03.11.2018

 We went to the Adana airport in order to welcome our partners. First the Slovakian’s arrived.Then Italian and Polish guests arrived. We met them with joy. After we had arrived to Silifke, we made the guests students meet our host students and host families. They were all happy. And our guest teachers were settled in “Taşucu Marina” hotel.

04.11.2018

We made a sightseeing tour to “Göksu Delta “. To introduce the country culture, we visited “Sökün”. We went to a citrus garden then to a strawberry field and also to a banana greenhouse. We had a chance to watch different kinds of birds in the lakes between endemic flora. We visited the kiddle to get some fishing information.

05.11.2018

We welcomed our guests at 09.00 at our school. In the opening ceremony our principle made a speech and told that he was very pleased to be partner of this project. Silifke’s folk dance group made a regional dance show. Then our principle hosted the teachers to his room for tea and Turkish Deligth. After that we went down to the meeting room. We made the logo competition. Slovakian’s logo was chosen as the project logo by a consensus. At lunch we ate Mersin’s famous food “Tantuni”. Then we watched the partners presentations about their countries and school.

At 15:30 we visited Silifke’s Governer. With traditional Turkish desserts and Turkish tea we had a warm conversation. After this visit we walked down the Göksu River, By pasing the historical stone bridge we arrived to the city center and did some shopping.

06.11.2018

We went to “Mersin Üniversity Technoscope” for a visit to companies using Google applications. After a warm welcome, we attended a presentation made by a Tech firm called “Tokmak Technologies”, He shared some useful information and experiences about using the Google applications. The visit ended after visiting the innovation center and the other places. We ate lunch in Mersin marina then on the road back visited  “Maiden’s Castle”.

07.11.2018

Our team met at school at 09.30 our teacher presented a lesson sample by using Google “Arts and Culture” applications. He gave some information about the application and its usage.

After eating “Turkish Döner” we went to countryside in order to see and meet the country side culture. We visited an open air museum, “the ruins of Olba civilization”. We visited a historical church called “Canbazlı church” After visiting a kiwi garden, we went to “Heaven and Hell” sinkholes.

 08.11.2018

The guest students attended a workshop lesson about web designing and programming. In the lesson our teacher “Ufuk SEÇKİN” taught how to make a simple web-site by using HTML. The guests students learnt how to make frames and banners. They designed a simple web site and they added tabs linked to Google’s “Arts and Culture” web site. In these tabs you could visit historical and cultural places in each partners countries. So the students had a chance to use “Arts and Culture” application. and web site. They also had a chance to view the other countries’ museums, places and etc.

After this lesson students attended an English lesson. In this lesson they met the other Turkish Students. They did “a Fill in the blanks” exercise on a song lyric. After the exercise all the students listened different songs of the partner countries.

In the afternoon we went to a famous cave called “Grindere”. The cave’s karstic nature fascinated the visitors(In this cave There is a lake at the bottom. And it is under sea level.) After this visit, partners had a chance to do traditional sovenier shopping.

In the evening Our principal organized a dinner. In this diner traditionally cooked fish kalamar and some special salads were served to the visitors. The principle gave the visitors their attendance certificates and he gave a special gift which represents Silifke’s folk dance and Stone bridge.

09.11.2018

It was time for our partners to leave. We had great time teacher. We took our visitors to the airport. And They got on the plane safely.

Hakan DEMIR

Tasks and responsibilities of Partner countries

1. COORDINATOR-POLAND:

- project management, meetings of project coordinators - discussing details of the project

- demonstration lesson of English language with Google Blogger app

- Google BLOGGER joint workshops for teachers and students

- a trip to an ICT company which uses Google apps

- gala of the final results of the project with the participation of project partners, local authorities and guests (presentation of the final results of the project)

2. TURKEY:

- multimedia presentation of partner schools and their countries and regions - using ICT tools

- logo competition

- demonstration lesson of History with Google Arts and Culture app

- Google Arts and Culture joint workshops for teachers and students

- a trip to an ICT company which uses Google apps

3) IRELAND

- online webinar (on a selected Google app)

- demonstration lesson of Biology with You Tube app

- You Tube joint workshops for teachers and students

- a trip to an ICT company which uses Google apps

- presentation of the foregoing results of project activities with Google Presentation app

4. SLOVAKIA:

- creating and running a project website

- demonstration lesson of Maths with Google MAP AND CARDBOARD app

- Google Maps and Cardboard joint workshops for teachers and students

- a trip to an ICT company which uses Google apps

- presentation of the foregoing results of project activities

5: FRANCE

- webinar on building a website using google.sites

- demonstration lesson of Entrepreneurship with Google Calendar and Classroom app

- Google CALENDAR and CLASSROOM joint workshops for teachers and students

- a trip to an ICT company which uses Google apps

- presentation of the foregoing results of project activities

6) ITALY

- competition for the most interesting movie promoting our project

- demonstration lesson of geography with Google Expeditions app

- Google Expeditions joint workshops for teachers and students

- a trip to an ICT company which uses Google apps

- presentation of the foregoing results of activities

Google offers applications for lessons 2018-2020

In this project our goal is to create an innovative learning environment for students and teachers based on Google apps that will allow everyone to gain and practice social and technical skills, as well as to exchange ideas on new technologies. The project is directed to approx. 300 students 15-20 years old and 60 secondary school teachers.

During the project mobilities, project participants will be introduced to a number of Google tools to learn how to:

- store and share teaching and learning materials using Google Drive,

- collaborate simultaneously on documents using Google Drive,

- build websites using Google sites,

- develop a questionnaire with Google Form,

- communicate and do assignments with Google Classroom,

- create blogs with Google Blogger,

- upload videos on YouTube,

- prepare for partner visits with Google map and calendar,

- practise Google Arts and Culture, Expeditions and Cardboard applications.

We will use the following methods for the project implementation: workshops during mobilities, webinars between mobilities, surveys to measure participants' satisfaction and knowledge gained, group work, discussions on forums and blogs, in personal contacts.

Teachers will elaborate on completely innovative lesson plans which will be introduced to their

teaching practice. Students will be motivated and eager to learn. They will develop blogs and movies from project activities. They will learn to build websites.

They will gain new experiences through the participation in international lessons, in webinars, trips to the companies which use Google apps. Project activities will also involve the local community, authorities, cooperating schools and students' parents.

We will create a school of tomorrow through the approach to teaching and learning via digital tools. We will also help young people break barriers by engaging them in international cooperation and foster success in learning English language.