Autumn School for Teachers September 15th – 18th, 2010

Budapest, Hungaryhttp://informatics.aua.gr/organic/index.php/for-teachers.html

Enhancing Environmental and Ecological Awareness and Education in Schools: Training Teachers on the Use

of Web2.0 tools and Open Educational Resources:

The autumn school for teachers is organised in the framework of the Organic.Edunet and Metaschool projects. The Organic.Edunet project is supported by the European Commission under the eContentPlus Programme and the METASCHOOL project is co-financed by the European Commission, Lifelong Learning Programme. (logos

econtentplus, Education and Culture Lifelong learning programme.

Organized by the Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary

Organic.Edunet is a project aiming to facilitate access, usage and exploitation of digital educa-tional content related to Organic Agriculture (OA) and Agroecology. It has deployed a multilingual online federation of learning repositories, populated with quality content from various content producers. In addition, it has also deployed a multilingual online environment (the Organic.Edunet Web Federation portal) that will facilitate end-users’ search, retrieval, access and use of the con-tent in the learning repositories (available at: http://www.organic-edunet.eu).The project studies educational scenarios that introduce the use of the Organic.Edunet portal and content to support teaching of topics related to OA and Agroecology in two cases of formal educational systems, i.e., high-schools and agricultural universities.

Today’s teachers need to be prepared to provide technology-supported learning opportunities for their students. Being prepared to use technology and knowing how to that technology can support student learning have become integral skills in every teacher’s professional repertoire. Teachers need to be prepared to empower students with the advantages of technology can bring. Schools and classrooms, both real and virtual, must have teachers who are equipped with technology resources and skills and who can effectively teach the necessary subject matter content while incorporating technology concepts and skills.

http://project.organic.edunet.eu

http://www.ea.gr/ep/metaschool/

Sustainable and Environmental education challenges around Europe Thursday, 16/9,15:15-16:15

Session chairs:• Corinne Stewart, Christine Notte

(AgroSup Dijon)Speakers:• Corinne Stewart & Christine Notte

(AgroSup Dijon)• Lyubima Despotova-Toleva (Medi-

cal University Plovdiv)• Nidal Thabit Shaban (University of

Forestry in Sofia)• Salvatore Basile (Biocert Associa-

tion)• Manfred Lohr (Bundesgymnasium

and Bundesrealgymnasium Schwe-chat)

• Tamás Vásárhelyi (Hungarian Natu-ral History Museum)

Current advances in Organic Farming and Agro-ecologyThursday, 16/9,16:45-17:45

Session chair:• Laszlo Radics (Corvinus University

of Budapest)Speakers:• Andrea Tobias (Corvinus University

of Budapest)• Laszlo Csambalik (Corvinus Univer-

sity of Budapest)• Salvatore Basile (Biocert Associa-

tion)• Christine Watson (Scottish Agricul-

tural College / Legumes Futures)

Phenomenon oriented educa-tion in OA & AE. How can ICT play a role?Friday, 17/9,10:00-12:30

Workshop chairs:Geir Lieblein, Aage Holm (Norwegian University of Life Sciences)

Quality Considerations for Learning Portals and Reposi-tories in Agriculture, Food & EnvironmentFriday, 17/9,18:00-19:00

Session chair:• Nikos Manouselis (Greek Research &

Technology Network)Panelists:• Bernard Dumont (independent E-

Learning Consultant)• Jackie Wickham (University of Not-

tingham)• Thomas Zschocke (United Nations

University)• Geir Lieblein (Norwegian University

of Life Sciences)

The conference is focusing on Learning Methodologies in Agriculture and, more specifically, on Organic Agri-culture and Ecology. Also, Information and Communica-tion Technology (ICT) innovations will be presented, through which the aforementioned methodologies can benefit many stakeholders of various areas and activities.

Methodologies and technological Tools (M&T) are aiming at facilitating knowledge dissemination in the wide area of Agriculture and Ecology, to pupils, students, teachers, professors, researchers, policy makers and other involved parties. M&T will be presented by experts from a wide scientific spec-trum, including fields such as Agriculture, Peda-gogy, Learning & Knowledge Management and ICT. Specialists of the above areas will present imple-mented or running projects intending to open new avenues of knowledge to the young generation.

Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday

15 Sep 2010 16 Sep 2010 17 Sep 2010 18 Sep 2010

Welcome & Introduction to the course

V. Protonotarios GRNET

Introduction to OurNature scenario concept & ideas

presentationsV. Protonotarios GRNET

Workshop 1a: Elaboration and adaptation of Curriculum area &

DescriptionV. Protonotarios GRNET

WHY metadata for MY resources?

A Katrakilis GRNET

Workshop 1b: Hands-on annotation of green resources for OurNature

scenariosA Katrakilis GRNET

Presentation of OunNature scenarios

All

Workshop 2a: Organic.Edunet web portal for green learning resources (lecture & practice)

N. Palavitsinis GRNET

Workshop 2b: Elaboration and adaptation of OurNature

ScenariosP. Lameras EA

Workshop 2c: Hands-on annotation of green resources

for OurNature scenariosH. Ebner KTH

09:00-13:30

16:00-19:00

PROGRAM

Organic.Edunet ConferenceSuggestions

15:15 - 16:15Sustainable and

Environmental education challenges around Europe

Corinne Stewart, Christine Notte AGROSUP DIJON

10:00 - 12:30Phenomenon oriented

education in OA & AE. How can ICT play a role?

Geir Lieblein, Aage Holm UMB

16:45 - 17:45Organic & Environmental

Education in Schools

Manfred Lohr BGS

Sofoklis SotiriouPetros Lameras

EA

18:00 - 19:00Quality Considerations

for Learning Portals and Repositories in Agriculture,

Food & Environment

N. Manouselis GRNET

Organic.Edunet Conference

Organic Edunet Highlights