City bricks - a new eTwinning project in our school

The 122 Primary school from Sofia  takes part in a new eTwinning project, established uring the PDW in Billund, Denmark. There are primary schools from France, Italy, Denmark and Latvia.
Our main goal is t to build knowledge in a cooperative way. Using ICT, students will explore their city comparing and sharing differences and similarities urban environment of our cities located in 4 zones of Europe. Each school will contribute to a common educational process bringing a 'brick' of knowledge. Pupils will take part of an e-learning community exploring their cities. They will search mathematics, scientific and geographic data to compare with their partners. They will elaborate knowledge using problem solving methodology.
Winter in Bulgaria came so late. In January we had temperatures between 10-20 degrees C. In the end of January children can enjoy snow and real winter!
Look at the work of the students from 122primary school, Sofia.  

Siena course

In February 2010 I took part in an International Course in Siena, Italy, which was organized by Educatief Centrum Noord en Oost (ECNO) – Cultural Institute in Groningen, Netherlands. The theme was Cultural heritage and ICT - Icons of Identity: Siena. The organizers of the training were Fokko Dijkstra - course director, teacher trainer, cultural heritage expert, ict expert; Maria Caterina Laiolo - teacher and teacher trainer; Mariele Sani - cultural heritage Tuscany.
The participants in the course were teachers and teacher trainers from 7 European countries – Italy, Spain, Finland, Norway, Greece, Hungary and Bulgaria.
After receiving confirmation of selection by the national agencies the course participant received a user account for the seminar magazine. In this magazine I prepared and published two articles – about my teacher’s work for introducing myself and about Bulgarian national icon – The Bulgarian Rose. I had to use a new software program. The organizer – Fokko Dijkstra helped every participant, me too! When I had some problems, I was given immediately advices by email.
One of the chain course themes is how cultural heritage can play a role in identity and loyalty.
The chain network created and promoted instruments and events to accomplish collaboration between people and institutes involved in European cultural heritage education. In the course we developed a conceptual framework of European cultural heritage. To this aim internet instruments have been developed to be used in courses, projects and schools. The general idea of this software is to have a virtual book on European cultural heritage jointly produced by teachers and pupils all over Europe.
All participants were very impressed by the national Italian icons for identity : famous Sienese summer horse-race, known as Il Palio , Piazza del Campo - the heart of the town,The Duomo – the famous cathedral of Siena, San Gimigniano – the town of beautiful towers, Abbazia di Monte Oliveto Maggiore, St. Antimo , the beautiful landscape of Tuscany.
During the course period participants collected information during field work, visits and lectures. At the last day of the course working groups/teams transferred this information/documentation into the internet tools http://chain.to/?m12=481. After the course this input was improved and expanded.
The course itself offers a didactic model for heritage education: main (European) themes, fieldwork activities, teaching methods, reflection and the use of advanced, interactive ICT tools. The chain (ict) instruments can be used to prepare and realize own partnerships and projects. To this aim after the course the participants receive coordinator rights in using the chain software for their own educational work, in their own schools as well as in (Comenius) partnership work.
I created my own project in this book: Bulgaria my precious country http://chain.to/?t2=542. I wrote two articles about Bulgaria.
I wrote my own article \in seminar book\ about Abbazia di Monte Oliveto Maggiore, too, because it extremely fascinated me.

It was a great experience for me! I hope I can take part in the next my CHAIN course and learn more about European culture!

Our Swedish partners in Bulgaria

We like Black Sea...

"Santa Marina" - Holiday Village near Sozopol
We had there 10 breath-taking days!

OUR SCHOOL SELEBRATION

Every year in May we celebrate the birthday of Nikolai Liliev - Bulgarian poet-lyricist.

WE WISH ALL THE PARTNERS A MERRY CHRISTMAS!

MERRY CHRISTMAS

There are some of the best
pupils' cards.