1) SMALL INTERCULTURAL TEAMS

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	Share Your Songs
Description[2]	Songs are windows to our cultures! I would like to invite you to share songs of your country with other nationalities. Traditional songs, maybe, that tell us a little bit about how things used to be in your country/region/city, or other, more modern songs that portray your culture in a certain, maybe even stereotypical, way. I would also like to sing easy canons and popular songs with you. We will cooperate with the music workshop so that we will be able to offer a „stunning performance“ on Friday J
Subtitle[3]
Leader[4]	Kerstin Otto (kotto@tak.schule.de)
Assistant[5]	a non-German assistant is still needed
Workshop specialist[6]
Participants	- Linda Lindemann - Simone Klibingat - - - -
Time[7]	Mon/Tue/Thur 2:30- 5:30 (Dress Rehearsal with Music Workshop on Friday at 2:30)
Place
Materials needed	Please bring 12 copies of one or two songs (lyrics and music) from your country/culture

category I SMALL INTERCULTURAL TEAMS
1. no more than 6 participants?	yes p	possibly 10-12
2. at least 3 nationalities	yes x
3. at least from 3 stations	yes x
4. which activities facilitate intercultural communication?	Talking about contents of songs will automatically convey information about our cultures and attitudes/perspectives of things.

category II CONNECTION TO THE WEB STORY
1. activity is already included in web stories	yes x no p	Singing and Music: Steve’s birthday party on the train from Dublin to Westport. Hamburg group.
2. results will be included in web stories	yesp no p
3. is extra technical support needed?	yes x no p

category III CREATIVE USE OF NEW MEDIA
1. will the new media be used in a creative way?	yes p no p	describe how:
2. are they essential to the activity?	yes p no p	describe why:
3. will the participants learn to use the new media?	yes p no p
4. do participants learn s.th. about the notion of new media?	yes p no p	describe what:

category IV ACTIVE EXPLORATION OF CULTURAL HERITAGE
1. will participants explore in an active and creative way?	yes x no p	Everybody is asked to present/bring a song(s) and explain it/them. We will then work on a small performance.
2. are they sensitized to parallels to their own home country?	yes x no p	sharing songs and stories with each other will automatically make us compare and contrast cultures.
3. are there any innovative forms of experiencing culture (as opposed to conventional “guided tour”)?	yes x no p	we are all sharing certain aspects of our cultures with each other through our songs. Everybody is asked for input. It is an open/experimental workshop.

category V BENEFIT TO THE COMMUNITY
1. will the participants share their own specialist/cultural backgrounds?	yes x no p	see above.
2. will there be a clear benefit for the community?	yes x no p	This workshop is an invitation to learn about each other’s cultures.
3. is the value of the benefit in relation of the learning experience of the participants?	yes p no p

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