ACTIVITIES REPORT
Partners' Institution:Zinev Art Technologies Ltd.
Project's period (from/to):October 2008 - January 2009
WPs concerned:WP 4 - Creation of the educational package
Objectives of activities carried out:The objective of the activities carried out was to manage teachers involved in the project to work together for the creation of the educational package on Bulgarian fine arts during the last ten centuries. This collaboration between schools/teachers and project partners has the purpose of producing teaching materials, which have been developed by and for the teaching community of Europe.
Time period:October 2008 - January 2009
Description of activities carried out:During the work package of "Creation of the educational package" Zinev Art Technologies conducted the following activities:
• A technical expert was involved in the project on behalf of Zinev Art Technologies in order to assist the partner itself and the national schools in the technical issues related to uploading of the educational material produced on the Michelangelo portal.
• The common format of creation of the educational package contents was presented to the teachers for discussion and was adopted.
• National meetings for discussion the content of the BG course on national fine arts were held after the second partnership meeting.
• A draft version of the Bulgarian course on fine arts has been prepared and sent to the project promoter within December 2009.
• Final version of the BG course on national fine arts, named “Religious art in Bulgarian lands from 11th - 20th century” in national and English language was produced by the end of January.
• Partner and BG teachers were acquainted with the educational packages, developed by the other partners. The teachers posted comments on the project portal about the other educational courses developed by their colleagues from the other partner countries;
• ZAT reviewed the Michelangelo Art History Manual, for comments and suggestions with regard to the relations with the content of the BG art course.
• A technical expert was involved in the project on behalf of Zinev Art Technologies in order to assist the partner itself and the national schools in the technical issues related to uploading of the educational material produced on the Michelangelo portal.
• The common format of creation of the educational package contents was presented to the teachers for discussion and was adopted.
• National meetings for discussion the content of the BG course on national fine arts were held after the second partnership meeting.
• A draft version of the Bulgarian course on fine arts has been prepared and sent to the project promoter within December 2009.
• Final version of the BG course on national fine arts, named “Religious art in Bulgarian lands from 11th - 20th century” in national and English language was produced by the end of January.
• Partner and BG teachers were acquainted with the educational packages, developed by the other partners. The teachers posted comments on the project portal about the other educational courses developed by their colleagues from the other partner countries;
• ZAT reviewed the Michelangelo Art History Manual, for comments and suggestions with regard to the relations with the content of the BG art course.
Outcomes:BG course on national fine arts: “Religious art in Bulgarian lands from 11th - 20th century”.
Evaluation of the work undertaken:The activities under this work package are considered as successful due to the fact the content of the course was created in the fixed deadline. All partners estimated the quality of the work as good and all comments made by them were taken into account in creating the final version of the course.