Painting of Illustration

We started to work with the pupils from lower classes at school.

There are a lot of activities running at the Bundesgymnasium Babenbergerring. Besides the data collecting for the special touristic themes there are several groups painting illustrations for the project. Our colleague Susanne APPELT is working with the pupils from the 1st to 4th form (10 to 14 years old). They get their instructions in English language (as they run CLIL in arts). We want to offer these drawings and paintings for free use for illustration of paper or electronic work. As next step a presentation is planned to present selected pieces of the art work. Harald Makl is planning and carrying out an exhibition at a corridor of our school. We will try to publish this in our local newspapers.

Photo workshop at BG Babenbergerring

We started with the first stage of a series of workshops. The theme was "structures" and we tried to get closer to the functionality of our cameras. The objective was to take pictures from different points of view to experience use depth of focus and different light effects. To get personal experience we took pictures of Easter eggs – that sounds easier than it is. The second challenge was to experience with corrugated board. Here we could combine different challenges and techniques. Another point was the use of cameras with a high technical level – up to SLR.

The next step is to gain experience and produce new pictures. We want to form an exhibition from the follow up work.
The collection with the pictures prepared for the exhibition is published at PicAsa.

The next workshops will deal with the theme of “documentation” followed by “composition”

Jura Neikena Dikli Elementary school’s Comenius project’s group in Vidzemes University college.

On Monday, February 25^th, Comenius group of the Jura Neikena Dikli Elementary school visited Vidzemes University college and listened Vidzemes University college’s associate professor Juri Smalinski presenting Eco tourism in a very interesting way.
He informed us about Eco tourism in Dikli, in Latvia and all over the world, as Asia, Africa, America, Australia and Oceania.

He started with definition of ecotourism. We discussed how people in Latvia and everywhere in the world comprehend ecotourism . Ecotourism – it is green thinking and using natural products - an idea born in Costa Rica.
Ecotourism is responsible traveling along a nature locality .Ecotourism doesn’t leave negative influence to nature and improve native people welfare, stimulate environment’s protection.
Our pupils took very active part in discussion, special Aksel and Aigar. It was important for me.
We discussed about Ecotourism Union of Latvia., which is founded in July 2000 and what is its tasks. Then we discussed about ecotourism in Dikli and surroundings of Dikli.
The professor told us about ecotourism experience in Brazilia, too.

At the end of presentation professor put accent to ecotourism as long life tourism Ecotourism has a negative aspects , too. It endangers local people interests, culture . It degrades environment and social life of local people.
This presentation was very important for our project’s group and we are very grateful to professor Juri Smalinski.
After presentation we visited Valmieras museum. We watched and improved Mathematics’ games.

Interview with Christoph Sigmund

Friday afternoon Mr. Christoph Sigmund, the general manager of the Arena Nova, was available for an interview. A four students group, headed by Evelyn Seidler, met him in his office. Sophie Gruber cared for the documentation and was responsible for pictures, Viktoria Wersonig videoed the complete interview using two cameras, Georg Piribauer was responsible for the notes and Evelyn asked Mr. Sigmund about his job, qualification, tourism aspects of an important event center and – last but not least – about future jobs for young people.

Mr. Sigmund answered patiently the questions, he presented a very open-minded approach to our project and we got all the information we were interested in.

The following private discussion with Mr. Sigmund demonstrated an interesting life of a great personality. Thank you, Mr. Sigmund, for the chance to talk with you and for your precious time you spent us!

Video: Evelyn Seidler talking with Mr. Sigmund about education and qualification for jobs.

Interview with director Koppensteiner

Sarah, Masi and Krisi made an appointment to talk with Mr. Norbert Koppensteiner about the museum and the aspects of tourism in connection with the museum.

They were welcomed cordially and Mr. Koppensteiner spent the complete Monday afternoon to give the requested information and to show them round in the current exhibition.

As there was an exact plan developed by the three students everyone had its own job: Sarah run the interview, asking the (well prepared questions), Marsi cared about the written documentation and Krisi videoed the meeting.

After a short coffee break Mr. Koppensteiner guided the interview team through the exhibition to show the highlights of the museum. An exciting moment was to sit in the rear seats of the original Daimler – a car produced in Wiener Neustadt and about 100 years old – the students felt like princesses …

The result of this meeting (written documentation, about 100 digital pictures, video scenes and a complete cut of the interview as an mp3-file) is shared by the group and enhanced to a case study about the museum as a point of tourist’s interest.

The interview team: Masi, Sarah and Krisi

Colegio Costa Adeje - my stay in Tenerife

I’ll publish my impressions of my stay in Tenerife. I had the possibility to stay at school for some days and I will publish some pictures of the restructuring and comments about what I’ve seen there.

The new connection between the new building and the lower classes of primary school and ESO crosses the courtyard and leads directly from the stairways of the new building to the classrooms of the first building.

The stairwas in the new building are a modern construction with free areas between the two parts of the main building - coverd and protected by a modern and pleasant glass roof - curved and protective ...

The work with students of different ages (starting from the 3°eso to the 4°eso and the 1st bachilerato was both a challenge and exciting for me.

I obtained a lot of new experiances and was welcomed in a very heartly way.

Some instructions about e-learning were a contribution to advanced training for teachers.

It was great to work at this school!

Nature & Tenerife

Nature in Tenerife is completely different from the well known environment of an Austrian citizen. The huge number of endemic plants, the volcanism of the Island and the mammals living in the deep blue sea between Tenerife and Gomera are really impressing. I was on the way to find bottlenose dolphins and pilot whales with a small catamaran and had a good guide – less than an hour and we could watch some dolphins and – in distance – we could recognize some whales breathing at the surface of the sea.

Very impressing was the way into the barranco de inferno – strange flowers and some “perdiz” were found along the way deep into the canyon. The partridge (= perdiz) is not the same we know from our meadows and veldt round Wiener Neustadt (there we have the brown “perdix perdix") – it’s colored and looks very beautiful …