CIRCE - A CLASSICS & ICT RESOURCE COURSE FOR EUROPE
TYPE OF TRAINING ACTIVITY
TRAINING AIMED AT PARTICIPANTS RECEIVING
A GRANT FOR EITHER COMENIUS OR GRUNDTVIG TARGET GROUPS
ORIGIN OF THE TRAINING
COURSE RESULTING FROM AN LLP OR PREVIOUS SOCRATES PROJECT (COMENIUS, LINGUA, GRUNDTVIG, MINERVA)
THEMATIC FIELD OF THE TRAINING
GENERAL IN-SERVICE TRAINING
ICT - Information and communication technologies
Pedagogy and didactics
LANGUAGES USED FOR THE TRAINING
MAIN LANGUAGE:
English
OTHER LANGUAGE/S USED DURING THE TRAINING:
English
LANGUAGE VERSION(S) IN WHICH MATERIALS WILL BE PROVIDED:
Dutch
English
French
German
Greek
Italian
EDUCATION SECTOR OF THE TRAINING PARTICIPANTS
SCHOOL AND PRE-SCHOOL EDUCATION
General secondary
Vocational/Technical secondary
ADULT EDUCATION
Adult education provider
Second chance or remedial education
Higher education institution offering outreach courses for adults
Other sectors of adult education
TARGET AUDIENCE
Teachers (Pre-school, primary, secondary, vocational, adult, special needs)
Teacher trainers
Inspectors
Headteachers/principals/managers of schools/organisations offering adult education
INSTITUTION ORGANISING THE TRAINING
NAME OF THE ORGANISATION:
GO! onderwijs van de Vlaamse Gemeenschap
STREET AND NUMBER:
Emile Jacqmainlaan 20
POSTCODE:
1000 -
TOWN / CITY:
Brussels
COUNTRY:
Belgium
WEBSITE:
www.g-o.be
ORGANISER/S OF THE TRAINING:
PERSON 1:
Veerle De Troyer
TEL NR:
+32 2 790 96 61
FAX NR:
+32 2 790 97 97
EMAIL:
veerle.de.troyer@g-o.be
PERSON 2:
Jens Vermeersch
TEL NR:
+32 2 790 95 98
FAX NR:
+32 2 790 97 97
EMAIL:
jens.vermeersch@g-o.be
FULL DESCRIPTION OF TRAINING CONTENTS
IN THE LANGUAGE OF THE TRAINING: (EN)
Preparation
The participants will be asked to fill in a questionnaire about their background (school/organisation, teaching experience (subjects), skills in English, ICT skills and experience). Furthermore the participants will have access to the CIRCE manual on teaching Classics with ICT as well as to the resources on the CIRCE website www.CIRCE.eu. Hands-on training materials will be given out during the course.
Objectives
To enable teachers in Classics all over Europe to Exploit the ICT resources available for their teaching of Ancient Greek and/or Latin and/or Classical Civilisation and to help create a new learning environment for Classics with ICT. Basic skills will be trained along with more advanced exercises and the new pedagogical and didactic approach enabled by ICT will be addressed.
Methodology
Various topics from the CIRCE manual will be presented and followed up by workshops using computers to train various skills and point out the resources available for Classics (different kinds of software, internet resources, various databases, electronic dictionaries etc.). All will be put into in a pedagogical and didactic frame.
Follow-up
A lesson plan created by the participant during the course can - after testing in class - be added to the lesson plan section of the project website. The website www.circe.eu will provide a forum for the participants to discuss the in-service training after it has ended and to exchange further experiences and materials.
PROGRAMME OF THE TRAINING ACTIVITIES (DAY BY DAY)
IN THE LANGUAGE OF THE TRAINING:
Sun, 19/07/2009: Arrival, welcome, short presentation of tutors and participants
Mon, 20/07/2009:Integration of ICT into Classics teaching
- Examples of good practice
- Searching the internet for Greek and Latin texts and images (Perseus, Itinera Electronica & other databases)
- Copyright issues
- General knowledge of picture processing
- Hands-on tasks on word processing
Each day ends with a plenary session, during which the day’s results are presented/ participants are given the opportunity to talk about examples of‘good practice’ with ICT.
Tues, 21/07/2009: Resources for Classics I
- Making your own exercise: Quizfaber or similar
- Preparing a Latin text: Collatinus
- Revision of the techniques of picture processing
- A major issue to teach Greek: fonts
- Hands-on tasks using presentation software
Wed, 22/07/2009: Web pages and websites
- Picture processing part III
- Briefing on the creation of web pages and websites
- Creation of the delegates' own web pages
- Visit to Ljubljana
Thu, 23/07/2009: Resources for Classics II and European collaboration
- Publishing on the web, JiTT, the use of an e-manual
- Linking art and literature: Musagora, Texteimage
- Software for drills and exercices, monitoring and assessment of student progress
- Stimulating further cooperation among participants, e-twinning & Classics
Fri, 24/07/2009: The Classical Challenge
The ancient world in modern teaching. Creation of teaching materials for use across the web. The participants are divided into two groups according to their own wishes. Each group will approach the subject of the day in a different manner using the skills and resources acquired during the previous days.
Sat, 25/07/2009: Day trip to the Roman town of Aquileia (Italy) + course evaluation
Sun, 26/07/2009: Departure
TYPE OF CERTIFICATION OF ATTENDANCE AWARDED
IN THE LANGUAGE OF THE TRAINING:
A certificate of attendance including description of training content and time input
ENGLISH:
A certificate of attendance including description of training content and time input