Reading for travelling through the paths of life

A new website for the Spanish Library

2012-01-10T21:56:00.000+01:00

One of our aims is the diffusion of our libraries among our community, the Spanish team has created a new web to show the activities carried out in it as well as encourage our students, teachers and families to participate in its development. Here we are the image and the link to it.

First Chat on TwinSpace

2011-12-16T21:40:00.000+01:00

Next Monday 19th December 2011 we will chat for the first time on our TwinSpace Chat. Turkish and Spanish students are looking forward to starting it. We hope it works...

Our eTwinng project has just started

2011-12-02T19:24:00.001+01:00

We've just started a new eTwinning project as a way to continue the work we've been doing with this Comenius project. As it has just finished we have thought it would be a good idea to go on with our collaboration. Turkey and Spain have decided to apply for an eTwinning project and finally it has been approved. We are really happy and now we want to ask for your participation in it. We are sure it will be a fantastic way of keeping in touch and getting our work improved.

Please let us know if you are interested in participating with us in this project we are looking forward to hearing from you.

Comparative Study of our Libraries

2011-07-21T20:33:00.001+02:00

FINAL Library Comparative Study

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Comenius Final Assessment

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SURVEY

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Reception at IES Mediterráneo

2011-05-24T08:57:00.000+02:00

The Spanish Meeting

2011-05-18T22:08:00.000+02:00

Comenius Meeting

Author meeting in Orosháza

2011-05-08T20:02:00.000+02:00

This is the web page of one of the author meetings.

Meeting with Hász Róbert in Orosháza

2011-05-08T19:55:00.000+02:00

In May 2011, novel and short story writer HÁSZ RÓBERT visited our school and talked to our students and colleagues about himself and his feelings and experiences about writing prose of autobiographical background.
More photos on our wiki.

2011-05-08T19:39:00.001+02:00

Meeting with Dimitar Atanasov

2011-04-15T01:14:00.000+02:00

On the 29th March Dimitar Atanasov, a novelist, playwright and a journalist came to the Professional High school of building, architecture and geodesy , Plovdiv, Bulgaria.
He is a member of the Union of the Bulgarian Writers, the Union of the Bulgarian Actors /dramaturgy section/ and the Union of the Bulgarian Journalists.
Some of his works were translated in German, Russian, French, English, Italian, Serbian, Turkish. He is author of the following books:
Pentakon, collection of short stories and novellas, Hr.G.Danov Publishing House, 1988
Tarpani, a novel, Hr.G.Danov Publishing House, 1992
The Art as a Salvation, Villon Publishing House, 1996
Midnight Portraits, a collection, Hermes Publishing House, 1996
A Dump for Hopes, a novel, Lettera Publishing House, 1996.
Vernissage, poetry, IMN Publishing House, 2007
Reserved Place, collection of plays, Janet 45 Publishing House, 2008
The Church “St. Martyr Dimitar” in the Old City of Plovdiv, author-compiler, Janet 45 Publishing House, 2008. Teachers and students were thrilled by his interesting tales about life, books and inspiration.
We were happy to meet him

Closing session: Meeting with María Dueñas

2011-03-27T23:24:00.000+02:00

The week was brought to a spectacular close by the presence of María Dueñas.
The author of "El tiempo entre costuras”, had the courtesy to put an end to a week full of very fruitful meetings, and chatted with readers for more than an hour on the genesis of which has been the best-selling novel of recent times.
If you want to read more click here

Fifth Day: Meeting with Jerónimo Tristante

2011-03-27T23:03:00.001+02:00

"I would have loved to travel in time, have a machine like Wells, maybe that's why I decided to set my novels in the past." said Tristante during his speech.

"Reading a book is one of the funniest things in the world, and that is to be transmitted in the classroom to the students, because reading has never been, nor should it be a punishment, but an immense pleasure". Read more..

Fourth Day : meeting with Nerea Riesco

2011-03-24T23:54:00.001+01:00

"Sometimes the lack of morals of some media is the closest thing to a modern Inquisition" said Nerea.

Nerea Riesco hasn’t forgotten her journalistic roots, and is capable of analyzing today’s news with accurate judgment, while noting the importance for the citizen to be critical of the media, and to react wondering and avoid being anesthetized by programmes that misrepresent reality

But before talking about social issues, she addressed her readers by showing the immense love she has for literature... Read More

After this lucid encounter, twenty of our students were lucky enough to share with her a Workshop of the most interesting narrative, which we hope has served to instill in them the seeds of good literature, the one Nerea practices.

Third day: Meeting with Rubén Castillo

2011-03-23T23:25:00.002+01:00

“Life is always much more important than literature. There are doctors who save lives every day and walk down the street with humility, and writers who think they are gods, and that's a big contradiction, so literature should be viewed in perspective”.

Ruben Castillo returned to the one which has been his home for years to talk about "The Cave of the Prophecies, a novel for young people that he was almost "forced” to write at the insistence of his two children, Mary and Ruben, and in which he included real sources, the caves in which he had played as a child and the books he had grown among, the universe of a childhood that has been converted into a literary argument.

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Meeting with Lorenzo Silva on the Second day

2011-03-23T22:58:00.003+01:00

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"Life is also a string of things and people we are losing on the road" Lorenzo Silva delighted us during his meeting with words that make us think, especially teens, living a crucial moment because they have to choose the identity that will go with them the rest of their lives. That’s why he advocates for a youth literature which face reality, as he stated: "In youth literature we have gone from a colored and lightweight one to a gothic literature, and that is a path we do not know where it will lead, but it's not what I wanted to, I just wanted to tell stories of young people that could live, not to lock them into alternative worlds".
For him, youth should commit themselves, because after all life is struggle, not a collection of happy endings, and literature should reflect life, reality, and not hide it. That relationship with literature has turned Lorenzo Silva into a happy man with his job, someone who has the chance of looking out of a window which is opened to other worlds, worlds that fill us with the possibility of living other lives, not just ours.
Of course, it is not his intention to express moral lessons in his novels, or create closed stories, because life is not airtight, and the interpretation made by each reader is vital to complete each project.
He is very pleased that young people continue approaching his novels like "The hunter of the desert", a work that was born more than a decade ago, because a book is very fleeting and only the readers can prolong its life or finish it . He is also a man totally respectful of its audience, as shown by his words: "I am very concerned to make young people know how developed they are in some ways with regard to adults, but so innocent in other aspects of life. However, if we want to reach young people it must be done with great respect, and in a language they do not consider others, not to feel slighted."

The students of IES Mediterranean were proud to have Lorenzo Silva with them.

By Antonio Parra

Opening of the First Literary Comenius Week

2011-03-22T00:14:00.000+01:00

Meeting with Luis Leante

"Literature is a memory exercise, and life is a series of multiple coincidences."

These are two of the most important messages Luis Leante has left us in his meeting with students of the IES Mediterranean apart from talking about the writer's notebook as the primary tool for collecting stories which later will become literature, notebooks where curious characters that Luis has met throughout his life abound, creatures full of literary attraction and stories which will turn into plots of future works. He also spoke of the fascination that the Sahara has had on him, so much that it appears in three of his works: "The back door of paradise", " I love you so much" and "The Sahrawi refugee camps in the early XXI ", and chance and coincidence as the driving forces of human existence, the future of the world, showing the inconsistency of man, which should unite us together to verify the extent of the powers of fate and destiny. A lesson for young readers, who have been able to appreciate not only the writer but also the man.

by Antonio Parra
This is the comment about the Inauguration of the First Literary Week, whose coordinator has written on his blog and can be accessed by clicking here.

First Literary Comenius Week in Spain

2011-03-15T17:31:00.003+01:00

The IES Mediterráneo celebrates the First literary Comenius Week to promote and encourage reading, and improve the use of the school library. This week is one of the activities that closes our Comenius project.
During this week meetings with authors, panel discussions, conferences and a literary workshop will be held to enable students to develop their literary skills. The meetings will be coordinated by Antonio Parra Sanz, writer, literary critic and professor of Language and Literature at IES Mediterráneo.

Project Evaluation Form

2011-02-23T20:16:00.000+01:00

This is the proposal of Hungarian team for the Project Evaluation Form
If you have any suggestions to this plan, please let us know by e-mail.
Remember that we agreed to get this survey done by 10 parents, 30 students, 20 teachers and by the management staffs of each school.
Comenius Evaluation Forms

Bulgarian Theatre

2011-02-15T00:27:00.000+01:00

We are uploading the videos to the wiki, Romania did it a few days ago and so has done Bulgaria, here is an example

Massafra meeting

2011-02-15T00:24:00.001+01:00

Massafra_Final assessment

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Bulgaria Libray Guide

2011-01-28T14:05:00.002+01:00

Library guide - Bulgaria

Book Trailers Contest Winners in Spain

2011-01-27T18:00:00.000+01:00

Ganadores Concurso de Book Trailers

Library Guide- Romania

2011-01-27T17:45:00.000+01:00

Library Guide - Romania

Book Trailers Contest

2011-01-24T01:05:00.000+01:00

Book trailers Contest

More photos from the Library

2011-01-20T23:17:00.000+01:00

We have been sent more photos from the Halloween activities and we have decided to published them even it is a bit late but we are sure you will enjoy watching them.

Celebration Library Day

2011-01-20T21:42:00.000+01:00

A bit late but here you are the photos we took on the Celebration Library Day at IES Mediterráneo in Cartagena.

Suggestions from Italy to the Working Plan

2010-12-13T22:14:00.001+01:00

Suggestions from Turkey to the Working Plan

2010-12-13T21:19:00.001+01:00

Turkey Planning

5th Chat Comenius

2010-11-04T22:01:00.005+01:00

On Tuesday 2nd of November, 2010 we have been connected in a new chat Meeting. We can consider a success our fifth chat Comenius, although we had some problems - to be solved in our next chat - our students could communicate to each other and felt really happy with this activity.

The Hungarian Meeting

2010-11-04T21:25:00.003+01:00

Here we are starting a new academic year (2010-2011).
First of all we want to thank the Hungarian partners for their warm welcome and the effectiveness of their organization. The Meeting took place in Oroshàza from 13th to 17th October and there the plan for this new period was discussed.
As it was agreed we publish the Presentation we worked with in Oroshàza. Every country has to send their final activities for each topic depicted in the presentation to be published too, both here and on the wiki. They can also be published directly by every country.

Comenius Meeting in Hungary

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Romania Meeting Conclusions

2010-06-28T20:58:00.000+02:00

Romanian Meeting Conclusions

Reading Contest Awards in Spain

2010-06-12T21:32:00.003+02:00

The Spanish Reading Contest Awards were given at our library on 7th June by our principal, Mrs Inés Mª Iglesias Martinez, Mrs Eulalia Sánchez Caja, as the Comenius coordinator and Mr Benito Hortelano Blasco, as the Library coordinator.
There were two winners for the first prize who are going to Italy in January 2011 and also received a book or a cinema ticket, the second prize winners received a digital camera with a book or a cinema ticket ; the third prize winners got a 20€ cheque and 2 books and the fourth prize winners were given a 10€ cheque and 2 books.

Our digital journal release

2010-05-27T18:01:00.008+02:00

Our digital journal is being written, but you can already read it online, your comments are welcome. Think of a Main page and let us know in the Romania Meeting.

Hungary Evaluation Report

2010-05-13T21:30:00.001+02:00

Hungary Evaluation Report

Turkey Evaluation Report

2010-05-02T12:21:00.000+02:00

Turkey Valuation Report

Spain Valuation Report

2010-04-30T18:15:00.001+02:00

This is the Project Evaluation made by the spanish team
Spain Evaluation Report

Italy Evaluation Report

2010-04-14T19:51:00.000+02:00

Italy Evaluation Report

Romania Evaluation Report

2010-04-14T19:50:00.001+02:00

Romania Evaluation Report

Bulgaria Valuation Report

2010-04-06T21:55:00.001+02:00

Bulgaria Valuation Report

Italy and the Reading Contest

2010-04-02T18:18:00.000+02:00

Italy - Reading Contest

The Reading Contest in Hungary

2010-03-22T20:39:00.001+01:00

Here we are the basis for the Reading Contest in Hungary.

Danilo Mainardi in Massafra

2010-03-17T17:58:00.004+01:00

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It's time for assessment

2010-03-16T14:12:00.001+01:00

This is the Report that every country should fill in and subsequently send to our coordinator (Lali). The results will be published both on the wiki and the blog and they will be evaluated in our next meeting in Romania.
End-of-Term Evaluation Report

Our First Comenius journal has been published

2010-03-14T21:18:00.002+01:00

We have been involved in the design and creation of a new digital journal inside our Comenius project. Here we are the first design now we hope your collaboration, this is a fictitious Main page, it is just an example, we suppose everybody has received the e-mail where the procedure is explained, let us know your opinions.

The reading contest in Bulgaria

2010-02-23T21:35:00.001+01:00

The reading contest in the Professional High school of building, architecture and geodesy, Bulgaria

Are you interested in reading and traveling?
Then join our reading contest and win the big prize – traveling abroad! You only have to do the following 3 steps:
1. Translate a chapter of a book which is in the Comenius corner in the school library
2. Make a Powerpoint presentation about the author of the chosen book
3. Draw a picture, a sketch or a comics presenting the characters of the book

Give your materials to the librarian not later that 15th March 2010. We wish you luck!

Mandarache photos

2010-02-17T19:16:00.002+01:00

Mediterraneo Activities: Premios Mandarache y H

2010-02-17T18:58:00.003+01:00

Premios Mandarache y H

Reading Contest in Spain

2010-02-17T18:29:00.002+01:00

Buket Uzuner in Turkey

2010-02-16T21:56:00.003+01:00

On the 4th of December, 2009 author Buket UZUNER visited our school, we went to local library close to our school together. She talked about "Turkey and multiculturalism" and she has executed a conversation with the students to encourage them to read more books. Also, students asked questions from her book called 'Mediterranean Waltz' which was read by Spanish and Turkish students.This meeting has been announced again in HABER TURK internet press on the 8th of December 2009..

Meeting with Simonetta Agneli in Italy (Massafra)

2010-02-16T21:23:00.002+01:00

The famous writer Simonetta Agneli came to our school in Massafra to meet our students and after a lecture answer their questions. it was a very interesting meeting. Thes tudents have read her book " Mennulara" and aked her a lot of questions. The Press published this activity.

Turkey Meeting Conclusions

2010-02-06T13:52:00.000+01:00

Turkey Meeting Spanish 2

The Plovdiv meeting in Latin

2010-01-12T21:31:00.004+01:00

Our latin teacher, Benito, who took part in the Plovdiv meeting last October has written a special composition in Latin telling his experience on this event. Here is the link to download it. Thank you, Benito
The PLovdiv Meeting in Latin

The PLovdiv meeting in Latin.doc

Meeting with the famous writer Georgy Raichevski

2010-01-05T11:39:00.004+01:00

The meeting was in December at the Great Hall of Professional School for Construction, Architecture and Geodesy - Plovdiv, Bulgaria. Many students from the school took part in it. Here are some photos from the meeting.

Halloween in Spain & Reading Contest in Turkey

2009-11-29T15:20:00.002+01:00

Last Friday, 30th October, we carried out a role-play activity in the Mediterráneo Library to celebrate Halloween. The 1º Bachillerato students played a little work, written by one of our English teachers, Caridad Quevedo, and the 1º ESO students were invited to see it. They all had a very good time, at the end of the activity they were given a fresh blood drink. Here we can see some of the photos taken during the event.

The Reading Contest starts in Turkey. The competition will be held in our school which is called “Book Worms”. Students who wants to participate to the competition, will make the application until the 31th of December 2009, and the selected books will be read until the 19th of March 2010. In the competition, 100 questions will be asked about the selected books and the winner will be awarded with a surprise prize.

The Selected Books are;1-Mediterranean Waltz-Buket Uzuner, 2-The Bridge over the Drina-Ivo Andriç, 3-Mediterranean (Sunrise)-Paniat Istrati, 4-The Alchemist-Paulo Coelho, 5-Crime and Punishment-Dostoyevski, 6-Don Quixote -Cervantes

THE GREAT UDC CONTEST AT THE PROFESSIONAL HIGH SCHOOL OF BUILDING, ARCHITECTURE AND GEODESY IN PLOVDIV

2009-11-26T21:01:00.009+01:00

Students from the eight grade took part in the great UDC contest which was held in the school library. The contest is part of the Comenius project “Reading for traveling through the paths of life” and the idea for the contest was given from our Spanish colleagues. Here is the photo session from it:

A group of students are working on the new library rules.

The rest of the students are listening to the librarian, explaining

what a UDC is and how the books are situated in the library.

The students are looking for different books, divided into groups of 2 or 3.

All of them have completed the tasks successfully and were

very happy to have spent a class in the library.

The contest was part of the reading stimulation techniques and the interest among the students was big.

Press News in Turkey

2009-11-26T20:24:00.008+01:00

On November the 20th, 2009 “Reading for travelling through the paths of life” Comenius School Partnership project has been announced in HABER TURK internet press..

EDUCATION IN ISTANBUL

FORMAL EDUCATION
Formal education is the regular education conducted within schools for individuals in a certain age group and at the same level, under programs developed in accordance with the national education objectives.

Pre-School Education
Pre-school education covers children between the age of 36-72 months. Institutions can be established as independent kindergartens or as application classrooms affliated to giriş' vocational high schools for the purposes of practical training for students, and within other educational institutions.

Primary Education
Primary education covers childrenin the 6-14 age group. Eight-year primary education is compulsory for all citizens regardless of gender, and is provided free of charge in State schools.

Secondary Education
Secondary education follows primary education and covers general, vocational and technical high schools providing at least 4 years of education for the 14-17 age group. All students completing primary education have the right to attend any type of secondary education in line with their interests, talents and capabilities.

Special Education
The aim is to provide the best educational opportunities for individuals with special needs, to integrate them with society, and enable them to gain professional skills.

Private Education
Private education institutions are the institutions expenses of which are covered by natural or legal persons. They are subject to supervision and inspection of Ministry of National Education (MoNE). These institutions are opened and operated in accordance with the Law on Private Education Institutions.

Higher Education
Higher education covers al post-secondary programmes with duration of at least two years

NON-FORMAL EDUCATION
Non-formal education covers those who are currently at a particular stage of their education, who have left their education at any stage, or who have never had the chance to attend school.
Non-formal education is carried out through public education, apprenticeship training and distance education. Similar education services are also offered through vocational courses opened at vocational high schools and the by local authority.

ISTEF: ISTANBUL EDUCATION FAIR
ISTEF is a "project fair" that brings all national and international based education projects under its roof. Within the exhibition, projects developed by students and teachers of lower and upper secondary schools are displayed. Development of these projects serve to increase the quality of education within the institutions, as well as elevating the level of knowledge, ability and capability of students.

ISTANBUL EDUCATION AND CAREER EXHIBITION
Istanbul Education and Career Exhibition is organized every year at the Feshane International Exhibition and Congress Center, since 2008, with the initiaition of Local Education Authority of İstanbul.
This annually organized exhibition brings together various institutions in the field of education and training and students, which enables students to get acknowledged of higher education institutions and occupations. Students visiting the exhibition have the opportunity be guided and directed effectively for their future and career choices.

Visitors
Upper secondary and high school students, private and state university students, new graduates who want to take a career path, inititiators in the field of education, teachers and head teachers, parents of related students, media representatives, representatives and employees from the field,

Attending organisations
State universities, private universities, training courses for OSS, Career courses, Education and guidance companies for education abroad, foundations and NGO’s supporting education, public organisations, publications in the field, vocational education institutions.

A great number of projects under European Union - Lifelong Learning Programme (LLP) and other type of projects has been carried out by both Istanbul Provincial Directorate of National Education and the schools in Istanbul.

SCIENTIST FOR A DAY PROJECT
The Project was carried out in 2007 and 2008. It was sponsored by Bahcesehir University - Science and Technology College.
The aims of the Project is : To motivate the students to love science, To show them how a scientist works, To teach the students the ways of scientific studies,
To teach the students how to prepare, carry out and evaluate a Project and how to use imagination by preparing a Project, To get students understand the importance of group work.

Time for assessment

2009-11-23T20:47:00.001+01:00

Here we are the Survey we hace created to be filled evry Term. It is calles Every-Term Evaluation Report.Every country has to send it to our coordinator: Lali.End-of-Term Evaluation Report

and the WINNER is ... LOGO 12!

2009-11-16T14:42:00.005+01:00

¡CONGRATULATIONS, Turkey!

And the logo winner is...

2009-11-12T21:49:00.025+01:00

These are the results so far, we are waiting for the other countries choices. As soon as we get them we will publish them.

	Logo1	Logo2	Logo3	Logo4	Logo5	Logo6	Logo7	Logo8	Logo9	Logo10	Logo11	Logo12
Bulgaria	0	0	0	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	11
Hungary	1	0	0	0	0	4	1	0	0	0	0	14
Italy	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	6	12
Romania	3	0	1	8	0	0	4	0	0	0	1	3
Spain	5	0	0	9	0	0	0	0	3	0	3	0
Turkey	3	3	4	4	0	1	0	0	4	1	0	0

Buket Uzuner Meeting

2009-11-08T15:28:00.010+01:00

On 28th October some IES Meditarraneo students and teachers met Buket Uzuner at The Feria del Libro in Murcia (Spain). Buket Uzuner is the turkish writer whose book has been recommended by the Comenius Turkish team. The meeting was very interesting for our students and teachers and all of them were impressed by this charming writer. Here we are some photos of the event. You can also see them in this link to Facebook because she wrote a post about the meeting.

Changes in the logos to vote

2009-11-05T22:38:00.006+01:00

Remember that the Logos no.7, 8 and 10 have been eliminated from the election, instead we have a new one which we show here. If you click on it you'll see it bigger.This new one is Logo 7 now

We have a new web page for our project

2009-11-04T23:08:00.004+01:00

We've made a wiki on Wikispaces that we'd like to share with you. You'll be able to easily edit pages, upload files, and join our discussions.
We have started but we need your collaboration, please join us and fill in the information left. For example a text in your own languaje explaining our project on the Home page, links to your school webs, photos, documents, videos etc... about your libraries, countries or any other topics you'd like to share with us.
We hope you'll join us! We are looking forward to your news!

Let's vote our LOGO

2009-10-31T01:13:00.008+01:00

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.

Questionnaire about the opening meeting in Plovdid

2009-10-30T18:49:00.005+01:00

	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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Pictures of our opening meeting in Plovdiv

2009-10-27T15:47:00.005+01:00

Questionnaire about opening meeting in Plovdid (Bulgaria)

2009-10-27T13:58:00.002+01:00

Download the questionnaire

Tecniques for reading encouragement

2009-10-27T13:34:00.004+01:00

Plovdiv Conclusions

Bulgaria meeting

2009-10-27T13:32:00.003+01:00

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.

Presentación de nuestro centro

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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.

Centros europeos asociados

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Los centros asociados con nuestro IES en el proyecto comenius son:

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)

Objeto del Proyecto Comenius

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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.

Perseguimos impulsar un marco de intercambio y enriquecimiento mutuo de experiencias alrededor de la lectura y de las bibliotecas.

El IES Mediterraneo es coordinador de un Proyecto Comenius

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Comenius aborda la educación escolar y pretende fomentar entre los jóvenes y el personal docente el conocimiento y la comprensión de la diversidad de culturas y lenguas europeas y del valor de esa diversidad. También tiene el propósito de ayudar a los jóvenes a adquirir las aptitudes básicas para la vida y las competencias necesarias para su desarrollo personal, su futuro laboral y la ciudadanía europea activa.

Part of the Lifelong Learning Programme, Comenius seeks to develop knowledge and understanding among young people and educational staff of the diversity of European cultures , languages and values. It helps young people acquire the basic life skills and competences necessary for their personal development, for future employment and for active citizenship.

En este blog publicaremos toda la información relativa al Proyecto Comenius.