The program in Porvoo in May 2010

Week 21/2010 in Porvoo

Student groups from Sønderborg (Denmark) and Šilutė (Lithuania) visit Pääskytie school

Sunday May 23rd

15:35 Danes arrive at Helsinki-Vantaa airport, flight AY0852

15:20 Lithuanians arrive at Helsinki-Vantaa airport, flight AY3770

16:00 Your bus leaves from Helsinki-Vantaa airport towards Mikkeli,
get off in Landbo and change in the same bus stop to a bus that goes
to Porvoo (Borgå) at 16:15.

16:50 Arriving at Porvoo bus station. Host families will be waiting
at the bus station for you and they will take you to their homes.
Titta and Annika will take the teachers to their hostel.

Monday May 24th

8:10 -9:00 Tour of our school with hosting students and Titta.

9:05-9:50 Getting to know each other and the week’s program.

Hosting students will have games for you to play to get to know each other in the school yard if it not raining. Otherwise in the auditorium.

9:50 – 10:05 break

10:05 – 10:50 games continued

10:50 – 11:20 free warm lunch at the school (potatoes and chopped sausages in brown gravy, lentil wok for vegetarians)

11:20– 14:55 (or earlier if it says so in the host’s schedule)
Lessons: guests will be following their hosts to their regular lessons or alternatively you may attend other lessons that are taking place at the same time. Hosts must ask their teachers permission to be absent from their regular classes and they must also ask permission to attend classes that aren’t normally in their schedule. Class teacher (lv) must be notified where you have been.

At any time, if the hosts’ lessons are not suitable for the guests to attend, students can work on Moi in the media classroom upstairs next to Titta’s art room. Danish and Lithuanian teachers will be there to give students assignments to write about and assist if needed. Suggestions for assignments can be found in: http://twinblog.etwinning.net/globaleducation/

Evening will be spent in host families.

Tuesday May 25th

8:10 – 11:50 Lessons

11:50 Lunch (lasagna / vegetarian lasagna)

12:20 Lessons

13:05 Telegrafberget, trekking in a nature park. Take  a water bottle with you if it is a warm day.

15:00 back to school

Evening will be spent in host families.

Wednesday May 26th

8:10 – 9:00 Lessons

9:05 – 9:50 Lessons

9:50 – 10:05 Break

10:05 -10:50 Lessons

10:50 – 11:05 Break

11:05 – 11:50 Lessons

11:50 Lunch (chicken soup / vegetarian soup)

12:15  Bus leaves from Pääskytie school to Neste Oil.

12:25-13:00 On our way there we will visit the treatment unit for oiled birds. http://www.ymparisto.fi/default.asp?contentid=278258&lan=EN

n. 13-14 Emäsalo island for sea views.

14:00 – 16:00 visit in Neste Oil Biodiesel Unit, development Manager Erkki Naumanen. www.nesteoil.com

16:00  Bus takes us back to school

Evening will be spent in host families.

Thursday May 27th

8:10 – 9:50 Lessons (taking part in optional classes like e.g. cookery, handicrafts, metal work, sports etc)

9:50 Lunch (fish casserole / vegetarian casserole)

10:20 Bus takes us to Ensto, electric car charching unit

10:30 Ensto http://www.ensto.com/solutions/electriccarcharging

12:30 Tree planting in a local park. (Possibly press coverage – be prepared for an interview)

14:30  Bus takes us back to school, dinner at the host families

18 – 21  Evening will be spent in youth center Zentra, guests and hosts together. There is an environmental amp; multicultural theme in Zentra at the moment.
http://www.porvoo.fi/index.php?mid=2528 (På svenska)

Friday May 28th

8:10 Working in Moi in the Media class, next to Titta’s Art room

All guests are expected to write reports about their visit with the help of their hosting students. In everything you write, please consider our theme “Small Things, Big Issues”

10:50 Lunch (potatoes and sauce with minced meat / vegetarian sauce)

11:20 – 13:05 Global Education class, making videos together

Afternoon: shopping, getting ready for farewell party

18:30 – 20:30 Farewell party at the school, hosting students will bring snacks and come up with games to play together. Open stage to all who want to perform (sing, act, etc)

Saturday May 29th

Departure

Danes: 11:15 flight AY0851

Lithuanians: 12:50 flight AY127

Busses to the airport leave from Porvoo bus station:

- Danish students will be taken to the bus station to catch the 7:55 bus (at the airport at 8:45)
- Lithuanian students will be taken to the bus station to catch the 9:30 bus. (at the airport 10:20)

The program in Sönderborg in April 2010

Internationalt projekt – Finland
Tjek elevernes spændende hjemmeside: www.ejournal.fi/moi

Monday 05.04
17.15 Arrival at Sonderborg Railway Station.

Tuesday 06.04
8.15 We all meet in the classroom of 8.a. The pupils from Ahlmann-Skolen will tell about the everyday life in Denmark and show the Finnish pupils the school.

10.00 – 11.00 Visit at the ”Ringrider Museum”. Ringridning is a special tradition from South Jutland. Jens Schmidt will guide us through the museum in English.
11.00 – 13.00 Rally in Sonderborg The start goes from Alsion.We will eat our lunch in the open.

Wednesday 07.04

9.15 

We meet at Sonderborg Kraftvarmeværk, Vestermark 16, Sønderborg

9.30 – 11.30

 

A guided tour at the Kraftvarmeværket.

Guide: Peder Jørgensen will guide in Danish and the pupils from 8.a will translate

You can check out their homepage:

www.skvv.dk

11.30

A tour in the surrunding countryside where we will eat our lunch.

Thursday 08.04

Hopefully we will start the day at Alsion. Alsion is the new center of knowledge and culture in Sonderborg. You can check their homepage: www.alsion.dk but unfortunately it is only in Danish, sorry.

We don’t have the exact time yet because of the holiday. But we will let you know asap.

We eat our lunch in the cafe at Alsion.

13.00 – ca. 14.00

Solparken, Mommarksvej 81, Vollerup – Sønderborg.

It is a totally new solar heat plan 6.000 squaremeter. Claus Bager will beo ur guide.

 

Friday 09.04

8.15 

We all meet at the busstation in Sonderborg

8.25 Departure with Sydbus to Danfoss,Nordborg

9.25 We will start in the reception with a little film about Danfoss. Afterwards we will see the office of the founder, Mads Clausen.

10.30 A visit to the Danfoss Trainee Center and a short tour in the production. Check out Danfoss’ homepage www.danfoss.com/finland in Finnish!

12.00

 

approx.

Visit Danfoss Universe www.danfossuniverse.dk

 

Saterday 10.04

All students work together and write articles about the visit and they are published in the ejournal Moi.

Sunday 11.04

7.32 Departure from Sonderborg Railway Station.

student visits

Exercises for students (when visiting foreign schools): Write reports in www.ejournal.fi/moi Suggestions for topics: 1. Travelblog (Where have you been and what have you seen) 2. Typical school day in … (Write about the school day in that country you have visited.) 3. Traveling (How did you travel, what was it like?) 4. Small things – big issues (When you travel or when you go to school or live your everyday life you make small choices all the time, how do they become big issues? For example, if you chose to fly instead of taking the train, or if you ride your bike to school instead of taking the bus, or if you pack your lunch in foil instead of a paper bag, and so on.)

 

Video Conference November 11, 2009

GLOBAL EDUCATION PROJECT 2009-2010 VIDEO CONFERENCE 11/2009   Time: November 11, 2009 at 7pm EET Place: Conference Room in www.ejournal.fi/moi Present: Silke Groth, Ilpo Halonen, Titta Suvanto, Annika Ruohonen, Aida Skarbaliene, Jovita Ranauskiene, Rita Barkauskiene   1.     It was decided that each student will have three articles ready in the ejournal before Christmas. Articles can be found in the respective folders: -       Introductions -       My Environment -       Climate Change Students will also comment on each other’s articles.   2.     It was agreed that Danish and Lithuanian teachers will receive their traveling money from September 2009 as soon as possible.   3.     Our project has applied for Quality Label in the eTwinning page. The projects which are awarded Quality Label win prizes such as trips to southern Europe for teachers. It was agreed that it is important to update both our eTwinning pages and our ejournal.   4.     Traveling plans were made for spring. -       It was suggested that the Finns would travel immediately after Easter 2010 and take a bus to Denmark and stay in Silute, Lithuania for one night on the way. -       It was suggested that Danes and Lithuanias would visit Porvoo during the last week of May.   5.     Plans for spring projects were also discussed. Most likely students will make a film together in the spring, for example weather forecasts.   6.     Next meeting will be a video conference in the conference room in www.ejournal.fi/moi on Wednesday, December 16 at 7 pm EET. Spring projects and traveling will be discussed in that meeting.

 

 

Video Conference

On a Thursday evening (Oct10) members of the Global Education had a video conference in the conference room of the ejournal Moi. There were 6 people online: Rita, Jovita, Silke, Titta, Annika and Ilpo Halonen (our ejournal coach, a teacher from Vihti). Ilpo answered our questions about ejournal and we learned more functions of the ejournal. We also went through some of the things we had learned before but which are a bit difficult to remember, for example how to move articles to different folders. Danish students have now written their Introductions in Moi. Finnish students have written both Introductions and My Environment tasks. Lithuanian students are just about to start writing their Introdcutions. For Finns and Danes there will be a break in writing articles in October since the Finnish teachers have furloughs and Silke and Annika are travelling. Lithuanians have good time in catching up during that time. In November we will start commenting on each other’s articles and writing our main tasks under the topic ‘Cilmate Change’.

 

Impressions left after Week in Pääskytie school, Porvoo town, Finland

Just arrived we were warmly accepted in Pääskytie School where we later discussed about the eJournal possibilities, the circumstances to work on project. We stated our opinion to other members of project. On Tuesday we attended the international conference about Baltic Sea in Helsinki. It was relevant to our project “Global Education”. We pick up new ideas, thoughts that we are going to share with our students in Silute, Lithuania. On Wednesday afternoon we worked with teacher who taught us how to connect to the eJournal. We learned how to write articles and correct them inserting a table, photos, links and other necessary attributes. We tried to publish articles and we succeeded. We worked using student’s rights. On Thursday and Friday we used administrator’s rights and learned how to create users’ names, grant specific rights and passwords. We also created and commented articles written by our colleagues. We learned how to upload photos, videos and publish them. The week spent in Pääskytie School was extremely necessary and useful for our project, because we know now how to work with the eJournal and we can create users’ names for our students. They are able to communicate with friends of the project, to publish their articles in this journal, to share their impressions about “Global Education”. All knowledge gained in cooperation with the Danish and Finnish teachers has significant benefit to us working on the project “Global Education”. Our moto – „Small things – big issues”. Posted by: Rita Barkauskienė

Week 37 – work around the clock

One must be a fool to work around the clock – or fortunate like we are. Being fortunate I mean our large sum of money from Nordplus Junior, our new partners from Lithuania and Danmark who got an opportunity to visit us so quickly plus our headmasters support in everything. And ofcourse our family menbers who didn’t see us almost at all in the whole week. In every day after the normal schedule we started to study and learn things we need for our global education project. Things about EJournal, climate issues and Baltic sea. If we were lucky we got something to eat before seven pm. And after and over a good dinner we got to know each other better. There are plenty of things I would have liked to show and do here in Porvoo, but there will be other times – quite soon. Here are some pictures taken in this hectic week. You can see us learning to use eJournal, Ilpo Halonen teaching, our students being interwieved to radio, Titta driving a mini bus in the first time of her life, Annika and Silke talking about their iPhones, Roberta, Jovita and Rita in Baltic Sea conference and a sad picture of our sea – full of cyanobacterial blooms. I do hope our partners didn’t find our arrangements too heavy. After all I share Annika’s opinion: it all gave more than it took. To be continued.. Posted by Titta Suvanto