Closing Conference Rio de Janeiro, 22 – 24 May 2008

1. European and Latin American Examples of Distance Cross-Curricular Learning in Science X-Cross Project Students presentation City of Miraflores Peru Closing Conference Rio de Janeiro, 22 – 24 May 2008 City logo

2. Our Greetings • Mr. Otto Bothmann, Overall Coordinator of X-Cross. • Ms. Claire Klindt, operative Coordinator of the X-Cross Project. • High Political Representatives of the Cities of Bremen, Segrate, Piraí, Vitoria and Miraflores.

3. Our Greetings • International experts, Mr. Luis Lozano and Mr. Tadao Takahashi. • Guests. • Teachers and students.

4. Introduction • We are very honored to be here in the Closing Conference of X-Cross in this beautiful City of Rio de Janeiro. • We represent the 54 pupils who participated directly in the Project and 30 passive pupils since august 2006 in three schools in Miraflores.

5. Introduction The three schools from Miraflores are: • Juana Alarco de Dammert school. • Federico Villarreal school. • Scipion E. Llona school.

6. We are sure that the Closing Conference will be an amazing experience. We are going to share with you our experiences and interests. We hope you will enjoy this presentation… Introduction

7. About the Project The easiest part of the project was: Making Power Point presentations. Animation.

8. About the Project • The most amusing part was: • Video filming. • Performing on camera. • Video cutting. • How to handle the camera.

9. The hardest part was: Making SofTV (specially when we have to publish it with XML). Uploading our e-lessons. About the Project

10. About the Project • What the project gave us: • Self confidence. • Higher self esteem. • International contact with students from other countries. • Learning new software.

11. About the Project • Talking in front of an audience. • To have new opportunities for working in the future. • Improving our English language.

12. In Miraflores four pupils (three of them Delegates in this Conference) became IT trainers. They trained the new pupils during the summer 2008 in Power Point, video filming, video cutting and SofTV. About the Project

13. The pupils were very grateful to the four IT trainers: Melissa Gutierrez ( Pupil from Scipión E. Llona school) Christian Guevara ( Pupil from Scipión E. Llona school) Diego Vega ( Pupil from Federico Villarreal school) Eder Rivera ( Pupil from Federico Villarreal school) About the Project

14. About the Project • The four pupils who • became IT Trainers • in the summer 2008.

15. The three schools produced 12 e-lessons as a whole. We will present samples of the videos and SofTV. About the e-lessons

16. About the e-lessons • Topic: “Ten suggestions to prevent the global warmth from home”. • School: Juana Alarco de Dammert. • Softv: Power Point and photographs.

17. About the e-lessons • We had a lot of fun doing it, specially when we took the photograph of all of us in a car. • Saving gasoline!

18. We will show you a small part of this SofTV. About the e-lessons

19. About the e-lessons • Topic:Nutrients. • School: Juana Alarco de Dammert in 2006. • D-lecture. • We presented it in the Workshop in Rio in 2007.

20. About the e-lessons • We were the first school making a d-lecture in X-CROSS in Miraflores. • We are very proud of it. • It was hard to talk in front of a camera according to the Power Point.

21. The Teacher’s comments • Teacher Nora Mena • Member of the Dream Team. • Juana Alarco de Dammert School.

22. “I am in X-CROSS since august 2006.” “To me X-CROSS is a transforming experience in the technological, pedagogical and human fields where the most important thing is learning to learn all together as a working team.” The Teacher’s comments

23. The Teacher’s comments • “Each day a growing learning, a unique opportunity in a public school, a challenge and a commitment of teachers and pupils as a whole, thinking about the importance of transcending in the world through permanent teaching and learning with our small but meaningful contribution.” • “The Project X-CROSS is a practice that mobilizes people with a common interest: improving the quality of education in a globalized world”

24. About the e-lessons • Topic: The Marsh of Villa Ecosystem Part1 • School: Federico Villarreal • Softv: Power Point and video

25. About the e-lessons • Filming the video was an awesome experience. • Filming and walking with the video camera over the marsh, almost floating on the creek, was a bit complicated.

26. About the e-lessons • We will show you a small part of this SofTV.

27. The teacher´s comments • Teacher Vladimir Barrios. • Member of the Dream Team. • Federico Villarreal School.

28. “Thanks to the X-Cross Project, the Teachers have learned new ways to apply ITC in the teaching and learning process.” “The pupils learnt how to work as a team, developing their interpersonal intelligence, their imagination and creativity” The Teacher´s comments

29. About the e-lessons • Topic: The Marsh of Villa ecosystem Part 2. • School: Scipion E. Llona. • Softv: Power Point and video.

30. About the e-lessons • We had a great time! • We met a group of British bird watchers who lent us their telescopes.

31. About the e-lessons • We filmed the flora and fauna of this beautiful place.

32. This is a small sample of this SoftTV. About the e-lessons

33. About e-lessons • Topic: The maca. A peruvian nutritious tuber. • School: Scipión E. Llona. • Video.

34. About the e-lessons • We learnt about our country´s nutritious tubers and seeds. • We were an excellent working team and had a lot of fun too!!

35. This is a short part of the video About the e-lessons

36. The Teacher´s comments • Teacher Pilar Rodriguez. • Member of the Dream Team • Scipión E. Llona School

37. “The experience of X-CROSS has been very interesting because new technologies were used to elaborate learning modern multimedia projects in Biology. Pupils and myself learnt during the process, interchanging experiences and sharing our knowledge.” “The experience was a lot of fun and very enriching for my job as a Teacher and I feel great to have participated with enthusiasm in the X-CROSS Project." The Teacher´s comments

38. The student delegates comments Melissa Gutiérrez: • “X-Cross is not just a Project.” • “They are people who really care about us, the • pupils, and our improvement.”

39. “Being part of X-Cross is more than work, it’s a huge pride and pleasure.” “Thanks for helping us to demonstrate that the only thing young people need to be great leaders is an opportunity.” The student delegates comments

40. The student delegates comments Diego Vega: • “These two years, while I was participating in this Project, I felt really enthusiastic, because I felt that I was improving the way to teach and learn in my country.”

41. Christian Guevara: “I enjoyed all the Project activities but the best part for me was filming and cutting videos.” “X-CROSS gave me the opportunity to work in a team and reinforce the friendship with my schoolmates.” The student delegates comments

42. The student delegates comments Carla Tacsa • “To me X-CROSS is more than a nice experience. It means to realize that I can go even more far away than I ever thought I could.”

43. “It meant to know what do I want in my future and with the help of X-CROSS I made it.” “This Project made me make things that I never thought I would do, going to places that were not in my mind.” The student delegates comments

44. “It is a support to all teenagers to grow as responsible and capable people, betting for us unconditionally.” “Thank you X-CROSS for giving us the opportunity to demonstrate you what we are able to do, for supporting us some way in our lives and future and most of all for betting on us the young people. Thanks again X-CROSS!!” The student delegates comments

45. Gladys Collazos. “For me it was a new experience where I learnt with IT Trainers who were teenagers like me”. The student delegates comments

46. “It was an opportunity offered to public schools with the support of the City of Miraflores. We worked as a team and made new friends.” The student delegates comments

47. The student delegates comments Melissa Romero: • “I am very grateful for a new opportunity that X-cross gave me in my life. I know the Project will change the life of everyone. Thank you very much!”

48. We are really grateful to: The Mayor Dr. Manuel Masías. The European Union. The Project Management in the City of Bremen. The Manager of Education and Coordinator of X-CROSS Mr. Lic. Fidel Rojas. Our gratitude

49. Mrs. Gloria Dunkelberg, because she is the person who helped us in all the project. The Headmasters of our Schools Mrs. Laura Ríos, Mr. Mario León R. y Mr. Julio Cortez. All the teachers of each school. Our gratitude

50. Juana Alarco de Dammert School: Teachers Nora Mena, Brigitte Brandes, Flor de María Mendoza, Cesar Pacheco, Jaime Aquije, Indira Osorio, Mónica Salomé Franco, Sara Away, Isabel Alway y Sonia Castro. Scipión E. Llona School Teachers Pilar Rodríguez, Silvia Barrera and Esther Figueroa. Federico Villarreal School Teachers Vladimir Barrios, Ismael Díaz, Maria Elena Santi and José Montes. Our gratitude