Current European research shows that a flexible approach to learning is favoured by a growing number of students who need to fit working life within the framework of learning new skills; in addition, older members of the workforce wish to engage in life long learning. For many people full-time attendance at a local training organisation is problematic due to disability, geographical location or working patterns. The aim of the project is to develop Educational Podcasting (audio/media broadcasting over the internet) to enable these learners to gain knowledge through part-time attendance whilst maintaining the personal support of a tutor.

The six partners, from Greece, Italy, Latvia, Romania, Poland and the UK have met regularly over the life of the project to develop the product, evaluate activities, plan tasks and resolve issues. In the second year of the project, trainees have also been involved in these meetings to ensure the successful piloting of the project. Effective communication between meetings has be ensured via e-mail, video conferencing, on-line meetings and a project blog.

The majority of the podcasts that are presented in this blog, have been developed by the students of the project which have enhanced their technological together with their cultural skills.

Communicate with us

If you want to contribute to the blog please send an email to euprograms@action.gr

Thursday 16 December 2010

Latvian video for Romania

Hello from Latvia. We apologize for our delay, because we had a lot of work in our educational institution. It is not very cold, despite the fact that a lot of snow fell. And as always, the snow is not removed. Walk through the forest is very difficult, especially in the morning, when there is trail in the snow. But Christmas and New Year i coming and it is full of positive emotions. All the festive mood and all the streets are decorated. We also have Christmas tree in city center, in my opinion is better and more environmentally friendly would be to use artificial tree.

In our institution began the winter holidays, which will continue until January 3rd, joy! I hope that the weather will be great for that period of time. I would like to ride in our skis. But it is our benefit that there is lot of snow because i would like to ride skis.

Work on material for Poland is already underway and before the end of the year will try to finish everything. After all, the work should be done as soon as possible, then to relax and not worry.


P.S. Here is our video we did for Romania. Work on it we all really enjoyed it. For us it was the first experience of the film. Of course, not everything turned out as hoped, but the result satisfied us.



P.S.S. To make this video we used 1000+ photos.


Thursday 2 December 2010

Tasks for Poland

It's time to get ready and prepare the tasks that you have to do for the meeting in Poland. You can learn the tasks that you have to do by listening to the audio podcast below

Wednesday 1 December 2010

Get to know Rzeszow

The next transnational meeting of our project is going to take place at the beautiful city of Rzeszow in southern Poland. Let's have a closer look to the city that will host from the 19th until the 23th of February through this video that was made by the Polish students and was presented during the 4th meeting of the project which was realized in Petrosani, Romania.



Rzeszów - the county town located in south-eastern city is the capital of the Podkarpackie Province, the seat of government and major institutions in the region.
Rzeszów serves as the main center of industrial, commercial, cultural and educational center of the region.
Rzeszów has an international airport (Rzeszow Jasionka) and science and technology park focused on aerospace, pharmaceuticals and information technology.
Percentage of students in the general population is highest in the country here.

Tuesday 30 November 2010

How Greek Young people have fun

A very important cultural aspect of the life of young people in all the countries is the way with which they have fun. Greek people have a reputation that they know to have fun even during their working days. The proof can be found in the video below which was created by the Greek team of the Podcasting project and was presented in the 4th transnational meeting of the project in Petrosani.

Dancing in Romania

As we have all realized during our visit in Petrosani, the Romanian people like a lot to dance. Here is a video about dancing in Romania which was made by the Romanian students participating in the Podcasting project and which was presented during the transnational meeting in Petrosani.

Tuesday 23 November 2010

Hey all the project members

Hello everybody, we will meet all again on February in Poland. Are we ready for that? I hope we will have interesting meeting, because I enjoyed it last time in Romania!

See you soon.

Madara aka Jo :)

Monday 8 November 2010

calling all staff

Hello to you
I am writing because we agreed to keep everyone informed on the Blog what we are doing each month, as a minimum. So I expect you have all been waiting for me to start the talk for November.
In England we have celebrated an event called Guy Fawkes night, 5th November. Many people attend firework displays and have large fires made of wood. This is to remember an event in history when a man attempted to burn down the Houses of Parliament, he was stopped!
We have about 10 weeks to Poland, so I have been preparing the student tasks we agreed, about women at work.
I have sent them today to Kostas for uploading to the learning platform.
Please keep checking the blog for progress of this event.
Look at the news I have added to the students work space area on the Blog.
Also make sure your students can access the learning platform and the work for them.
We have to make a good start on the work now.
Please add to my Blog so we know what activities are happening in your organisation.
Good bye for now.

Monday 25 October 2010

Photos from Romania

10 days after our return, from our beautiful journey in Romania, here are some photos from the activities that we have realized in Petrosani and surroundings.










Wednesday 6 October 2010

Hello , Costas Bredakis

Hello everyone , i am Costas Bredakis from Greece and i am studying chemical engineering at National Technical University of Athens. I am very happy to participate in this trip to Romania and i hope everything will go as planned. See you soon!!!

Monday 27 September 2010

Hello everybody

Hello, my name is Madara Kalnavarna A.K.A Jo. I am the newest member to the podcasting project. I am studying at Leeds City College. I just want to tell you that I am happy to join your team and hopefully you will enjoy my work and my skills in your team!
See you in Romania! :)

Monday 6 September 2010

Meeting in Romania

06.09.10

Dear All

Greetings from sunny Leeds - it seems we are going to have a lovely autumn after a not very lovely summer. I'm looking forward to catching up with everyone in Romania soon and am just writing to say that Barry and I are meeting tomorrow to pull together the Agenda for the visit. Do let me know if there is anything specific you wish me to include.

Very best regards.

Carolyn

Monday 28 June 2010

Trailers of the PODCASTS

If you want to get an idea about the work that the students did during the meeting in Athens. Check the trailers of team 1...



And Team 2


PODCAST Meeting Athens- Our experience

How do students evaluate their experience of working together? What have they learned? What skills have they improved?

Here is the presentation of the experience of Team 1...



And here is the presentation of Team 2


2nd PODCAST- Meeting Athens

RADIO PODCASTING is here. During the transnational meeting in Athens, the two student teams have produced radio programmes which combined the change of intercultural experience between the students and music.

Team 1 has chosen to speak about working possibilities and anxieties.


Team 2 has chosen to talk about stress and favourite songs


1st PODCAST- Meeting Athens

Different countries, different cultures, the same project... Students from 5 different European countries (Greece, UK, Romania, Poland, Latvia) have met in Athens in the framework of the PODCASTING project and have created audio podcasts in order to share their intercultural experiences. This is the first of the two podcasts that the two student teams have created.

Team 1 has decided to focus on public holidays and famous places of each country.


On the contrary, Team 2 has decided to talk about cuisine differences, seasons of the year and personality aspects.

Wednesday 23 June 2010

LEARNING PLATFORM ROMANIA

Use this thread for all communication about the learning platform
Ask you teacher how to start the work and agree when you will complete it
Dale and Chris will give technical support on this thred

You are not working in teams

You work alone

VIDEO PRODUCTION ROMANIA

Use this thread to plan your video
Remember you are making short clips in your own country and editting the final video in Romania
1. agree the topics for the final video
2. plan how you are going to prepare

Ila Amin will look after this thread

NEWS FOR STUDENTS

HELLO
8th November 2010
10 working weeks to POLAND

You have 2 things to do before we arrive:

1. complete the 3 tasks about women at work on the Learning platform
2. complete the evaluation of the tasks

What is this?
The reason for this work is to check your preferred method of learning and submitting assignments.
There are three separate tasks; each one is to be completed by you. You may talk to other students and please discuss the work on the blog.
It is very important that you do the work yourself and submit the work to the learning platform. Your teacher will be able to help you to send the work to the learning platform.Please check with you teacher to make sure you can see the learning platform. Your teacher will tell you when the work has bee uploaded.

If you have any problems, tell your teacher.

Friday 18 June 2010

Meeting in Athens (Photos)







Both students and staff have worked hard during the meeting in Athens for the Podcasting project. Here are some photos from the meeting









Tuesday 1 June 2010

Plans for Athens (Work and leisure activities)

Thursday morning we are meeting at the office at 10am. We will then have 1 hour with both teams together, this hour will be used to get to know each other and to sort out our teams.

After that hour we will then split up into our teams and go to our separate rooms, here we will read through the scripts and record our Podcasts. We have Thursday and Friday to record our podcasts, although if we finish early enough on Friday, we can go on an organized trip to the Acropolis.

Leisure time

On Thursday night we are going for a meal together and after the meal we are going to a Greek nightclub at 1am till 6am. The staff will be going back to the hotel and not to the nightclub.

On Friday we are going on a trip to the Acropolis if we finish the Podcasts.

On Saturday we are going on an organized cruise to a Greek island, once there we can spend the day on the beach, this is the time for everyone to unwind, relax and get a sun tan.

On Sunday we are then flying home.

We look forward to meeting you all on Thursday

Regards
Dale, Chris & Barrie

Personal Profile Andris T.

Hi every one, my name is Andris Tondels from Latvia
Like Robert L. I am student of
Jurmala Professional High School.
My Favorite thing is writing music for what I am useing my PC and guitar ( You can taste it on www.myspace.com/vital_sign0). My idols is Nero Bellum, Chris Reject and Victor Love( all of this names is
pseudonyms) and if you know them, you would heard theirs influence. Favorite music style is Industrial-orcestral metal (best band is EPOCHATE). Also i like Industrial black/harsh metal (Psyclon Nine, Life Cried, but no one knows what is this =D
I am big fan of fantastic, space and may be aliens (i belive that the exist =p )
I belive that our meething in Athens will be best part of my summer, I hope you reader too ;-)
{my slogan is "When you're laying on the ground, just remember to breath, just breath, just breath, just breath..." - [Nero Bellum] }

Sunday 30 May 2010

Personal Profile.

Hello everyone. My name is and I'm from . I am second course student of.
One of my hobbies is read book. I like read American and Russian science fiction. My favorite authors is Also I like read Japan novels and dramas.
Other hobbies is , listen music and watch anime. From music I very like russian rock. My favorite band is Grazhdanskaya Oborona, Yanka, Alexander Bashlachev, and others. From other music I very like Nirvana, Mudhoney, Placebo, Motörhead, Marilyn Manson, David Bowie, Sex Pistols, t.A.T.u....

Monday 17 May 2010

Students not currently participating!

Hello Everyone

I have chased up my student who is not currently working on the project. In his defence he is working on his assessments for his degree which are due in this week but no excuse!

Tuesday 4 May 2010

Dominikos - Personal Profile (video)

Hello everyone! I am Dominikos from Greece and I present you my profile video! Hope you like it. See you in less than a month!




Ila Amin

Hi
My name is Ila, I am a IT Lecturer. I have just joined the Podcast team at Leeds City College.

Four Weeks to Go!

Hello Everyone

Not long to go before we meet for the next Europen Meeting in Athens. I am looking forward to meeting you all again on the 2nd June

kind regards

Julie

Thursday 29 April 2010

Labels -(How the blog works)

In order to be more organised when you make a post you can put more than one labels...For example about my personal profile: it can go under the labels '' Personal Profile'' and ''Greece''

Wednesday 28 April 2010

Zavloschi Robert - Audio presentation

http://www.box.net/shared/6rlhn9gceb

Hy. I`m Robert and here`s my audio presentation.Hope you like it

Kutasi Mihaly - Audio presentation

here you can find my audio presentation...http://www.box.net/shared/2rj9s3vre0 .

Easter in Our Country - Romania




EASTER IN OUR COUNTRY!

Tuesday 27 April 2010

Alexandros - Personal Profile(video)

Hello everyone! I made a video about my personal profile...I hope you enjoy it!




PS. I am sorry for the delay and some mistakes i' ve made :)

One month to Athens!!!

Sunday 25 April 2010

Thursday 22 April 2010

Popesc Mihaita Cristian - Audio

Hello all.

As I said, I will post an audio presentation... with a few words about me. Sorry if I posted this to late :D but I was very busy this day with my PC.

http://www.box.net/shared/d0yopjihy9

Greetings From Romania !

Helgiu Paul audio presentation

rHere you find my audio presentation :D !
http://www.box.net/shared/ibg4cb98ly

Tuesday 20 April 2010

Photos from Latvia


As we are moving forward for the next meeting in June in Athens, here are some photos from the previous meeting of the project on February in Latvia in the beautiful city of Riga.



STUDENT TEAM TWO communication area

Please use this thread for all your team communication

STUDENT TEAM ONE communication area

Please use this thread for all your team communication

Monday 19 April 2010

ALL TEAMS URGENT YOUR WORK FOR GREECE

THE PODCASTS TO BE MADE IN ATHENS

production of TWO podcasts:

• 10 minutes cultural comparisons between partner countries recording interviews

• 15 minutes radio programme on issue like EQUALITY in the EEC workplace

LISTEN TO FULL INSTRUCTIONS
http://www.box.net/shared/jie2gxn73l

STUDENT TEAM TWO

TEAM TWO

LEADER: Katarzyna Skruch POLAND

PODCAST TECHNICAL SUPPORT: Chris Gibbs UK

LANGUAGE SUPPORT: Adam Jesuko UK

GREECE TECHNICAL SUPPORT : Dominikos


TEAM MEMBERS:
Kutasi mihaly Romania
Zavloschi robert vlad Romania
Barbulescu lucian alexandru Romania
Andris Tondels Latvia
Roberts Lataria Latvia


ALWAYS STATE YOUR TEAM NUMBER WHEN COMMUNICATING

STUDENT TEAM ONE

TEAM ONE

LEADER: Ewa Milowka POLAND

PODCAST TECHNICAL SUPPORT: Dale Harrison UK

LANGUAGE SUPPORT: Paul Falkingham UK

GREECE TECHNICAL SUPPORT : Alexandros

TEAM MEMBERS:
Popesc mihaita cristian Romania
Helgiu paul claudiu Romania
Tilici catalin andrei Romania
Ugis Skuja Latvia
Arturs Grundulis Latvia
Eriks Drozdovskis Latvia



ALWAYS STATE YOUR TEAM NUMBER WHEN COMMUNICATING

Romanian Group Profile

Hi everyone. Here is our group presentation.

http://www.scribd.com/full/30171274?access_key=key-1gx1uuokdhyw5p99z67h

See you later with another posts.

Bye!

Romanian Group Profile

Saturday 17 April 2010

Chris Gibbs - Personal Profile

Hello everyone, I would just like to say how happy I am to have the opportunity to be part of the Podcasting group. My name is Chris I‘m from England, I am currently studying software development at Park Lane College.

I have been interested in computers for quite a long time now and have experience in using software packages such as Adobe Photoshop,Visual Basic, Microsoft Office (Word, Access, Excel and PowerPoint) and many more. Although podcasting is quite new at Park Lane College, I have experience in using the software and hardware we have been using as part of this qualification.

I have create and uploaded videos to websites such as YouTube using audio recording equipment, video recorders, screen capture software and video editng software such as Camtasia Studio, Audacity and Windows Movie Maker.

I have many interests and hobbies in England, one of them is playing my guitar. I havn’t been playing the guitar for long but am learning to play songs by the Shadows and Guns n’ Roses. Although I don’t have much work experience I do work with my uncle on a weekend and during college holidays.

I have just sent for my passport and hope to see you all in June. Until then I will keep up to date with the Blog. I have included a fairly recent picture of me below.

Chris.

This is me holding the first fish I caught, the first time I went fishing with my grandad :)

Thursday 15 April 2010

NEWS for Students

Some delays are happening, do not worry!
There are 6 students from Romania and 2 from Latvia that I have been advised of today.
I know the names of the Romanian students but Latvia have not sent me the names of thier students yet.
You will all be organised into teams next week so look on the blog!

If you cannot access the Blog please tell your supervisor in your own country first.
You will still be able to start the work as instructions will be posted.

6 weeks to athens!

Wednesday 14 April 2010

EXAMPLE OF A TEAM -RED TEAM


LEADER: Joken

PODCAST TECHNICAL SUPPORT: Georgio

LANGUAGE SUPPORT: Henry

GREECE TECHNICAL SUPPORT : Aramani

TEAM MEMBERS:
Peter
Kostaer
AArchig
Vliarz
Jenntre

Saturday 10 April 2010

Dale Harrison - Personal Profile

Hi Everyone,

Here is my Personal Profile as requested by Barrie

*** Audio file uploaded below ***
If there are any problems accessing the audio please let me know

Students from Poland.

Hello everyone,

We have been trying to post on the blog our personal profils which Barrie told us to prepare.
We are having some problems so we wrote to Kostas and asked for help.
We hope that soon you will be able to see some materials about us :)

Kasia & Ewa




Wednesday 7 April 2010

Moving to the podcasts, materials from Latvia

Generaly, Lessons about ICT

http://www.liis.lv/mspamati/ A state funded portal, a lot of different materials.

http://www.riga.lv/LV/Channels/About_Riga/Kaleidoscope/talmaciba.htm Teaching videos about ICT in the portal of Riga.

Some things should be added..

Monday 5 April 2010

Student from Greece

Hello to everyone!!
Dzień dobry!
Labdien!
Bună ziua!
Ciao!
ΓΕΙΑ ΣΑΣ ΦΙΛΟΙ!

My name is Alexandros and i am a student from Greece! I study international and european relations and i am on my third year of studies ...

Well, to be honest podcasting unfortunately is not something that is very spread in our universities .. However as you know internet give us so much oportunities !!! So the last year i became very familiar with podcasting with a blog that i created with my brother and some friends ..

So when i heard about this programm and the blog that it was supposed to be made i was very excited!! Some months ago i designed this blog as a tool of communication and organization and i hope you like it...However if you have proposes for improvement i would be very glad to hear them!!!

What does podcasting means to you ?? For me means picture, video , voice , music, comunication , means a wonderful tool that the technology gave us and we have to valorise it !!

The first meeting as you know will be in Athens and we will be more than happy to have you here!

Until then we decided except from the magical nights in greece, the monuments, the food and all the famous staff , to show you via podcasting how a normal day in Greece is!!!

So Ewa and Kasia , Steven, Scott, Chris and Dale expect to see you in June!! Until then i hope you have great time and we'' ll keep in touch through this blog!!

Below there is a photo of me in a dance mood ...If i had a photo with acropolis behind ,eating a mousaka and and listening to zorba the greek music i would put it but Greece or Hellas as we prefer to call it, is so much more than this :)

Wednesday 31 March 2010

Greek Nights

As we all know, the next transnational meeting for our project (which is also the first transnational meeting in which students are going to be involved) is going to take place in Greece during the first week of June. Here, there is a series of pictures showing night photos of many nice places in Greece in order to prepare you for what you are going to see in June. Enjoy!

Student Visit Documentation

Today I will send you the documentation we have agreed the student participants will use to support their project visits. Barrie will investigate methods of having this documentation available on the blog for future use.

As agreed, all student participants in project visits need to complete these documents and I suggest we pilot their use for the visit to Athens.

I will include this as an item on the Agenda for discussion in Athens and look forward to feedback from yourselves and the students.

Please comment on this post so that I know you have received the information.

Wednesday 24 March 2010

Podcast group in Leeds, UK


Hello. This is a blog post from the UK. We are the podcasting group

in Leeds which consist of Me (Steven Libers), Scott Martino, Chris Gibbs
and Dale Harrison.

We have been studying podcasting for about a month and
have used Audacity quite a bit. We are used to the features
and can do most things in the program now.

Thanks for you time

Steven

Tuesday 23 March 2010

Students from Poland


Hello everyone,

We would like to introduce ourselves. Our names are Ewa and Kasia. We are from Poland and have got this great opportunity to participate in Podcasting project in June.
We had been interviewing by Barrie Greenwood from Leeds College and Radosław Pyrek who is our tutor.
Barrie's performance was very interesting and it was pleasure to listen to him during the Conference.

On the photo above you can see how we look like. Ewa is a first year student in tourism and recreation, whereas Kasia is a second year student in management.
We are interested in those new kinds of technologies of teaching and we would like to make them more common in Poland in the future.

Moreover, thank to this project Ewa can involve herself in travelling and get known about foreign countries and their customs.
Kasia will be able to practice her teamwork and realise the way of teaching abroad.
What is more, Ewa is interested in music and keen on painting abstractions. Kasia like taking pictures and reading some valuable books.
We are also sociable, out-going and opened for innovations. We do not find it difficult to adapt to the new situations.

Decision to take part in this project was caused by courage and need of trying something different in our lives.

That's all for now from us,
Ewa & Kasia :)

STUDENT PREPARATION FOR ATHENS

check this for AUDIO PODCASTS to start your preparations for Athens


CEES & MWSE as Silent Partners







The number of followers of flexible approach towards teaching is constantly growing. The fact was also noticed by the organisers of the international conference, namely Malopolska School of Economics (MWSE).

Six partner organisations, representing respectively Greece, Italy, Latvia, Romania, Poland and Great Britain, are involved in the project realisation. Polish partners include Center of Education and Enterprise Support from Rzeszow (CEES) and MWSE from Tarnow.

MWSE from Tarnow has already selected those students who were interested in taking part in international workshop held in Athens in three months time (June 2010). Interviews were conducted right after the conference on 19th of March 2010. Barrie Greenwood was the jury chairperson. Two female 1st grade students (1st year of Tourism and Recreation and one from 2nd year of Management) will represent MWSE.

Conference in Tarnow

At the 19th of March 2010 in the city of Tarnow in Poland, a conference was organized about the project Podcasting. Here you can watch the opening of the conference (in Polish and English)



Tuesday 9 March 2010

Conference in Poland

Student Council of

Małopolska Wyższa Szkoła Ekonomiczna
in Tarnow

has the privilege to invite you to the

International Conference related to

Learning without borders: Podcasting

the Conference will take place on the

19th of March 2010, at 10:00

in the assembly hall of
Małopolska Wyższa Szkoła Ekonomiczna
in Tarnow, Szeroka 9


Agenda


9.45 – 10.00 Registration

10.00 – 10.30 Ceremonial opening

Chancellor of Małopolska Wyższa Szkoła Ekonomiczna
in Tarnow mgr Zofia Kozioł

Coordination of Project Barrie Greenwood Leeds Collage

President of Danmar Computers and Centre of Education and Enterprise Support from Rzeszow
mgr Małgorzata Mikłosz

10.30 – 11.00 Project presentation

Learning without borders: Podcasting

Coordination of Project Barrie Greenwood

11.00 – 11.30 Coffee break

11.30 – 13.30 Project Partners Presentation

Project manager mgr Łukasz Kłapa

Project manager mgr Radosław Pyrek

Project manager mgr Krzysztof Ciąpała Danmar Computers

LearnIT: m-learning supported by e-learning for IT Professional
in SME sectors

13.30 Summary


Please confirm your arrival via e-mail until

14th of March 2010

e-mail: mwse@mwse.edu.pl


www.mwse.edu.pl




Thursday 28 January 2010

Small logo of the project


This is our suggestion for the small logo of our project. We are waiting for your comments.


Tuesday 26 January 2010

Logo of the Project

This is our suggestion for the "big" logo of our project. We will also prepare a smaller version for documents etc. We are waiting for your comments and suggestions.



Thursday 21 January 2010

agenda Blog

PLEASE ADD ANYTHING YOU WILL LIKE TO DISCUSS AT THE MEETING OR ASK ANY QUESTIONS NOW.........

Action Plan up-date


2 Visits / Mobilities

2.1 Dates
2.2 Duration
2.3 Mobilities / Participants
2.4 Student Documentation / processes


3. Silent Partners


4. Dissemination

4.1 Project logo
4.2 ADAM Portal
4.3 Blog