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!

The Dark Side of the Moon

While in Tilburg the Comenius teams followed three interesting workshops. One of them was about the "Dark Side of the Moon", the  French mockumentary by director William Karel which originally aired on Arte in 2002 with the title Opération Lune. The basic premise for the film is the theory that the television footage from the Apollo 11 Moon landing was faked and actually recorded in a studio by the CIA with help from director Stanley Kubrick. It features some surprising guest appearances, most notably by Donald Rumsfeld, Dr. Henry Kissinger, Alexander Haig, Vernon Walters, Buzz Aldrin and Stanley Kubrick's widow, Christiane Kubrick.

While watching the documentaire students were invited to complete a work sheet and reflect on what they watched.

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!

The logo winner!

The new, official version of the logo for the project is here to stay! Many congratulations to the students that created it!

Voting for the logo

Today we also voted for our MAGIC Comenius project logo. Among some wonderful logos our partners created, we chose the following one:

Preparing the presentations

After our skype meeting with Dr. Vangelis Kaimakamis, our team collected the multimedia content for our presentations about Greece, Thessaloniki and our school. Students will present their products in the Netherlands. Three teams started working on each theme. Students mainly will use prezi.com for their presentations.

Skyping with Vangelis Kaimakamis

Today, 12 November 2013, our MAGIC Comenius team skyped with Vangelis Kaimakamis, the Greek ESA-sponsored medical doctor that spent his winter and summer at Concordia Research Station, on the on the Antarctic Plateau, in Antarctica! Dr. Kaimakamis arrived in the Concordia on 22 January 2013 and plans to return in Thessaloniki, Greece by the end of November 2013.

The students had prepared their questions about his research work, his daily activities and use of social media and were happy to talk with the doctor. In this way they had a first hand experience of the use of skype, a social media wide used nowadays.

The greek team thanks Dr. Vangelis Kaimakamis for accepting our invitation to skype with us!