MULTIDISCIPLINARY FLIPPED LEARNING WITH ICT: 8TH PROJECT MEETING IN LITHUANIA

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Our project teams met again, this time in a wintry Lithuania. Yet, we didn’t feel cold, our friends’ warm hearts made our stay pleasant and unforgettable. Here is the record of this stay:

Each of us agrees: it was an amazing experience!

During the meeting in Lithuania we had a very busy and interesting program. We had some technical sessions at school during which we planned the schedule for the next project meeting in Turkey. We also discussed details about the final meeting in Spain.

We visited the school and both students and teachers from partner countries had a chance to attend some lessons with the Lithuanian students based on a plan our hosts prepared. Apart from this, our students were involved in an educational activity in which they played roles in a performance totally designed and acted by themselves. They practised English in context and had a tremendous fun with their peers from abroad. They also took part in an interesting debate over the advantages and disadvantages of using the Internet and ICT at school.

Beside these activities, we were also involved in cultural activities, for instance visits to the local museums where we learned how traditional houses were organized and saw many similarities between traditional houses in Lithuania and other countries involved in this project. In particular, we visited an open-air village museum in Anycsiai, where the houses resembled very much the Polish traditional wooden houses. There, we learned how traditional bread was baked and we had a chance to practise some outdoor activities.

The Lithuanian team organized a cooking workshop for us in which all the partners cooked traditional noodles which we later on ate and we danced traditional dances at the party our hosts organized at school. After that, we had fun together at a school disco which was attended by students and teachers from all 8 partner countries and host families.

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We all participated in a documentary visit to Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania, and Trakai, a medieval castle, where we saw some outstanding historical and cultural sites and admired the beautiful architecture of the city. Here, too, we could notice similarities in architecture with cities from our countries. This is a proof that we are not so different, on the contrary, there are many similarities between our cultures.

We also saw the amazing Tree Top Walking Path and the largest stone in Lithuania called Pantukas.

We also had a dissemination session with local officials, the headmasters of the schools, teachers and librarians from local Lithuanian schools. On this occasion, the headmaster of the school presented us with the examples of Lithuanian campaigns for promoting readership and we also showed our presentation on readership in Poland, which met with a great enthusiasm.

On the last day of our stay in Panevezys, we received the certificates of participation and our host school prepared a short performance which impressed everyone.

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We appreciated very well the efforts our hosts made to organize such a varied and interesting program for the meeting in Lithuania and we all learned a lot about Lithuania and its warm-hearted and hospitable people.

We were leaving Lithuania with sadness as with great friends time passes by very quickly. Yet, we will keep our lovely memories with us and we will always come back to Lithuania with a great nostalgia.

Now we are looking forward to meeting again in Turkey next spring.