The kick-off meeting of the Erasmus+ project "Exceptional Technique in Everyday Issues and More" was held from December 5-9 in Friedland, Germany with representatives from all partner schools. They discussed project responsibilities and timelines, including agreeing to a student mobility in April in the Czech Republic. Partners decided to use the eTwinning platform and split into technological and English teacher working groups. The technological group agreed each school would work on an area over the winter like 3D printing, robotics, or coding to present in April. The English group planned collaborative student activities on the project Twinspace like creating a magazine focused on robots.

1. Kick off meeting programme
December5th Arrival of the teachers
December6th 9-10 1) meetingwiththe headmasterMrBöhnke andvisitof the school
11-15 2) presentationof the project+discussion
3) visitingof the roboticclub
17- ?? walkthroughthe city of Neubrandenburg,dinnerwiththe
headmaster
December7th 8-18 vistitingthe universityof Rostockandhotspotsinthe cityfor
preparingthe projectweekinNov.2018
December8th 9-15 1) presentationaboutthe long- termmobilitystudents
2) planningof roboticsprojectandprojectactivitiesintwoworking
groups
December9th Departure of the teachers
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The kick-off meeting of our Erasmus+ KA219 project Exceptional Technique in Everyday
Issues and More was held From 5th to 9th December in Friedland, Germany, with
representation from all the partner schools.
After a warm welcome by the principal of the Nfg Friedland, we held the first work meeting
to revise the different stages of the project and the responsibilities of each partner school.
We agreed on the date for the following short term mobility: 24-28 April in Frydland, Czech
Republic.

2. Regarding the communication method, both for teachers and students, we decided to use
eTwinning. This platform will be also used to present and store all the materials of the
project. For that purpose, we had already created a eTwinning project with the title From
Robots to Robotics. Since eTwinning is new to most of the members of the project, the
Spanish partners demonstrated how to use the eTwinning Live and Twinspace tools.
Finally, the German partners showed the projects their students are working on in the
Robotics club.
The following day, we visited the University of Rostock and attended a lecture and debate
with two teachers from the Department of Robotics, which gave us some interesting ideas to
apply to our project.

3. The last day we met again in Friedland, where we discussed the organization of the
students’ long term mobilities, resolved doubts about the eTwinning platform, and
demonstrated the use of several web 2.0 tools.

4. Lastly, the partners split in two groups, ESL teachers and Technological teachers, in order to
plan the activities each school will carry out and how we can work collaboratively. We finally
reached the following agreement:
Technological group:
Each school is going to work on a specific area during the winter term, taking to the April
mobility the results of their activities.
These are the area chosen by each school:
● The Spanish school, IES Escultor Juan de Villanueva, will work on 3D design and
printing. A 3D printer will be purchased with money from the Erasmus+ grant. The
students will show their partners the results of this experience and explain the
problems they may have had in the process. They will also create a tutorial to show
what they have learned
● The German school, Nfg, will work on robotics and coding, especially with Raspberry
Pi, Brick Pi and Micro:Bit cards and Python code. At the mobility in Frydland nad
Ostravici they will show their partners their results and teach them what they have
learned.
● The Czech school, Gymnazium, Frydland nad Ostravici, will work on robotics and
coding using Lego Mindstorms and EV3. Again, they will show what they have
created at the mobility.
● The French School, Liceo Toulouse Lautrec de Toulouse, will also work with Lego
Mindstorms and EV3 and share their results at the mobility in the Czech Republic.
The ESL group:
The emphasis will be on the collaborative work of the students on the Twinspace of the
project From Robots to Robotics. All the material created will be presented on the
Twinspace
These are the activities planned for the whole project:
1. Students will read Asimov’s I, Robot and each school will create quizzes about the
stories (already in progress)
2. At each school students will write compositions about robots. Options:
○ Write stories based on the picture of the machine called Materializer.
○ Write a funny story about robots
○ Write a story about a new type of robot
3. Create a magazine (with https://issuu.com/ or https://madmagz.com/) Students will
be organized in mixed groups with members from the partner schools.

5. ○ 4 groups gather information and then write a biography of Asimov. To
collaborate they may use http://piratepad.net/. Then the rest of the students
will vote for the best one using http://www.tricider.com/
○ 4 groups will make crosswords using the vocabulary found in the book. The
hardest one will be chosen for the magazine.
○ 7 groups will write a page for the magazine on topics related to robots:
■ Robots in industry
■ Robots in medicine
■ Robots in spacecrafts
■ Robots in movies, pop culture
■ Robots at home
■ Robots in Tourist services
■ Latest news
4. Students create a short video about a robot with http://www.dfilm.com/moviemaker/
5. The second book we have chosen to read is R.U.R, a play by Karel Capek. Each
country is responsible for the performance of one act of the play. It should be
recorded at the final mobility.