Thursday, November 30, 2006

 

Quest Conference


Cluj - Napoca
November 24-25
During the Quest Conference "Eurocompetencies Through Purilinguism" I presented the project G1 ITEM during the panel discussion dedicated to e-learning.

Thursday, August 24, 2006

 

Reuniunea finala -august 2006

In perioada 25-29 august 2006 va avea loc la Budapesta reuniunea finala in cadrul careia se vor face ultimele corectii la exercitii si se vor prezenta rapoartele financiare.

 

Pilotare curs

In perioada iunie-august a avut loc pilotarea cursului de catre un grup de 120 de persoane, majoritatea din cadrul Universitatii A.I. Cuza Iasi.

Le multumesc tuturor pentru entuziasm si rabdare.

Wednesday, March 22, 2006

 

Club TV Baia Mare

In data de 22 martie 2006 in cadrul emisiunii "Clubul oamenilor de afaceri" moderata de dl. Marius Pavel.,s-a vorbit despre importanta studiului limbilor straine intr-o Europa comuna.
A fost exemplificat modul in care se pot crea produse atractive Online pentru studiul limbii engleze prin intermediul poriectului Grundtvig 1 ITEM.

On March 22nd, 2006, Mariana Hudrea, director of Info Project, was invited at a talk show at Maramures Television Channel: CLUB TV by Marius Pavel, moderator of the program Business Club.
The topic was: Multilingvism in a Common Europe.
The discussion pointed out the necessity of speaking several foreign languages in a Europe on which the mobility on the work market is developing at a fast speed.
00:03:12- There have been pointed out the importance of the European Language Portfolio in the evaluation of language competencies.
00:04:46 - 00:16:36: Description of exams for language certificates: Cambridge, TOEFL, TOEIC, TFI and TEF.
00:16:36-00:18:09- the importance of studying foreign languages for adapting to the mobility of the work force.
00:18:10- 00:27:43- Innovative techniques in teaching foreign languages: the blog, the e-groups, International Multimedia Camps that have been awarded the certificate European Label 2003.
00:27:44- Presentation of the Project G1-ITEM – objectives and partners
00:29:16 – Course piloting
00:29:41- The hope for launching a modern, innovative product.
00:30:30- Presentation of the Lingua Project, Multiculturality; the importance for studying less spoken European languages
00:31:20 – Friendly course interface
00:32:30 – European Projects: Leonardo, Socrates
00:33:26: Comenius projects: Borderline
00:34:26- 00:38:50 – How to write a successful European project: examples: cooperation for Grundtvig 2 projects with The School of Arts, Petre Dulfu County Library and Esperando Association for Disable People
00:40:00- Grundtvig 2 project: TIC TAC- The use of TIC for job insertion.
00:41:47 – The perception of the necessity of learning foreign languages in Western European Countries
00:48:36 – Long Life Learning
00:50:08 – Leonardo Projects
00:50:20- Socrates Projects
00:50:36 – Centers for learning foreign languages; Lingua Projects
00:53:00 – Information available on the Internet
01:01:56- Courses dedicated to unemployed people organized by Universitatea Populara Rivulus Dominarum, the course department of Info Project
01:03:36 – the lack of flexibility of the national and local authorities regarding adult education.
01:06:39 – Cooperation with the County Agency of Labour
01:10:20- Geidelberg First Grundtvig 3 Conference

Thursday, February 02, 2006

 

Diseminare

In emisiunea "Accente culturale" din data de 10 ianuarie 2006, de la televiziunea Canal 7 Baia Mare, realizata de Corina Sandor, Mariana Hudrea, directoarea firmei SC Info Project SRL a prezentat proiectele europene pe care le coordoneaza.
Socrates Grundtvig 2
TIC TAC
Socrates Comenius-
Borderline a Colegiului National Mihai Eminescu.
Leonardo da Vinci -
"Noi metode de evaluare a performanţelor elevilor din învăţământul vocaţional"

Cu acest prilej a fost prezentat si stadiul de derulare al proiectului Socrates Grundtvig 1 ITEM
Dissemination
January 10th , 2006
TL Plus Baia Mare
Program : The Learning City

Moderator : Corina Sandor
Guest : Mariana Hudrea, teacher of English, coordinator if international projects and director, SC Info Project SRL.
www.infoproject.nvn.ro
Topic: European Projects (conditions pf participation, benefits) , the importance of the study of foreign languages in a common Europe

January and February are two months in which the coordinators of European projects are very busy as February 1st is the deadline for Comenius projects and March 1st is the deadline for Grundtvig projects.
R: What kind of projects are being made and which are the benefits?
01:31- This program could be an invitation for teachers to submit project proposals
The structure of the European projects: Socrates (Comenius, Grundtvig ,etc.) , Leonardo da Vinci and Youth.
Comenius projects are dedicated to pre-university education while Grundtvig projects are dedicated to adult education.
04:02 - Presentation of the project Borderline-
http://borderlin-com1.blogspot.com and http://cnme-borderline.blogspot.com
04:27 –R: How can the European programs be accessed? Why are there schools without projects?
05:16 – Benefits?
The opportunity to present your own country abroad.
The opportunity to improve the image of your country abroad.
The possibility of traveling abroad and learning things and discovering new countries.
06:00 – Description of the project Comenius Borderline; partners’ description; project reunion in France, November 2005.
Benefits for the school: the director had the opportunity to visit a modern school in France. He saw the Documentary Center, the organization of the school.
Another benefit is the teamwork.
08:00 – All the partners come to better know their own countries and the partner countries.
10:10 – The us of the Blog as a didactic tool- the possibility of publishing the students’ essays on the Internet.
Language of communication: English.
10:58 – The promotion of the study of foreign languages in Europe: the European citizens must learn foreign languages. The citizens from Eastern European countries speak very well several European languages.
11:45- In a common Europe we have to communicate among us
12:15 – I advised the French students to learn several foreign languages.
12:40 – Presentation of the project TIC-TAC (
http://g2project.blogspot.com), language of communication: French. Cooperation with CJAPP and AJOFM. The aim of the project is to study how ICT can help unemployed people to find a job.
13:20 – Ioana Pop will participate at the project meeting from Rome.
14:05- Project meeting in Cherbourg. TIC TAC G2 project.
14:17- preparations for the project meeting from Italy.
So far we have elaborated a study addressed to people searching for a job to see if they use computers for finding a job.
Partners in the project are CJAPP and AJOFM.
15:35- There will be promoted a course for unemployed people in the second year of the project.
16:10 Grundtvig 1-ITEM- This project has a solid practical aspect as we are involved in producing an online course for ICT specialists.
Following the study developed in 2004- 2005 regarding the level of English as a communication tool we have discovered that the ICT specialists need such a course to improve their communicative skills in English.
Daniela Buda and Claudia Lupoian are collaborators in this project.
How are the collaborators selected? According to their wish to dedicate time to a new experience.
The partners come from Bulgaria, Hungary, Great Britain and the Check Republic.
18:30- The course piloting- May 2006
R:Which is the contribution of GB?
Linguistic expertise.We are sure we will produce a high quality product.
19:25- R: Bulgaria, Hungary and Romania are countries in which English is a foreign language. How is it to produce a an English course?
In these countries there are very good specialists in English, appreciated by the British Council.
20:01- The coordinator is from Hungary.
20:10 – Kate Fazekas is coordinating large teams of specialists in several projects.
20:25- the site of the project is very good.
20:45- The work for G1ITEM helped Daniela in learning how to use AEL program in her school.
21:19- another benefit is the team work

21:28- the description of the school from Ravoire, France and the way money is directed to schools in France . In the last 15 years in France there have been built very modern schools. Both students and teachers are calm and with smiling faces, compare d to Romanian teachers who have financial difficulties.
23-40 – But teachers are dedicated to their profession and they try to do their job.
In the French school the students read everywhere: on the staircase, in study rooms or in the Documentary Centers.
The students have their meals in the canteens together with the school staff. The local authorities sponsor the meals. There is a very well organized self-service system.
R: What didn’t you like in France?
I visited France during the riots in the suburbs. The explanation came that in school with parents belonging to the middle class, with a stable job, there are no problems. But in families of unemployed or in families with problems, the children have problems in their turn.
28:00 – By participating in European projects one learns a lot of things: how to travel, how to manage lost luggage problems, how to adapt to the customs of each country.
22:50 – Smoking is forbidden in all means of transport in France.
The strong relationship between school and family. The parents are strongly involved in the education of their children.
31:50 In Romania there have been created students’ associations. This partnership was active during the teachers’ strike in November 2005.
The message is that the whole society is invited to support school and education.

35:00 Leonardo da Vinci project- Evaluation Tools in Vocational Education.
There is a difference in perception of the term in Romania where the technical education is not included in vocational education while all over Europe it is.
Info Project is a subcontractor in the project having the task of disseminating the project. Last year we elaborated a study on the way the modern evaluation tools are known and to what extent they are used in the schools from Romania.
On the site of the Romanian Ministry of Education there are very good things. In theory the Romanians are very good.
Via the Analysis Study we realized that all the teachers who had participated in training courses are aware of the new tendencies in evaluation, while the others know practically nothing about that.
36:50- The team coordinating the Leo project is the same team that coordinated the G1-ITEM project.
37:00 – we are just involved in dissemination
We will continue the dissemination activities by participating at a new Congress, in Istanbul, organized by Istanbul University. In May 2005 we participated at a Congress in Istanbul where we presented the European projects. The interest was big, as these projects have been recently launched in Turkey.
Will teachers be able to use these new evaluation tools?
The product is being made exactly for this purpose.
What subjects could use such tools?
All subjects.
39:20_ The coordinating institution from Hungary organizes courses of ICT for disabled people, for example. We visited this school in 2003 and we were impressed by it.
This project meets the requirements in modern evaluation today.

40:00- Grundtvig 2 projects- The history of the project at the School of Arts from Baia Mare, a follow up of a previous G2 project. The same thing happened with Patre Dulfu County Library from Baia Mare which is also involve d in a G2 project as a continuation of the previous G2 project coordinated by us: “Active involvement in Nationl and European projects of retired or newly retired people”.
43:25_ Esperando Association, as association for disabled people also benefited of consultancy from Info Project.
43:35: we offer consultancy for European projects to all the people interested.
44:14- R: How can be written good projects?
44:28 - The secret is to speak foreign languages and to use the computer as a communication tool.
45:44 – These projects are not only for teachers of foreign languages. A good example is the European Schoolnet where one can see projects developed by teachers of Math, Physics, and Chemistry. I had been involved in an evaluation team for E-Awards and I noticed that there are many Romanian teachers of different subjects involved in creating websites.
47:28- We organize courses of foreign languages
47:43- There are 3 centers of foreign languages in Baia Mare: ECHO. EDUCONS and INFO PROJECT.
48:08 – Info Project has established a partnership with ECHO for promoting TOEIC and TFI tests.
In cooperation with the French Cultural Center from Cluj Napoca we organize courses of French for people willing to go to Canada.
48:36- Today, the learning of foreign languages is a must.
We do not mean only English. The European citizens must learn French and other European languages.51:00-R: As a conclusion, the Learning City is also learning through projects and foreign languages.

Sunday, November 27, 2005

 

Educatia adultilor

In data de 27 noiembrie 2005 , in cadrul emisiunii "Clubul de afaceri" realizata de Marius Pavel , la Club TV Baia Mare, s-a facut o scurta prezentare a importantei educatiei pe tot parcursul vietii - LLL.
Ca exemplificari de cursuri Socrates-Grundvig am prezentat Proiectul G1-ITEM precum si continutul reuniunii de proiect care va ave aloc la Budapesta in perioada 3-4 decembrie, cand se va prezenta modul de incarcare a exercitiilor pe softul proiectului, dand posibilitatea inceperii actiunii de pilotare a cursului online de limba engleza.

Wednesday, November 23, 2005

 

Prezentarea Proiectului

Proiectul ITEM – Curs Multimedia de limba engleza pentru specialistii din domeniul IT este un proiect Grundtvig 1, care are ca scop crearea si diseminarea unui curs de limba engleza Online.
Cursul se adreseaza adultilor care doresc sa-si perfectioneze cunostintele de limba engleza in vederea asigurarii accesului pe piata fortei de munca.
Formatorii din proiect vor avea posbilitatea sa invete noi metode de predare utilizate in invatamantul la distanta.

Echipa de proiect din Romania este formata din:

Prof. Mariana Gabriela Hudrea – coordonator proiect
Prof. Brigitta Daniela Buda
Prof. Claudia Lupoian
Ec. Zachia Simona

 

Institutii partenere

ISZTI , Hu, institutie coordonatoare
Pont Free Workshop, Hu
Madeleine, Hu
EUROINFORM, Bg
Gustav Hrabman School, Cz
The Foundation for European Initiatives, GB
S.C. Info Project S.R.L. , Ro

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