Thursday, 1 November 2018

FRA#1 - First Partner Meeting

Sensei07 November 01, 2018

The first partner meeting of the E-STAFF project took place from October 8th to October 11th in the Collège les Perrières in Annonay, France.

This partner meeting involved all the project coordinators and the English teachers as well as other key teachers from the different partner schools' teams, in order to start the project and discuss its main goals.

The partners also got into practical activities regarding cinema and regarding English learning, to develop ways of including cinema and increasing drama skills during language classes.

The main goals of the E-STAFF project

The practical activities that were dedicated to cinema learning took place on the afternoon of the second day. During that time, the partner teachers had to produce short videos on the theme of suspense. These were the results for each partner group:

On the third day, the training focused on the behind-the-scenes videos of the project, to be made in English, in order for the students to develop the use of digital tools through a video correspondence at a European level. Different themes were presented to the teachers regarding the behind-the-scene films:

Suggestions of topics for the "Behind-the-scenes" films

The final day of the partner meeting was kept for discussion and decision-making time. After that, all came back home, ready to start the project with their students. Lights, camera, action !