Heroes and Cultural Identity Project

Project meeting: Edinburgh, 3-8 October 2006

SUMMARY OF DECISIONS MADE AT THE PROJECT MEETING

Day 1

At the international voting level:

  • There will be a winner chosen for each participating school.
  • Each school would present 2 heroes.
  • Schools cannot vote for their own entries
  • All presentations to include some text, up to, but not exceeding 200 words
  • Multimedia presentations would have a maximum of 10 PowerPoint slides and/or 1 minute of music, and/or 1 minute of video
  • The language for text would be English. To ensure that the quality of English was similar for each school, the Scottish partner volunteered to 'polish up' the English on the heroes presented by the other partners.

Day 2

  • Students should be asked the question 'why is someone a hero, what makes someone a hero, and what does this person mean to me? Students should be encouraged to think critically.
  • Controversial figures such as Hitler or Mussolini are excluded because the spirit of the project is to oppose prejudice such as xenophobia, racism
  • A discussion forum for students will be set up.
  • A discussion forum for teachers will be set up.
  • Each school will have its own website linked to the main website at Stevenson.
  • Websites will be in both English and national languages so that students and teachers from both the local country and abroad could navigate them
  • 'Vote' would be at the top of the forum page rather than in each individual entry
  • Links from the 200 word hero summary to the background material can be either via the site in general or direct to the specific hero. No final decision was taken on this.

Day 3

Timeline until next meeting

200 word summaries/presentations sent to Harry by 16 February 2007
Voting commences on 2 March 2007
Voting completed - 16 March 2007
Next meeting - Gdynia, Poland: 10-15 April 2007. Meetings 11, 12, 13

Newsletter for dissemination

Issued towards the end of 2006. Scotland will collate short contributions from each partner and put the newsletter together.

ICT contacts for the project

Harry - Scotland
Michele - Italy
Astrid - Norway
Serkan - Turkey
Renata - Slovakia
Oktawia - Poland

Prizes and awards

Four types:
Travel to next meeting
Produce from the different partners' countries
A trophy/medal (designed/produced by Norway)
Certificate for students who participate in the project. Stevenson to produce. Logos of each institution to be included

Renewal

Scotland will produce the information required for renewal and that this would be sent as early as possible to the partners, in good time for translation.

Hero montage