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.

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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.