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PATCH-WORLd Project general overview
16 January 2009
Rzeszów - Poland
3rd MeetingThis project has been funded with support from the European Commission.
This publication reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein
PATCH-WORLd – PArenTs and CHildren Working, ORganising and Learning together 135285-LLP-1-2007-1-IT-KA3-KA3MPGrant Agreement 2007- 3620/001-001
Up to date Phase of research to point out the impact of new technologies in family life in Europe, aiming to check in particular the role of ICT in the following areas:
FAMILY GENERAL USE OF ICT FAMILY COMMUNICATION AND RELATIONSHIPS GAMING AND RECREATION EDUCATION SECURITY AND SAFETY
and phase of preliminary analysis, in order to develop the virtual
online environment…
Let’s start with Experimentation …..
After the research phase ……
Half FebruaryHalf February
Creation of the didactic on-line environment answering the characteristics outlined and the requirements highlighted in the previous work phase.
Creation of the E-Shop. It will make participants more active and collaborative. The system is based on the number of points/credits (virtual currency) of the activities in the communities
Creation of the On-line learning game system inside the virtual environment.
Questions
Determine and realize the integrated Rewarding System during the whole span of the life of the community
Arrange the on-line and off-line monitoring systems for the evaluation of the accesses and for the creation of passwords
Publish on-line
Game handbook
by each partner the technological referent
will be defined with the purpose of acting as gathering
point for the solution of the technical problems linked
to the functioning of the software learning environment
and its utilization
Deadline: June 2009
This phase focuses on the experimentation of the model and is implemented through the following main activities:
Coordination activities
gather the material for the Video-spot that will be realized at the end of the experimentation
monitoring and evaluation of the development of the activities and of the outcomes, involving the national reference authorities
draw up, in each country involved in the project, a national Report about the result of the experimentation on the basis of a uniform index, so as to facilitate the aggregation of the data for the drawing up of the final report.
draw up the final Report of the project
Composition of the Commissions in the partner Composition of the Commissions in the partner CountriesCountries
WhenWhen
Who areWho are
Their tasks, in each partner country, are:
Supporting the evaluation of the national experimentations
Supporting the dissemination of this crucial phase of the project
Before the Before the beginning of the beginning of the experimentation experimentation
with familieswith families
Summarizing the outcomes from this point on ....
OutcomesOutcomes WhoWho WhenWhen
VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTVIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT
It will host the online community and will be a sharing
experience with integration characteristics.
GIUNTIGIUNTI January 2009January 2009
E-SHOP/prize systemE-SHOP/prize system
It is based on the number of points/credits (virtual
currency) of the activities in the communities.
GIUNTIGIUNTI January 2009January 2009
LEARNING GAMELEARNING GAME
Multiplayer videogames on different domains – as with a
quiz, a video/photographic competition, audio material,
etc.
GIUNTIGIUNTI January 2009January 2009
OutcomesOutcomes WhoWho WhenWhen
QUESTIONS FOR THE GAME QUESTIONS FOR THE GAME
Each partner will have to produce questions belonging to
the areas singled out in the framework of the “quiz
contest”.
ALL THE ALL THE PARTNERSPARTNERS January 2009January 2009
CHALLENGERS DATABASECHALLENGERS DATABASE
It will allow to define the players teams for the national tournaments and for the transnational one of the online learning game on the base of a matching random system.
ALL THE ALL THE PARTNERSPARTNERS January 2009January 2009
GAME MANUALGAME MANUAL
It summarizes the research activities of the learning environment allowing to define the game structure and rules. It will contain also a schedule of the challenge-events of the online learning game and the details about the behaviour of the users. The manual will be in English and in the other languages of the participating countries and will be indispensable to start the experimentation because it explains how the games work.
GIUNTIGIUNTI January 2009January 2009
OutcomesOutcomes WhoWho WhenWhen
NATIONAL REPORTS AND SINTHESYS REPORT ON THE NATIONAL REPORTS AND SINTHESYS REPORT ON THE
EXPERIMENTATIONEXPERIMENTATION
The national reports will be the final document describing
the results of the experimentation.
The final synthesis report will be the final document
summarizing the project results and analyzing weaknesses
and strengths.
All the Partners All the Partners and the and the
CoordinatorCoordinatorJUNE 2009JUNE 2009
PROJECT BROCHUREPROJECT BROCHURE
Diffusion instrument that will be created together by all the
partners. This will be distributed during the project events
and will allow the diffusion of project objectives and
activities. A common layout will be arranged to be
translated in the partnership national languages.
All the PartnersAll the Partners For the national For the national conferencesconferences
VIDEOSPOTVIDEOSPOT
The Video-SPOT will be a diffusion instrument built by all
partners. It will reach the individual involving him/her in the
work. It will be published on the project’s website and
broadcasted on local and/or national television in each
participating country.
The Coordinator + The Coordinator + all the Partnersall the Partners
During the During the experimentationexperimentation
The DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIESThe DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES
PrinciplesPrinciples
Promoting the methods and the innovative instruments in order to transfer the project results
Increase the project visibility and so guarantee a major diffusion of the principles and the objectives it is based on
Diffusing the efficiency of the realization processes
Give information on the intermediate and long term results and the impact of the project activities, even when the project is completed
Introduce the activities each partner carries out during the entire project implementation, implementing it both with regard to the intermediate results, and the final ones.
Emphasise the results achieved with the work implemented by each project partner
Give and diffuse good practices examples in the covered field
Reach the better results as possible
IN ORDER TO DO THIS, IT IS FUNDAMENTAL ….
For this purpose, in the partner countries the members of the Local Broadcasting Network (for the national dissemination) and of the Dissemination Team (for a more
wide-ranging dissemination) have been singled out, and are involved in the project dissemination.
Moreover Involvement of parents, voluntary, school, religious associations, of local institutions, of the organizations working in this field… This is a fundamental factor in order to create the conditions
to increment activities visibility and so a wider diffusion of the project principles and objectives.
A constant and capillary diffusion, as regards beneficiaries and potential users of the
project, of the partial and final results, in the national language, in addition to English,
with the channels foreseen by the project (…Website, Newsletter, VideoSpot …).
DURING ALL THE PROJECT ACTIVITIESDURING ALL THE PROJECT ACTIVITIES
DISSEMINATION
Dissemination actions are transversal to the entire projectDissemination actions are transversal to the entire project
The Dissemination Team (DT) has to:
Guarantee diffusion and transferability of the results to other beneficiary groups and geographic areas.
Monitor the objectives and the steps of dissemination.
Gather the contents produced by the partners, the preparation and distribution of the informative material.
Arrange the dissemination meetings.
Purpose: to allow that the dissemination activities are immediately usable and promote the on-going results.
Moreover dissemination has to accompany the experimentation activities of the intermediate results
and has the purpose of comparing the results with the users expectations, so to allow improvements and
corrections
One task is toOne task is to encourage the DT members to promote the encourage the DT members to promote the involvement in the Forum activitiesinvolvement in the Forum activities
Main dissemination arrangements and systems for the spreading of information and of the project outcomes in PATCH-WORLd are:
TO DISSEMINATE ACTIVITIES AND RESULTS AND TO ADDRESS THE STAKEHOLDERS ON THE TOPIC
WhatWhat HowHow WhenWhen
Project Website
Links to the website of Patch-World in the websites of the project
partner organizations and in the websites of organizations that work
in the field.
Continuously Continuously
updatedupdated
On-line Newsletter
and via message as an mp3 file
They contain description about intermediate, final results and
employed methodologies and also general communications,
comments and information. Each partner provides the contents, that
are reviewed by the coordinator.
They can be a very good instrument of internal communication and
updating among the partners and an effective external
communication for the promotion and diffusion of project results.
After the main phases After the main phases
of the project of the project
accomplishmentaccomplishment
Periodic sending
every 4 months
OPPORTUNITY TO INFORM NATIONAL MEDIA (TELEVISION, NEWSPAPERS) -1-
WHAT WHAT HOW and WHYHOW and WHY WHENWHEN
Project Brochure To disseminate the project objectives For the national conferences
News releases and Press conference To diffuse the initiatives carried out in each partner country
during all the project activities
At least one press
conference for each year of
work in all the countries
WHAT WHAT HOW and WHYHOW and WHY WHENWHEN
Publication of articles Publication of the project results in local and national press and in journals specialized in the sector of the new technologies applied to the education, for the diffusion of the planning initiatives and of the experimentation outcomes
These will get wider audience of potential users and of audience interested in the educational innovation all around Europe.
During all During all the the projectproject
National conferences These will be held in project partner countries and will be open to the public. In national conferences the foreseen dissemination activities are addressed to a more general diffusion, also to the wider public.
The participants will be: project partners managers, experimenters, stakeholders and people interested in the project activities.The purpose is: To spread the results and reward the winners of the national competitions of the learning community game with a prize in all the countries involved
June/July June/July 20092009
OPPORTUNITY TO INFORM NATIONAL MEDIA (TELEVISION, NEWSPAPERS) -2-
WHAT WHAT HOW and WHYHOW and WHY WHENWHEN
Final Conference In the final conference the foreseen dissemination activities
are addressed to a more general diffusion, also to the wider
public.
The boards of examiners will elect the winners of the transnational match of the learning community game
October 2009
Video-SPOT It will be the dissemination instrument to spread the project outcomes with the use of the gathered material
A compatible version of the Video-SPOT will be uploaded on the website of the project
Each partner country will realize the broadcasting of the Video-SPOT from at least one national television for each partner country
During the experimentat
ion
OPPORTUNITY TO INFORM NATIONAL MEDIA (TELEVISION, NEWSPAPERS) -3-
TO UNDERLINE….
Each partner will spread promotional materials in its own original language and in English with information about activities and results achieved, especially those concerning the experimentation phase.
All partners contribute to the valorisation and dissemination processes making the material easier to access and to obtain for the target group across the Europe, with the purpose of making usable the dissemination activities and the promotion of the on-going results.
NEXT MEETING – MaltaNEXT MEETING – Malta (Apr/May 2009)(Apr/May 2009)
FINAL CONFERENCE – Turkey (October 2009)FINAL CONFERENCE – Turkey (October 2009)
A great transnational participation is foreseen, in order to show the reached results, the project outputs, and the transferability criteria to other fields. The participants will be at least two
representatives of each project partner, stakeholders and persons interested in the project activities.It is foreseen a prize ceremony of the winners of the transnational tournament.
Thank you for your kind attention!
16 January 2009
Rzeszów - Poland
3rd Meeting