This project has been funded with support from the European Commission.
This material reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein
This project has been funded with support from the European Commission.
This material reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein
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THE INITIATIVE PROMOTER’S PERSPECTIVE
The motivation to start the eJournal-project came from the project coordinator after participating in a course in Lapland ("the midnight sun course" eJournalism 2.0 - Educational Collaboration Across Borders Using Web based Tools (http://ejournal.eduprojects.net/lapcom2/) and there she learned how to use an eJournal. The motivation was totally personal.
Assist students of German to learn the language by using the eJournal method.
The pedagogical approach was that the students worked on the eJournal once a week for a whole school year: they wrote texts, made pictures and videos and at the end of the project they communicated with the other partners live via a tool embedded in the eJournal.
eJournals available yearly and the pupils are very enthousiastic every year
The teacher that initiated the project has been doing the same project for 4 consecutive years after the prize.
THE NELLIP NETWORK’S PERSPECTIVE
This project supports innovation in the learning and teaching of foreign languages and awareness towards multilingualism
Comments on this Case Studies
Date: 2014.11.12
Posted by Arhip Cristian (Romania)
Message: I find the idea very rewarding for both students and teachers. Through the ejournal, the students practised not only German but they definitely experienced the cultural background of their partners, learned new skills from the Web2.0 inventory and gained an international voice to sound their problems, challenges, hobbies, share issues with peers all over Europe and earn the respect of the international team of teachers.
The idea is transferable to any language and it could be developed among networks of teachers and communities of students.
The fact that the coordinator could keep up the good work for 4 years after the end of the project shows the fact that after the first journal was created both the students and the teachers involved, found the process and the result satisfying enough to continue to do this without special funding , just for the sake of the result and of their international communication. This is a very solid evidence about the sustainability of the idea.
