FW: Education versus Entertainment

[Victoria Vrana]

-----Original Message-----
From: Mariana Hudrea [mailto:Mariana.Hudrea at mail.alphanet.ro]
Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2000 1:23 AM
To: vvrana at morino.org
Subject: Re: Education versus Entertainment

<p>> In the meantime, does anyone have examples of activities that help an
> afterschool program move from the game/surfing level to the educational
> project level?
> Victoria
>
Hello everybody!

My name is Mariana Hudrea.
I teach English in  a school  from Romania.
My interest in using  computers in school  goes  back  to the year
1986.Since then I have been trying  to develop my skills in this field.
Through diferent  discussion lists  I  found  out  about diferent
educational projects. The most  successful with my students  was Friends &
Flags.(You are invited to visit the current project website at:
URL:http://www.schoollife.net/schools/flags)
We  intend  to join it  again .

Three years  ago  I  attended a Multimedia  course in Great Britain. After
that course I started  to   deliver  a series  of PowerPoint presentations
and I organized class activities  meant  to  show  my colleagues ( from my
city  and  from diferent  other places from my country)  the benefits  of
using  computers in school activities.
Next  week I am organizing  a Multimedia Summer Camp for 37 students  aged
14-18. Most of them  do not  have access to  computers at home or  even at
school.
The camp  will last 8 days.
It is meant  to be an interactive camp.They  will be divided  in three
groups according  to their  computing skills.
The students  will be offered  the opportunity  to find exactly what they
can  do with/on a computer.
They will be shown  how  to use the e-mail, to surf the Net, to join
chat -groups .They will be taught  how  to use didactic CD-ROMs, etc.
They will be invited  to visit different educational sites on the net.They
will be also  offered  to opportunity  bring their  contribution  to the
school  website.
Besides these  we will organize  trips  and other  interactive  activities.
At the end of the camp  they will be invited  to organize  a show .All these
activities  are meant  to be presented on the school website.
Those  who  are interested  in the way the camp  will develop, in the
problems that might occur , are invited  to contact me directly.

prof. Mariana Gabriela Hudrea
Colegiul National "Mihai Eminescu"
Str.Culturii nr.7
4800 Baia Mare
Tel +40 62 433993
Mobil: 094808765
Romania
E-mail: Mariana.Hudrea at mail.alphanet.ro
http://www.eminescu.multinet.ro