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The conference starts, presided by the headmaster. Sebastian Schlotter explains the reasons of the meeting and asks all the participants to illustrate the work they have done so far regarding the meteo station.

Mrs. Elisabeth Sanchez, co-ordinator of the project for Marseille, explains how the project started following a visit to Stavanger Maritim VK Skole in Stavanger (Norway). She tells the colleagues that her school, the Lycée de l'Estaque, has already a Web site dedicated to the project Comenius Meteo.

This site has news about the environment, the school and the students who take part to the project. They have recently bought an electronic device capable of indicating sensible weather changes. This device will be used to gather all the climate changes and to send them through Internet. Mrs. Sanchez explains all the difficulties met so far as the project is made with students of the final year with whom they have to face the same problems every year. The students of Marseille, who are 18-20 years old, work on the project one hour a week, divided into three groups.

Mr Arne Gylseth, from Norway, illustrates 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 done.

Mr. Santino Bandiziol, from Udine, illustrates the technical aspects of the solutions taken 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 meteo station already in use in the school.

Mrs. Silvia Massara from Oulx, Italy, says that her school is not a technical one so it's more difficult to motivate the students to 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.

Mr: Norbert Ernst, from Frankfurt, illustrates the situation in the German school, reports all the problems they have had with their national Agency and explains the reasons why they have started the project later than the other countries.

Last year they realised not only a web site but also a microcontroller device capable to manage a keyboard and a CD display. It will also constitute the basis of the electronic device used to gather and to handle the meteo data.

Mr. Ernst complains about the fact that they have changed the classes involved in the project this year . At the moment he is working with two classes of the final year of course. 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

They have recently bought a small meteo station similar to the one owned by Marseille.

The final part of the meeting is dedicated to the technical aspects of the project. After a short discussion, all the teachers agree 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.

It has been agreed on sending e-mails from different countries every two weeks, on Thursday, and the following dates have been decided :

7.10.99, 21.10.99, 4.11.99, 18.11.99, 2.12.99, 16.12.99

All the schools will have to inform their partners in case they are on holidays in the above mentioned dates.

The content of the e-mail will regard the working progress, the know-how acquired, the problems faced, their solutions, etc.

Mrs. Elisabeth Sanchez tells all the participants to renew the application for the Comenius project and speaks about financial matters. The school of Marseille is chosen as co-ordinator of the project for the next year.

Some teachers work 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.

Mr. Bandiziol asks 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 has decided to update manually the data at times established individually.