STUDENTS' SCHEDULE

THURSDAY 25TH

08:45 09:35	Introduction (guests and hosts) at the school library
09:35 10:25	A visit around the high school and its facilities.
10:25 10:45	Break
10:45 12:25	Introduction of our guests to the members of the staff Each country will show its power point presentation about its school, its educative curriculum and the town where they come from.
12:25 12:45	Break
12:45 14:15	Gincana (game) around Padrón
14:25 15:25	Lunch
16:00 18:30	Visit to the cathedral roofs and guided tour of Santiago (both teachers and students)

FRIDAY, 26 NOVEMBER

08:45 10:25	Spanish lessons
10:25 10:45	Break
10:45 12:25	Projection of a Spanish film in English
12:25 12:45	Break
12:45 14:25	Guided tour of Padrón (both teachers and students)

MONDAY, 29 NOVEMBER

08:45 10:25	Science lecture: Explanation about how the rias were formed
10:25 10:45	Break
10:45 12:25	Galician lessons
12:25 12:45	Break
12:45 18:00	Excursion to see the Ría of Arousa, the natural park of Corrubedo dunes, the Axeitos Dolmen and the Castro of Baroña (a castro is a walled fortified village, dating from Prehistorical and Roman settlements in Galicia and Northern Portugal).
18:00	Farewell party (for teachers, parents and students).

TEACHERS' SCHEDULE

WEDNESDAY, 24TH NOVEMBER

20:00: Meeting official opening at the Auditorium of Padrón, with the presence of members of the town hall.

At the end, a reception will be offered by the town hall

THURSDAY, 25^TH NOVEMBER

09:35-10:25: A visit around the high school and its facilities.

10:25-10:45: Break

10:45-12:25: Meeting at the school library

• Introduction of our guests to the members of the staff
• Each country will show its power point presentation about its school, its educative curriculum and the town where they come from. (Several computers with internet connection, a projector and a screen will be available).

12:25-12:45: Break

12:45-14:00: Meeting at the school library

• Distribution of tasks between the coordinator and the other partners

14:00-16:00: Lunch

14:30: A bus will pick us up at the school entrance to go to Santiago.

16:00-18:00:  Visit to the cathedral roofs and guided tour of Santiago (both teachers and students)

19:30: A bus will pick up the students (accompanied by a Spanish teacher) to take them back to Padrón.

FRIDAY, 26^TH NOVEMBER

09:35-10:25: Meeting at the school library.

• Each of us will share its ideas concerning the subject we will be working on during this school year (part I):

§        Spain: Mythology in Literature, Arts, Music and Science

§        Italy: Roman Art

10:25-10:45: Break

10:45-12:25: Meeting at the school library.

• Each of us will share its ideas concerning the subject we will be working on during this school year (part II):

§        Poland

§        Turkey

§        Greece: Olympic games

§        Romania

12:30-14:25: Guided tour of Padrón (both teachers and students)

14:25-16:00: Lunch

SATURDAY 26^TH NOVEMBER

I’d suggest visiting A Coruña, a nice town on the NW coast, about 65 km from Santiago, where we can easily get by train. It has quite an important Roman heritage, a medieval town and, besides, a lively commercial activity (just in case you want to go shopping). A group of Spanish teachers could go with you, if you wish.

SUNDAY 26^TH NOVEMBER

In Padrón you can find the most important open air market in the area. If it’s sunny, it’s really interesting. Some of us could go with you, if you wish.

MONDAY, 29TH NOVEMBER

09:35-10:25: Meeting at the school library.

• We should agree on the deadlines of the different parts of the project as well as the dates of the two other meetings that are going to take place along this school year.

10:25-10:45: Break

10:45-12:25: Meeting at the school library

• Webpage

12:30-18:00: Excursion to see the Ría of Arousa, the natural park of Corrubedo dunes, the Axeitos Dolmen and the Castro of Baroña (a castro is a walled fortified village, dating from Prehistorical and Roman settlements in Galicia and Northern Portugal).

19:00-20:00: Farewell party (for teachers, parents and students).

Problem with surveys in the forum.

Marta told me to solve a problem about the survey in the forum: many people couldn't vote on surveys.

I think I found out what the problem was:
when you want to vote in a survey, you don't have to open the page of the results before voting. You first have to vote and then you will see the results of voting.

The system considers this action (to see the results) as a vote.

It's really strange and I don't know why, but it is true.

Clarification on the quizzes and essays

Quizzes:

Three activities must be finished: 

1. please, check if the answers our students gave to the other countries questions are correct, to improve our knowledge;
2. please, check the other partners' answers on our country too;
3. so that the best one could be chosen (please, notify your suggestion how to make this choice)

The deadline for these activities is 2nd November 2010.


Essays:


Three activities must be finished:  

1. each country must choose the best essay among the three which have been uploaded in the forum. The deadline for this activity is 5th November 2010;
2. the survey will then be uploaded, which all the registered students will answer. The deadline for this activity is 12th November 2010;
3. there will be a prize for the best essay which will be given in Spain.

A DRAFT SCHEDULE

WEDNESDAY, 24TH NOVEMBER

20:00: Meeting opening at the Auditorium of Padrón, with the presence of members of the town hall.

A reception will be offered by the town hall

THURSDAY, 25^TH NOVEMBER

10:00-10:30: A visit around the high school and its facilities.

10:25-10:45: Introduction of our guests to all the members of the staff.

10:30-13:30: Meeting at the school library (we will have several available computers with internet connection).

13:30-16:00: Lunch (in Padrón or in Santiago).

16:00-18:00: Guided tour of Santiago.

FRIDAY, 26^TH NOVEMBER

09:30-12:30: Meeting

12:45-14:00: Guided tour of Padrón (both teachers and students)

14:00-16:00: Lunch in Padrón or in Santiago

16:00-17:30:  Visit to the cathedral roofs (both teachers and students)

DURING THE WEEKEND THE STUDENTS WILL STAY WITH THEIR HOST FAMILIES

SATURDAY 26^TH NOVEMBER

I’d suggest visiting A Coruña, a nice town on the NW coast, about 65 km from Santiago, where we could get by train. It has quite an important Roman heritage, a medieval town and, besides, a lively commercial activity (just in case you want to go shopping). A group of Spanish teachers could accompany you, if you wish.

SUNDAY 26^TH NOVEMBER

In Padrón you can find the most important open air market in the area. If it’s sunny, it’s really interesting. Some of us could go with you, if you wish.

MONDAY, 29TH NOVEMBER

09:30-12:30: Meeting

12:30-18:00: Excursion to see the Ría of Arousa, the natural park of Corrubedo dunes, the Axeitos Dolmen and the Castro of Baroña (a castro is a walled fortified village, dating from Prehistorical and Roman settlements in Galicia and Northern Portugal).

18:30-20:00: Farewell party (for teachers, parents and students).

Problems with the students' forum

I am trying to fix all our problem with the students forum: http://comenius.forumfree.it/.

Paloma, Alexandra, Nicoleta and Taner (who is the last one to enter) are MODERATORS of their own section.

Please, remember that to do something on the forum, you have to be "logged in" with the name and password you registered.

How to upload an image or a video on our forum:

These are instructions to follow:

to post an image:

- open a new topic

- write your message

- When you want to put an image on a topic you have to: (1) look down the page ON THE LEFT, (2) there you will find “forumfree hosting”, look just right and you find “search” or something like that; you have to search for the image you want to upload from your pc. (3) Once you have found it, write a description or a title of the photo just below the box “forumfree hosting”.

That’all for pictures, when you click “post the new topic”, you should find the pic on your post

To post a video:

- is just a little bit complex, because you should have a “Youtube account”. If you have one, you must upload your video on your account. Anyway you can upload all the videos in Youtube, so if one of your students has one it is OK to upload on our forum.

- open your video from Youtube page

- click on the box of the “code to incorporate” (or something like that),

- just below this box, you will find another one with the code,

- copy that code on the post you are writing on our forum.

I have just tried and it works. Look at the Italian section.

HOTEL AND HOST FAMILIES

HOTEL 

As I haven't been able to find rooms at the same hotel, I have booked at Hotel Costa Vella for Italy, Romania and Turkey. There were not triple rooms but they offered to put a third bed in the biggest room of the hotel. It is a little more expensive but, as Nicoleta and Bruno will come on 23rd, it seemed better to host both of them in the same hotel.

I remind you the prices (breakfast included):

• triple: 99+8% IVA
• double: 65+8% IVA
• single: 50+8% IVA

This is what I have booked at Hotel Costa Vella:

• Romania:1 triple and 1 single (23rd to 30th)
• Italy: 1 double and 1 single (23rd to 30th)
• Turkey: 2 double (24th to 30th)

Greece and Poland will stay at Hotel Entrecercas.

Prices (breakfast and taxes included):

• double: 75
• single: 55

The booking I've done is:

• Greece: 2 double (24th to 30th)
• Poland: 1 double and 1 single (24th to 30th)

I hope everything is OK and you enjoy your stay at the hotels.

HOST FAMILIES

I think I have already found host families for all the students.

QUIZ

You can send me the questionnaires on Thursday and I'll upload on the forum page.

A colleague asked me if our quiz had any rules and I didn't know what to answer. I suppose the school that first solves all the quizzes will win, but I have some doubts:

Of course, the students will upload the answers only if the whole questionnaire is solved. But,
must the students upload the answers of all the questionnaires together or can they upload the answers of each questionnare as they are finding them out?
Please, let me know you opinion.

ABOUT THE EXPENSES

Nicoleta, we took part in other Comenius and we used to pay the excursions, tickets organised by our school here in Spain..., but we can speak about it if you want. But not today, I am going to have a drink because tomorrow it's holiday here in Spain.

Good evening