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2005/10/27 

"Crop circles Challenge" start! 

Partners Sint-Donatus instituut, Belgium - ITCS "Cesare Vivante", Italy - Intercultural Gymnasium of Thessaloniki, Greece 

Homepage of  Flemish "cropcircle" website URL http://www.math.be - Interactive animation of Bishop Cannings cropcircle with GeoGebra 

2005/11/30 After the installation of Skype and Festoon the italian and belgian  partners organised a first "teleconference".

 Lesson plan for the students ! How to "reconstruct" step by step the Bishop Cannings cropcircle. Only compass and ruler are used. The reconstruction has been made using computer software for dynamic geometry. Geogebra is an OPEN SOURCE program, develloped in Austria by Markus Hohenwarter. It is a tool in multiple languages (English, Italian, German...) A translation to dutch is also available (download here)

2005/12/05
In service training session "How to use GeoGebra" 21 december 2005 14 h 16.30 h H. Hart Instituut Heverlee (Leuven) for math teachers European Network of Innovative schools. 

Ivan De Winne (Flemish) participant received an invitation from the NSS to take part in E-twinning conference Linz Austria date 13 january 2006 15 january 2005 
2005/12/08 In the "Crop circles challenge" website are published the geometric constructions produced by students using the software Geogebra. (more details at http://www.comathsnet.it/c/crop_circles.html). 

The galician partners  didactic material using Geogebra is on line (more details at http://www.comathsnet.it/c/spaingalicia.html )

Greek crop circles on line http://www.comathsnet.it/c/crop_circle/crop_circle_greece.html 
2006/01/13-15

 
Our project has been selected as one of the nominees for the eTwinning awards 2005!

Poster (download here - pdf  format)
Brochure (download here - pdf  format)

2006/01/13-15  Etwinning Awards 2005 - 1st prize - Digital resources 
2006/02/01


The deadline of Comenius 1.2 scholastic project and Comenius 1.3 school network- Creation of cluster of European schools for our Comenius submission. Schoolastic Project Title " Partners in patterns" - Project Coordinator "DUISKE COLLEGE" - GRAIGUENAMANAGH - IRELAND

2006/02/07
"Crop circles Challenge" on ElearningEuropa website, read here>..
2006/03/01 
The deadline of Minerva project "Com@net - Collaborative math on the net" -  Project Coordinator - BG/BRG Wels - Bundesgymnasium and Bundesrealgymnasium Wels - AUSTRIA
2006/03/3-5 
European maths colleagues: Benito Bua, Ivan De Winne, Palmira Ronchi, take part in the Xplora team.
More details >.. "Crop Circles Challeng"  in Xplora website. More details >..
2006/04/03 
The first IT Seminar "Teacher In The IT Society"
in the Complex of Technical and Comprehensive Schools No 1 in Chorzow/Poland for Polish, German, Bulgarian teachers..
Our maths colleague Marzanna Miasko shows the use of  Geogebra to construct geometrical figures.
More details of geometrical constructions here >.. http://geogebra.go.pl/
2006/04/05 


"Crop circles challenge – Open day
I.T.C.S. “Cesare Vivante” Bari - Italy, 5 April 2006

During the event, promotes by the Apulian Ministry of Education (Italy),
students and teachers will be able to test the possibilities of Geogebra open source software www.geogebra.org 
Download the brochure of this event here >..

2006/04/05 
Belgian ministry of Economy has launched a media campagne on "Creativity and innovation in Flanders".  Our maths colleague Ivan de Winne has been choosen for this campagne "Jij bent Flanders Future" Flanders district of creativity.
Poster from the newspaper see here>..
Ivan's Flash presentation among other creative persons here >..
2006/04/26-30
About 120 people included the ET "Crop circles challange" Belgian, Italian and Greek teachers and students (15) will meet to celebrate the winning partnerships at the eTwinning camp, organised as the first prize of the eTwinning competition. Winning partnerships were announced at the prize-giving ceremony on 13 January 2006 in Linz, Austria. The eTwinning camp will take place at the island of Lanzarote in the Canary Islands. (http://blog.eun.org/etwinningcamp).
2006/05/08 A new tranlsation of crop cirlces lesson plan in Swedish an Russian version. Thanks to Sten Rydh (http://www.mattesmedjan.se )  and Irina Hagman (http://www.stromkulleskolan.bengtsfors.se ).
2006/09/22 Our Comenius project "Partners in Patterns" has been approved and seven European schools are involved. Comenius week and induction meeting in Skane Sweden 25-30 September  2006.
2006/11/09  Comenius project blog starts, look at here >>
2007/05/31 Rome - Quality European label (ppt presentation ) (online magazine)

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