Template for Activities/Workshops in Ireland:

As a workshop leader please

· do not print this out but fill it in digitally

· use the present tense in descriptions

· make sure you fill in as many answers as possible

· please replace the boxes p with an X

· send the filled-in description of activity to Thomas at:
Berger@inter-research.de

Some of the blanks can be filled in later, please regard this as the “growing ID-Card” of the activities. After the excursion we will use these to help with the final report

Title[1] of Activity	Europe goes to school
Description[2]	Participants will try to compare their experiences of school and the educational philosophies that lie behind those experiences. Several nationalities will visit schools on/near Achill to contribute to the curriculum by introducing the pupils to different approaches, values etc in European schools. It is important that we do not think that we are going into the schools to tell them things but as resources - to be used in whatever way the teachers/pupils want in order to extend their knowledge of other cultures. Instead of a simple report perhaps the group could try to construct a "virtual" European classroom using Active Worlds.
Subtitle[3]	Visiting schools
Leader[4]	Hanna Björkstrand
Assistant[5]
Participants	- Sophia Komor - Hadwig Möbius - Christine Greiner - - -
Workshop specialist[6]	(Sheila McHugh, Irene Patten)
Time[7]	Mon, Tues, Thurs, Fri 14.30 -17.30
Place	Cottage 4
Materials needed	Paper, flip chart perhaps, pictures of home, maps anything visual about your culture that would make it interesting to foreigners

category I SMALL INTERCULTURAL TEAMS
1. no more than 6 participants?	yes X
2. at least 3 nationalities	yes X
3. at least from 3 stations	yes X
4. which activities facilitate intercultural communication?	describe: the exchange with other participants and the pupils and the discussions that would arise from trying to decide what would be in a European classroom

category II CONNECTION TO THE WEB STORY
1. activity is already included in web stories	yes p no p	describe where:
2. results will be included in web stories	yes p no p	describe where:
3. is extra technical support needed?	yes X no p	describe which: help to use Active Worlds - Magnus can do it if we have an internet connection.

category III CREATIVE USE OF NEW MEDIA
1. will the new media be used in a creative way?	yes X no p	describe how: creating a virtual classroom from the inter-cultural exchanges
2. are they essential to the activity?	yes X no p	describe why: you could not easily or convincingly build a virtual classroom in another way
3. will the participants learn to use the new media?	yes X no p	describe how: by actually trying to construct a classroom in Active Worlds
4. do participants learn s.th. about the notion of new media?	yes X no p	describe what: another way in which one can use it . also that what is essentially a programme developed for playing games can be adapted to a more serious purpose.

category IV ACTIVE EXPLORATION OF CULTURAL HERITAGE
1. will participants explore in an active and creative way?	yes X no p	describe how: in the school visits they will have to be active and to share things with each other and the pupils
2. are they sensitized to parallels to their own home country?	yes X no p	describe how: through the decisions about what to put in the European virtual classroom
3. are there any innovative forms of experiencing culture (as opposed to conventional “guided tour”)?	yes X no p	describe how: making the virtual classroom

category V BENEFIT TO THE COMMUNITY
1. will the participants share their own specialist/cultural backgrounds?	yes X no p	describe how: by talking and presenting finally the virtual classroom
2. will there be a clear benefit for the community?	yes X no p	describe how: perhaps to the pupils - it would be nice to involve them in the production of the virtual classroom
3. is the value of the benefit in relation of the learning experience of the participants?	yes p no p	describe how:

If an activity does not meet all criteria, this does not mean it cannot be done, of course. Activities should “largely meet the criteria”. Often other participants have good ideas how to include further aspects which are still missing.

Good luck

Laurence

[1] should be a gripping marketing title (no more than 5 words)

[2] no more than 200 words

[3] can be a longer, more academic and descriptive title

[4] any participant can be leader of a workshop

[5] assistant must be from a group/nationality different from the leader

[6] e.g. the photographer in the photo workshop (external specialists)

[7] regular times at the moment are either Mon/Tue/Thur/Fri 10-13 or Mon/Tue/Thur 14:30-17:30 or Wed all day