BackgroundThe history of creating films dates back to the 19th century. In every country this topic is tied with schools curriculum, development plans. Therefore five partners start a project F.I.L.M - Fantasy, Illusion. Learning, Making. Main subjects as mother tongue, English, history, also science, technology and arts are tied: *Fantasy - creating scripts, acting them out, translating into English, creating decorations: mother tongue, foreign languages (English, French, Russian), arts, technology; *Illusion - visual effects: optics in physics, experiments in chemistry, technology (eg creating music with Makey-Makey, decorations in 3D modeling etc); *Learning - studying film history, copyright; all subjects and activities are tied with learning and schools curricula using new innovative methods like flipped classroom, learning out of the classroom, involving enterprises, parents etc in order to make studies more effective and motivative; *Making - creating films, its music, script, visual effects, decorations with different web- and digitools (cameras and other technology). In given project students from the first to last class can be involved, key competences are developed, new innovative curricula/educational methods are used. Objectives:* rise interest and skills of students towards using new technology, creating films as educational materials, also presentations, integrate these activities into studies and therefore rise interest towards their studies; * develop and exchange teaching methodologies in order to increase teachers' motivation and learning outcomes;* familiarize students with professions as scriptwriter, operator, film producer and others connected to given topic;* avoid school failure early school leaving,* improve students' competence in mother tongue, literature and foreign languages,* improve their skills in using internet for educational purposes,* improve intercultural competence.Number and profile of participants: about 800, including students and teachers, enterprises, parents. Description of activities: film is created where a main character travels through every partner country and introduces activities carried out during the project. Workshops and visits to film companies are organised. Technology and web tools for producing films are studied, educational materials are created. Film history, licensing and copyright are studied. Optics, lighting and other film effects are studied in physics, chemistry. Methodology carrying out the project:*peer to peer learning, flipped classroom,*involving enterprises (technology companies, TV/film centres etc) into studies,*creating educational materials by students,*including project work into studies.Description of the results:*Website of the project and/or blog *Etwinning project;*Survey: preferences of films/prodcasts etc; *Presentations about results of questionnaires *Web and paper based pedagogical materials;* Films about meetings, activities are created;*Pedagogical films that can be used in the lessons are created and presented.Impact:Local level, regional, national level:*modern technological solutions at schools that are shared to other educational institutions (playschools, youth centres, hobby schools), teacher trainings in local, regional and national level. *more aware people of using these solutions and methods in their everyday job;*less unemployed, more skilled, open-minded and self-confident people in municipalities including people with special needs.European level:*all materials will be uploaded in etwinning twinspace available for all European teachers;*partners and other teachers start using new methods, materials and technology in the lessons, at work, therefore more motivated students and parents;*sharing knowledge and experience on how to involve more young people and people with special needs to afterschool activities. Long-term benefits:Given topic is a part of school curriculum and development plan in partner schools. Therefore during the project different pedagogical materials are created. All materials are uploaded to the project web page, etwinning portal, educational portals in every partner country and ECAS. That way materials are available after the end of the project and used by educationalists in local, regional, national and European level. All materials eg presentations, worksheets, films etc, will be created with high quality so that after the end of the project they can be used as pedagogical material for schools. playschools and other educational institutions in their studies and adults' trainings. Also they can be presented in seminars and/or conferences in other regions and countries. Schools can share their knowledge with other schools using materials created during the project. Seminars and ICT trainings on local, regional and national level will continue where people participated in the project can be involved as trainers or lecturers.
As in every partner school project topic was included into schools curriculum, development plans, five partners decided to start a project F.I.L.M - Fantasy, Illusion. Learning, Making. As the topic was studied with European partners it gave a possibility to handle the topic more deeply and widely, improve new innovative teaching/learning methods as project-based learning, using ICT, integrating lessons (mother tongue, foreign language, ICT and technology, history, science, arts, music, literature), peer to peer learning, outdoor lessons, involving external partners (eg film museums, non-profit organizations). Key competences as digital competence, communication in mother tongue and foreign language, basic competences in science and technology, learning to learn, social and civic competences, sense of initiative and entrepreneurship were improved in different activities in collaboration with students, teachers, parents in other countries. It also gave a possibility to get acquainted with film history and films, actors/actresses in other countries, to show how they handle and herit their film history. In given project students from the first to last class in every school were involved into activities. Objectives:*rise interest and skills of students towards using new technology through creating films, presentations, games as educational materials; *integrate project activities into studies in order to make studies more attractive and therefore avoid school failure, early school leaving; *develop and exchange teaching methodologies in order to increase teachers' motivation and learning outcomes; *familiarize students with professions in film; *improve students' competence in mother tongue, literature and foreign languages; *improve students’ skills in using internet for educational purposes; *improve intercultural competence. Number, profile of participants: about 800 Description of activities: by all partner schools workshops for film history, optics, lightning, creating scripts, music, visual effects, visits to film companies, museums, science centres; studying technology and web tools for producing films, licensing and copyright were organized. Educational materials were created. Organizing project days, films nights, Erasmus/etwinning days were organized. Creating films of different genres in every school and with all partners. Schools were active to organize extra activities. Eg in the meeting in Italy all schools together created a film The Ballade Singer were participating students appeared as actors. Script was prepared by the coordinator of Italian school. School in Portugal organized an Erasmus Christmas party, Estonian school organized two film nights and theatre afternoon. Schools in Poland and Lithuania organized etwinning days introducing teh project to students and parents. Materials were reflected on a project web page, etwinning portal, Facebook. Methodology: *peer to peer learning, *flipped classroom, *involving external partners (eg film museums, non-profit organizations) into studies, *creating educational materials by students, *integrating lessons project-based learning. Results: *Film course incl topical descriptive presentations, games, *Website of the project and/or blog; *Etwinning project; *Survey and the summary of the results about preferences of films/prodcasts etc; *Web and paper based pedagogical materials; *Films about meetings, activities; *Different genres of films. Impact: local, national, regional level *new technological solutions used in teaching/learning process, shared to other educational institutions (playschools, youth centres, hobby schools); *more skilled teachers and students of using technological solutions and teaching/learning methods in their everyday job; *less unemployed, more skilled, open-minded and self-confident people in municipalities including people with special needs. European level: *all materials available for all European teachers uploaded on etwinning twinspace; *partners and other teachers started implementing new methods, materials and technology in the lessons, therefore more motivated students and parents; *sharing knowledge and experience to other schools on how to involve more young people and people with special needs to project work and afterschool activities, therefore positive impact to schools reputation. Long-term benefits: educational and other materials available after the end of the project uploaded to the project web page, etwinning portal, educational portals in every partner country and ECAS can be used by educationalists in local, regional, national and European level. Schools can share their ICT knowledge with other schools using materials created during the project. Seminars and ICT trainings on local, regional and national level will continue where teachers and students participating in the project will train others on how to implement new teaching methods into studies.