"On Air Together!" is a 2 years project which aims at developing a strategic partnership between 6 European high schools from Poland, Czech Republic, Romania, Croatia, Italy and Greece. Literature, language, art, ICT, entrepreneurship and history teachers will work together with the secondary school students (15-19 years old) on creating an online radio platform which will broadcast news, reportages and music from partner schools, their regions and countries. The project will consist on 4 modules focused on 4 different types of radio journalism: interviews, news, music and reportage. Each module will contribute to participants' knowledge of different forms of radio journalism, entrepreneurship as well social media and history of radio. Participants will also be encouraged to develop their critical thinking through considering ethical implications of journalism and their actions. During the project it is intended to maintain an online radio platform, organise workshops on various topics, conduct surveys for continuous evaluation, while students and teachers are going to use cloud computing and media ICT tools and prepare tutorials, podcasts, blog and social media posts, presentations, posters and many more. All the results will be shared on the open license (CC-BY-SA). The variety of products to be completed will demand effective time and task management, communicative and social skills, motivation, positive attitude and responsibility. All those skills are necessary in academic education and professional career. At the end of the project students are expected to: 1. confidently and critically use the variety of ICT tools to produce podcasts, blog and social media posts, infographics, wikis, surveys, posters, etc. 2. communicate their ideas and opinions in English in a variety of forms (written, oral, formal and non-formal), develop awareness of intercultural understanding and demonstrate positive attitude and appreciation of cultural diversity. 3. identify needs, initiate, plan, manage, execute and evaluate actions with awareness of ethical implications that come with them, attempting different roles and developing motivation and determination in achieving set goals. 4. explore different teaching and learning techniques and develop new teaching strategies that will be implemented in the partner schools. 5. cooperate transnationally with partners and nationally with local partners and institutions, especially local radio stations. With the implementation of the project the Project Cycle Management (PCM) method is going to be used together with a variety of formal and non-formal activities and tasks.
"On Air Together!" was a 2-year project which aimed at developing a strategic partnership between 5 European high schools from Poland, the Czech Republic, Romania, Croatia and Greece. Literature, language, journalism, ICT, entrepreneurship and history teachers worked together with the secondary school students (15-19 years old) on creating works of the journalistic character that were shared on the project's online radio platform-website, which currently contains podcasts or videos with interviews, news reports, pieces of reportage and music reviews from each partner school based on the cultural aspects, social phenomena or local problems from students' regions or countries. Firstly, students developed their knowledge about journalistic genres so that the could later try it out in practice. The project consisted of 4 modules focused on 4 different types of radio journalism: interviews, news, music and reportage. Each module contributed to participants' knowledge of different forms of journalism, as well as entrepreneurship and history of the radio. Participants were also encouraged to develop their critical thinking through considering the ethical implications of journalism and their responsible actions in the world of news, mass and social media. During the project, partners maintained an online radio platform-website, organised workshops on various topics, conducted surveys for continuous evaluation, while students and teachers used cloud computing and a variety of media, ICT tools to prepare tutorials, podcasts, blog and social media posts, presentations, posters and many more. All the results are shared on the open license (CC-BY). The variety of products completed within the project developed participants' skills: effective time and task management, communicative and social skills, motivation, positive attitude and responsibility. All those skills are necessary for academic education and professional career. Students learned how to: 1. confidently and critically use the variety of ICT tools to produce podcasts, blog and social media posts, infographics, wikis, surveys, posters, etc. 2. communicate their ideas and opinions in English in a variety of forms (written, oral, formal and non-formal), developed awareness of intercultural understanding, dialogue and collaboration as well as demonstrated positive attitude and appreciation of cultural diversity. 3. identify needs, initiate, plan, manage, execute and evaluate actions with awareness of ethical implications that come with them, assuming different roles and developing motivation and determination in achieving set goals. Whereas teachers learned how to: 1. implement different teaching and learning techniques and develop new teaching strategies for partner schools. 2. cooperate transnationally with partner schools and nationally with local partners and institutions, especially local radio stations. With the implementation of the project, the Project Cycle Management (PCM) method was used together with a variety of formal and non-formal activities and tasks. The equipment bought for partner schools as well as the knowledge and competence gained thanks to the project are going to be used to further develop school radios and start student news agencies. The cooperation between partners is also maintained as most of the partner schools cooperate in the new project in 2019.