European School Web TV Erasmus Project

Project Title

European School Web TV

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 : Strategic Partnerships for Schools Only

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2015

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Intercultural/intergenerational education and (lifelong)learning; ICT – new technologies – digital competences; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

Project Summary

The European School Web TV project aimed at establishing web-TV broadcasting of self-produced film clips as a means of exchange and education in a European school network. The European School Web TV was thus a pioneering project which serves the need of international educational partnerships to share film materials and to lively visualize their international cooperation through web TV displays in the institutions’ public spaces. At the end of the project a European School Web TV Handbook was drafted and published in form of an open-source interactive Prezi presentation to disseminate the project’s experiences of a web-TV based educational partnership as widely as possible.

The project’s five partner schools with their respective profiles were:
– Johannes Althusius Gymnasium, Emden / Germany (general secondary school): coordinating school of the partnership, expertise in Prezi documentation.
– Lycée Félix Le Dantec, Lannion / France (general secondary and vocational school with media department): expertise in web TV setups, in particular the usage of Digital Signage internet streaming.
– Střední průmyslová škola stavební, Valašské Meziříčí / Czech Republic (vocational school with focus on architecture and design): expertise in media design.
– OFICINA Escola Profissional do Instituto Nun’Alvres, Santo Tirso / Portugal (vocational school with media department): expertise in film production and web design.
– Fjölbrautaskólinn við Ármúla, Reykjavik / Iceland (general secondary school with experience in teleteaching of Icelandic students abroad): expertise on internet teaching and online learning environments.

Description of project activity:
The European School Web TV was a strongly student focused project: Student editorial boards (aged 15-18) were established at all five partner schools. They jointly ran the European School Web TV between their schools with English as the working language, thus acquiring entrepreneurial and international team-working experience. They were responsible for the production of film clips and the collocation of the web-TV materials. For technical and liability reasons, the programming of the regularly changing Web TV program had to be kept in the hands of teachers. In four Learning/Teaching/Training Activities spaced out over the project’s two years, the student editorial boards were trained to produce film clips, and to plan and design the European School Web TV program.
The European School Web TV materials were uploaded onto an external Digital Signage server (internet streaming server). The web-TV programs were subsequently programmed on the platform of the Digital Signage provider. The finished programs (web-TV schedules) were then streamed onto client computers at all the partner institutions, which in turn transmitted them to one or more screens in the schools’ public spaces (e.g. school hall, cafeteria, etc.). The European School Web TV was thus simultaneously broadcasted to all the five school communities. Hence the European School Web TV was able to provide the partners with a strong international community spirit.
The project started with the partners presenting their institutions to each other through the European School Web TV. The five student editorial boards thus produced film clips about their schools, their school life, and their schools’ surroundings. The European School Web TV thus served the need of the partner institutions to get to know each other. The project then moved on to cover certain educational topics on the web-TV. The five student editorial boards jointly decided to deal with the topic of “national stereotypes”, and produced film clips on this topic subsequently broadcast on the web-TV. Some of the partners’ editorial boards also produced film clips about certain projects at their schools (eg. a project week in the German school, a student film festival at the Portuguese school), thus presenting their partners examples of ‘good practices’ at their schools. A major focus of the European School Web TV was the presentation of film clips the participating students produced in joint international teams during the projects’ four Learning/Teaching/Training Activities. The students were given certain tasks for these clips involving the exploration of the local surroundings or of cultural specifities at the hosting location: “Stranger in Town” (LTTA in Czech Republic), “Elf Quest” (LTTA in Iceland), “Emden Crime Time” (LTTA in Germany). At the German LTTA, students produced evaluatory film clips that were broadcast on the web TV at the end of the project.
At the end of the partnership, the project’s experiences in setting up and running a Web TV between the partner schools was moulded into a European School Web TV Handbook in the form of a ‘Prezi’ documentation to be disseminated on the internet. The rationale is to establish the European School Web TV as a ‘prototype’ which can be copied and adopted by other school networks throughout Europe.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 112705 Eur

Project Coordinator

Johannes-Althusius-Gymnasium & Country: DE

Project Partners

• Instituto de Formaçao Profissional Albino Sousa Cruz – OFICINA Escola Profissional do Instituto Nun’Alvres
• Stredni prumyslova skola stavebni Valasske Mezirici
• Fjolbrautaskolinn vid Armula
• Lycée Félix Le Dantec