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Project's Run >> 2nd Meeting - Minutes (Athens, 11/11/2002)

  Monday 11th of November 2002
   

After a short welcoming of the participants by Dr. Sofoklis Sotiriou and Mrs. Malliou Eleni, representing Ellinogermaniki Agogi, the participants started the discussing about the project's pedagogical framework. All the participants gave a short description of the pedagogical work done during the first project year concerning their Institution. The main focus of the discussion was on the development of the language learning material. During the first year all the partners involved in the pedagogical work had developed language learning scenarios. Each partner had initially developed two scenarios describing an everyday situation. In the following all the scenarios were translated in all target languages. Mrs. Goetz, representing the University of Graz pointed out the difficulties concerning the translation of the scenarios which were mainly caused by the fact that the scenarios were referring to situations that exist in one country but not necessary to all the others. Mrs. Viglietta, representing COREP, agreed on that. Concerning the same discussion Mr. Filby pointed out that the cultural aspects of the scenarios are very important.
The difficulties and the problems that rose during the development phase were also discussed during this meeting. An important theme concerning the development of the language learning material has been the construction of the exercises. The partnership discussed this matter and decided about the content and the format of the Ad-Hoc.com exercises.
The first two pilot runs of the project were also discussed during this second meeting. The partnership pointed out the main difficulties that had faced during the pilots. Mrs. Malliou focused on the parameters that should be taken into account during the pilot of the application. Mrs. Viglietta and Mrs. Goetz stressed the fact that the main problem of the trials has been the difficulty to download the videos. This problem occurred as the coordinating Institution had decided to ensure the quality disregarding the size of the videos. The partnership decided to ensure both the quality and the easy to use of the videos by having two different versions of the videos.

In the following the results of the market research analysis that was realized during the first project's year were discussed. Mr. Erber, representing the publishing house Ernst Klett, presented to the rest of the partnership the main findings and conclusions of the research.

In the afternoon of the same day the meeting continued with a very important conversation between the project's partners. The technological framework of the project has been discussed the main theme of this section. Mrs. Malliou presented the web application of the language learning platform. The partnership discussed over the outlook of the application and agreed on its final mode.
In the following Mr. Miliarakis, representing FORTHnet presented the PDA application of the platform. A discussion concerning the correct use of the application followed. This interaction between experts from pedagogy and technology is one of the project's main aims as it is believed to be the basis for development of an innovative language learning material.

The last subject that was discussed during the first day of the meeting was the project's evaluation. Mrs. Malliou explained the difficulties concerning this matter and in the following she described the evaluation process as it will be realized during the second year.

     

 

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