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| Friday the 1st of October 1999 | ||||||||||||||
| 9h00 | Meeting with the Headmaster of Heirich-von-Stephan Schule, Mr.Saukel, and visit of the school. All the teachers appreciated the tour around the workshops and the laboratories. The visit to the loft (the ski laboratory) and the solar cell was very interesting. Unfortunately no sun! |  |
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| 11h15 | The conference started, presided
by the headmaster. Sebastian Schlotter explained the purpose of the
meeting and asked all the participants to summarise the work they
have done so far on the weather station.
Mrs. Elisabeth Sanchez, co-ordinator of the project for Marseille, explained how the project started following a visit to Stavanger Maritim VK Skole in Stavanger (Norway). She told the colleagues that her school, the Lycée de l'Estaque, already had a Web site specifically for the Comenius Weather Project. |
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| This site has news about the environment, the school and the students who take part in the project. They have recently bought an electronic device capable of indicating sensitive weather changes. This device will be used to gather data on all the climate changes and transmit it via Internet. Mrs. Sanchez explained all the difficulties encountered so far, as the project involves students in their final year with whom they have to face the same problems every year. The students in Marseille, who are 18-20 years old, work on the project one hour a week, divided into three groups. | ||||||||||||||
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Mr Arne Gylseth, from Norway, presented the progress of the project in his school, where the situation is similar to the one in Marseille. Part of the project, regarding the building of a web page, has been partly carried out. | |||||||||||||
| Mrs. Sandra Dri, from Udine, Italy, explained that in her school a whole class is carrying out the project in the fourth year of the course in electronics. The average age of students is 16-17. The teachers taking part to the project have only planned the organisation of the work; last year the students used Internet to contact the class in Marseille, thus learning how to use the technology they are going to work with this year. |  |
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| Mr. Santino Bandiziol, from
Udine, explained the technical aspects of the solutions adopted by
the Italian institute: during this school year the class will build
a web page dedicated to the Comenius Project and next year the students
will develop the software for the PC which will handle the data of
the weather station already in use in the school.
Mrs. Silvia Massara from Oulx, Italy, said that her school wass not a technical one so it was more difficult to motivate the students for the project. Last year they worked in collaboration with a local institution called CE.SE.DI. and they monitored the meteorological situation of their land with photographs. They also produced some very good material collecting sayings and expressions used locally to talk about the weather. |
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Mrs. Christina Costa, from Pombal, Portugual explained that in her school, which is only partly technical, students have already started to work on the web page. Two classes are involved in the project: one in the technical -electric department and one in the scientific one. Mrs. Costa says that in her school students take part to the project on a voluntary basis. This means that sometimes there are not many students working on it. | |||||||||||||
| Mr: Norbert Ernst, from Frankfurt, set
out the situation in the German school, reported all the problems
they had had with their national Agency and explained why they had
started the project later than the other countries.
Last year they produced not only a web site, but also a micro-controller device capable of managing a keyboard and a CD display. It will also constitute the basis of the electronic device used to gather and process the weather data. Mr. Ernst complained about the fact that they have changed the classes involved in the project this year . At the moment he is working with two classes in their final course year. One class works on the hardware/software of the device while the other prepares the documents, translates them and keeps the records of the project. |
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| They have recently bought
a small meteo station similar to the one owned by Marseille.
The final part of the meeting was dedicated to the technical aspects of the project. After a short discussion, all the teachers agreed on the importance of having a common Home Page, containing all the links developed by each school. All the information will be exchanged through Internet so all the addresses of different sites have been updated. The partners agreed to send e-mails from different countries every two weeks, on Thursday, and the following dates were chosen : 7.10.99, 21.10.99, 4.11.99, 18.11.99, 2.12.99, 16.12.99 All the schools are to inform their partners if they are on holiday on the above-mentioned dates. The content of the e-mail will regard work progress, the skills acquired, the problems faced, their solutions, etc. |
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| 13h00 | Break for lunch, at the kind invitation of the the Headmaster of Heirich-von Stephen Schule! |  |
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| 14h15 | Meeting started again. | |||||||||||||
| Mrs. Elisabeth Sanchez told all the participants to
renew the application for the Comenius project and speaks about financial
matters. The school of Marseille was chosen as co-ordinator of the
project for the next year.
Some of the teachers worked on the creation of a web site whose address is: http://comenius.web.com. Mr. Gylseth will finish the graphic elaboration of the Home Page. |
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| Mr. Bandiziol asked
how the automatic updating of the web pages containing the meteo data
will be done in the different countries. As this is a rather difficult
task, each school decided to update the data manually when convenient.
At the end of the afternoon session of the meeting, Mr: Ernst demonstrated the device mentioned above and explained its characteristics. The meeting ended at 16.15. |
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