26/10/2015 Progetto Comenius referente Mirella Cusinato 1 Politics Progetto Comenius POLITICS Project LLP LLP EE-KA3-KA3MP

Progetto Comenius referente Mirella Cusinato 2 26/10/2015 What is POLITICS project? Politics is a collaborative European project funded by Lifelong Learning Programme that focuses on improving active participation of citizens to politics in countries across Europe Through the use Web 2.0 technologies

Progetto Comenius referente Mirella Cusinato 3 26/10/2015 Politics’ European partners countries Estonia Italy Greece United Kingdom (Wales) Germany Estonia Slovenia

Progetto Comenius referente Mirella Cusinato 4 26/10/2015 Features of the project Through the use Web 2.0 technologies, the POLITICS project will enable (Target groups)  school students,  VET trainees and adult learners,  specially immigrants  Teachers and educators

Progetto Comenius referente Mirella Cusinato 5 26/10/2015 undertaking ‘citizenship’ programmes, to develop a better understanding of how modern society functions to develop skills in problem solving, communication and language learning and writing skills. The project web site:

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Progetto Comenius referente Mirella Cusinato 7 26/10/2015 Politics project has created a Blog Learning About Politics (LAP) Its address is

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Progetto Comenius referente Mirella Cusinato 9 26/10/2015 In the project POLITICS the blog Learning About Politics (LAP) is a multilingual platform  for publishing and sharing ideas with a community of users interested in expanding their political knowledge  & become active citizens.

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Progetto Comenius referente Mirella Cusinato 11 26/10/2015 In the blog Learning About Politics (LAP) The LAP platform hosts plenty of multilingual educational resources in its 6 Blogs,  English  Italian  Greek  German  Estonian  Slovenian

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Progetto Comenius referente Mirella Cusinato 15 26/10/2015 In the blog Learning About Politics (LAP) T here are Collaborative Digital Stories produced by learners and educators around Europe, Educational Scenarios that can help users explore a topic of interest while completing activities.

Progetto Comenius referente Mirella Cusinato 16 26/10/2015 Digital Stories and digital story telling Digital stories produced by learners and educators around Europe  straights into politics straights into politics  Stories of Migrants Stories of Migrants Digital story telling from which you can choose to get started.  digital story telling digital story telling

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Progetto Comenius referente Mirella Cusinato 18 26/10/2015 What is Digital Story Telling? Politics project helps to tell a story. offers several Story Pathways supports throughout the story telling journey by providing guidelines on: ♦ how to collaboratively write stories within a team, ♦ how to use the LAP platform to publish your story, ♦ which Web tools could help enrich your story anduse the LAP platformWeb tools could help enrich

Progetto Comenius referente Mirella Cusinato 19 26/10/2015 Story pathways Politics offers three story pathways:  Straight into Politics  Politics in the University  Stories of Migrants

Progetto Comenius referente Mirella Cusinato 20 26/10/2015 “Straight into Politics” POLITICS is a digital storytelling project. The POLITICS project is built around an e-book “Straight into Politics”. Learners are invited  to form (transnational) teams online  to develop a digital and humorous story based on the scenario of a politically active young person who is convinced he can change the world for the better and organizes an election campaign.

Progetto Comenius referente Mirella Cusinato 21 26/10/2015 “Straight into Politics” Different teams work simultaneously and edit or rewrite the same story. Politics is not just “filling in the blanks” in the story, it is about modifying the story itself, changing examples and illustrations and developing new material.

Progetto Comenius referente Mirella Cusinato 22 26/10/2015 “Straight into Politics” Participants develop their election platform and discuss how to present their ideas to the electorate They have to get acquainted with role of parliament, government and other state structures  Local Governments  National Governments  European Governments

Progetto Comenius referente Mirella Cusinato 23 26/10/2015 The original story “Straight into Politics” provides the seed-corn material inseed-corn 7 languages and catalyst for the development of the participants' digital stories

Progetto Comenius referente Mirella Cusinato 24 26/10/2015 Politics in the University Politics in the University is the story of a young man who, by becoming an adult, discovers what politics is and what he can do to make a change. Throughout the eleven chapters the main character together with his university colleagues set up a campaign, design and form their own political party and get involved in the local elections.

Progetto Comenius referente Mirella Cusinato 25 26/10/2015 The Story of Migrants The Story of Migrants is about identities being part of the society or being an outsider. The first three chapters were written by a trans-national team from Italy, Germany and Finland during the Politics Spring School that took place in April 2011 in Crete, Greece.Politics Spring School Initially, the story focused on situations in which migrants, refugees and expatriates outnumber the “original” population.

Progetto Comenius referente Mirella Cusinato 26 26/10/2015 The Story of Migrants The team of writers had three different cases in mind –  the island of Lampedusa in Italy (and the stream of refugees),Lampedusa  the migrant districts in Berlin (where ‘original’ Germans are minority) andBerlin  the European metropol Brussels (where the proportion of migrants is expected to be about 70% by 2020).Brussels

Progetto Comenius referente Mirella Cusinato 27 26/10/2015 The Story of Migrants Each of the chapters represents a visit to one of these locations and talks about the migrant communities from either the visitor’s or the migrant’s perspective.

Progetto Comenius referente Mirella Cusinato 28 26/10/2015 Educational Scenarios an educational activity in real life situations and not in theory. a story about people and their activities, adapted to fit one or more learning goals. Usually scenarios make use of resources and adopt a pedagogical approach. onal_Scenarios

Progetto Comenius referente Mirella Cusinato 29 26/10/2015 Educational Scenarios can help users explore a topic of interest while are completing activities. ducational_Scenarios

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Progetto Comenius referente Mirella Cusinato 31 26/10/2015 In the blog Learning About Politics (LAP) learners are the co-authors of learning objects in 8 languages The learning objects (LO) are in the different blogs, one for each partner written mostly in English but also in partners’ mother tongue languages The examples and materials are taken from everyday life. The materials are usually presented in a humorous and creative way, by videos, photos, quizzes……..

Progetto Comenius referente Mirella Cusinato 32 26/10/ Creates POLITICS blog guide Blog_Handbook_v5.pdf Blog_Handbook_v5.pdf 2. Creates a community of teachers, pupils and schools interested in Active Citizenship The Politics & Active Citizenship (PAC) CLUB The blog Learning About Politics (LAP) Creates POLITICS blog guide Blog_Handbook_v5.pdf Blog_Handbook_v5.pdf 2. Creates a community of teachers, pupils and schools interested in Active Citizenship The Politics & Active Citizenship (PAC) CLUB

Progetto Comenius referente Mirella Cusinato 33 26/10/2015 Politics Active Citizenship (PAC) CLUB ‘School Affiliation Program’ concerns the creation of a European-wide network of interested schools/teachers, based on existing structures such as schoolheads associations, teachers unions, Miksike networks etc. politics-active-citizeship-club

Progetto Comenius referente Mirella Cusinato 34 26/10/2015 Politics Active Citizenship (PAC) CLUB ‘School Affiliation Program’ POLITICS Club Connected schools get easier access to data and contacts of POLITICS Know-how how schools may apply for additional funding is provided  from local governments  through EU (e-Twinning etc.). Connected schools in POLITICS are called the “POLITICS Club”