| JULY 2010 LEARNING GAMES: PROMOTING THE MEETING BETWEEN COMPUTER GAME INDUSTRY AND THE WORLD OF EDUCATION In the BODYexplorer context, the College and sosuMedia is now preparing some steps aiming to promote and support the meeting between the computer game industry and the world of education. The long-term aim is to foster the development and production of high-quality learning games, that we regard a creative element in the innovation of traditional learning set-ups and the development of new learning didactics, especially for young people.  Why take computer games seriously? - gameitcollege.dk Therefore the College is networking with relevant stakeholders to establish cooperation measures aiming to produce interesting examples of learning games. College people have etsbalished dialogues with a number of computer game producers in Denmark, with an InterReg project expected to be granted after Summer 2010, and especially with a very innovative vocational training center in the region of Central Denmark, who has specialized in offering the learners professional training in the design of computer games. This centre is called GameIT College and has been very succesful. In collaboration with GameIT College we will plan a national meeting in spring 2011 between a number of computer game producers, with a clear interest in developing learning games, and a number of educations, interested in offering their students the possibility of learning through computer gaming. |
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| JUNE 2010 SOME WORDS OF INSPIRATION FROM RESNICK Now, the bad news: while new digital technologies make a learning revolution possible, they certainly do not guarantee it. Early results are not encouraging. In most places where new technologies are being used in education today, the technologies are used simply to reinforce outmoded approaches to learning.  These words written some years ago by Mitch Resnick from the MIT Media Lab in Boston are still true. Even more, they seem to be more and more true, so you might wish to take a look at the attached small papers, offering clear and useful inspiration for reflections on the basic challenges of learning. |
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| OCTOBER 2009 EU PROJECT GUIDES FOR OLD AND NEW PARTNES The City Learning Net and the College have produced a number of inspirational guides for new partners entering European cooperation. The guides are based on many years of practical experience in European educational projects.  The guides are primarily addressing new partners in European cooperation, but more experienced partners might benefit from working with the guides, as they will offer an opportunity to reflect on the organization's EU project practice and performance. |
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| JUNE 2009 TIC - TEACHER INSPIRATION COMMUNITIES Lifelong learning means acquiring new competences from cradle to grave. And: indeed competences to learn to learn, to network, to involve the community.  The key players in this scenario are the teachers and the trainers in formal as well as non-formal education. It is not easy to develop new learning scenarios and experiments on your own. The teacher needs inspiration, new competences – and a group or network to relate to.  This is the background of the TIC initiative, Teacher Inspiration Communities. The initiative has been discussed for a long time in the City Learning Net, but in 2009 the visions became reality. On the initiative of the Romanian CLN partner, a group of Romanian teachers from different vocational fields visited The Aarhus Social and Healthcare College in Denmark to get inspiration, new ideas and hands-on training.  The TIC paper describes the idea and concept of TIC and presents the Romanian visit as a case, along with the reactions of the visiting group of teachers. |
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| MARCH 2009 ROMANIAN TEACHER VISIT - MOODLE INSPIRATION ... and more Late April the College will host a group of Romanian teachers interested in the pedagogical use of Moodle and in the Danish learning concepts and practices. The general intention of the TEACHER INSPIRATION visit is to allow groups of teachers in formal and non-formal education to be inspired by innovative initiatives, practices and resources to find new pathways for their teaching. The new pathways are expected to help the teachers to address a number of key challenges in modern lifelong learning. The inspiration activities have a strong focus on the exploitation of the new and flexible media and internet resources available, and in particular to encourage teachers to organize and create their own learning resources, based on the needs of their learners.  The Teacher Inspiration Visit will aim to involve the visiting teachers in a number of interactive inspiration sessions that will encourage and enable the teachers to integrate new didactic and pedagogical elements in their teaching. The activities will aim to enable the teachers to exploit new creative and flexible internet tools like Moodle, to develop new ways of organizing their teaching, based on new understandings of learners’ needs and the diversity of new learning methods and material available. The activities thus also aim to allow the teachers to develop their teacher role, from delivering knowledge to facilitating the learning process by integrating new resources and pedagogics. |
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| OCTOBER
2008 REFLEXIONS ON ADULT EDUCATION At the euroCALL Trainer Seminar in Girona October 2008 the project expert on adult education, Mr. Sigmund Lieberg from the University of Oslo, presented a number of highly qualified reflexions on adult education and adult learning and on the subject of empowerment. You can acces his Power Points and papers from the website below. 
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| JUNE
2008 Collins - Danish healthcare in Ghana At the EU Contact Seminar at the College on the new challenges in healthcare training and services in Europe in May, a former student at the College, Collins from Ghana, made a very special and interesting presentation. It was about how he and hos colleagues are trying to implement elements from the Danish healthcare services in villages in Ghana, Africa. 
Beside telling very dedicated about this initiative, Collins also inspired the audience with extremely interesting reflections and examples of intercultural healthcare. Collins has establish a "section" of a healthcare center in Aarhus, his own workplace in fact, and he is, of course, very interested in any kind of support for this center in the heart of Ghana. |
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| Contact for interest or support: Niels Chr. Vestergaard - sskaNCV@sosuaarhus.dk Collins Woode - collins@aalf.info |
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| JUNE
2008 MOBILITY AND STORY-TELLING For quite some time now, we have been talking about getting the many interesting and instructive stories from the students’ practical training abroad across and about getting the international work and the media work “under the skin” of the college’s students.  This work has now begun in earnest as a group of social and healthcare assistants, who returned from their practical training abroad in May 2008, will be involved in the production of stories and disseminating their experiences from their stay in Portugal, England and Holland, respectively. The idea was that the students will contribute with two kinds of stories, small ones consisting of a few words and pictures, and large ones incorporating personal and group interviews, which will be video recorded and put on the college’s international website. |
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| JUNE
2008 CLN financial REFLEXION forum The European projects are haunted by many and complex financial problems. Many of these problems could be turned into challenges and managed in much better ways. Therefore the City Learning Net has decided to put a lot of focus on the financial aspects of project development and management. 
This first contribution to the reflexion forum is meant to provide inspiration to coordinators and partners of European projects on various financial issues related to the administration of such projects. It is based on the very fruitful and positive dialogues and discussions between City Learning Net partners from Italy, Spain, Germany, Austria and Denmark at the Financial seminar held in Aarhus, Denmark, on the 2nd of June 2008. |
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| APRIL
2008 BEAUTIFUL OPENING OF THE SCT. JOSEPH ACTIVITY CENTER On April the 2nd the new Acitity Center for multicultural elderly opened in Copenhagen. A partnership has been established between the Center and the Municipality of Copenhagen, which means that the many exiting activities for elderly in the Frederiksberg and Noerrebro communities now can take place in very nice facilities, offering lots of space, ICT equipment and a very large hall for conferences and events. 
More than 200 hundred local elderly from many cultural backgrounds, local politicians and volunteers participated in the opening. The Copenhagen Mayor of Healthcare wished the Center a lot of succes and pointed to the importance of the Center as a model for other communities in Copenhagen and in Denmark in general. The Sct. Joseph Center is also a key partner in the Grundtvig INTERlife application and is thus expected also to be an inspirational model for many European communities. 
The vision of the Copenhagen social strategy for elderly is to be an inspirational city for other European cities, and therefore the INTERlife project expects to be able to establish a constructive cooperation with the Copenhagen City Government, if the INTERlife application is granted. |
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| MARCH
2008 WEB 2.0 - WHAT'S IT ABOUT? I went to a mini symposium at Telenor Fornebu, Oslo, Norway to see if this Web 2.0-thing could be useful in the way we think about teaching/learning in sosuMedia. And surprise, surprise: - all the things that would be nice to offer the students, has already been invented and continue to develop. And even more: it´s FREE. Open source. The symposium was a presentation of the experience different teachers all over Scandinavia have with these tools. Good or bad. And how they could implement it in their everyday teaching. 
The two most important tools were in my opinion 'Podcast' and 'wikis'. I was really interested in the use of podcast/vodcast. No one had negative experience with this tool. It is an excellent tool to use in classes where some have reading/writing-difficulties, in language training, in math/physics (record a class session, put in on the internet and your students can download it to their mobile phone or computer and go through it all again whenever they need to). One of the teachers had good experience using podcast and chat in language training. Her students were not too happy speaking English in front of the class. So she made them speak 5 minutes about themselves and send it to the teacher as a sound-file. She also made contact with people she knew all over Europe, and invited them to chat for an hour with her students. This helped to boost their self-confidence and change the atmosphere in the class. One of the discussions at the symposium was about the amount of time you have to use as a teacher using e-learning/web-based tools. Several experienced teachers said that at the beginning you will of course spend some extra time getting used to these tools, but their students were trained to reflect on their own work, on their peer students´ work, help each other - and the teachers set up clear rules about what the students could expect from him/her. This was made visible through 'Wikis'. A wiki is a growing document/website where you continuously put on more material. You can work in groups. You can change the content in a wiki, you can add content (text, images, video or sound), you can comment on the content made by others. When used well it is a great tool for group work and documentation. It is really worth taking a look at these tools and above all to be open minded about them. |
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| 21classes - A blogging tool for the whole class and the individual student. Upload images and video from YouTube. | ||||||
| MEEBO ROOMS - Welcome to meebo rooms! Chat and share links with your friends. | ||||||
| Elgg - Elgg is an open source social platform based around choice, flexibility and openness: a system that firmly places individuals at the centre of their activities. | ||||||
| MARCH
2008 EUROPEAN PROJECTS IN LATIN AMERICA PROYECTOS EUROPEOS EN AMÉRICA LATINA My name is Enara Zabaleta, I come from Girona, Spain, and I am in Denmark in a Leonardo grant. This is a grant to facilitate work practice exchange among Europe. I am now in the Social and Healthcare College of Aarhus, collaborating in the Media department of the college with the City Learning Net. When I first came here I thought my tasks would be related to translation, since I studied that in Spain, and this is, in fact, one of the most important things I am actually doing, but it is far from being the only one. Jan Gejel, the EU project manager, and coordinator of the CLN, had already thought of a diversity of other much more interesting things I could do. In the first place, a selection of the most important and meaningful aspects of the different projects had to be done in order to address the specific demands of dissemination not only in Spain, but also, in Latin America.  As just mentioned, there is a will to disseminate, as to be inspiring, information about the several projects the City Learning Net is already carrying out in Europe or will be carried out in the future. For this, not only the summaries of the projects are enough, but it is necessary to include some other illustrative information to better be useful oversees. I am actually referring to graphics, interviews to the main coordinators and partners in Europe, photographs. 
As you can see, what I am doing in Aarhus is much more interesting and fulfilling than only translating, which I must say, it is also very, very important. Enara Zabaleta - enaraz@yahoo.es. |
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| MARCH
2008 euroCALL TRAINER SEMINAR: ADULT EMPOWERMENT The euroCALL project will establish community centers for all adults in the partner cities, and will have a special focus on adults with basic learning needs and with less educational backgrounds. The project will provide inspiration, support and guidance for the local centers and will transfer the Nordical adult education tradition and the experience of the LiberEtà in Italy to the new non-formal learning environments.  The euroCALL project has established a trainer group with the socalled key trainers from the partner organisations. The purpose of this trainer group is to discuss the pedagogical and transnational issues related to the establishment of non-formal adult learning activities in the partner communities and to establish a platform of mutual understanding. 
The key teachers in the project are expected to use the project and the project activities to become resource persons for the empowerment of less educated adults in their communities, thus allowing the different organisations to expand their activities addressing this important target group. The key trainers are also expected to guide their colleagues as to new ways of addressing less educated adults. The project website will be available from the 1st of April: www.euroCALL.eu.com. Further information: jan.gejel@skolekom.dk or alessia.fabbro@libereta-fvg.it. |
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| January
08 INTERlife The INTERlife Grundtvig project will be aiming to produce an intercultural Model for multicultural elderly centers and multicultural elderly environments in general.  The Model will be developed on the basis of a strong involvment of the groups of elderly themselves. Therefore the project will also be a learning and proces based project, building the development of the Model on the local and transnational activities of the elderly, ongoing dialogues with the groups of elderly and the monotoring and evaluation of these activities and dialogues. Thus the development of the Model will involve and exploit the many skills, competences and experiences among the elderly themselves. |
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| January
08 StreetMathS The StreetMathS project will develop and test new ways of adult math and science learning, combining math exploration with dramatic didactics. Most adults are not motivated to learn math and science and the project intends to create a new learning environment for adults’ interest in math and science. The two key action scenes in the project will consist in practical experiments with this dramatic didactics in the different partner cities.  The teacher training and development of material will prepare these action scenes and the final project scene will give other adult education teachers access to the results produced in the project. The project is not only a contribution to the highly needed innovation of math and science teaching for adults, but is also a contribution to the building of bridges in adult education between the learning of humanities, art and science. |
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| January
08 mediaPLAYINGcommunities  The mediaPLAYINGcommunities project aims to establish experiments of community coherence and interaction, based on and centrered around the pre-school pedagogical environments and involving and reaching out to networks of pedagogical staff, children, parents and local companies.The project intends to let the media playing training and activities be the focus point of this learning, working and producing community - thus the focus of the project is not one or the other of the involved target groups, but on the interaction between these target groups. The mediaPLAYINGcommunities project faces the challenges of community based and collaborative lifelong learning. |
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| October
07 A BRAND NEW PROJECT ADDRESSING EUROPE'S PARENTLESS SMALL CHILDREN The FAIRstart project group will submit a strong application for the Leonardo programme early 2008 in collaboration with a number of European partners. The long-term goal of the project is to trigger a wave of orphanage staff education in Europe and possibly to inspire an educational network between orphanages and educational institutions. Another goal is to educate national instructors for orphanage organisational development.  The FairStart project will develop, produce and test a model for basic training of orphanage staff, based on simple and efficient digital visual material. The project will also produce a strategy for further implementation of the model in the partner countries and beyond. At the same time and through the establishment of local and transnational focus groups, the FairStart project will ensure the awareness raising among orphanage managers and local authorities administrating the orphanages. This awareness raising will support the basic training of the orphanage staff and provide the needed sustainability of the improved care practice in the orphanages. |
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| October
07 MULTIMEDIA FOR EUROPEAN PROJECTS An important part of the development of a European project is the design and production of good quality materials. The project material is expected to be a combination of project productions and local productions, and of traditional paper material and web based multimedia material. 
The purpose of these papers is to prepare the project for the design and production of the web based multimedia material – and more specifically to prepare the partner discussions. Some of the partners might have worked with multimedia and web based material, some partners have not. Therefore it is important to us to develop a mutual understanding. |
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| Multimedia for European projects - a sosuMedia paper | ||||||
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| June
07 PERVASIVE HEALTHCARE AND THE HEALTHCARE EDUCATIONS The new wave of health technologies, being developed right now and soon ready to be implemented, will cause serious structural changes in the healthcare sector og and will highly influence the daily tasks of the healthcare staff. The key concept is called Pervasive Healthcare, meaning that as many of the healthcare activities as possible should be moved away from the hospitals, the modern cathedrals, and integrated in the personal and family life of the patients – in their home, at the workplace, whereever they might be or go... Pervasive here means everywhere: healthcare activities should be imbedded and integrated in all kind of life environments, and the treatment of health problems should be carried through whenever needed by the patient and wherever the patient might be at that moment. |
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| JUNE
07 NEW EU COURSES IN UDINE Two new European Grundtvig 3 courses are now launched for Autumn 2007, based on the cooperation between Università delle LiberEtà in Udine, Italy, and The Social and Health Care College in Aarhus, Denmark. The first course is The new Grundtvig Lifelong Learning programme 2007-13 from the 17th to the 21th of September and the second is Financial management of Grundtvig EU projects for non-specialists from the 12th to the 16th of November. 
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| JUNE
07 A TRUE MULTICULTURAL RESOURCE: JUAN HAVAS PROFILE 
Media pedagogue and Mexican born Juan Havas has collaborated with sosuMedia on a number of occassions. Juan has a very interesting and very multicultural background and has now produced a paper describing this background and the diversity of competences resulting from the many challenges, he has been facing for many years. |
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| January
07 THE MEDIA AND LEARNING PHILOSOPHY OF SOSUMEDIA Many partners and colleagues have asked us to present the basic sosuMedia approaches to media based learning, so we have produced a small paper called The media and learning philosophy of sosuMedia.  If you are intersted in these matters, please do not hesitate to ask us to elaborate on the paper or invite us to establish a dialogue about the content. Contact Jan Gejel on jan.gejel@skolekom.dk for further information. |
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| The media and learning philosophy of sosuMedia | ||||||
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| October
06 NEW EUROPEAN COURSES IN UDINE: ADULT LANGUAGE LEARNING SPRING 2007 Based on the new language learning principles from the Commission the course will develop an understanding of and practical examples new models for formal and non-formal adult language learning, also integrating a European dimension and the use of IT and internet.  The Commission has launced a set of new and innovative principles for languge learning and invites stakeholders all over Europe to try to implement these new principles in adult learning activities and thus try to develop different models of new adult language learning pathways. The basic principle is a non-theoretical approach, in which you integrate a language dimension in other adult activities. The course will train the participants to develop such new practical language learning environments – and also inspired to support the language learning motivation of the adults, for example by integrating European exchange activities. Further information: Course content: Jan Gejel on jan.gejel@skolekom.dk. Course administration: Alessia Fabbro on alessia.fabbro@libereta-fvg.it. |
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| October
06 NEW EUROPEAN COURSES IN UDINE: NEW MULTIMEDIA AND WEB BASED MATERIAL FOR ADULT LEARNING - SPRING 2007 A lot of adult education environments are trying to integrate ICT and internet in the learning activities – some of them even develop e-learning or blended learning for adults. Most of the web based material, used for these activities, are still basicly textual materials, though. Very few institutions have been able to develop new audivisual materials for the courses- This situation is partly caused by the fact, that it is very expensive to cooperate with private multimedia companies. The course will develop the participants’ competencies to establish multimedia production at low or high level within their own institution – by establishing a close cooperation between edaucational staff and ICT-interested resources in the networks of the institution.  The course will creatively invite the participants to be designers of multimedia material and to set up and manage production processes. The course will give many practical examples of low and high level multimedia elements and will encourage the participants to implement these activities in their own institution and to form a supportive network among the course participants. Further information: Course content: Jan Gejel on jan.gejel@skolekom.dk. Course administration: Alessia Fabbro on alessia.fabbro@libereta-fvg.it. |
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| September
06 COURSE ON ADULT LIFELONG LEARNING IN THE MEDITERANIANS IN GIRONA SPAIN - PRIMO 2007 In the course of last decade, the global processes of political, institutional, economic and social transformation led to restating the classic schemes of international cooperation, favouring the creation of new models of decentralized cooperation compromised with the construction and the reinforcement of capacities and competitions of the persons and of the territorial subjects.  An innovative contribution in the area of the communication and of the learning along the life is the substitution of the traditional concept of “transference of ideas, knowledges and experiences ", for the premise of the " mutual interchange of ideas, knowledges and experiences between the actors ". Further information: Joaquim de Toca on jdetoca@espirals.org. |
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| September
06 THE euroART.net PROJECT  The primary goal of the project is to promote local and lesser known visual artists – their works as well as their life - in a very creative way on a web based platform and thus give the artists the possibility of exposing their work to interested people all around Europe - and to empower the artists to be able to promote their art works on the internet themselves after the termination of the project. Further information: Jan Gejel (Aarhus DK) on jan.gejel@skolekom.dk and Lorena Zanusso (Udine IT) on lorena.zanusso@gmail.com. |
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| April
06 THE EU ADULT EDUCATION PROJECT MANAGEMENT COURSE The follow-up to the EU project development course is now ready. It is about competencies to manage EU adult educational projects and the course will be offered in Udine, Italy, from the 5th to the 9th of June. Participants can apply for a Grundtvig 3 grant at their National Agency. These courses are developed within the City Learning Net and as a cooperation between Università della LiberEtà in Udine, Italy, and The Social and Health Care College in Aarhus, Denmark. It is possible to offer the course in any other European city, of course. Contact Course Guide Jan Gejel on jan.gejel@skolekom.dk if you are interested in hosting one or both of the courses. |
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| January
06 NEW PROJECT COMPETENCY COURSE ABOUT ADULT EDUCATION In close cooperation with our partner Università della LiberEtà in Udine, Italy, we have just carried through a course on competencies to develop European projects within adult education. The course was a very nice experience and the participants were quite satisfied with the work. Therefore LiberEtà has decided to offer a new course in Udine on project development competencies late March06 and also a course on project management of European projects on adult learning in June06. The courses are for teachers and other educational staff and can be financed by a national Grundtvig 3 grant.  |
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| December
05 SOSUMEDIA PARTNER, JUAN, IN MEXICO CITY Our sosuMedia partner, Juan Havas, the coordinator of the Computer Clubhouse Aarhus, has visited the Computer Clubhouses in Mexico City in December - after having spent a week in Boston, participating in the Computer Clubhouse Network training course. As you can see, it was a very happy event for everyone!  Mexico,
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| November
05 SOSUMEDIA AWARDED The multimedia team, sosuMedia, at the Social and Health Care College in Aarhus has been awarded The Golden Cut by the National Danish Research Network for best educational multimedia and video production in 2005. The award was given for the special use of video documentary integrated in a large netbased learning environment about care takers' competencies to manage the clients' personal crisis. The awarded material can be accessed on www.sosumedia.dk - you can get a guest password (and further information) from multimedia project manager Jan Gejel on jan.gejel@skolekom.dk  The
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