Dear Friends
Thank you for your participation and enthusiastic words!
To those of you that already thinking about practical aspects of your trip, here are some useful information’s:
Weather: I will give you an updated Weather report Friday 4th of September. But so far the weather it’s quite unpredictable. This week we have some rain, 27 degrees of temperature and some “regular days”, that means sunshine and 27 degrees of temperature. The Portuguese forecaster can be accessed here: www.meteo.pt
Hotel: The Hotel Amadeos is a nice 3 starts hotel. placed in Matosinhos: Conde Alto Mearim, 1229 - Matosinhos. The Metro stop it’s in the other side of the street and it’s very easy to get anywhere. They don’t have website but you can see pictures at: eurobookings.com http://www.eurobookings.com/matosinhos-hotels-pt/hotel-amadeos.pt.html?SID=840549994694487b0054fc730bab1d8b&label=gg_en_bh_40604-portugal-matosinhos-hotel-amadeos&filter_offset=1&gclid=CMWTveqCwpwCFc0B4wod318WnA&form_type=remember
The Hotel has wireless internet connection, free. I only need to bring the PC or similar device. Friends from UK, please don’t forget to bring the electricity adapter.
Weekend (12-13th September): Those are free days, and Porto is hosting the Red Bull Air race www.redbullairrace.com and the city will be crowded: last year they receive 800.000 participants. Id you not fans of this kind of activities we advice for some other less stressful activities.
Tomorrow I will sent you the pré-programm of the workshop.
Kind regards
Teresa
26 August 2009
24 August 2009
Greetings from Bulgaria
Dear ALL,
My name is Vanya and I come from Sofia, Bulgaria. I am happy and grateful to do my first intensive steps with all of you in a sphere of work that is relatively new for me. Being an oral history trainer for both young people, teachers and adults, Intergenerational dialogue is important for me but I have never explored it deeper up to now. I am curious to learn and link it with what I already have as experiences.
The last five years I have worked for the regional office of dvv-international in South Easter Europe (SEE), based first in Sofia, Bulgaria and after that in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, where I was managing a History project ( http://www.historyproject.dvv-international.org ). The project inspires for better understanding and reconciliation in SEE through teacher trainings in interactive methods of handling the recent history of the Balkans.
I present and I am a member of the Association "Historian Club - Veliko Turnovo", this is the ogranization of the history teachers in the beutiful city of Veliko Turnovo. This group consists of highly reflective teachers doing innovative history teaching based on interdiciplinary approach and multiperspectivity approach.
Passionate about finding out more about making meaningful conncetions among people, generally the process of learning and how the past affects the present, I am eager to contribute to bringing the generations closer together as one of the keys for prosperous lives.
Wishing you joyful summer days and see you soon,
Vanya
My name is Vanya and I come from Sofia, Bulgaria. I am happy and grateful to do my first intensive steps with all of you in a sphere of work that is relatively new for me. Being an oral history trainer for both young people, teachers and adults, Intergenerational dialogue is important for me but I have never explored it deeper up to now. I am curious to learn and link it with what I already have as experiences.
The last five years I have worked for the regional office of dvv-international in South Easter Europe (SEE), based first in Sofia, Bulgaria and after that in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, where I was managing a History project ( http://www.historyproject.dvv-international.org ). The project inspires for better understanding and reconciliation in SEE through teacher trainings in interactive methods of handling the recent history of the Balkans.
I present and I am a member of the Association "Historian Club - Veliko Turnovo", this is the ogranization of the history teachers in the beutiful city of Veliko Turnovo. This group consists of highly reflective teachers doing innovative history teaching based on interdiciplinary approach and multiperspectivity approach.
Passionate about finding out more about making meaningful conncetions among people, generally the process of learning and how the past affects the present, I am eager to contribute to bringing the generations closer together as one of the keys for prosperous lives.
Wishing you joyful summer days and see you soon,
Vanya
23 August 2009
Greetings from Hungary
Dear Colleges,
My name is Judit Farago from Budapest, Hungary. I am very glad to join this international working group.
I work for a non profit organization (Inforum) dealing with closing the digital gap between social groups such as age groups. We have been running an intergenerational project, the Grandparents-Grandchild Competition of Informatics since 2003. The owner of the project idea is my partner (both in work and private life) Gabor Dombi who is also attending to the workshop.
I look forward to meeting all of you soon!
Judit
My name is Judit Farago from Budapest, Hungary. I am very glad to join this international working group.
I work for a non profit organization (Inforum) dealing with closing the digital gap between social groups such as age groups. We have been running an intergenerational project, the Grandparents-Grandchild Competition of Informatics since 2003. The owner of the project idea is my partner (both in work and private life) Gabor Dombi who is also attending to the workshop.
I look forward to meeting all of you soon!
Judit
Introduction to Helena Gillis
Thank you to all the other delegates for providing some information on their work, as background to attending the conference - it has been good to hear from you all. Here is a little introduction to myself: I am Helena Gillis, and I work for Museums Galleries Scotland (MGS), which is a membership organisation for more than 340 museums in Scotland. As a Learning and Access Manager at MGS I support members to provide access and learning opportunities for a wide range of audiences, including inter-generational groups.
Museum collections really come to life, and the stories about the objects and associated people are discovered, when intergenerational groups are involved in working with them. I hope to bring to the workshop my knowledge of some of the intergenerational learning work in which MGS members have been involved. This has included the TPYF (their past your future) project which is a national project, through which reminiscences from war veterans are being collected on a dedicated website, for use as a classroom learning resource (http://www.museumsgalleriesscotland.org.uk/the-programmes-2/tpyf-scotland-phase-2/). Another project is the Borders Textile Towerhouse film project (http://www.scotborders.gov.uk/pdf/25187.pdf) which has included a film project by high school students to film ex-textile mill workers, to enable them to understand more about their textile past, and to encourage students to participate in the local textile industry. The films are now accessible through the Hawick archive, and a sample are on permanent display in the Towerhouse museum.
I hope to bring to the workshop my knowledge of intergenerational work involving museums in Scotland. I am also keen to learn from the experience of other delegates. This is my first ever blog, so I hope it has worked.
Museum collections really come to life, and the stories about the objects and associated people are discovered, when intergenerational groups are involved in working with them. I hope to bring to the workshop my knowledge of some of the intergenerational learning work in which MGS members have been involved. This has included the TPYF (their past your future) project which is a national project, through which reminiscences from war veterans are being collected on a dedicated website, for use as a classroom learning resource (http://www.museumsgalleriesscotland.org.uk/the-programmes-2/tpyf-scotland-phase-2/). Another project is the Borders Textile Towerhouse film project (http://www.scotborders.gov.uk/pdf/25187.pdf) which has included a film project by high school students to film ex-textile mill workers, to enable them to understand more about their textile past, and to encourage students to participate in the local textile industry. The films are now accessible through the Hawick archive, and a sample are on permanent display in the Towerhouse museum.
I hope to bring to the workshop my knowledge of intergenerational work involving museums in Scotland. I am also keen to learn from the experience of other delegates. This is my first ever blog, so I hope it has worked.
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