Visit in Thessaloniki

It was a great pleasurw to have all our partners in Greece this March! Ninety five students and teachers visited Thessaloniki from 22 March till 26 March and Athens from 26 March till 29 March 2015 according to our timetable.

On March the 23rd the students and teachers of our MAGIC Comenius project visited the City Hall. The vice mayor welcomed the teams to the city. They then visited the Archeological Museum of Thessaloniki and the Museum of Byzantine Culture of Thessaloniki where they had the chance to take part into a play role game and present their findings. After lunch, we all gathered to the conference room of the University of Macedonia where students participated in our first workshop when students presented theme 4: "Media bias".

The next day the students and the teachers took part into play role game in Thessaloniki. The activities were organised by Dot2Dot. All teams visited the church of Saint Demetrios, the ancient forum of Thessaloniki and the Bey Hamam. After lunch we again had our workshops in the University of Macedonia.They formed three grouos:

• Group A: Engaging in Causes Via ‘Hashtag Activism’
• Group B: News from Russia, Pakistan and China
• Group C: Challenging Hate Online

All groups members collaborated, discussed their topics and came up with ideas and proposals according to their approach. They then presented their ideas to the rest of the teams.

On Wednesday 25th of March the students and teachers were guided into the city centre. They visited the old byzantine and ottoman monuments of Thessaloniki and had their last workshop.

On Thursday 26th of March the students and teachers visited our school. Our head mistress welcomed the teams and the students had the chance to play basket ball in our school's playground and leave their message on a wall. After that all teams returned to the hotel, went to the airport and took our flight to Athens. Another great part of our visit in Greece had begun!

Workshops

Today, Sunday 22 March 2015, is the day that commences the third study visit of our MAGIC Comenius project. Students and teachers from Germany, Greece, the Netherlands, Norway, Slovakia, Slovenia and Spain are meeting in Thessaloniki, Greece.

Our team has worked hard to prepare this third study visit and our timetable is available for you to read. During these days we are going to take part to three different workshops about media. The workshops will take place at the University of Macedonia.

23 March, 1st workshop: Country presentations about theme 4: "Media bias". Students will present their findings about media bias.

24 March, 2nd workshop: Students are going to form three groups. You may find the groups members at this spreadsheet. For this day's workshop teams will work these lesson plans:

• Group A: Engaging in Causes Via ‘Hashtag Activism’
• Group B: News from Russia, Pakistan and China
• Group C: Challenging Hate Online

All groups members will need to collaborate, discuss their topics and come up with ideas and proposals according to their approach. They then have to present their ideas to the rest of the teams.

25 March, 3rd workshop: Students will fill a digital story telling questionnaire about mass media. They will then work in their three groups according to this plan.

Please meet Mark Ignotus

Today we received an email from a strange man called Mark Ignotus. His email is quite strange. Please read it carefully, especially those of you travelling to Thessaloniki!

MAGIC Spain booklet

Wow! The MAGIC Spain booklet is now online!

MAGIC Greece booklet

The MAGIC Greece booklet is now also available!

MAGIC Slovakia booklet

MAGIC Slovakia booklet is now also available for you to read! This is the third booklet we have prepared for our partners' visit to Greece this March. So far we have ready the MAGIC booklets from the Netherlands and Norway. As soon as all partners' participants submit their data we will create a single booklet for all of us! This will be hopefully published in high resolution while we will keep the low resolution for you to read online!

Happy reading!

MAGIC expectations!

What do our friends from our partner schools expect from their trip to Greece?
To find out take a look at the following wordles!

Our Dutch partners expect the following:

 And these are the Norwegian expectations from their trip to Greece!

 

Hold on! We 've got the expectations from Slovakia as well:

 

And here are the expectations from Greece!

MAGIC Netherlands' booklet

Another one MAGIC Comenius booklet is ready to be added to our final one and this time it's the Netherlands that has submitted all the needed data! Well done to the Netherlands! Take a look to the participants at the link below!

MAGIC Norway's booklet!

Norway's MAGIC Comenius booklet is almost ready! Get a preview below and feel free to comment on it!


We will be gathering all teams booklets to create a single one for your visit to Greece! So, hurry up and submit your data using this form!

Booklet draft

More and more students are submitting their data so that we can create the MAGIC booklet of their visit to Thessaloniki & Athens, Greece, this March!

We are glad to share with you a first draft of our MAGIC booklet cover and inner page as well. Feel free to comment, share ideas, likes and dislikes!

If you haven't submitted your data yet, catch up by accessing the form at http://goo.gl/1giUg5.

Let's create a MAGIC booklet!

Please complete the following form to help us create a MAGIC booklet for your visit to Greece! Once we have all answers, we will print the data to a booklet, so try not to upload a low resolution image of yours. The booklet hopefully will be published online as well!

Visiting Greece: the timetable

We are very happy to announce the timetable of our partner schools visit in Greece from 22 March  till 29 March 2015. Students and teachers will first visit Thessaloniki for four days and then we will all fly to Athens for a three days visit!

During our friends stay in Thessaloniki we will visit and have two small scale projects in the Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki and the Museum of Byzantine Culture of Thessaloniki. We will have a treasure hunt and a guided tour in the city as well. Of course we will stroll by the Thermaikos sea side and have a wonderful party!

In Athens we will visit the Acropolis Museum,  the Parthenon, walk down the Dionisiou Aeropagitou Street, Thisio and Plaka. Finally we will have the chance to visit the Hellenic Parliament and take part to one of its educational programmes.

The complete timetable of your visit to Greece is available for you to read!

Getting ready for our partners visit

While our teams are working on theme 3, we are also getting ready for our partners visit to Thessaloniki next March! There is a great chance that we also visit Athens!

So we have rolled up our sleeves and started organising activities and events. If you have any ideas please feel free to add them as a comment. What should we avoid? What would you like to see and visit?