There are different projects at school:
Comenius progect – MAGIC
Our project is aimed at secondary school students between the ages of 13–18 who will study the media in their different forms. The title of the project is “MAGIC: Media Awareness Generating In-formed Citizens” and it suggests our intention of having students look critically at the media influence in shaping our everyday lives decisions.
All of our students today have a lot of contact with different forms of media, they are a generation that is constantly being bombarded with images, ideas and opinions. They receive all the information through media. But are they capable of discerning the messages behind them? Do schools help them understand media?
Social networks, advertising, consuming influences and the press will be studied. To show their level of understanding, students will analyse the subjects and then do a related activity such as:
- designing a questionnaire, processing and disseminating its results,
- creating their own advertisement,
- theoretical shopping to analyse what makes choose the things they buy and so on.
- creating their own documentary, or mockumentary, based on one of the areas they have studied.
Through this work the students will make insights into the media around them and achieve a different level of their media understanding. As a result, they will discover and comment on similarities and differences between their findings, respect their different cultural and societal attitudes and habits. By raising their media awareness, they will better understand the media environment, which is becoming more predominant in European society.
To develop the relationship among the members of the groups of the partner countries, deepen their understanding and disseminate the project aims and results to a wider audience, we are going to ask students to:
- work in independent groups, each group relating directly to a group in each partner country.
- collaborate, share their work and ideas via a wide variety of Web 2.0 tools, such as blogs.
- organise photo competitions, an online magazine, a comic book, exchange boxes etc.
- visit loca media and meet journalists.
We have, in our project, schools from very different areas of Europe. We are all very different and yet we all have things in common. We have decided to choose media as the subject for our project as we feel that it is something that affects all of us in all of our countries. You can find the results of our work on the following teachers´ and students´ blogs:
http://magicslovakia.blogspot.sk/
http://magicslovakia1.blogspot.sk/
http://magicslovakia2.blogspot.sk/
http://magicslovakia3.blogspot.sk/
http://magicslovakia4.blogspot.sk/
eTwinning – Do you speak Google?
The team of our students won a national eTwinning competition of the year 2012 with this project.
and
eTwinning – I am learning English because I am living English
Voluntary work
The central aim of our voluntary project is to help people and animals in need. There was an opportunity to join a year ago and we immediately agreed. We decided to help the following institutions: an orphanage, an old people’s home and a pet shelter in Komárno, Slovakia. We want to make their lives easier, even if we just visit them and help them with small things. However, all the help and care is needed.
