Visit in Athens

After having visited Thessaloniki, on March the 26th we started our second part of our visit in Greece. We landed in Athens at late noon under a heavy rain! As soon as we got into our rooms we had some free time.

The second day in Athens we visited the Departent of Education Programmes of the Ministry of Education. All students and teachers were given two Museum of Acropolis and the Parthenon. We then walked around Plaka, had lunch and continued our walk at Thision.

The last day in Athens we were guided into the Hellenic Parliament, visited the local market, walked at the National Garden, visited the Zappeion Magaron Hall Centre, the Panathenaic Stadium and the city centre.

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.

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?

Thessaloniki Cinema Museum: the video

One of our MAGIC Comenius students created an interesting video using images and small video clips from our visit to the Thessaloniki Cinema Museum. The video shows different parts of our visit and how the students entered the world of filming.

As you may have guessed students entered a special studio where they wrote their script, shared parts and used the cinema camera to produce their short film. That was the most fun part of the visit and this is the short video they created!

Students had the chance to hear about the history of the world cinematography, watch a 3D movie about the cinema, watch and hear about important actors, directors and films in the Greek and international filmography.


Here is a 5 minutes video (in Greek) about the Thessaloniki Cinema Museum. Theo Aggelopoulos speaks about the museum and the Greek history of cinematography.

Thessaloniki Cinema Museum

Today the Comenius team visited the Thessaloniki Cinema Museum. Students participated in an interesting educational workshop about the history of the moving image and the Greek cinema.

Students had the chance to hear about the history of the world cinematography, watch a 3D movie about the cinema, watch and hear about important actors, directors and films in the Greek and international filmography.

Finally the students entered the world of filming in a special studio where they wrote their script, shared parts and used the cinema camera to produce their short film. That was the most fun part of the visit!

Finally we all had the chance for a short walk in the port of Thessaloniki!

Visit to the Thessaloniki Cinema Museum

The Comenius team and the rest of the students of the 2nd year of our school will visit the Thessaloniki Cinena Museum on Wednesday, 5 February 2014!

Our Comenius students will participate in the museum's educational programme in order to know the history of the moving picture and the history of the Greek cinema!

Students will report their experience and post their photos on their blogs! So please come back to read the latest news about our visit!

Next stop: Koper!

Now it is time to start getting ready for our second educational visit to Koper, Slovenia! The dates have already been set: 31 March - 7 April 2014.

Our partners in Koper have already prepared a timetable for all of us to follow:


Monday, 31/3: Arrival
Tuesday, 1/4: Visit to school, reception at the Town Hall, tour of Koper
Wednesday, 2/4: Workshops, tour of Piran and Portoroz

Thursday, 3/4: Excursion to the Postonja Cave and Predjama Castle
Friday, 4/4: Workshops, visit to the radio station and TV studio in Koper, visit to the Faculty of Media Studies in Koper
Saturday, 5/4: visit to Ljubljana
Sunday, 6/4: Sports at the Nature Park Strunjan
Monday, 7/4: Departure

We are all looking forward to meeting all of our students and teachers partners in Koper!

Visit to the De Pont Museum

While in Tilburg, the Netherlands , our Comenius team visited the De Pont Museum of contemporary art.

You are welcome to vies a short video from our visit!

Our visit to the Netherlands

Between the 26th of November and 3rd of December the MAGIC Comenius teams were met in the Netherlands! The educational visit proved a great experience for all students and teachers teams.

Υou may visit our Flickr page with hundreds of photos or view the following videos to get a good flavour of our Comenius spirit!

MAGIC Comenius students dancing on the streets after dinner!

 The Cups song - 28/11/2013, Tilburg, the Netherlands

Bicycling in the Nationaal Park De Loonse en Drunense Duinen  

 The Cups song 

Cups Song from the last night in Amsterdam

Many thanks to our Dutch hosts for their great hospitality!