CONTEXT /BACKGROUND: The development of the computing on the cloud has helped the incorporation of the Technologies of Geographical Information ( TIG, in Spanish) to secondary education, as it wassho wn with the proyect before presented by the three partners of this proyect (“ Use of a GISWEB to the design of trails through European protected nature areas”). This time we intend to focus not only on the technology but also, mainly, on the methodology to be applied in the development of the proyect. Therefore, we are going to try to apply the Geographical Systems of information on the cloud ( GISWEB) to tell stories. 2018 has been declared as the European Year of our Cultural Heritage. The stories that we are going to tell will be related toou r heritage, especially that which deals with water ( bridges, dams, health resorts, mills, etc) ACTIVITIES: The students will be taught the use of the tool ( ArcGIS Online) in their first trip and they will share their knowledge with the rest of their partners in their countries, so that they could design maps with which they can tell stories. Each school will create a Story Map of ArcGIS Online, where they will collect the stories about the cultural heritage related to water that they have chosen among their surrounding. Upon images, text, video, graphics about a map, they will explain its historical origin, old and nowadays functions, main characteristics of each of the chosen hydrologycal elements, etc. After that, the students of every school will travel to the other schools and they will visit chosen heritage elements, which will have been cartographied and explained in the different story mapsin order to see, in situ, the received explanations in the digital maps which tell those stories. OBJECTIVES: A) To understand the social worth of the European cultural heritage, mainly about that which is related to water ( bridges, dams, aqueducts, spas, mills, etc). To make students learn Heritage is a source of richness and it can become a source of economic values. This object is connected to the horizontal priority: Social and Educative value of the European cultural heritage. B) To encourage the use of the new methodologies of working and digital technology applied to the heritage analysis: Encouragment of the working methodology “ Digital Map Storytelling” and the technologies of the System of Geographical Information on the cloud with ArcGIGs Online. This objective is connected to the Horizontal priority: Open Education with incoming practises in the digital age. C) To develop the students´ abilities: linguistic communication abilities will be developed when they are working with the digital narration of maps; they will get the cultural awareness and expressions when they analyse the hydrological heritage; the digitalabi lity will be acquired by the use of the Technologies of the Geographical Information and above all, the space ability ( inside the maths abilities and basic abilities in science and technology) acquired by working with digital cartography. The rest of the other abilities will be worked with in the same way as in any other educative proyects. This objective is related to the own priority of the school section : To encourage the acquisition of abilities and key aptitudes. PARTICIPANTS´PROFILE: Students of secondary education between 16 and 18 ( 96 trips) and teachers of the schools ( 24 trips): IES San Roque in Badajoz ( Spain) Organizers. Kispety Károlyi Mihály Magyar-Spanyol Tannyelvü Gimnázium in Budapest (Hungary) Escola Secundária Quinta das Palmeiras in Covilha ( Portugal) Gymnázium “Park Mládeze” in Kosice. METHODOLOGY: The design stage of the Story Map about the Hydrological Heritage with ArcsGIS Online in each school, will be done applying the methodology “Digital Map Storytelling”, with which each school will research and record the chosen hydrological heritage, explaining its elements on a map with texts, graphics, images or videos. During the trips, the students will visit the analysed elements which have been studied previously by the students of the school they are visiting and they will explain the story maps to value the importance and the explicative potential of the tool ArcGIS Online. RESULTS AND ADVANTAGES IN A LONG TIME PERIOD: A) Internationalization of the teaching activities encouraging the participation ofbteachers in future European proyects. B) Permanent advantages in the learning of languages and in other subjects like geography thanks to these new didactic methodologies which will be able to be used after the ending of the proyect. C) As material results of the proyect, a sequence of web maps and story maps will be created by each country with the information about the chosen heritage elements . This will be exposed in the web and in the application for mobiles gadgets which will have been created for that purpose in the development of the proyect.
- Context/background: The development of cloud computing has made easier the incorporation of Geographic Information Technologies (GIT) into secondary education, as it has been demonstrated by three of the partners of this project in a previous project ("Use of a SIGWeb for the design of routes through European protected natural areas"). On this occasion we work on the methodology "Digital map Storytelling" or Digital Cartographic Narrative, as well as on collaborative digital cartography (storymaps developed jointly by students and teachers). - Activities: Students were trained in the use of the tool (ArcGIS Online) in the first mobility in which they did a specific session in the computer classroom. Each center designed at least one ArcGIS Online Story Map, in which stories about the water-related cultural heritage of its environment, enriched with images, text, video, and graphics were collected. Students from all the centers, together with some teachers, travelled to each of the other schools and visited the heritage elements selected, mapped and explained in the different story maps to check, in situ, the explanations received in the digital maps that tell these stories. The development of collaborative intercenter maps through other tools such as Survey123 was also promoted. The visit to the Quinta das Palmeiras Secondary School in Covilhã (Portugal), was cancelled due to the arrival of the COVID-19 pandemic, and it was transformed into virtual mobility. - Objectives: (a) Raising awareness of the social value of Europe's cultural heritage, especially water-related heritage (bridges, dams, aqueducts, spas, mills, etc.). This objective relates to the horizontal priority: the social and educational value of Europe's cultural heritage. b) Promoting the use of innovative work methodologies and digital technologies in the analysis of heritage: Promotion of the working methodology "Digital Map Storytelling" and Web GIS technologies. This obfecha definitiva de finalización del proyecto es 31/08/2021.jective refers to the horizontal priority: open education and innovative practices in the digital age. c) Promoting the development of students' competence: in language communication skills, when working on digital storytelling with maps; awareness-raising and cultural expressions, when analysing the hydraulic heritage; digital competence through the use of geographic information technologies; and especially spatial competence (within the mathematical and basic competences in science and technology) for the work with digital cartography; in addition to the rest of the key competences they will be worked as in any educational project. This objective is related to the priority of the school sector: To promote the acquisition of skills and key competences. -Profile of the participants: Students of secondary education between 14 and 18 years old. Among the participants in each mobility there was at least one student and one teacher/caregiver of the specific autism spectrum classroom of the IES (Secondary School) San Roque, which made the mobilities very inclusive: IES San Roque de Badajoz (Spain). Coordinating institution Kispesti Károlyi Mihály Magyar - Spanyol Tannyelvü Gimnázium of Budapest (Hungary) Escola Secundária Quinta das Palmeiras de Covilhã (Portugal). Gymnázium "Park Mládeze" in Kosice - Methodology used: The design phase of the Storyy Map on Hydraulic Heritage with ArcGIS Online in each center was carried out applying the "Digital Map Storytelling" methodology, by which each center investigated and documented the selected hydraulic heritage, explaining its elements on a map with texts, graphics, images or videos. During the mobilities, the elements analyzed by the receiving center and explained in the story maps were visited in order to assess the importance of the ArcGIS Online tool and its explanatory potential. - Long-term exposed results and benefits: a) Internationalization of teaching activities encouraging the participation of teachers in future European programmes. b) Permanent benefit in the learning of foreign languages and in other subjects such as geography due to the introduction of new teaching methodologies that can be used beyond the completion of the project c) As material results of the project, a series of web maps and story maps were created with information on the heritage elements selected by each country that will be displayed on the web and in the mobile application that is created for this purpose for the project. In addition, in each mobility the participants took part in the elaboration of a collaborative digital map with geolocated images of the visits made.