WebTV for Schools: TV programme for students by students on the Web

100656 - CP -1-2002-1- GR - MINERVA - MPP

SOCRATES - MINERVA

WebTV for Schools Partnership

Ellinogermaniki Agogi (Coordinator), R&D Department - GR

Vejle Handelsskole - DK

Freiherr Vom Stein Schule - DE

National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Department of Philosophy and History, Cognitive Science Laboratory - GR

University of Crete, Computer Science Department - GR

University of Paris Sud, Laboratoire de Recherche en Informatique – FR

Progress Image SA – FR

University of Picardie Jules Verne, Department of Psychology – FR

Lycée Henri Poincaré – FR

Bundesgymnasium and Bundesrealgymnasium Schwechat – AT

University of Helsinki, Department of Psychology – FI

Juhani Vuorinen Koulu - FI

WebTV for Schools Aims

• Provision of a model for motivating activities integrated in the school curriculum

• Development of an interdisciplinary application model in the current educational practice

• Provision of a model for collaborative learning and teamwork

• Familiarization of students with the culture of other European countries and their cultural background

• Familiarization of students and teachers with ICT and audiovisual productions

• Research the educational potential of innovative applications

• Promotion of language learning

• Effort to involve parents and local communities in general in the formation of the proposed learning environment

WebTV for Schools Overview

In the framework of the project a network composed by technologists together with pedagogues and users will develop a Web TV platform, the WebTV for schools platform, over which students will collaborate in order to present to their virtual classmates programs created by themselves, promoting aspects of everyday life, school life, customs, monuments, cultural activities and events taking place in their countries.

Students will select an aspect of their country’s culture to promote, will then collect the content and prepare the emission with the support of specialists in the field of audiovisual productions. The WebTV for schools learning environment will act as stimuli for intercultural dialogue between the schools participating in the project, as the starting point for discussion and exchange of ideas about culture, Europe, national and European identity.

The combination of Web TV, a low cost Internet access solution with basic communication capabilities the Internet offers and a small number of high end computers with software widely used in the audiovisual world will provide teachers, students, parents and members of the local communities with access to expanded sources of information and common tools needed to process and communicate that information electronically. The duration of the project is 2 years.

Uploading Interface

DataBase

Students ActivitiesVideo ShootingVideo CapturingVideo MontageVideo Upload

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WebTV for Schools

Web UserInterface

Technical & QualityControl

SchoolsEA

UoH

Scenarios

SchoolsEA

UoPS

WebTV kick-off meeting End of WebTV projectEvaluation

UoC

UoCPTV

UoC

UoPSEA

PTV

UoAUoP

Development of the web-TV platform

Designing the web-TV platform • The Database• The uploading interface• The data retrieval tool• The web user interface

Design of the lesson plans

Integration of the platform

Determination of technical requirements

Evaluation

Design of the pedagogical approach

Students’ activities

Teachers’ training

Select an aspect of their country’s culture to promoteStudents’ activities:

Collect the audiovisual content

Create the scenario

Shoot the film

Do the montage

Add subtitles in English

Upload the emission(Phase I)

Students’ emissionsPhase I

Optimization of the web-TV platform

Teachers’ feedback

Technical support

Parents’ and virtual schoolmates’comments

Pedagogical support

Evaluation

Students’ emissionsPhase II

Students from various schools collaborate and interact

to give feedback

Technological partners Schools

Preparation of the emissionsDevelopment of the Web TV

for schools platformTechnical support

Pedagogical frameworkPedagogical support

Evaluation

Continuous interaction

Pedagogical Partners

Group of students A

Evaluation of their virtual classmates’ emissions, comments, subtitling, feedback

The final outcome:The Web TV for schools platform

Group of students B

Other outcomes:• Web TV for schools Website• Project’s implementation Guide• Evaluation report• Project’s guide of good Practice• Web TV magazine• Dissemination material (leaflets, posters, CD-ROMs, publications, Open day events, press releases, short television spots)

The student- centered approach

http://www.ellinogermaniki.gr/ep/webtv