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Kick off meeting Avignon 1315 dec 2010
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Welcome Europe !
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9 partners
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Katholieke Hogeschool Limburg dept SAW (Limburg Catholic
University College) Hasselt Belgium
Université d'Avignon et des Pays de Vaucluse (U.A.P.V.) Avignon
France
Zespół Szkół Nr 1, Technikum Nr 1 im. Prof. Bolesława Krupińskiego
w Lubinie (Vocational or technical secondary school ) Lubin Poland
Tekkeköy Halk Eğitim Merkezi (Adult education provider) Samsun
Turkey
Kavakmeydan vocational trade high school Tabzon Turkey
INDICO International institute for the development of innovation,
knowledge and competences (providing guidance, counselling and
information services) Zaragoza Spain
Zespół Szkół Elektronicznych i Telekomunikacyjnych (Vocational or
technical secondary school ) Olsztyn Poland
BilSE-Institut für Bildung und Forschung GmbH Güstrow Germany
Cyprus Neuroscience & Technology Institute Nicosia Cyprus
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Welcome
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Difficult start, but happily everybody is finally involved
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Thank you all for the willingness to join the project idea and your
engagement and participation for the future
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Thanks to our host : University of Avignon /Université d'Avignon et
des Pays de Vaucluse (U.A.P.V.) for the organizing of the kick-off
meeting : especially Philippe for the willingness to set up the first
meeting and for the good care for us!
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Information
 Purpose of the coordinators meetings (general)
 Purpose of this meeting
 Engagements
 Roles
 Short presentation of the goals
 Program for today
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Purpose of the coordinators
meetings (general)
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Getting known to each other and our different organizations and
culture
Overview of activities done local and for the global project
Sharing experiences of local working and european working
Guarding the activities schedule, time table and planned activities
(Re)define goals, tasks and roles when necessary
Working on the to do list
Dissemination activities
Evaluation of the work in the several countries/organizations and the
results of this project group
Finishing the project
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Purpose of this meeting
 Getting known of each other : presentations /conversations :
formal and informal
 The project: general ideas, objectives, administration
 Overview of the project activities/ meetings schedule/definitive
planning for the two years : redefinition of the ideas,goals and
roles ?
 Responsibilities of each partner, personal choices per partner
 Searching for ways of efficient communication : website ?, social
network ? (mixxt, ning, moodle,…)
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 Discussion about project products : ecommunic@tlas ?
 Dissemination moments per partner (local activities / contact
with associated partners) and european dissemination (folder,
poster, website ?)
 Plan of evaluation/administrative activities (N.A) 1year/2 year
 Learning community : learning from each other/sharing
things : how can we manage/facilitate the e-communication
between schools and parents (on all levels of education)
Purpose is not to work out a large product
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Engagement
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We are different organizations : university, university college,
secondary school, vocational school, adult education, training
institute, … equal & equivalent partners !
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Language may not be a handicap ! Don’t hesitate to speak / react if
you don’t understand : body language/non-verbal communication
Important : do communicate, whatever the language !!!! Visualisize
as much as possible (powerpoint/images)
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Don’t mind language errors….the most important thing is that we can
understand each other, no matter how !
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Take initiatives /responsablities, speak/ act/ give suggestions,
react…don’t wait for the others…
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Engagement continuation
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Be proud of your own country,organization and culture and share us
your fascination …through all the meetings.
Be aware of a climate of confidence, conviviality, joviality, cordiality
and transparency
Problems, misunderstandings… talk out of it and don’t let them
disturb our project and friendship.
Respect working times & schedules of meetings and break times : be
on time to start/work efficiently
Show respect for the meeting : don’t internet, mail, work,
computer,…during the meetings, except when it is very very very
very urgent 
 Have fun/enjoy !!!!!!!
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Roles
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(from the application form)
Coordinating institution role and tasks:
 To develop strategies in order to bring cohesion to the group and
to implement a suitable teamwork environment.
 To request all the information, contents, materials, news, events
and update the shared social networkwebsite.
 To promote the participation of each and every member of the
partnership through the web site forum and email
 To coordinate the work of the partners and to watch over the
deadline duties
 To keep a good environment of understanding among the
partners in order to improve teamwork
 To develop a website for dissemination of the results with the
help of a partner.
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Roles
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(from the application form : continuation)
Institutions roles and tasks
 To carry out the activities described in the Activity Table
 To organize the activities at a local level watching out for the
participation of learners, teachers and / or the staff members and
contacts with parents of the learners
 To request the information; to help making and processing the
survey, prepare materials (i.e. PowerPoint presentations, reports
of activities, good practices of didactical methods ,...) ; to draw up
evaluation surveys and to sent these contents to the coordinating
institution in order to upload to the web site.
 To disseminate the activities and results of the project through
the media, authorities and institutions at a local / regional Level.
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Roles
(from the application form : continuation)
 To follow up and evaluate the project activities at a local level
 To make the evaluation and the final report of their own
institutions and to collaborate in the common reports.
 To actively participate at the forum discussions and to bring to
the group, via e-mail , frequent information about the project at a
local level.
 To organize and / or collaborate in the organization of the
European project meetings.
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Short presentations of project
goals
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Communication between schools and families is essential for building
trusting relationships that foster parental involvement.
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Parental involvement in schools and social institutes is necessary for
youngsters to develop successfully and to make decisions that will
have positive outcomes for their futures.
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This study will examine the role of new ICT communications
technologies in fostering parental involvement in schools and social
institutes and uncovers barriers that prevent usage of technology to
promote communication.
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The purpose of this study is to evaluate the role and possibilities of
different interpersonal communications technologies like cell phone
and e-mail, school websites, blog, electronic learning environments
and new social websites like Facebook, Twitter, etc..in
communicating with parents.
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Additionally, these communication modes will be appraised for their
efficacy in facilitating parental involvement in schools.
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Results : e-communiC@Tlas (website, social network ?)
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Progam for Monday 13/12/2010
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9.30h:
Presentation of each partner (part 1)
10.30h:
Coffee break
11h-12.30h
Presentations of each partner(part 2)
12.30h-13.30h
Lunch at the University restaurant
13.30h-14.30h
Visit of the university
14.30h-16.15h
Workshop 2
 Introduction powerpoint (coordinator)
 Discussion & brainstorming about the way each participant
considers the project : goals, modalities of functioning,
dissemination, evaluation
16.15h-16.30h
Coffee/tea break
16.30h – 18.00h:
Workshop 3
Project activities : making concrete actions, decide preferences of
tasks, modalities, tools, time tables...who takes responsibilities ?
18.15h:
Conclusions of the day
19.00h:
Dinner in xxx (will be informed later)
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Presentation of each partner
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Workshop 2
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Presentation of eCommunication 4 schools 2 parents (see other
powerpoint)
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Project goals
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With this research project we want to examine the possibilities but
also the risks of modern communication resources such as e-mail,
Skype, school Internet sites( with protected areas for parents),
schoolblogs and electronic learning environments (with access for
parents).
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Also popular social network sites offer possible interesting
perspectives to communicate with parents: Facebook, Netlog,
Twitter, MSN, Skype, Picasa/Flickr for sharing photograph, etc.
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On the one hand we want to make an inventory of goods practices,
particularly how schools at present use ICT in their communication
with parents with accent on the advantages and dangers that appear
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We want also to examine what the conditions are for a good
electronic communication with parents and to what extent teachers
and parents are enthusiastic with or can be made enthusiastic
concerning these `other communication ways’ .
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Moreover, if it is possible we want to encourage on experimental
base some schools to try out these modern communication
resources with parents to invest the improvement of effective
communication.
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All these investments must result in a guide which can help school
and organizations to explore new communication ways in
communicating with parents : “e-communIC@Tlas”.
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It is important to remark that we don’t want to exclude or ban face to
face contacts. We want to examine how new technology can improve
contacts between parents and schools
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Approach
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Step 1: Literature search: By means of a literature search we will
explore in each country examples of the commitment of the Internet
tools in schools and social services agencies
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Step 2: Online inquiry: We will organize a quantitative consultation to
the current use of the modern Internet communication tools within a
group of schools and training organisations
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Step 3: Good practice analysis: Good practices will examined in
detail and will be explored from a advantages/disadvantages
analysis. ( SWOT-analysis).
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Step 4 : Development of a “e-communiC@Tlas” this means a online
handbook for schools and organizations who want to use the
internettools as a way of communicating with parents.
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Step 5: Dissemination: We will publish all these information with
‘good practices’ on a website f.e. ‘www.myschoolonline.eu’ and
educational & social magazines,CD
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Step 6: Set up of local training for teachers and social educators to
learn them how e-communication works
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Summary of activities
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Step 1: Literature search
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Step 2: Online inquiry
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Step 3: Good practice analysis
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Step 4 : Development of a “e-communiC@Tlas” Good practices
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Step 5: Dissemination
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Step 6: Set up of local training for teachers and social educators
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Communication
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Email ? Skype?
Which tools are we going to use ? Website and/or social network
 Brainstorming, demonstrations, evaluations…
 Mixtt : http://stellla.mixxt.eu http://Ecom4s2p.mixxt.com
 Ning : http://incluso.ning.com/
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Activity/mobility schedule
See word document
Making a Gantt schedule ? (suggestion France NA)
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Work schedule
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See word text
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Dissemination activities
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Local level
 School/organization magazine/meetings
 School website
 Questionnaire is a form of dissemination/activating….
Remark : on every document logo of Leonardo !
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European level
 Flyer ?
 Poster ?
 Video ?
 Logo ?
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Evaluation
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Official : at the end of the first year (small report) ; at the end of the
project (large report) Important : grant : you have to prove your
mobilities and dissemination work at local level !
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Twice a year, each institution will evaluate the process and present
the results at the European project meetings. In addition, during
these meetings the partners as a group will evaluate and, if needed,
make corrections to the activity plan.
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At the end we will interrogate all involved partners with a online
questionnaire, made with docs.google.com. All evaluation material
will be published on the common social networksite. We will be
inspired by the self-evaluation strategy from SEALLL www.sealll.eu
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Responsabities
Everybody has to share, but someone has to take responsability !
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Social network ?
Website ?
Meetings ? : 4 or 5 meetings where & when ? Spain, Cyprus,
Poland (Lubin), Turkey ???
Literature review
Database of good practices : strenghts, weaknesses,….
Online survey ?
Dissemination : flyer, poster, video ?
Evaluation at the end of first year ?
Evaluation at the end of second year ?
End report : Belgium coordinator + every country
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Progam for Thuesday 14/12/2010
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9.00h:
9h-11h : Visit at the college Jean Brunet.
11.30h - 13h : Visit of the Palais des Papes
13h :
Lunch down town
14.30h – 16.30h:
Workshop 4 The students questionnaires
16.30h-16.45h :
Coffee/tea break
16.45h-18h :
Workshop 5 Engagements about literature
study. Engagements about survey.
18.15h:
Conclusions of the day
19h
Dinner in xxx (will be informed later)
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Progam for Wednesday 15/12/2010
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9.00h-10.30h : Workshop 3 Involvement of learners/Involvement of
staff organization/Contact with associated partners (concrete action
plan) Dissemination activities : sharing experiences & ideas
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10h30-11h : Coffee/tea break
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11h-12h30 : Concluding session : to do list. Appointments about next
meeting. Appointments about inbetween communications.
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Lunch at the University restaurant
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Free time for shopping, cultural visits, etc. Some partners are
already leaving, others are leaving on Thursday.
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