EU LLP Comenius project DynaMAT
E-Book editing meeting (BG)
Sofia , December 8 – 10, 2011
Purpose (from the workplan):
As volume and content of book is clear by now, this meeting will start the editing process; the structure of the book and the layout will be discussed and decided at this meeting. A meeting of the steering committee will take place.
Remainder (from emails before meeting)
To hear Jarmilas feedback in Sofia, then do corrections until end of December, then translate until end of February.
Program
Wednesday, December 7
Arrival all teams
Thursday, December 8
Evaluation and remarks on materials by DK team
Evaluation and remarks on materials by BG team
Evaluation and remarks on materials by SK team
Evaluation and remarks on materials by IS team
Evaluation and remarks on materials by AT team
Evaluation and remarks on materials by IT team
Friday, December 9
Choice of materials for translation
Organization and preparation of the e-book
Discussion about preliminary courses and workshops (each partner to report about how they plan to use the materials in courses and collect feedback about it to improve the materials)
Saturday, December 10
Financial part: Preparation of intermediate report
Dissemination: Collaboration and associate partnership with ProCoNet Education (Project Coordinators Network in Education)
Plan till the next meeting and fixing the next 2 meetings.
Sunday, December 11
Departure day
Plan for Pre - courses: the structure of the pre - course can be quite different, depending on the concrete possibilities to implement arguments and materials from the e – book in pre - course with future and in service teachers. Common basis is the choice of arguments and topics developed from different partners in the project. This specific flexible organization was already planned in the proposal, where for pre - course one can find the following description:
Materials (applications, tasks) that are considered ready for use in national languages of each of partner institutions.
DK - main arguments – chi square distributions, GPS in nature, interaction with AT and SK teams, create network, IS students were supposed to choose one article from all materials of the E - book, read it and write an evaluation (3 – 4 pages) + fill in the evaluation form, Euclidean eggs, elementary introduction to Geogebra, use of geogebra for study of functions
BG - around Napoleon problem, topics from application of geogebra to find loci, special topics for primary school teachers
AT fractals, GPS, We shall have three activities: One with two teachers who will pilot in their classrooms (one geometry, one geography), one whole semester course with 30 pre-service teachers, and one with in-service teachers from teacher training day, between 30 and 50 teachers.
SK precise table is presented, GPS, topics from models in chemistry,
IT – complex numbers in geometry, billiard problems, history and mathematics, probability topics, students (future teachers) prepared projects, pre course of about 40 hours with 20 participants
Summary of decisions:
- Materials to be finalized according to comments in discussion (see above) until January 15, 2012
- Intermediate report to be filed by Vladimir until April 30, 2012
- Upload all financial information and copies of evidence (tickets, boarding passes, receipts [if not on daily allowance base], nd particularly time sheets) to database until February 15
- SK and AT teams: Write summary for homepage until end of February 2012
- IT and BG teams: Write suggestion for consolidation of “work plan” part of homepage
- IT team: Stay in contact with ProCoNet-team
- BG, IT, AT teams: Write suggestion for feedback form until mid-March 2012, then commenting phase for partners, final version due end-March 2012
- Next meeting in Arhus, Denmark, either June 20-24 or June 16-20 [finally fixed to June 16-20]
- Meeting after that in Pisa, Italy, September 26-30
MINUTES of the MEETING (confidential part) |
