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Here you can write about yourself. Where do you come from? How are you involved in ICT and education? …
Arion in Turku, Finland: ICT and teaching: 15-19 Jan. 07
The case of Kupittaa upper secondary school in co-operation with ICT-companies and universities
Hi,
My name is Pascal CRAEYE. I’m 43 years old, maried and father of five children. I’m living in a little village called Dudzele, situated near Bruges (5km) and the Northsea coast (10km). My mother tongue is dutch.
Professionally I’m working as a teacher in the KHBO (Catholic Highschool Bruges-Ostend), department teacher training. I’m teaching computer science. The students are staying with us for approx. 3 years. After that, they become a professional bachelor degree and they can teach classes (12-16 y/o) in three diffirent disciplines (e.g. maths, English, ICT).
pascal.craeye@khbo.be & pcraeye@pandora.be
Hello – Neil Calvert, from Derbyshire, England. I’m Deputy Headteacher of a large secondary school (11-18) with responsibility for innovation, ICT and the curriculum. I’m a teacher of ICT and Computing, although I don’t get to do a lot of teaching these days. I’m 33 years old, married to Diane with a 2-year-old son, Josiah. I’ve been to Finland a couple of times before, but never to Turku, and I look forward to meeting you all there in January, as well as hopefully getting to know a little about you before then.
Hello,
I am Albert Scholz from the Netherlands. I am 59 years old . Married to Margerite. We have two children 33 and 31 years old and two grandchildren. We live in Aerdenhout, a small village near Haarlem and just 5 km from the Northseacoast.
I started my career as a teacher in German language after that I used to be headmaster from several large secondary schools in the Netherlands. At the moment I am working part time as Educational ICT consultant for a large corporation which is in charge for about 35 schools of secondary Education. My taskforce for the next 3 years is to implementate Learning Gate way from Microsoft . I have already some experience with European educational programmes. I used to be a member of the board of the Horizon group( 12 European schools involved in Comenius) Our week in January would be my third Arion meeting.
My hobbies are: Fitness, Travelling, Digital Photography, Surfing on the Internet and last but not least : My work!
Hello,
I am Ela Kawecka from Poland. I live in Warsaw the capital of Poland. I work as a teacher consultant in the Centre for Informatics Education and Computers Application – teacher training and development centre and part time as a physics teacher in secondary school. Now I’m working in Socrates Comenius project IT for US (Information Technology for Understanding Science).
I am 51 years old. I’ve married to Roman. We have two children (daughter and son) and granddaughter.
I’ve never been in Finland.
My name is George Chorozoglou, I live in Athens, Greece and I am 38 years old. At the present I am in a Centre for Computer Science and New Technologies that supports the teaching and application of Computer Science in secondary education (high schools and lyceums). This is my first Arion visit and first time in Finland.
Dear colleagues,
it is a great job to set up this blog. My name is Ondrej Neumajer and I am from Prague, The Czech Republic. Originally I am a teacher of ICT. I had been working as a deputy headteacher at a large elementary school in Prague (900 pupils from 7 to 15) before I starter my job at The Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports (http://www.msmt.cz/default.asp?language=en). I work at the department of National Strategy for ICT in Education now (http://e-gram.cz/English_version.htm). Several articles advocating using ICT in education and support of my books could be found at my home page (http://ondrej.neumajer.cz/). It is said that the Czech languages is one of the most difficult all over the world. Therefore I do not expect you will be able to learn it before we will see each other in Turku – I am sorry, my pages are only in Czech
I am 31 years old, have two daughters (6 months and 2 years) and one wife.
I am looking forward to see you in January.
Hello,
My name is Arto Heiskanen and I’m one of the members of the Finnish Arion team in Kupittaa upper secondary school. Actually I’m not involved in IC teaching at all – my subjects are Swedish and German – but like most of the teachers I cope with computers daily. International school projects have always been a part of my school work and an interesting one. I’ve participated in two Arion meetings, one in Den Haag and one in a little village in Norway. No wonder that I like travelling (in Europe) in my spare time too.
Let’s hope that we’ll have a pleasant meeting in Turku, the oldest city of Finland. But ok, if you only have a chance to visit Helsinki before/after Turku it’s worth it. By the way, did you know that we have two official languages in Finland? Finnish and Swedish.
Dear everybody
I’m Marjo Palmu and also a member of the organizing team here in Turku. I don’t teach ICT myself but, in the same way as Arto,my dear colleague, I use it daily in my work. Nowadays I teach English for 13-19-year-olds and this year mostly in Kupittaa upper secondary school. I am interested in other languages though and have studied Swedish,German, French and lately Italian too -but don’t expect too much from that…
At the moment, we are preparing our school’s 50th anniversary festivities in mid-November so the whole staff will be quite busy up till then. However, I hope you will all use this blog to tell the rest of us something about yourselves, and maybe use it for sharing whatever information you might have.
See you all in Turku!
yours
Marjo Palmu
Hello Everyone
I am Rosaleen (Ros) Rentoul. I am from Scotland and am Principal Officer (Learning Resources) for Aberdeen City. This means that I am the lead officer for the strategy for ICT in the schools in Aberdeen City -both infrasructure and curriculum. I am aslo a consultant for the General Teaching Council for Scotland being an adviser and assessor on the Chartered Teacher porgramme. I have just finished a contract with University of Aberdeen where I was an Associate Teaching Fellow working on the e-learning Chartered Teacher programme.
Before that I was involved in research in e- and m-learning at University of Dundee, Division of Applied Computing. This was a European project involving schools. Prior to that for many years I held various positions in schools including teaching ICT (Computing) and Mathematics.
I am married to Patrick and have two children who have now both graduated – one in Computing and one in Envirionmental Biology. They are both embarking on the next stages of their careers. I enjoy many things – cooking, golfing, walking, gardening, photography – I enjoy the outdoors and most sports.
Looking forward to the study visit and to meeting you all. I have been very busy lately but hope to keep up to date with the activities on the this blog now that I have started….
Best wishes to all
Ros
Hi everybody
My name is Marco Barbosa. I live in a little village called Barcelos, situated a north of Portugal, near Oporto (wine). I’m a teacher of ICT in Professional School of Barcelos and I’m responsible for the development and maintenance of the network of our school.
I’ve never been in Finland.
Hi,
I am Kemal Karaman from Turkey. I live in Uşak, near the city of İzmir, situated on the Aegean Region of Turkey. It is a relatively small city which has a population of 150 000 and it is 210 km away from the Aegean coast. I work as a teacher trainer at the Faculty of Education at Uşak University. My department is Computer and Instructional Technology Education (CITE). I teach basic computer skills, and how to develop educational materials and instructional design courses. I am also teaching similar courses at postgraduate level at the faculty.
I am almost 40 years old, married and father of two children. My visit to Finland is going to be my first experience outside Turkey and I am kind of excited about it. At the same time, I am little bit of anxious since my spoken English is limited. It will also be an interesting visit for me because it is a Nordic country and away from the Mediterranean sunshine.
I would like to remind all of you that I will be bringing along a Turkish treat for you. Guess what? Yes, it’s Turkish Raki, our traditional drink which has 45% alc. volume and is made of fermented grape and aniseed. My guess is that it would accompany us well during our Viking Line cruise or thereafter.
Best wishes,
Kemal
Hello everybody,
I am Siegfried Czernohorsky from Germany. I am 56 years old. My wife works as a teacher at a Grammar School. We have two daughters, who are studying at the Universities of Bonn and Trier. We live in Daun, which is a small village in the Eifel Volcanic Mountains. I´m working at the Ministry for Eucation, Research, Youth and Culture in Mainz (near Frankfurt), the Capital of the federal state of Rhineland-Palatinate.
I started my career as a teacher at a German Grammar School till I started work at the Ministry in 2001. I´m responsible for ICT-strategies and media education in our region. If you want so know more about my work, have a look at http://mbwjk.rlp.de or http://www.bildung-rp.de.
My hobbies are: Cycling, Travelling, Video Production
I´looking forward to seeing you!
Best wishes and a happy New Year
Siegfried Czernohorsky
Hello / Bonjour !
We all loved the “Perfect European” poster and took pictures of this truly European challenge.
I now a top-quality picture of the “Perfect European” retrieved on the www by one of my students. Will attach to a mail to Pascal for all to share.
A bientôt !
Herve