In Greek Senior High Schools, both General & Vocational, the Video (VHS or DVD) together with the Educational TV programs have been utilized so far by the Greek teachers, mainly as supplementary material in teaching thus offering in most cases a passive experience to the students.
In contrast to what happens to Greece, teachers and Vocational schools in the industrially developed countries of the European Union, include the Video in their daily teaching practice energetically. Schools subscribe to on-line video libraries of certified European organizations providing their users with Educational videos. A main example of such organization is the “Lesite.TV” of the French educational channel “France-5”.
Anticipated goals
This project aimed to enable the participant teachers to execute basic tasks involving the processing of digital videos, as well as to promoting any pedagogical utilization in the
classroom. Specifically:
Α) To utilize pedagogically the educational videos in the classroom
Β) To create an educational digital video with the use of widespread software.
Time and place the mobility activities took place
All activities took places in two (2) flows:
1st flow: United Kingdom, from 27-11-10 to 04-12-10, with 10 participants
- Ravensbourne College, London with trainers Mr. Richard Huges and Mr. Greg Loftin.
2nd flow: France, from 01-05-11 to 08-05-11, with 10 participants
- Centre Nationale de la Documentation Pédagogique – CNDP with Mr. Marc Philippe
- Centre de Ressources et d’ Information sur les Multimédias pour l’ Enseignement Supérieur – CERIMES with Mr. Damien Poivet
- Lycée Polyvalent Jules Ferry with Mr. Michel Priou
- Lesite.tv with Mrs Gwenaelle Signate and Mr. David Blanchard
Participants work
Each participant teacher had the obligation to create and deliver an educational video (short in duration). The video subject should be related to his specialty field. For this, 20 such videos were delivered, published to the Internet, send to the IKY Foundation and also to the National Coordination unit for the Leonardo da Vinci program.
Diffusion Event
The diffusion event took place on Thursday the 2nd of June 2011, at the meeting center of the Church of Ag.Athanasios. At the meeting, two of the participated teachers presented their educational videos named "3-phases Electrical Distribution" and the “dichotomy of drachma” created for this project. These videos were designed especially to be suitable for teaching in the Vocational Schools.
Participants of the event were the representatives of the local government and the local professional organisations, the Head of the Vocational Education office, School advisors, School headmasters and teachers from schools at Thessalonica.
