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Reports about activities February 2015 – May 2015

A Virtual Intertextual Tour across Ancient Entrepeneurship

AVITAE (A Virtual Intertextual Tour across Ancient Entrepreneurship) aims to blend the study

of the classical world with the analysis of examples of ancient entrepreneurship: students

are going to follow the footsteps of the first entrepreneurs, study the evolution of

entrepreneurship through time and finally apply what they have learnt in theory into their

own entrepreneurial ventures; Classical world, entrepreneurship, digitalization: this is the

ambitious trilogy AVITAE relies on.

http://ec.europa.eu/programmes/erasmus-plus/index_en.html

www.etwinning.net

For more information visit our Twinspace:

http://twinspace.etwinning.net/2441/welcome

and webpage

www.avitae.org

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Denmark By Charlotte Straby Tranberg

February 2015

On Monday meetings:

The new activities for spring 2015 were presented to students

A session on branding was given by Claus Witfelt in order to prepare the Danish

students to Greece

The students worked on their projects: the presentation of coins; the 3D model og a

Danish invention; the Avitae-day; The article on historic dates.

March 2015

Monday meetings

The students continued to work on their projects: the presentation of coins; the 3D

model og a Danish invention; the Avitae-day; The article on historic dates.

The five students going to Greece were announced: Frida, Kateleen, Sara, Frederikke

and Svandis

March 3: Charlotte Straby Tranberg gave a presentation of the Avitae Project at a workshop

for Erasmus + at the National Teacher Convention – Bella Centeret

March 5: Status of the Avitae project was presented to all Staff from OEG at a meeting

March 24: Claus and Charlotte participated in the first teachers’ webinar

March 26: Avitae Day: We made a workshop in “design to Improve Life” to one of the

school’s 1st year classes, to teachers from primary school and to teachers from our own

school. The students participating in Avitae were assistent teachers. In the afternoon we had a

reception for parents, students, teachers where we showed what we had done in the project so

far.

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April 2015

Monday meetings

The activities for Greece were prepared

o 3D model of The Augsburg Quadrant + a four pages report on Thycho Brahe

and his inventions

o coins project

Participating in the Greece Meeting April 25 – May 2

During which Denmark had a session on branding:

May 6:

Morning meeting with breakfast where the visit to Greece was presented to the

students staying at home

The cooking book project was presented

May 7: video conference with Slovakia at their Avitae-day:

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May 19:

The students participating in the meeting in Slovakia Oct. 4 – 10 were announced:

Ask, Molly, Sofie, Amalie og Juliane

students were added to the international teams

A summer greeting video was made for the students of the partner countries

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Slovakia By Project Coordinator Kornelia Lohynova

February

After project meeting in Denmark the team of teachers presented the outcomes to the

Headmaster and to the school staff during the regular meeting.

AVITAE students discussed two important dates of our history that should be chosen for a

timeline for AVITAE newspaper and a case study for the meeting in Greece.

The students were divided into teams for different tasks. One team was responsible for

information about history of coins and currency, another team was responsible for preparing

presentation about Kremnica, our oldest mint and the last team organized a trip to Kremnica.

March

The students and teachers visited town Kremnica with the oldest mint to find out the history

of currency and minting as well.

We visited National bank of Slovakia for this reason too and students begun to prepare the

time line of the history of currency, the 3D model of Kremnica mint and the information

about the events during important dates of our history

The five students going to Greece were announced.

April

Students continued working on their tasks

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One week before the meeting in Greece, teams presented their work for the others to get

feedback.

May

After a meeting in Greece, we wrote an article about the meeting to the school webpage and

presented the outcomes to other students and teachers.

7th May was our AVITAE day that was connected with the celebration of the 10th anniversary

of eTwinning. We had Skype meeting with partner schools from Denmark and Cyprus and

our coordinator from Italy Mrs Delia Tocchini. All students and teachers of the school visited

a special classroom where our Erasmus project and all activities were presented.

During international eTwinning seminar in Bratislava, the coordinator of the project, Kornelia

Lohynova presented the project to the participants of seminar as best practice example.

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Spain By Project Coordinator Mª Dolores Rodríguez

January

We had our first mobility with students. We stayed for a week at Orestad

Gymnasium, Copenhagen, Denmark. An amazing school and a wonderful and unforgettable

experience. A lot of work was done:

Choosing the AVITAE logo.

Choosing our AVITAE mascot.

Work done by students about innovation and branding.

Deciding on the articles for the following newspaper.

Preparing the tasks for Greece.

Solving some communication problems.

Visiting the city, some museums, the aquarium, the FabLab at Roskilde

University,...

February

And we came back home with many new tasks to do:

Choosing two important dates for each country with a brief explanation about

them. A timeline with information of what was happening in each country would

be published in the May newspaper.

Deciding on our case study for Greece: our students

would make some research about the "Trade of Wine

in Tenerife", and prepare a PowerPoint to be shown

in Greece.

Choosing some Spanish coins for our students to

make a PowerPoint explaining details about them:

main features, materials, origin…

March

The first thing that was done was to choose the date to celebrate our AVITAE DAY

and to think of the activities that would be done. We decided to celebrate it during our cultural

week, 13th-17th of April.

We designed a big poster (150cm*100cm) to show our school a general view of

AVITAE and we printed it.

We also decided that our students should prepare some

other posters showing the importance of the Mediterranean Sea

in Ancient times for trade and entrepreneurship. They also

looked for some ancient Greek and Roman coins to show to the

rest of the school.

Our students also drew a huge poster of Hermes, Greek

god of trade

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Our students went to visit "The House of Wine" in El Sauzal, and

"The Royal Economical Society of Friends of the Country of Tenerife" in La

Laguna, looking for information to finish their tasks.

April

We finished our bimonthly report up to our mobility in Denmark , and the Denmark

Diary with photos and music.

Time for our Cultural Week and AVITAE DAY.

A schedule was elaborated so that all the students had the

opportunity to visit the exposition guided by students and teachers

involved in the AVITAE Project. So that the students that had travelled

to Denmark explained the project to other students of the school,

showing them some pictures, talking about their experience and

answering many questions. We also had a performance of a puppet

show called “Travel with Aeneas”.

Our students continued working in the tasks for Greece, finishing their presentations

and making the model and the 3D image of it. Once they had finished and got feedback, then

they practiced their presentations several times before leaving Tenerife. We made the final

preparations for the trip, and...

Greece, we are ready to go...

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Greece By project coordinator Ourania Karantzeni

As soon as the meeting in Arta was over we collected the students’ winning personal success

stories to be included in the third newspaper edition. We instructed participating students to

fill in the evaluation questionnaire and history quizzes and we invited more students to

twinspace to write their impressions on the padlet . We asked students to invite more in their

AVITAE facebook group.

We gave the contact details of five of our students for the forming of international teams

for the next project activity, and we selected two more to participate in the coins’ timeline

activity. We handed in the report from February to May and sent our ideas and suggestions for

the website.

We uploaded the material presented in Greece in twinspace and we started researching for

material and bibliography for the next assignment (nutrition in Anc. Greece, recipes etc). We

sought and delivered to students material related to the recipes’ assignment. We researched

about the local entrepreneur to be interviewed for the next newspaper edition and we

contacted the local chamber of commerce to get in touch with some of the local entrepreneurs

to effectuate the interview.

We prepared a presentation of the project to be shown in a conference on “The European

Dimension in Education” in Ioannina and we presented the work we’ve done to the school

stuff on the last day of school.→ DISSEMINATION.

We started preparing the paperwork for the Slovakia trip.

When we came back to school in September, we ordered books to look for more ancient

recipes and chose the ones to present in Bratislava. Students translated them. They also

created international menus, while working with their peers from the other countries. We

investigated further on the subject of cooking and nutrition in the past of our country and

prepared some points to be presented in Slovakia in case the others would like to include them

in the recipe book.

We elaborated on the next assignment, the ancient Agora and prepared points for the next

meeting.

We made the necessary preparations for the trip (students’ matching forms etc) and

sent to Spain the last dissemination moves we had made.