Saturday 31 October 2009

Let's vote our LOGO



On the left side bar we have depicted the 12 selected Logos. You can click on each logo to see it bigger.
Each country has selected 2 logos and now we have to choose the winner among them. Twenty students from each country will vote for their choices, one logo per pupil. We want an unbiased election so that we have named the logos with a number so that nobody knows the country they are from. The voting method will be explained on Monday, here in the blog and by e-mail to the different countries.

Friday 30 October 2009

Questionnaire about the opening meeting in Plovdid









Yes
No
Has the coordinator organized the meeting well and with enough time?
Yes

Has the communication through mail been successful?
Yes

Have two working days been enough?
Yes

Have the goals of the meeting been achieved??
Yes

Have we got a better understanding of the way our educational systems work?
Yes

Have we got a better vision about the life and culture in different countries?
Yes



If you have any suggestion for further meetings, can you explain it?
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Tuesday 27 October 2009

Pictures of our opening meeting in Plovdiv


















Questionnaire about opening meeting in Plovdid (Bulgaria)

Download the questionnaire


Tecniques for reading encouragement

Plovdiv Conclusions

Bulgaria meeting

1. Comenius Logo Contest

a) Every country presents two logos. We could see the logos presented by all the countries. All countries had already selected two logos except Spain, which presented some logos but still not the finalist ones.

b) Every country will send by mail to the Spanish coordinator their two selected logos, and finally the 12 logos will be published in the blog by the Spanish blog administrator.

c) In every school we will select 20 students who will vote for the logos (so we will have 120 students in total voting for logos). Turkey suggested numbering the logos in the blog from 1 to 12 so that students voting can´t know which country the logos are from. We all agreed with the idea.

d) By November 1st the logos must be in the blog. From November 1st to 15th students will vote in every country.

e) Every country will publish in the blog the result of their election days before the 15th.

f) Spain will count the votes and the winner logo will be published the 15th.


2. Comenius Website/blog

Spain has created a blog with the purpose of establishing communication among the Comenius partners. The address is: www.comenius-iesmediterraneo.blogspot.com. The procedure to use it is the following one:

a) First thing to do was to open a mail address in gmail.com. We suggested opening a single mail for every school, with an agreed password, so that different teachers in every school can have access to publish things in the blog.

b) Once they have their gmail address they must send it to the Spanish coordinator and they will be authorized to use the blog.

Turkey proposed to use the blog in such a way that students can exchange cultural information about our countries. The proposals are the following ones:

a) A multilingual dictionary: students can exchange greetings in the different languages or other important basic vocabulary.

b) Important characters.

c) Jokes

d) Food

e) Hobbies/culture

f) National or religious holidays.


3. Selection of Books

Spain: Grimpow, by Rafael Ábalos.





Turkey: The Long White Cloud, by Buket Uzuner

Bulgaria: Doomed Souls, by Dimitar Dimov

Italy: Vento Seomposto, by Angelo Horney Simoneta


4. Next mobility to Turkey:

Working plan until next meeting in Istanbul:

- A powerpoint about how our school libraries are run and their organization. For that purpose the different countries can take as reference the information about Spanish school which is given in the dossier.

- To open a gmail address in order to be authorized to participate in the blog.

- To get the five samples of their selected books in English.

- To translate into their own languages the acts of these meetings that will be published in the blog and to include these translations in the blog.

Thursday 8 October 2009

Presentación de nuestro centro

El I.E.S. Mediterráneo comenzó su actividad docente en el curso 1995/1996 con la denominación inicial de I.E.S. nº 6, para más tarde recibir, por acuerdo unánime del Consejo Escolar, el nombre actual.

Se encuentra situado en la Urbanización Mediterráneo de la ciudad de Cartagena. Somos un Centro Público dependiente de la Consejería de Educación y Cultura de la Comunidad Autónoma de Murcia y cofinanciado por el Fondo Social de la Unión Europea.

Por su ubicación recibimos alumnos de varias zonas de la periferia de la ciudad, fundamentalmente de las barriadas de San Antonio Abad, Nueva Cartagena, Urbanización Mediterráneo, Fuente de Cubas y Barreros, aunque al impartir enseñanzas de Formación Profesional, únicas en nuestra ciudad, también acceden alumnos de diferentes puntos de la Región.

En nuestro Instituto se pueden cursar los siguientes estudios:

• Enseñanza Secundaria Obligatoria.

• Bachillerato de Humanidades y Ciencias Sociales.

• Bachillerato Científico-Tecnológico.

• Bachillerato de Investigación.

• Formación Profesional de Grado Superior: Educación Infantil, Integración Social, Animación Sociocultural y Actividades Físicas y Deportivas.

• Formación Profesional de Grado Medio: Atención Sociosanitaria.

• Programa de Iniciación Profesional de Servicios Auxiliares de Oficina.

La meta de nuestro Claustro de Profesores es lograr la formación integral de todo el alumnado, con el fin de conseguir que sean ciudadanos críticos y responsables, para ello hemos basado nuestro trabajo en las siguientes estrategias:

• Educar en el respeto y desarrollo de los valores democráticos.

• Fomentar la tolerancia con la diversidad y las diferencias.

• Favorecer la interculturalidad.

• Basar el trabajo académico en el esfuerzo y la constancia.

• Ofrecer un servicio de calidad basado en la profesionalidad y en el espíritu de superación.

• Abrir el I.E.S. a la Comunidad Educativa para implicar al A.M.P.A. y a los agentes sociales del entorno en la realización de actividades complementarias.

• Incardinar el Proyecto Educativo dentro del Proceso de Lisboa para inculcar en el alumnado la necesidad de favorecer como ciudadanos un crecimiento sostenible y una mayor coexión social.

Con el fin de fomentar el conocimiento y la comprensión de la diversidad de las culturas y lenguas europeas, el IES Mediterráneo ha elaborado un programa de “Animación y Dinamización de la Lectura” dentro del Proyecto Comenius para ser desarrollado conjuntamente con los siguientes centros de enseñanza europeos:

• Istituto Istruzione Superiore C. Mondelli (Italy)

• Profesional school of building, architecture and geodesy Commercial Orie (Bulgaria)

• Gurlek Nakipoglu Lisesi (Turkey)

• Táncsics Mihály Gimnazium És Szakközépiskola (Hungary)

• Scoala cu clasele I-VIII Dimitrie Cantemir (Romania)

El objeto del proyecto es animar y dinamizar la lectura y, al mismo tiempo, conocer el funcionamiento de las bibliotecas escolares europeas, dotando a los jóvenes de las capacidades básicas para usar sus recursos y servicios mediante el desarrollo de un enfoque interdisciplinar y transnacional del tema "La lectura nos une", para mejorar las competencias en: comunicación lingüística, social y ciudadana, tratamiento de la información y competencia digital, aprender a aprender y en autonomía e iniciativa personal.

Así mismo, se pretende incrementar el interés y el gusto por la literatura, mediante una selección de libros (propuesta por los socios del proyecto) de escritores europeos contemporáneos, como expresión de conocimiento y cultura de otros países de la Comunidad Europea, para despertar en los jóvenes la necesidad de elaborar sus propias creaciones literarias. A través de este proyecto perseguimos impulsar un marco de intercambio y enriquecimiento mutuo de experiencias alrededor de la lectura y de las bibliotecas.

Con todas estas estrategias de trabajo pretendemos configurar un Centro con personalidad propia, en el que las relaciones personales estén basadas en el diálogo, el respeto y la tolerancia.


Introducing our school


‘Mediterráneo’ Secondary School began his teaching activity during the school year 1995/1996 with the original denomination of IES No. 6, and later received, by unanimous agreement of the School Board, the current name.

It is located in a suburb of the city of Cartagena called Urbanization Mediterráneo. We are a public secondary school dependent on the Autonomous Community of Murcia and also financed by the Social Fund of the European Union.

We have students from several outlying areas of the city, mainly from San Antonio Abad, Nueva Cartagena, Urbanización Mediterráneo, Fuente de Cubas and Los Barreros, but as we impart vocational training lessons, unique in our town, there are also students who come from different parts of the Region.

In our school the following studies can be undertaken:

•Compulsory Secondary Education.

•Baccalaureate of Health Sciences and Engineering Sciences,

•Baccalaureate of Humanities and Social Sciences and Humanities

•Baccalaureate of Research.

•Higher Level Vocational Training: Early Childhood Education, Social Integration, Sociocultural Animation and Physical Activities and Sports Program.

•Vocational Training Intermediate Level: healthcare assistance.

•Vocational Training in Information Technology

Our school staff aim is that all students achieve their potential and make them critical and responsible citizens, for that we have based our work on the following strategies:

• To emphasize the respect and development of democratic values.

• To promote tolerance for diversity and differences.

• To reinforce attitudes towards multiculturalism.

• To Base the academic work in the effort and consistency.

• To Provide a quality service based on professionalism and the spirit of excellence.

• To open the school to the educational community to engage the AMPA and the social agent to the extra-curricular activities.

• To integrate the school Educational Project within the Lisbon Process to make students aware of the need to promote sustainable growth as citizens.

Aiming to promote knowledge and understanding of the diversity of European cultures and languages, Mediterráneo Secondary School has developed a Comenius program called ‘Reading for Travelling Through the Paths of Life’ to be developed jointly with the following schools Europe:

• Istituto Istruzione Superiore C. Mondelli (Italy)

• Vocational school of building, architecture and geodesy Commercial Orie (Bulgaria)

• Gurlek Nakipoglu Lisesi (Turkey)

• És Szakközépiskola Táncsics Gimnázium Mihály (Hungary)

• Scoala cu clasele I-VIII Dimitrie Cantemir (Romania)

The project aims to encourage and stimulate reading and at the same time, to get to know the working of European school libraries, giving young people the basic skills to use their resources and services by developing an interdisciplinary and transnational approach theme to improve skills in: linguistic communication, social and citizenship, information processing and digital competence, learning to learn and the autonomy and personal initiative.

It also aims at increasing the interest and taste for literature, with a selection of books (proposed by the project partners) from contemporary European writers, as an expression of knowledge and culture of other European Community countries, to awaken youth need to develop their own literary creations. Through this project we seek to promote a framework of and mutual enrichment and exchange of innovative experiences about reading and libraries.

With all these strategies work we intend to set up a center with its own personality, in which personal relationships are based on dialogue, respect and tolerance.