After intensive preparation work we welcomed
colleagues from Slovenia, Italy, Denmark, Finland, Poland and Spain at our
school. Nine months after the last meeting in Pietarsaari, Finland, there was a
lot to catch up on.
The topic of the meeting in Vienna was: “Web 2.0 Tools and Cultural Diversity“.
On Tuesday, October 4th, our guests were welcomed with a welcome song of our school choir.
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Welcome song
by our school choir
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After the
official opening of the meeting by Birthe Witt Jason, the project coordinator
from Denmark, the first workshop on Web 2.0 started.
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Opening of
meeting by Birthe Witt Jason
An expert from a neighbouring grammar school, Josef
Buchner, introduced methods and strategies to use Web 2.0 tools in class. He
focussed on the tool of the “Flipped Classroom“.
In the afternoon we had a guided tour through a museum
in an old church. The tour is called „Dialogue in the Dark“ and the guides are
blind or visually impaired, which makes the tour very authentic and provides
insights into how blind people cope with the challenges of everyday life.
In order to make our guests acquainted with the heart
of Vienna, we used a Web 2.0 tool called “Actionbound“, which takes you on an
online scavenger hunt.
On Wednesday, October 5th, our guests were welcomed by
our head teacher Dagmar Kerschbaumer and were guided through the school
building by students of our school.
Welcome by
headteacher D. Kerschbaumer
In a workshop, our guests reported on the activities
which had already taken place at their schools and which impact the work of the
Erasmus+ Teams had on their schools.
After lunch, our colleagues had a chance to experience
Vienna’s public transport system when we travelled from Heustadelgasse to a
hilly part of Vienna called Grinzing, which is well-known for its vineyards and
wine taverns. Although it was a cold and windy day, we were all motivated to
hike to the circle of trees called “Lebensbaumkreis“, corresponding the signs
of the zodiac.
Hiking in
Grinzing
The last day of the teachers‘ meeting focussed on
preparing the workshops for the approaching students‘ meeting in November/December
2016 on “Cultural Diversity“.
Our farewell dinner was, of course, at a “Heurigen“, a
wine tavern typical of this area and of Vienna.
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