art And Sound and presentation of the general English school context with reference to schools with a large number of EAL (English as additional language) children which are more likely to need innovative tools to promote social inclusion. The quality framework of the experimentation phase was discussed;
-    Presentation of the general architecture of the project with specificity of  the various tools to be developed, analysis of best practices produced by the partners involved in Pinokio, showing concrete examples of their application in the classroom;
-    Presentation of the virtual learning environment, developed with moodle and explanation of its philosophy, oriented to the "four leaf taxonomy" (the taxonomy combines the theory of social constructivism Bruner with the fundamental characteristic of distance learning of third generation, that is to say overcoming socio-cognitive distance);
-    Considerations and discussion on the planning for delivery of teachers training;
Discussion and re-drafting of the first day foreseen for the teachers training in presence, in order to provide specific laboratory activities related to the use of tools. This change proposed in the start up of the teachers training is aimed to:
□    add more space to the workshop activity, which is considered very important to ensure a first set of activities that teachers should be making in the classroom;
□    motivate teachers over the use of tools;
□    provide a teaching pattern about practical teaching actions that can be worked out in class by teachers and promote knowledge of different tools required for specific applications;
The Mosaic Art And Sound suggested including in the teacher training two hours of simulation of practical activities on how to use fairy tales and their characters to promote the project’s key competences in the classroom. They consider this an essential part of the training, since teachers may want to have practical examples that would enable them to adapt fairy tales’ contents and story-lines in activities with children. The simple act of reading or telling the story to their pupils, or asking them drawings or mini-drama inspired to the narration, and transferring these into the project’s virtual space could not be appealing to the teachers, since they already use this pedagogical modality. Their training should entail more than just suggesting a theoretical frame and practical lessons on how to use moviemaker, podcast and e-book, as these can be learnt through online friendly users tutorials.
On the other hand, if we provide a theoretical frame accompanied by interesting new activities as examples that teacher may develop in a creative way and, in addition, we also provide training for the virtual space use, this can be a winning strategy, at least in the UK.
Therefore, The Mosaic suggests we include 10 different practical pedagogical activities in the Teacher’s Manual. For each activity we could describe: Aim, Process, Materials Required, Duration, Expected Outcomes.
The Mosaic will work with an expert storyteller, Ms. Deborah Newbold who has many years of experience of implementation of creative methodologies in primary schools, to create 3 P.IN.O.K.I.O. activities and would be pleased if other P.IN.O.K.I.O. partners would experiment and add other 7 activities. This would be a suggestion to be discussed.
During the afternoon session, Deborah Newbold reached the group. Debs, as already mentioned, will personally carry out the labs along with other The Mosaic staff and will support the project team in drawing the storyboards on which to build the laboratories.

The activities of the afternoon session were addressed to:
-    Brainstorming for the realization of storyboards to be used during the first lesson (in presence) of the teacher training;
-    Sharing of the methodological framework with the storyteller, aimed to clarify the interdependences between the activities to be developed by teachers with pupils and the subsequent digitization of the content produced;
-    Discussion on the guidelines to achieve the handbooks for the educational program.
 

LEAFTLEFT PINOKIO PROJECT

Leaflet Pinokio Triptique PT

Leaflet Pinokio Triptique UK

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Poster

EDUCATIONAL SESSION IN VENICE, ITALY

On June 7th 2010 an educational session was held in Venice.
Host partner CIRD-FA
Participants: Officina Creativa Interculturale team (Maura Tripi, Giuseppe Rizzuto )- CIRD-FA team Alida Favaretto (AF) Annalisa Zapperini (AZ), Juliana Raffaghelli (JR).

The meeting was dedicated to discuss and exchange experiences on teachers’ training and experimentation in schools in Palermo where Officina Creativa Interculturale is already implementing informal learning activities with children and their parents.

AWARENESS SESSION IN PESCIA, TUSCANY, ITALY

On the 10th of April 2010 a session on PINOKIO project presentation took place in Pescia  (Tuscany region – Italy). PINOKIO was presented by the project’s promoter,  Fondazione Nazionale Carlo Collodi (FNCC), along with an expert pedagogue from Cà Foscari University (partner CIRD FA), Venice, Italy.

The session was held at the “Monsignor Simonetti” primary school which is the educational   headquarters of the Pistoia province’s 2nd circle. The headmaster and 16 pre- and primary-school teachers, coming from various schools, attended the session. The same teachers will take part in the PINOKIO’s testing phases, starting from September 2010. They were teachers of different subjects, such as English, art and mathematics and some teach children with special needs.

After a general presentation of the project’s goals and framework, the website and the online tools were introduced and the teachers have been able to acquaint themselves with the PINOKIO’s virtual spaces.
 
The teachers have been very interested in the session and are motivated in taking part in PINOKIO initiatives as they wish to improve their knowledge and competences to sustain intercultural dialogue and social inclusion in their teaching environment.

TRAINING FOR TRAINERS SESSION IN VENICE, ITALY
 
On the 12th –13th  March 2010 a training session was held in Venice.

Participants:
 University of Madeira: Luìsa Antùnes Paolinelli, Alcina Sousa , Aline Bazenga; SEED: Chiara Bramani,  CIRDFA:  Umberto Margiotta, Alida Favaretto,  Barbara Bevilacqua, Annalisa Zapperini, Juliana Raffaghelli.

The main training goals:
 Online Architecture
-To know the online architecture supporting communications among trainers in order to
manage training processes and establish a joint strategy.
- To know the educational environment as space of collaborative learning among
teachers
  Teachers’ Education Programme
- To discuss and deepen on contents of teachers' training in order to reach consensus
about the (Teachers) Education Programme: goals, contents, activities, methods.
- To take notice of best practices developed in school and other educational settings,
about storytelling supported by new technologies.
- To share models, practices and values of trainers as stakeholders, taking into account
every cultural/organizational perspective within teachers' education and testing of
methods/practices.
- To analyze constructs and methods of evaluation in order to assess educational impact
of Teachers' Training, and Testing of materials according to main project's goals.
   Technical Skills within the context of Education Programme
- To explore Tools (I): the blog and its educational potential as learning environment
that supports storytelling processes
- To Explore Tools (II): the e-book and its educational potential as online content that
encompass participatory learning processes.
- To Explore Tools (III): podcasting and its educational potential as online content that
encompass participatory learning processes and allows further expression / sharing of
own creative work.
- To know and understand FLOSS applications in order to create multimedia contents
subsidiaries to blog and e-book.

P.IN.O.K.I.O. PROJECT: SESSION FOR EDUCATORS IN MADEIRA (PT)

On the 6th of October 2009 the UMa team and the Regional Secretary of Education have organized a session of presentation of the project with the presence of educators from all the schools of Madeira (teachers, socio-cultural animators and library animation responsible personnel). This session counted with the presentation of the different projects of the Secretary of Education so as to show how they can also be involved on the project (projects on reading, language, regional plan of literature for children, etc.).

The session included information on Comenius, its role, importance and objectives and the reasons that made the UMa team interested on participating on an European project.

The acceptance of the part of the educators present was very enthusiastic, all of them expressed the will to participate on the project, due to the need of formation on this particular area.

Prof. Sueli Cagnetti, from the University of Univille, Brazil, was invited to speak about the experience of similar projects in the region of Santa Catarina.

The interest of the media was also felt and the UMa team was invited with the Vice-Director of SRE to participate on a national radio programme that was dedicated to the project (22nd October).

For this presentation session the UMa team produced a powerpoint presentation and a dvd was made with all the papers presented (DVD P.IN.O.K.I.O, October 2009).