Erasmus in Portugal

We created our own Digital Story. We started with writing our Story. The teacher showed us a lot of totally different pictures and we had to choose one of them without knowing what we have to do with it. After everyone chose the picture the teacher explained the excersice to us. We should write an individual story to this picture, and it doesn´t metters which kind of story this will be. I decidet to write a story which the picture reminded me of (You can read my story on the post : The Waterfall). After we finished with writing the story we toled our storys to the other students in the course. It was very interesting to hear all the different storys and see how different the ideas of the students were. After this we started to make the video. The teacher gave us some papers and we continiued with drawing the course of our story. I needed a lot of time for that becuse I wanted my video to be perfect.   I decidet to draw my story with paint und that I recorded my voice...

Sisi was born as daughter of Duke Maximilian and Duchess Ludovika in Bavaria. In 1853, she got to know her cousin Emporer Franz Joseph, who was going to marry Sisi's sister Helene. Franz Joseph fell in love with Sisi immediately and decided to marry her instead of her sister. They married, Elisabeth being 16 years old. The love marriage did not work out: Sisi was an independent girl and totally unprepared for the strict protocol at court, an ambitious stepmother and a busy husband who struggled to fight revolutionary and separatist tendencies in the Habsburg empire… The Viennese aristocracy was making fun of her and her mother in law Sophie took over the control of her life. Her children were taken from her and Sisi was barely allowed to see them, putting her in deep depression and illness. After two year of cure and lodging in Madeira, Korfu and Bavaria, Sisi returned with new confidence to Vienna. She decided to take control for political issues and soon took interest in Hunga...

The biggest problem in Austria at the moment is I think that so many people are trying to come to the country and hoping to start a better life. Most of the people who are coming are of course refugees, people who are escaping from their own countries because of war, danger and fear. Mostly the reasons of the wars are religion or other political reasons.Very often these people have lost everything they had and the only thing they could keep is their hope of a better life or at least a life without fear. The real problem in this situation is that there are more and more people coming every single day but we don´t have enough supplies and especially money to support all these people. Moreover most of the people who are coming plan to stay in austria forever what is not possible because of the missing workplaces.   Another problem from the same topic, witch in my opinion is even more tough than the first one is that we can not decide anymore witch of the refugees really nee...

Anna is a 12-year-old girl from Austria. She always had good grades in school and she also helped her mom almost every day with the housework. Her favorite hobby was riding the back of a horse and since she was a little girl she was always playing in their garden in front of their house. Anna also has got a little brother, his name is Dominik and he is annoying her a lot because she has to look very often after him. The family was eternally spending their evenings all together. One day the mother feels that something has changed but she wasn´t really sure what it was. She was thinking a long time until she found out what it was. The two children didn´t talked anymore they were just in front of their smartphones all day. They didn´t meet their friends anymore and they also didn´t want to spend their free time outside practicing their hobbies. They didn´t even argued anymore. First she thought that the behavior of her kids just changed because they turned older now and that they j...

Video: Jermila´s Story A step forward: Jermila was the oldest of 13 kids and her mother was 13 when she was pregnant with her (she always said that 13 was her magic number). They where poor and Jermila started to steal some things from grocery stores. When she told her mother she wasn´t angry with her. Instead of that she took the things and went back to the store to get the money for the food and gave some of the money to Jermila. Jermila also started to steal from the mall next to her house. She returned all of the things to get the money for that and buy some food for her family becuase they didn´t have enought food for all of the family members. She was hiding the rest of the money from her parents.  One night when she was walking on the streets, a guy grap her hand and put a knife into her throught. She tryed to talk him out of that, but she didn´t won. After that she ran away from anybody and because nobody supported her, her crimes got bigger until she went to the p...

What did I learned during that project: I have never done something like that before because the work with the computer was to confusing for me. The only things I used with the computer were "Google" and "Microsoft Word and PowerPoint". For me it was very fascinating to be a part of the process of creating a game like this. I also really like the fact that with "scratch" you can create your individual games. I enjoyed the work with scratch and I am really impressed about the result. You can also use this tool to work with children and I am sure that every single child will love to work in their own way. Additionally it promotes the creativity of the children and the result also supports the learning process.

What triggers students to create ePortfolios? International seminar to share innovative Europan practices General overfew: The seminar started with some welcoming words from Pedro Dominguinhos the President of the Instituto Politécnico de Setúbal. He showed us the schedule of the Seminar and introduced the different visitors to us. After that Ana Luisa Oliveira Pires and Marja Laurikaninen explained the EEP project a little bit.  Schedual: “What students want?” was the first part of the presentation and it was very interesting for me.   They interviewed a lot of students about this topic and also worked with them on this seminar. Some of the examples came from Ireland and it was interesting to see how the Irish students are thinking about this topic. Most of the interviewed students were talking positive about it and they think it is very useful for their education. I really like the idea of “progressing construction of learning” and I also think that ...

 Sisi and the pink dolphine: Once upon a time there was a princess named Sisi. She was really beautiful and everyone looked up to her. When she was young she was forced to marrie a King named Jofrey. He was a angry king and they argued a lot. Sisi was very unhappy with him und she started to get more and more depressed about her marrige. They lived in a castle which was rounded by a deep and terrifying river. This river was the home of uncountable creatures and also the home of a pink dolphin. The name of the dolphine was Franz Joseph and he was very lonely and because of that also quite sad. One day when he was watching the stars and the moon he saw Sisi walking through the bridge. Since this moment he fall in love with her. The following weeks during the same time Franz waited for Sisi to go for her night walk. Mostly of them were after she had an argument with her husband Jofrey. One night when she started again her night walk she was crying awful. When Franz saw t...

Elisabeth Elisabeth Eugenie Amalie, genannt Sisi, wurde am Weihnachtsabend des Jahres 1837 als Tochter des Herzog Max in Bayern und der bayrischen Königstochter Ludovika (Schwester von Erzherzogin Sophie) in München geboren. Da ihre Eltern keine offiziellen Verpflichtungen am Königshof hatten, konnte die Familie in ihrem kleinen Schloss Possenhofen am Starnberger See ein unbeschwertes Leben führen. Hier verlebte Sisi mit ihren sieben Geschwistern eine glückliche, sorgenfreie Kindheit. Da die junge Prinzessin zwanglos spielen, toben, reiten und sogar bayrischen Dialekt sprechen durfte, glich Sisi in ihrer Jugend eher einem Landkind als einer Prinzessin. Ihre Mutter Ludovika, Tochter des bayrischen Königs Maximilian I., hatte als einzige der drei Schwestern nicht in eine königliche Familie eingeheiratet. Ihr Mann Max war Wittelsbacher und bekam durch die Hochzeit den Titel „Herzog in Bayern” zuerkannt. Während er in typisch Wittelsbacher Manier freiheitsliebend und exze...