Radio Interview from Spain: European Year of Creativity and Innovation

Interview : European Year of Creativity and Innovation 2009

(From Pablo Ramos and Hector Páez (6th Level students) and Eric Martinez (teacher) in Folch i Torres school)

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1. What do you think about Creativity?

Teachers in Europe believe that creativity is fundamentally important at school and that ICT can help enhance it.
The European Commission believe creativity is a fundamental competence to be developed at school. Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) are considered very important among teachers: computers, educational software, videos, online collaborative tools, virtual learning environments, interactive whiteboards, and free online material and courses.

2. Knowing this year is the European Year of Creativity, do you think is there a relation between culture and technology?

Oh, yes, of course. Culture and technology meet to enhance understanding of the past. Interest in Europe’s industrial heritage is increasing.

3. As you probably know as a teacher, the European year of Creativity promotes different projects and programmes. Do you know something about the Youth Programme project E-games?

Oh yes! The Youth Programme project E-games empowers youth work builds on this potential, offering innovative training material around key themes. It means games for learning. Playing games is an important part of our social and mental development it can be a powerful way of learning throughout life. When young people are engaged with the learning process, tool for effective learning in non-formal education and form a significant part of youth training work.

4. What’s the difference between E-games and traditional learning games?

E-games are more flexible and interactive than traditional learning games. Multimedia elements can incorporate the real world bringing the games closer to the experiences of real life - particularly important in non-formal education E-games can also bring people into closer social interaction – though not necessarily face-to-face.

5. What do you think about music as a tool of creativity?

Oh, music is a great subject as a tool for the promotion of diversity and intercultural understanding that means respect for each other’s cultures.

CARNIVAL PARTY IN AUSTRIA

See what we have done:

We had a fancy dress party . . .

Beate and Efendi,

David,

Ayse and Elif,

Beate is painting Peters face,

Mario,

and Georg and so on, . . .

. . . we played special funny games . . .

and we ate the "Special Donut", Tily watched us, tasted it and said:

"Oh, it tastes delicious, and there is a surprise in it, APRICOT JAM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Teacher Exchange 2 - Calcotada in VALLS, Tarragona

A very special gastronomic festival is the CALCOTADA in VALLS, Tarragona, at the end of the winter.
Up to 30.000 visitors come to watch this festival and eat CALCOTS every year.

The Austrian Teachers were invited on Sunday to take part in this event, thank you Francesca and Carme!

What are calcots?

Calcots are very early onions, which are grilled on open fire.



The outside is burnt, you take it away and dip it into a delicious sauce called romesco.
The women here are preparing the sauce.



They are traditionally served on a hot roof tile.



Then you lift them and lower them into your mouth, a messy thing!

To be able to eat a lot, you are drinking wine from a special jar.

The winner of 2010 eating competition ate 3,5 kg, which is around 300 pieces of onions...

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cal%C3%A7otada

CARNIVAL 2010

Today is Thursday.
We go outside to eat omelettes and egg sausages
Yesterday King Carnival Emissaires´told us to come with
AN AQUATIC MAKE UP

Could you imagine how beautiful they are...

CARNIVAL 2010

On Wednesday King Carnival ordered us to bring
COMPLEMENTS MADE WITH WATER BOTTLES

Look, our children have a lot of CREATIVITY

NEWS ON OUR COMENIUS RADIO!!

5th level’s students from Spain have prepared some pod cast for our radio Programme in the Comenius Blog.

As you know, these days Tily is travelling around different countries and is learning about important places, buildings, famous people, and diversity. Here you have the opinion of 25 students talking about Barcelona, Catalonia and Spain.

We hope you enjoy listening to them!

CARNIVAL 2010

Carnival is coming!!

Yesterday the King Carnival Emissaires’ came to order us to bring a
MARINE HAIRSTYLE today.

Here you can see a sample of them: