Learning with cartoons and animations: Our school is a state school which has been opened since 2008. It’s got 17 classrooms,538 students ( between 10-14 age ) and 24 teachers. There is a computer room and web in our school. The computer room has electronic equipment. In our staff,our English teachers and computer teachers have taken part actively in this project. All our students (in 6th,7th,8th grades ) have tablets given by Kocaeli Metropolis Municipality. By this project,we have been planning these tablets are educative tools with softwares. Because some of our students have difficulties in learning disability in spite of using these digital devices. Last educational year,our 229 students couldn’t pass upper classes,they could pass by the way of teachers board’s decision. We want to improve our education quality by using these students’ digital abilities. In our project,our targets are preparing animation in lessons and cultural topics:1-To bring digital abilities to the students who are in different education grade. 2-For teachers,to bring attitude to develop digital learning in classroom. 3-To store digital education tool to use in every education level as course materials. 4-To provide to the students knowledge and gains by the means of digital tools. 5-To share experiences and to know more cultures by cooperating transnational. 6-In the topic of learning and teaching language,to make improvements with digital skills. The number of participants and profile: There are seven partner schools. There will be ten students in each school cartoon and animation teams. There are schools from different educational grades, the students will be chosen from the ages 10 to 14. Methodology will be used: International cooperation will be done with the schools in the program. Animation software training will be taken in order to improve the digital skills of the participants. This training will be given at the first meeting. Participants of this course will guide the ones that didn’t participate to the mobility through peer learning. Short stories will be written and language skills will be improved by finding out the culture of the country that has been visited at the first place. Then, cultural cartoons and animations will be done. Animations will be done with the same method on a topic that will be given according to the curriculum of the host school. Expected effects: 1-With the help of continuous learning that students used the tablets are forced to learn the lessons and we didn't learn in school are expected. Students are expected to reach personal learning method, information effects. The personal learning methods, peer learning is expected to spread more with students. Students software to produce digital course material to produce new, digital professional interested to hear, language skills enhancements, new cultures, recognition of the expected effects. 2-Teachers will leave the old ways anymore, will apply innovative methods of epoch. Students prone against the digital skills, teachers are expected to bring out a positive attitude. To do this, they will be creating digital media in schools. Classrooms will be benefiting from the digital tools. Teachers will produce digital materials for their lessons. Thanks to the transnational cooperation will develop language skills and culture are closely will recognize. Teachers ' digital skills to acquire and use more digital tools in the expected effects. 3-The project partner schools, mobility and cross-border cooperation will improve the quality of education through. Teachers, students and parents to improve the common workspaces, training materials will be moved to the digital environment. This will create an interactive learning environment. In schools, will be held in the new learning environments with digital integration, digital teaching tools and teaching methods will be applied. Transnational cooperation is expected to improve the quality of education of schools with effects. 4-Elimination of disadvantaged parts of Society information is digital education deficit easier. Information is easier to reach from anywhere. Teachers for the community; knowledge, skills and work processes will exhibit in the digital environment. Parents also benefit from this sharing is the expected effect. Potential benefits in long term: With digital integration at the schools the improvement of the quality of education will be ensured. Teachers are going to benefit from the digital lesson materials by using the digital abilities of the students. At the end of the project 490 animation videos archive will be created. Also they will benefit from the contemporary digital sources by the means of innovative methods and they will improve their professional competence.
Learning with cartoons and animations: Our school is a state school which has been opened since 2008. It’s got 17 classrooms,538 students ( between 10-14 age ) and 24 teachers. There is a computer room and web in our school. The computer room has electronic equipment. In our staff,our English teachers and computer teachers took part actively in this project. Kocaeli Metropolis Municipality gave tablets to All our students (in 6th,7th,8th grades ) . By this project,we used these tablets as educative tools with software. We improved our education quality by using these students’ digital abilities. In our project,we prepared animations about lessons and cultural topics:1-we discovered digital abilities of the students who were in different grades.2- teachers developed their attitude to digital learning for the lessons. 3- we stored digital education tool to use it in every education level as course materials. 4-students learned to use digital tools. 5- we shared experiences and learned more cultures by cooperating our partners. 6-teachers improved themselves to teach language, and students developed their language skills by digital skills.The number of participants and profile: There were seven partner schools. There were ten students in each school cartoon and animation teams. There were schools from different educational grades, the students was chosen from different ages from 10 to 14.Methodology was used: International cooperation was done with partners in the program. Animation software training was taken in order to improve the digital skills of the participants. This training was given at the first meeting. Participants of this course guided the ones that didn’t participate to the mobility through peer learning. Short stories were written and language skills were improved by finding out the culture of the country that had been visited at the first place. Then, cultural cartoons and animations were done. Animations were done by using the same method on a topic that was given according to the curriculum of the host school. Students used the tablets to learn the lessons. These students who could use these ICT devices improved the digital integration. Teachers who were lack of digital skills had positive attitudes to digital subjects. In our school we had a project about science and technology. And students used animation programmers to do their homework and project works. Some students made presentations by using this animation that they did. they integrated it to all lessons.they learned different cultures and traditions. they introduced their own cultures so they had a cultural harmony during this meeting. thanks to this project they had chance to practice English with foreign people.So their English marks increased. they started to use applications to keep in touch with their foreign friends by speaking English. they were eager to go abroad. they improved their self-confidence and represented their countries abroad. These videos were posted via youtube and facebook channel. We had planned that 5 students and 2 teachers would join to the Short-Term Learning/Teaching/Training Activities in the application form. According to the application form, 42 participants had been planed for 6 meetings. We had more participants than the planned at the end of the project. Totally 48 participants from our school (31 students and 17 teachers) joined to the meetings. Two kinds of animations about subject and culture were done in each meeting. 490 animations were planned in the application form but more than 500 animations were done. The animations were stored and used as lesson materials. Animations were shared via our youtube channel (Learning with Cartoons and Animations) and opened to international access. Also, all animations were shared by Twinspace that a portal in the E-twinning. And they were shared on all schools’ web pages. Information about our project was shared on EBA that is a web page of Turkish Ministry of Education has our animations. There was a lot of news about our project as local area. Visits to Municipality, Governorship and Ministry of Education were made. Participants visited historical and cultural places, museums and official places in each meeting.