ROADELE PROIECTULUI BOOTRAILERS AND VIDEOSTORYTELLINGS.

 Scoala noastra a incheiat cu mult succes (nu o spunem noi, ci partenerii nostri europenei) inca un proiect european, respectiv BOOKTRAILERS AND VIDEOSTORYTELLING. HOW TO TEACH AND LEARN READING APPRECIATIONS. Cititul chiar ca ne-a dat aripi. Am parafrazat  un pic motto-ul proiectului nostru READING GIVES YOU WINGS. Deopotriva elevi si profesori, parinti si alti parteneri educationali, toti am avut mult de invatat din acest  proiect. Am luat parte la numeroase ateliere, am avut parte de experiente educationale incredibil de placute, care le-am transpus in cel mai scurt timp in actul educational. Am introdus povestile in format electronic, am folosit culori si muzica la ore, am citit si interpretat roluri. Folosim cartoane, poliester, foarfeci, culori, calculatoare pentru a ne apropia mai mult de carti si de personajele din ele. Am conceput  o dicipliina optionala Booktrailer si Videostorytelling  in premiera pentru Romania. O disciplina care deja a trezit mult interes in cercurile educationale si se pune problema extinderii in curiculla nationala. Pentru ca este  benefic si modern sa imbini calculatorul si cartea.  Multumim colegilor europeni care au participat alaturi de noi la acest proiect. Multumim tuturor partenerilor europenni pentru momentele deosebite pe are ni le-au prilejuit, momente care ne-au purtat de la Marea Mediterana la marea Baltica si de la Marea Neagra la Oceanul Atlantic. Elevii nostri au avut parte de momente de lectura senzationale, ocazii cu care au cunoscut cate ceva dinn povestile lui Pinnochio, Nicolo Pesce, Don Quijote, Philleas Fogg, Tom Spirit. La randul nostru noi am impartasit Europei ce am avut mai bun: pe Ion Creanga , pe Caragiale, pe Brancoveanu si nu in ultimul rand perechea mitologica Dracula -  Vlad Tepes. Am purtat elevii si partenerii europeni pe apele cristaline ale Dambovitei si inca suntem in cautarea sfredelului minunat de care spune legenda...Pentru ca desi proiectul s-a terminat, lectura si treasure hunt-ul literelor abia inncepe.

CORUNA (SPANIA) - LAST CHAPTER OF OUR BOOK - TRAILER MOVIE

Booktrailers and videostorytelling. How to teach and learn reading appreciations.  Or READING GIVES YOU WINGS.  Or Reading create opportunites. Or BOOKS LET US TO MEET NEW PEOPLE. An extraordinary project which give us a lot of new opportunites. A lot of new methodes to teach and split the knowledge. In this project both students and teachers were teachers and students. Everybody teach and learn in the same moment.  Was a lot of fun and work. We work a lot to finish our outputs and to spread our knowledge to our communities. The last moblity was held in Coruna district, actually at Cerceda school and University of Santiago de Compostella. This mobility was perfect organized by the spanish partener, which is lead by an extraordinary teacher - mrs. Milagros Trigo.  During 5 full days we learn how to create little cartoons based on stories, using different IT programmes, we learn how to operate with new IT applications (like PhenoloGIT - created by the University of Santiago - Faculty of Education Sciences, and many more other new things, which now are subject to be transformed in courses in our School. Our students, David and Tudor were great, speak make friends, they communicate, they discover new things ...and they learn a lot. At tis mobilty the romanian team was composed by teachers Robert Dobrecu and Camelia Mateiana, leaded by the principal Mihaela Bazarciuc .

A NEW CHALLANGE. FROM STORY TO OUR STORIES

In our latest activity the senior students (class VIII) which are involved in the project were challanged to make a salt. From READING TO WRITING. FROM A LECTURE MOMENT TO A THINKING MOMENT. FROM READING AND TEXT ANALYSE TO CREATIVITY. The workshop start with a number of words selected by the coordinate teacher phd. Robert Dobrescu the the main theme of Vlad Tepes life and Drakula Legend. Words like "dark", "spire", "fear", "fire", "time", "night". "door", "moon" and some of them. The next moment of the workshop challanged the students  to start writting a short novel which necessary must include the words which were selected by the teacher. And this step was limited at 30 minutes. In the first moment the students were stocked. In the second moment they start to write and the results were amazing. I will try to translate for you a little part  of there  work:
"The moon was shining, stronger like in other nights, the trees look like were alive, and the facts that only me and my shadow were on that empty street, at a very late hour, scares me. The dark clouds stopped the moonlight from time to time and in that moment the dark of the night covered the entire street, "

"the land is ruuning below me in the moments when I entering deeper and deeper in the cold and wet forest. I fobbid to myself to look back...I can see them tracking me and I was panic harde, so hard so I feeld me making a strange contact with the forest, maybe I just believe that was a little safer for me".
"in front of me I see a person which was the most scary imagine  I ever saw. Very tall, dressed with a white silk shirt and on his shoulder a large black cloak. His hair were long and block, sharp black eyes .His face was pale, a black mustache and turned up and a prominent chin. Had an expression of a bizarre sadness that immediately changed into a frightening expression".
  The efforts for finishing the novels are in evolution and we hope that at the end maybe we will have something to publish.

AFTER PLYMOUTH AND BEFORE THE CARNIVAL OF CHARACTERS

Our team come back from the Plymouth Film Festiva with a very nice 3rd place trophy, a wellcome distinction which appreciate the efforts maded by our students. The prize was granted for the booktrailer "Memories from the Childhood age".
During last weeks other students work hardly to know more about the Vlad Tepes age and about the way this lfe of this famous brave king become a source for the Legend of Drakula. Our students read about Vlad Tepes and they understood that his legendary cruelity was  occured by the necessity to eradicate the liars, thiefs and traitors. After 2 years of his rule time in the Valachia Kingdom (old name of South Romania) no one dare to steal. The legends says that if anybody put a bag with gold coins iin the middle of a road, after 2-3 days the bag were still in that place. Tepes was a hard enemy for the Ottoman Empire and for the local traitor barons. But the stories which start to transform him into an evil vampire were spreaded by the saxon commerciants form Brasov, which were angry on Vlad because they were forced to pay big taxes when they were crossing the Vallachian teritorry..The saxons spread in the Central Europe the tweested facts, transforming the bravery in cruelty and the justiffied penalties in pure tyrany. In the same time in many kingdoms of Europe some scientists were burned on fire for their ideas....One thing is close to the truth: the name Drakula is generated by the historical fact of membersship in the knightly Order of Dragons (Drakon in latin language).From Dracon to Drakula was just a step.

PLYMOUTH FILM FESTIVAL MARCH 2017..AND BOOK-AREST ACTIVITIES

Hello dear readers. We work a lot to improve the project and to spread our achievements through pur educational community. And the result are very good. In the last weeks we start to prepare the next projects which sholud be ready for the Santiago de Compostella film festival, and also we sustain the activities of our friends from other Buckarest schools. IN this moment a team from our schoool is in the middle of the Plymouth Film Festival, where our school sent 5 little movies - booktrailers and videostorytelling stories based on beautifull folkloric tales and local legends. The headliners of our activities are booktrailers based on the famous "Memories from the Childhood Age" by Ion Creanga and "The Legend of Dambovitsa River" based on a local medieval legend. For the future festival our kids are concentrated to read and to discover other beautifull legends,,one of them being the connection between famous romanian landlord Vlad Tepes and the famous vampire Drakula...We let you know about...anyway we let you to know that now our students are very concerned about the details of vampire faces..pale, red lips, thiny ears and their hands...with big long nails.

READY FOR PLYMOUTH - OUR MOVIES ARE UPLOADED

During december and january even the winter was very hard in Romania, we read, travel and participate to a lot of workshops connected to our Booktrailers Erasmus+ project.Like in previous year our student groups were concentrated on two main directions - the folkloric tales and the local horizon - our city Bucharest. In the study of Bucharest the main theme was THE LEGEND OF DAMBOVITSA RIVER - main water axe of the romanian capital city. Even is not such a large river like Senne, Danube  or Thames, our dear Dambovtsa has one of the most beautiful legends of mankind. The Legend says that 600 year ago here, on the place of Bucharrest, was a big forest and in this forest lived a young and beautiful girl along with her father. Dambovitsa was the name of the girl and after a lot of events she transform herself ina river ...a river which passed a village named after her fiance - Bucur... Bucur was a sheperd which have his farm in the middle of the forest. Bucur esablished a villagge named until today Bucur-esti.. Which is meaning "the village of the Bucur family".. Our kids loved this legend. They read it, they analyse the evolution of the river since the  beginning of the Bucharest when the water eas pure and sweet like the polar ice...until today when our river is severely pollute. During the differents lectures connected to Dambovitsa our students learn that the water supply was a problem is a problem and will be a problem. So we have to take care about the water reserves, about the quality of water, about to reduciee all the pollution sources. After the reading workshops our students play the roles of their legendary heroes...Dambovitsa was in the center of all wishes so we have to offer a different scene to all the girls...For Bucur role was no possible to be a competition because one of the boys was perfect fit for.. Just like he went down down from legend and took part to pur play. When the students don't read or did not repeat for the acting they had to create houses, palaces, bridges and the landscape of Dambovitsa valley. They cut and paint, use the scissors and glue, textils, wood and polyester. Everything went perfect and they had a lot of fun.After months of creation and reading on 20 january entire movie was finished and uploaded .HI !!

 Plymouth - we send you greetings from Bucharest .