Hydrological Heritage through Digital Maps Erasmus Project

Project Title

Hydrological Heritage through Digital Maps

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : School Exchange Partnerships

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2018

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Early School Leaving / combating failure in education; ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Cultural heritage/European Year of Cultural Heritage

Project Summary

– Context/background: The development of cloud computing has made easier the incorporation of Geographic Information Technologies (GIT) into secondary education, as it has been demonstrated by three of the partners of this project in a previous project (“Use of a SIGWeb for the design of routes through European protected natural areas”). On this occasion we work on the methodology “Digital map Storytelling” or Digital Cartographic Narrative, as well as on collaborative digital cartography (storymaps developed jointly by students and teachers).
– Activities: Students were trained in the use of the tool (ArcGIS Online) in the first mobility in which they did a specific session in the computer classroom. Each center designed at least one ArcGIS Online Story Map, in which stories about the water-related cultural heritage of its environment, enriched with images, text, video, and graphics were collected. Students from all the centers, together with some teachers, travelled to each of the other schools and visited the heritage elements selected, mapped and explained in the different story maps to check, in situ, the explanations received in the digital maps that tell these stories. The development of collaborative intercenter maps through other tools such as Survey123 was also promoted. The visit to the Quinta das Palmeiras Secondary School in Covilhã (Portugal), was cancelled due to the arrival of the COVID-19 pandemic, and it was transformed into virtual mobility.
– Objectives:
(a) Raising awareness of the social value of Europe’s cultural heritage, especially water-related heritage (bridges, dams, aqueducts, spas, mills, etc.). This objective relates to the horizontal priority: the social and educational value of Europe’s cultural heritage.
b) Promoting the use of innovative work methodologies and digital technologies in the analysis of heritage: Promotion of the working methodology “Digital Map Storytelling” and Web GIS technologies. This obfecha definitiva de finalización del proyecto es 31/08/2021.jective refers to the horizontal priority: open education and innovative practices in the digital age.
c) Promoting the development of students’ competence: in language communication skills, when working on digital storytelling with maps; awareness-raising and cultural expressions, when analysing the hydraulic heritage; digital competence through the use of geographic information technologies; and especially spatial competence (within the mathematical and basic competences in science and technology) for the work with digital cartography; in addition to the rest of the key competences they will be worked as in any educational project. This objective is related to the priority of the school sector: To promote the acquisition of skills and key competences.

-Profile of the participants: Students of secondary education between 14 and 18 years old. Among the participants in each mobility there was at least one student and one teacher/caregiver of the specific autism spectrum classroom of the IES (Secondary School) San Roque, which made the mobilities very inclusive:
IES San Roque de Badajoz (Spain). Coordinating institution
Kispesti Károlyi Mihály Magyar – Spanyol Tannyelvü Gimnázium of Budapest (Hungary)
Escola Secundária Quinta das Palmeiras de Covilhã (Portugal).
Gymnázium “Park Mládeze” in Kosice

– Methodology used: The design phase of the Storyy Map on Hydraulic Heritage with ArcGIS Online in each center was carried out applying the “Digital Map Storytelling” methodology, by which each center investigated and documented the selected hydraulic heritage, explaining its elements on a map with texts, graphics, images or videos. During the mobilities, the elements analyzed by the receiving center and explained in the story maps were visited in order to assess the importance of the ArcGIS Online tool and its explanatory potential.
– Long-term exposed results and benefits:
a) Internationalization of teaching activities encouraging the participation of teachers in future European programmes.
b) Permanent benefit in the learning of foreign languages and in other subjects such as geography due to the introduction of new teaching methodologies that can be used beyond the completion of the project
c) As material results of the project, a series of web maps and story maps were created with information on the heritage elements selected by each country that will be displayed on the web and in the mobile application that is created for this purpose for the project. In addition, in each mobility the participants took part in the elaboration of a collaborative digital map with geolocated images of the visits made.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 112092,69 Eur

Project Coordinator

IES SAN ROQUE & Country: ES

Project Partners

• Escola Secundária Quinta das Palmeiras
• Gymnázium
• Kispesti Karolyi Mihaly Magyar-Spanyol Tannyelvu Gimnazium