Introduction
The RIGHTS project team is going on with the Experimentation activities in the 7 partner countries: Bulgaria, Italy, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland and Turkey. The experimentation phase started in November 2012 and will finish in June 2013. It was split in two subsequent stages: the online course, the workshops with students in classroom.
Around 160 teachers registered for the online course and have almost completed the first phase.
The teachers will soon start working in their classrooms, with students, for the production of the final products: the digital stories. In order to favour an active engagement of the students in the production of the digital stories the partnership decided to organise national contests and an international contest. As for the national contests each partner has identified specific evaluation procedures.
DIGITAL STORIES PRODUCTION BY STUDENTS
The RIGHTS INTERNATIONAL CONTEST for students has been launched.
The students of the schools involved in the RIGHTS project will be called to produce their own DIGITAL STORIES on Global citizenship education. Teachers will support their students during the production phase.
The Assessment team made up of experts in the project fields will choose the best story and the producer of the story will be selected for presenting his/her product during the RIGHTS project final conference that will be held in Barcelona on the 26th September 2013. The Contest rules and assessment criteria will be published on the RIGHTS project website www.rightsproject.eu.
News
TRANSIT PROJECTES participated in the INTED conference 2013., the general aim of the conference was to promote international collaboration in Education and Research in all educational fields and disciplines. The attendance of more than 700 delegates from 70 different countries was expected. Juan Pedregosa presented the RIGHTS project in the frame of the panel "Joint Educational and Research projects".
Upcoming events
Seed Association is going to participate in the conference conference "Living Responsibly: Ethical Issues in Everyday Life" to be held in Prague, from 18th to 20th May 2013. The RIGHTS project will be presented together with the results achieved so far by the partnership. For more info click on the conference websitehttp://www.inter-disciplinary.net/probing-the-boundaries/persons/ethics-everyday-life/conference-programme-abstracts-and-papers/
Conference: May 8th-10th, 2013
The CREATE, ACT, CHANGE: 5th International Digital Storytelling Conference and Exhibition will be hosted by Hacettepe University, Faculty of Communication, in Ankara, Turkey in May, 2013. USGM presented an abstract that was accepted and will participate in the conference in order to present the main results of the RIGHTS project and its experimentation phase. http://www.digitalstorytelling2013.hacettepe.edu.tr/f
Hedmark University College will participate in the EDEN Annual Conference "The Joy of Learning: Enhancing Learning Experience Improving Learning Quality". The aim of the EDEN conference is to discover and present the latest best practice in this field, share progressive concepts, inventive solutions, and promote joint-thinking and collaboration.
The conference will be held in Oslo on 12-15 June 2013. HUC and USGM presented a paper titled "Reimagining and reinventing democracy through digital storytelling – global citizenship education in the RIGHTS project
