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Learning with cartoons and animations: Our school is a state school which has been opened since 2008. It’s got 17 classrooms,538 students ( between 10-14 age ) and 24 teachers. There is a computer room and web in our school. The computer room has electronic equipment. In our staff,our English teachers and computer teachers took part actively in this project. Kocaeli Metropolis Municipality gave tablets to All our students (in 6th,7th,8th grades ) . By this project,we used these tablets as educative tools with software. We improved our education quality by using these students’ digital abilities. In our project,we prepared animations about lessons and cultural topics:1-we discovered digital abilities of the students who were in different grades.2- teachers developed their attitude to digital learning for the lessons. 3- we stored digital education tool to use it in every education level as course materials. 4-students learned to use digital tools. 5- we shared experiences and learned more cultures by cooperating our partners. 6-teachers improved themselves to teach language, and students developed their language skills by digital skills.The number of participants and profile: There were seven partner schools. There were ten students in each school cartoon and animation teams. There were schools from different educational grades, the students was chosen from different ages from 10 to 14.Methodology was used: International cooperation was done with partners in the program. Animation software training was taken in order to improve the digital skills of the participants. This training was given at the first meeting. Participants of this course guided the ones that didn’t participate to the mobility through peer learning. Short stories were written and language skills were improved by finding out the culture of the country that had been visited at the first place. Then, cultural cartoons and animations were done. Animations were done by using the same method on a topic that was given according to the curriculum of the host school. Students used the tablets to learn the lessons. These students who could use these ICT devices improved the digital integration. Teachers who were lack of digital skills had positive attitudes to digital subjects. In our school we had a project about science and technology. And students used animation programmers to do their homework and project works. Some students made presentations by using this animation that they did. they integrated it to all lessons.they learned different cultures and traditions. they introduced their own cultures so they had a cultural harmony during this meeting. thanks to this project they had chance to practice English with foreign people.So their English marks increased. they started to use applications to keep in touch with their foreign friends by speaking English. they were eager to go abroad. they improved their self-confidence and represented their countries abroad. These videos were posted via youtube and facebook channel. We had planned that 5 students and 2 teachers would join to the Short-Term Learning/Teaching/Training Activities in the application form. According to the application form, 42 participants had been planed for 6 meetings. We had more participants than the planned at the end of the project. Totally 48 participants from our school (31 students and 17 teachers) joined to the meetings. Two kinds of animations about subject and culture were done in each meeting. 490 animations were planned in the application form but more than 500 animations were done. The animations were stored and used as lesson materials. Animations were shared via our youtube channel (Learning with Cartoons and Animations) and opened to international access. Also, all animations were shared by Twinspace that a portal in the E-twinning. And they were shared on all schools’ web pages. Information about our project was shared on EBA that is a web page of Turkish Ministry of Education has our animations. There was a lot of news about our project as local area. Visits to Municipality, Governorship and Ministry of Education were made. Participants visited historical and cultural places, museums and official places in each meeting.
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