The European School Web TV project aims at establishing web-TV broadcasting of self-produced film clips as a means of exchange and education in a European school network. The European School Web TV is thus a pioneering project which serves the need of international educational partnerships to share film materials and to lively visualize their international cooperation through web TV displays in the institutions' public spaces. At the end of the project a European School Web TV Handbook will be published in form of an open-source interactive Prezi presentation to disseminate the project's experiences of a web-TV based educational partnership as widely as possible. The project's five partner schools with their respective profiles are: - Johannes Althusius Gymnasium, Emden / Germany (general secondary school): coordinating school of the partnership, expertise in Prezi documentation. - Lycée Félix Le Dantec, Lannion / France (general secondary and vocational school with media department): expertise in web TV setups, in particular the usage of Digital Signage internet streaming. - Střední průmyslová škola stavební, Valašské Meziříčí / Czech Republic (vocational school with focus on architecture and design): expertise in media design. - OFICINA Escola Profissional do Instituto Nun'Alvres, Santo Tirso / Portugal (vocational school with media department): expertise in film production and web design. - Fjölbrautaskólinn við Ármúla, Reykjavik / Iceland (general secondary school with experience in teleteaching of Icelandic students abroad): expertise on internet teaching and online learning environments. Description of project activity: The European School Web TV is a strongly student focused project: Student editorial boards (aged 15-18) are established at all five partner schools. They jointly run the European School Web TV between their schools with English as the communication and working language, thus acquiring entrepreneurial and international team working experience. They are responsible for the production of film clips and the subsequent assembly of the Web TV program. In four Learning/Teaching/Training Activities spaced out over the project's two years, the student editorial boards are trained to produce film clips, and to assemble and design the European School Web TV program. The European School Web TV program is uploaded onto an external Digital Signage server (internet streaming server). From there it is streamed onto small client computers at all the partner institutions. which transmit it to one or more screens and projectors in the schools' public spaces (e.g. school hall, cafeteria, etc.). The European School Web TV is thus simultaneously broadcasted to the school communities of all five partner schools at prominent places within the schools' public spaces. Hence the European School Web TV provides the partners with a sense of international community. In the first year, the project will start with the focus on school life in the five partner institutions. The European School Web TV thus serves the need of the partner institutions to get to know each other, but also to learn from each other's 'good practices' as particular innovative and successful educational practices are presented in the partners' film clips. In the second year, the European School Web TV's focus on school life will be topped up with jointly produced contributions on social, political, historical and/or environmental issues linked to the partner schools' curricula. The European School Web TV will thus become itself an educational tool. By exploring and portraying relevant political, social and environmental issues in a multifaceted European dimension rather than the unidimensional framework of national outlooks, students are encouraged to develop a sense of active citizenship within a European framework. At the end of the partnership, the project's experiences in setting up and running a Web TV between the partner schools will be moulded into a European School Web TV Handbook to be published by the teachers involved in the form of a 'Prezi' documentation, which will be widely disseminated on the internet. The rationale is to establish the European School Web TV as a 'prototype' which can be copied and adopted by other school networks throughout Europe. Participants: - Ca. 70 students are intensively involved (student editorial boards). - Ca. 20 teachers are involved in running the project with complementary expertise: project coordination, ICT/internet streaming expertise, video-conferencing expertise, film production expertise, web-design expertise, media design expertise, online learning environment expertise. - 5 school communities with ca. 4.300 members (students and teachers): They are the recipients of the European School Web TV, but are also ecouraged to actively participate by producing themselves film clips for the European School Web TV channel or by commenting the program on the European School Web TV website.
The European School Web TV project aimed at establishing web-TV broadcasting of self-produced film clips as a means of exchange and education in a European school network. The European School Web TV was thus a pioneering project which serves the need of international educational partnerships to share film materials and to lively visualize their international cooperation through web TV displays in the institutions' public spaces. At the end of the project a European School Web TV Handbook was drafted and published in form of an open-source interactive Prezi presentation to disseminate the project's experiences of a web-TV based educational partnership as widely as possible. The project's five partner schools with their respective profiles were: - Johannes Althusius Gymnasium, Emden / Germany (general secondary school): coordinating school of the partnership, expertise in Prezi documentation. - Lycée Félix Le Dantec, Lannion / France (general secondary and vocational school with media department): expertise in web TV setups, in particular the usage of Digital Signage internet streaming. - Střední průmyslová škola stavební, Valašské Meziříčí / Czech Republic (vocational school with focus on architecture and design): expertise in media design. - OFICINA Escola Profissional do Instituto Nun'Alvres, Santo Tirso / Portugal (vocational school with media department): expertise in film production and web design. - Fjölbrautaskólinn við Ármúla, Reykjavik / Iceland (general secondary school with experience in teleteaching of Icelandic students abroad): expertise on internet teaching and online learning environments. Description of project activity: The European School Web TV was a strongly student focused project: Student editorial boards (aged 15-18) were established at all five partner schools. They jointly ran the European School Web TV between their schools with English as the working language, thus acquiring entrepreneurial and international team-working experience. They were responsible for the production of film clips and the collocation of the web-TV materials. For technical and liability reasons, the programming of the regularly changing Web TV program had to be kept in the hands of teachers. In four Learning/Teaching/Training Activities spaced out over the project's two years, the student editorial boards were trained to produce film clips, and to plan and design the European School Web TV program. The European School Web TV materials were uploaded onto an external Digital Signage server (internet streaming server). The web-TV programs were subsequently programmed on the platform of the Digital Signage provider. The finished programs (web-TV schedules) were then streamed onto client computers at all the partner institutions, which in turn transmitted them to one or more screens in the schools' public spaces (e.g. school hall, cafeteria, etc.). The European School Web TV was thus simultaneously broadcasted to all the five school communities. Hence the European School Web TV was able to provide the partners with a strong international community spirit. The project started with the partners presenting their institutions to each other through the European School Web TV. The five student editorial boards thus produced film clips about their schools, their school life, and their schools' surroundings. The European School Web TV thus served the need of the partner institutions to get to know each other. The project then moved on to cover certain educational topics on the web-TV. The five student editorial boards jointly decided to deal with the topic of "national stereotypes", and produced film clips on this topic subsequently broadcast on the web-TV. Some of the partners' editorial boards also produced film clips about certain projects at their schools (eg. a project week in the German school, a student film festival at the Portuguese school), thus presenting their partners examples of 'good practices' at their schools. A major focus of the European School Web TV was the presentation of film clips the participating students produced in joint international teams during the projects' four Learning/Teaching/Training Activities. The students were given certain tasks for these clips involving the exploration of the local surroundings or of cultural specifities at the hosting location: "Stranger in Town" (LTTA in Czech Republic), "Elf Quest" (LTTA in Iceland), "Emden Crime Time" (LTTA in Germany). At the German LTTA, students produced evaluatory film clips that were broadcast on the web TV at the end of the project. At the end of the partnership, the project's experiences in setting up and running a Web TV between the partner schools was moulded into a European School Web TV Handbook in the form of a 'Prezi' documentation to be disseminated on the internet. The rationale is to establish the European School Web TV as a 'prototype' which can be copied and adopted by other school networks throughout Europe.