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December 13, 2010
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December 5, 2010
November 16, 2010
Our School Library
Our School Library is a media centre equipped with 3 users pcs and 1 server with Internet connection, 8.000 items (documents and digital), a T.V., dvd player, cd player and an overhead projector. It is place of research and study that provides help with school tasks and projects, collaborates with other cultural centers and is part of various library networks, such as He.Li.F (http://3gym-kerats.att.sch.gr/library/forum) and IASL ( http://iaslonline.ning.com/ ) and the Greek School Libraries common blog ( http://greekschoollibs.blogspot.com ). It also has its own blog ( http://libelefsina.blogspot.com ) and twitter account.
The School Library is a creative place, embraced by students and staff, and is actively engaged in etwinning European projects, like the recent Bookraft (http://etwinningbookraft.blogspot.com ) and this year Math and Cultural project AToM (http://atasteoofmaths.blogspot.com ). Its work has received European awards and Greek Media attention. Its power lies on the people, the library users, on their enthousiasm and ideas, which are pyt into effect for the benefit of lifelong learning and information literacy, today's educational challenges.
November 15, 2010
Once upon a time Elefsina...
Four students -Natalia Mantikou, Lazaros Panagiotidis, Konstantinos Ragios and Tsimpoukis Ioannis- made this video for their city with photos taken by themselves. The song is titled "Stin Elefsina mia fora", as performed by Manolis Mitsias.
...Colours...
The inspiration for creating this video was a poem that the student Ksenia Gikopoulou gave us.
November 13, 2010
First chat with our partners
On November 5 was the first 0nline chat with our partners, mrs Sabile Guzel, teacher of Computer Science (Germany), and mrs Berit Tafenau, teacher of English (Estonia), at our School Library thanks to the valuable help they gave us our school libriarian, mrs Helen Karavanidou, teacher of Humanities, and the student Natalia Mantikou. In this online meeting we planned some future joint avtivities of our project.
In the photo shown right to left teachers Paraskevi (Vivi) Kalogera, Nektaria (Nana) Migardou, Katerina Dretaki and the student Natalia Mantikou.
The mascot of our school Telis (named after the ancient greek philosopher Aristotle, whose name has our school also). Telis was a wounded stray dog which looked after, adopted and named by the students.
November 5, 2010
October 30, 2010
October 23, 2010
"Our city, Elefsina"
Our school is located in Elefsina which is a town and municipality about 20 km NW of Athens.It is located near the northernmost end of the Saronic Gulf and is the seat of administration of West Attica Prefecture. 
It is best known for having been the site of the Eleusinian Mysteries, the most famous religious center of ancient Greece.
It was also the birth place of Aeschylus, one of the three great tragedians of antiquity.
Elefsina is the town where the majority of crude oil in Greece is imported and refined. The refinery nearest to the city is on its west side.
Elefsina is the town where the majority of crude oil in Greece is imported and refined. The refinery nearest to the city is on its west side.
The motivation of the project "Europe Without Prejudices"
We are partners in a project with other partners from different parts of Europe (Greece, Germany, Estonia and Polland). We aim to introduce the students as not just Greek, German, Estonian or Polish but European citizens and allow the students to meet and work with pupils and peers from the partner countries.
We want to develop our schools in an European dimension and to set an example of good practice. We want to show that cultural, social and leligious prejudices can be overcome by both students and teachers, through effective cooperation, dialogue, team work in order to accomplish some common final products, and by cultural exchanges, meant to provide first hand experience regarding different lifestyles and mentalities.
There is a wider world outside the borders of the countries, and in all partner schools we want everyone to understand what makes us national and European, and at the same time to let students immerse in the cultures and traditions of the other partners, thus overcoming prejudices and ignorance.
Our schools would like to open a window towards Europe in order to help the students involved in the project develop an active citizenship regarding the theme of our project.
The major goal of the project is to teach students how to appreciate cultural diversity, how to understand people with a different historical, religious, social and cultural background, and to learn to appreciate the customs and mentalities of different people, tolerate them or even make friends with them.
The project is also meant to improve student's creative abilities and their team building skills beyond borders, by urging them to use the latest technology and a common foreign language in order to accomplish the objectives of the project.
As a result of the project the students will also increase their self confidence and self respect, because they will get involved in activities which will challenge them to use new pedagogical methods of learning and communicating. They will also be more motivated to take part in other European projects and to get better and better results in their developments as European citizens and in their personal life.
Last but not least both students and parents will be able to measure the results of their work and to understand which changes they have to undergo in order to make a difference in their local community regarding attitude towards people from their own town who have a different religion or ethnical background, for example.
There is a wider world outside the borders of the countries, and in all partner schools we want everyone to understand what makes us national and European, and at the same time to let students immerse in the cultures and traditions of the other partners, thus overcoming prejudices and ignorance.
Our schools would like to open a window towards Europe in order to help the students involved in the project develop an active citizenship regarding the theme of our project.
The major goal of the project is to teach students how to appreciate cultural diversity, how to understand people with a different historical, religious, social and cultural background, and to learn to appreciate the customs and mentalities of different people, tolerate them or even make friends with them.
The project is also meant to improve student's creative abilities and their team building skills beyond borders, by urging them to use the latest technology and a common foreign language in order to accomplish the objectives of the project.
As a result of the project the students will also increase their self confidence and self respect, because they will get involved in activities which will challenge them to use new pedagogical methods of learning and communicating. They will also be more motivated to take part in other European projects and to get better and better results in their developments as European citizens and in their personal life.
Last but not least both students and parents will be able to measure the results of their work and to understand which changes they have to undergo in order to make a difference in their local community regarding attitude towards people from their own town who have a different religion or ethnical background, for example.
(The motivation of the project "Europe Without Prejudices" as it is described in the Application Form to the European Commission by the coordinators of the project)
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