Manipulating images is fun!

Today's meeting was very fruitful for our MAGIC Comenius members. Everyone rolled up our sleeves to dive into image manipulation, editing posts, working on comics and getting ready to present our project to the rest of our school students. Once again we met at our school computer lab!

Image manipulation fascinated us so we dived into Gimp, the GNU image manipulation software we mainly use to create our manipulated photos. Some samples of our students work are really great fun to see! Take a look at how Despoina Tsakiri repositions herself in the ice skating arena in Tilburg! It's just great that Tom lifts Vasilis just in front of the StayOkay youth hostel! Or to see John ice skating in the... fields!

Well, you guessed it! They are manipulated photos!

Some other students will start looking up information about our next meeting in Koper, Slovenia and post it on their blogs.

 

So what our next plans? The online comic book team will have to get in touch with the rest of the students of our Comenius partners so that they will start using pixton.com to set up their ideas and create their comic book. The online magazine team should contact their Comenius classmates from other countries to start posting their diaries.

So , see you soon in our next week's meeting!

Going ahead with the ads

Today our Comenius group had a very fruitful and promising at the same time meeting. We concluded on what is left to be done on our blogs and started commenting on our friends blogs from other countries.


Seven students with a teacher started working an idea on how to present our MAGIC Comenius project, social media and advertising to the youngest students of the school. One idea they came up with is by acting. The rest of the team found it very interesting and thought it would be funny as well!

Social media networking (part 3)

Today our Comenius team met and discussed some new units to study for social media networking. In particular all five teams (magic1, magic2, etc.) will have to access their corresponding work sheets, watch some videos, answer some questions discuss their findings and share them on our blogs and facebook Comenius group.



The activity sheets corresponding to the 5 units* are the following:

• MAGIC 1: Unit 1. What is Social Media?
• MAGIC 2: Unit 2. School policies
• MAGIC 3: Unit 3. Pedagogical principles
• MAGIC 4: Unit 4. Internet safety and responsible use
• MAGIC 5: Unit 5. Challenges to adoption

As we are getting ready for our trip to the Netherlands, we set our teams to work for our school, city and country presentations.

*Parts of the activity sheets originate from the study of the "Challenges and opportunities for schools and teachers in a digital world. Lessons learned from the 2012 SMILE action research project".

Third meeting

During our third meeting on Tuesday the 8th of October, we were engaged with the creation of our blogs. Students were split in five groups of five to six members: Magic1, Magic2, etc.

For each group there was set a blog administrator and author invitations were sent to all students who started writing their first posts on their blogs.

Then we discussed about joining the closed group of the Comenius project on facebook using our real names. Most of the students joined the group and uploaded their first post to the group.

There was a lot of talk about the coming visit to the Netherlands and we announced the trip timetable to the students. 

Second meeting of our team

The second meeting of our team took place on the 1st of October 2013. The students and teachers set our own rules and the we were split in four parts of five and six people. Each group discussed what would like to share with the whole team and wrote down what it "offers" to the team and what "requires" back from it.

We wrote all the terms on the white board and found a lot of similarities such as: cooperation, solidarity, nice behaviour, nonviolence, mutual understanding, sharing ideas and experiences, knowing each other and people from other cultures. We agreed on these terms and signed our team contract.

Then we discussed about how to create new gmail accounts and how to post new articles using blogger for our blogs. Further instructions were sent via email to the student accounts.