The "Ancient Rome in Your Modern Town" project allowed students from Turkey, Spain, Romania and Bulgaria to learn about Roman history and culture. Students introduced themselves and their hometowns. They then researched local Roman ruins and settlements. Students also studied Roman religion, art, literature and music. Other areas of research included cuisine, daily life, architecture, sculptures and theatres. Students shared their findings through presentations and recreated artifacts. The project aimed to help students appreciate their cultural heritage and see how history can benefit tourism. It also helped develop students' communication, research and language skills through Latin lessons and cultural exchanges.

1. THE FINAL REPORT OF THE PROJET;
”ANCIENT ROME IN YOUR MODERN TOWN”
NOVEMBER 2011-JUNE 2012
COUNTRIES: TURKEY, SPAIN, ROMANIA, BULGARIA
SCHOOLS: TICARET MESLEK LISESI, TURKEY
FERNANDO ZOBEL HIGH SCHOOL, SPAIN
LORIN SALAGEN TECHNICAL SCHOOL, ROMANIA
HIGH SCHOOL OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES, BULGARIA
TEACHERS: MUTLU HASPOLAT, TURKEY
MARTA PENA, SPAIN
NADINA CARMEN, ROMANIA
VESA MIHAYLOVA
*This booklet was created and printed by the Turkish
E-twinning Team
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2. The Teacher’s name: MUTLU HASPOLAT
The Project’s name: “ANCIENT ROME IN YOUR MODERN TOWN”
The School’s name: BURDUR MERKEZ TİCARET MESLEK LİSESİ
FOUNDERS: SPAIN, TURKEY
PARTNER COUNTRIES: BULGARIA, ROMANIA
Blog: http://ancientromeinyourmoderntown.blogspot.com
Twin-Space: http://new-twinspace.etwinning.net/web/p62023
You may visit our Blog OR Twin-space to gather more detailed information
and to reach more picture collections about our Project:
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3. CRUCIAL NOTE:
This document is created to provide a general idea
about the outcomes and products of our project.
The full versions of PowerPoint presentations and
videos are available in the web sites given above
along with the teachers’ archives.
ADDITIONAL NOTE: This document was turned
into a booklet as the second final outcome of our
project by the significant support of Mehmet DEMİRCİ
(the school manager of Ticaret Meslek Lisesi, Turkey)
and handed out to all partner countries.
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4. SUMMARY:
“Ancient Rome in Your Modern Town” project is created to give young people the
opportunity to learn history and culture of a great civilization. The Romans
managed to survive for hundreds of years in Europe and in the other parts of
the world by producing new technology and equipments on several areas. Romans
created new management systems, using the magical word of "Republicanism",
having the great art works, monuments or artifacts, tiles and buildings. The
cultural history of Roman Empire is aimed to be taught to the pupils in an
enjoyable way through the concept of “Ancient Rome in Your Town”. This project
aims to encourage students to produce new ideas, to develop new points of view
about history and culture while making a historical research, to be aware of
the historical and cultural richness of their landscape and country, to notice
how important the monuments and ruins are in this modern age. The
learners/researchers are expected to acquire that to preserve the historical
heritage means to preserve their future. During the project process, the
students are aimed to take the shots from the right angles. It is also expected
that the richness of Roman Culture and Civilization is brought back to life by
the project participants.
RATIONALE:
Burdur Ticaret Meslek Lisesi (The Turkish Vocational High School of Trade) is
located in a region called “The Land of Lakes” where the history goes back to
the Neolithic Age as the archaeological excavations and research have
identified the remains of a great Roman civilization. In spite of this
historical and natural richness, unfortunately, tourism industry is not one of
the remarkable sources of income and the local people still suffer from
unemployment due to the lack of entrepreneurship, investments and job
opportunities in the area. It is inevitable to make a project on Roman culture,
which is supposed to guide the parents, students and community in/around the
city and raise awareness about the significance of the rich Roman Towns and its
probable contribution to local tourism and considerable income.
WHAT WE AIMED:
By the help of this project, we aimed at raising students who have
international good human relations and communication skills, organizational
abilities, critical and creative thinking methods, the ability of goal setting
and decision-making, and a great sense of responsibility for the historical
heritage, as they are supposed to be potential tourism employers or employees
of the future. It is an important goal for us to provide our students having
successful careers on tourism since our region is an ideal place for this
industry with its Ancient Roman historical wonders. And this project was only a
tiny part of this process.
WHAT WAS OUR RESPONSIBILITY?
As the coordinator of the project, we were responsible of founding the e-
twinning project team in our school, setting up the project blog, disseminating
the project materials on web and upgrading it, creating a logo, maintaining
constant and reliable communication and keeping the channels open with the
partners, exchanging experiences, disseminating the results in our own region
by the help of the local press, local TV and our web site, making sure our
partners follow and obey the schedule.
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5. What was our approach and what we did during the
project?
Teams were formed to perform various activities planned in the project. In the
first phase, the e-twinning school team of teachers and students were set up
and they were responsible for searching and preparing materials about Ancient
Rome.
Colleagues involved in the e-twinning team at school:
Mutlu HASPOLAT : Teacher of English- The team leader, founder of the project, creates the schedule
and distributes the tasks.
Mehmet DEMİRCİ: School manager: Took place in the activities personally and supported the events with Mr. Mutlu
HASPOLAT
Yavuz HARMANKAYA: Teacher of Literature- guided students for Roman Literature
Hasan Ali TURGUT: Assistant Manager- helps with the financial issues, organizes the school trips and contacts with
the other organizations
Esra KAVAL: Teacher of English- helps for the language issues
Mukaddes KAVAS: Teacher of English helps for the language issues
Ilgın ERTEN: Teacher Of History- helps with the Roman History
Turan ÇİÇEK: Teacher of Geography- helps with the geographical structure of the Ancient Roman Towns.
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6. WORKING SCHEDULE AND TIPS
" Ancient Rome In Your Modern Town" E - Twinning Project
Schedule And Working Guideline
Before getting to start...
While working on the project we have a general purpose of using very original
materials instead of searching on Google's copy and paste. We need to be
creative and eager to search and get the pictures and other materials from the
real places as much as possible. However, of course, it does not mean that we
will not use Google and other useful internet sites in our work. Students are
all free to use their ways to reach the information, and they may choose their
own working and studying styles. (While reading this text, one should remember
that these are only tips and suggestions.)
NOVEMBER 2011
SUBJECT: Getting to know each other and each other's town
1. During November, Teachers are going to decide their project groups and add
them to the Twinspace area, give the students' passwords, user names, have them
put their profile pictures on Twinspace, find Roman Nicknames. If the teachers
or guides would like to introduce themselves, they will be welcomed.
2. An E-Twinning Project Corner (Board) may be prepared at schools to
present the project outputs. This board can be used as a tool which announces
the project progress to the other students at school and let them follow their
friends and other countries' works.
3. The students who take place in the project prepare PowerPoint presentations
about themselves, their families, hobbies, likes and dislikes, favorites, etc.
Shortly, the students from all countries get to know each other. While they are
preparing their presentations, they should use real photos of themselves (not
representing ones) and their family homes, towns, pets, etc.
4. Spanish and Romanian students share some of their knowledge about the Latin
language by teaching the following expressions:
* Hello!
*My name is.....
*What is your name?
*Where are you from?
*I am from...
Suggestions and tips for November's work:
1. Every student prepares a presentation about his or her life with real
pictures.
2. All of the project students in each country cooperate and collect
information to introduce their hometown and country with a PowerPoint
presentation.
3. During this work, it is suggested that they present up to date information
and take their own photos. Let them use their own cameras just like
journalists. It will probably get them to think that they start to work on a
very important, so real, and enjoyable task.
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7. DECEMBER 2011
SUBJECT: Your Local Ancient Roman Towns, Ruins, Settlements
1. During December, students are supposed to search for their local Ancient
Roman Settlements or ruins in general.
2. Each student can set up a PowerPoint presentation, or a group of the pupils
can prepare a power point presentation or all the students can prepare only one
PowerPoint presentation about the subject above.
3. Students send real New Year/Christmas cards to each other via the mail (not
as an e-mail) at the end of December.
4. Students search about the calendar in Ancient Rome (Months, New year, New
Year celebrations etc.)
5. Spanish and Romanian students share some of their knowledge about the Latin
language by teaching the following expressions:
*How are you?
*I am fine.
*Thank you!
*Where do you live?
*I live in....
Tips of December
1. Students search for the names of the Ancient Roman Towns close to their
area.
2. Students go to the area or museums to collect information about the ruins,
ancient towns or monuments. (If they have a chance to do it or they may search
the place on the net). They take some photos and share them in Twin Space.
3. Students may search the historical dates as in follows;
*When were the Romans in that town?
*By whom the towns were built?
*Who were the famous faces, the leaders, important characters?
*Was it an important city/town?
4. The information doesn't have to be in the detail. The expected result is
that the readers get a general idea of the Ancient Roman places in that area
after reading up the students' presentations since there can be more than one
historical area in the towns and they cannot be evaluated and examined
altogether.
JANUARY 2012:
SUBJECT (s): Roman Religions, Gods, Literature, Music and Art.
1. During January, students do research about the subject(s) mentioned above.
Students can make a pair work. They can work as groups and share the subjects
according to their interests.
2. Examples preferably should be taken from the nearby sites, if possible- but
it also can be taken from the books, internet, museums etc.
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8. 3. If they find out a kind of interesting instrument or something like that,
they can draw a picture of it, put a photograph of it or they can reconstruct
it.
4. Spanish and Romanian students share some of their knowledge about the Latin
language by teaching the following expressions:
*Happy new year!
*Good luck!
*Do you speak English/Latin?
*Yes, I do. No, I don't
FEBRUARY 2012:
SUBJECT: Searching Ancient Roman cuisine including drinks, table culture,
entertainment and cooking the meals by using recipes if it is possible.
1. During February students search about Roman Cuisine and they cook meals:)
2. They can find information from a nearby museum, or search the net.
3. If they have a chance to find some recipes they share it on their
presentation.
4. They are supposed to examine Roman eating habit. (There can be bakers' among
the ruins etc.)
5. Since the 14th February is Saint Valentine's Day, Spanish and
Romanian students share some of their knowledge about the Latin language by
teaching the following expressions:
*I love you!
*You are my sweetheart.
*Do you want to go out on Saturday?
*Would you marry me?
*Yes, I do / No, I don't
MARCH 2012
Finding out what kind of houses, tools, furniture or appliances were used
during the ancient Roman period.
1. Students search the Roman houses and villas and make models of the villas.
2. Students search the tools, furniture Romans used in their everyday life and
reconstruct them (if possible).
3. Spanish and Romanian students share some of their knowledge about the Latin
language by teaching the following expressions:
* Have you got a villa? Yes, I have/No I haven't.
*Do you live in a city or in a village? I live in a city/village
* This is the kitchen/dining room/living room/library etc.
APRIL: 2012
SUBJECT: Searching and making Roman sculptures of the old statues and imitate
the ornaments and tools. Using plaster molds to produce the statues and other
ornaments.
1. Students search the statues that Romans made and try to imitate them by
using plaster molds etc.
2. Students search the old Roman cities and make models of them.
3. Spanish and Romanian students share some of their knowledge about the Latin
language by teaching some expressions of their own choice:
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9. MAY: 2012
SUBJECT: Searching and building old Roman cities, temples, theatres etc.
1. Students search the theatres and temples of the Romans and reconstruct them
by using cartoons, wood etc.
2. Students search Classical tradition such as decorative elements used in
buildings, for example, kinds of columns and other architectonic
elements...Give life to these elements.
3. Spanish and Romanian students share some of their knowledge about the Latin
language by teaching some expressions of their own choice:
JUNE 2012:
SUBJECT: Making a calendar or bookmarks with images taken from Ancient Roman
historical sites.
1. Students make a calendar or bookmark with images taken from Ancient Roman
historical sites.
2. Students' names (of each country) can be added onto the calendar.
Note: Feel free if you would like to add something... Good luck to everyone....
Mutlu HASPOLAT
Burdur Vocational High School of
Trade, Turkey
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10. We got to work by introducing ourselves on the twin space with PowerPoint
presentations. It helped students to use their English in a real field of life.
They became happy to know other people from different countries and to learn
about their hobbies, lifestyles etc.
TURKISH STUDENTS’ PRESENTATIONS
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11. BULGARIAN STUDENTS’ PRESENTATIONS
SPANISH STUDENTS’
PRESENTATIONS
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12. ROMANIAN STUDENTS’ PRESENTATIONS
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13. Then, the leading teachers of the countries prepared presentation about
themselves.
Students introduced their schools:
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14. The e-twinning teams of every country prepared presentations introducing their
countries and cities:
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15. Local Ancient Roman Towns, Ruins, Settlements in the participant countries…
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17. Roman Religions, Gods, Literature, Music and Art.
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18. ANCIENT ROMAN THEATER PLAYS PREPARED AND PERFORMED BY
THE SPANISH TEAM IN THE ANCIENT AMPHITHEATRE OF
SAGOBRIGA
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19. RECIPES ARE RESEARCHED AND PREPARED BY THE TURKISH TEAM AND THEY WERE
TRANSLATED INTO LATIN BY THE SPANISH TEAM. They were in three languages:
Turkish, Spanish and Latin…
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20. ROMANIA
SPAIN
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21. Ancient Romans’ Daily Items
SPAIN TURKEY
Roman Tools and Equipments
Ancient Roman Statues and Tombs
SPAIN TURKEY
Ancient Roman Statues and tombs
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22. ANCIENT ROME’S ARCHITECTURE
TURKEY
We created a wiki page about Ancient Rome Architecture in Ruins
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23. For a better understanding, the conditions of landmarks were explored. Some
PowerPoint presentations were prepared about the Roman towns in our region.
Some texts about local wonders were translated into English. Students took
photographs on the theme “the buried history of my land and its' waiting to be
discovered”.
TURKISH TEAM
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24. There were workshops for language lessons on basic words, phrases of the Latin
Language by collaborating with the Spanish teacher Marta Pena (She teaches
Latin and Greek in her school). In Turkey we have Latin Classes only in
University departments like Archeology or the Faculties of Medicine etc. We are
the first Vocational High school who had weekly Latin Classes in all around
Turkey. We are proud of that and we could manage it by the help of our Spanish
Partner School. Marta is a Latin and Greek teacher so she prepared and sent the
Latin language notes to us every month. She also sent us the recordings to
teach us how to pronounce the words. As a teacher of English I even didn't know
a word in Latin. However, I studied and learnt the subjects and tried to teach
my own e-twinners at my school. And I felt great when my students greeted each
other in Latin in their everyday life. Some school teachers also attended the
course to learn Latin.
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25. LATIN LANGUAGE NOTES PREPARED BY SPANISH TEAM
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27. A CALENDAR AS ONE OF THE FINAL OUTCOMES
PREPARED BY THE SPANISH TEAM
A calendar full of our activities and Ancient Roman landmarks was prepared and
printed to be distributed to the partner schools by the Spanish group, as well.
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28. We had a school trip to Sagalassos and Cremnia (Two ancient Roman Towns in the
borders of our town) to explore those landmarks and collect data for our twin-
space and twin-blog of the project. We had another journey to a different
Ancient Roman Town called Kibyra. We were guided by an experienced archeologist
named Sağdıç Arabacı. The students took photos and recorded the information he
gave on the video and prepared some documents to share with the other
countries.
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30. SPANISH Students' Project Visit to the Ancient Roman
Town SEGOBRIGA
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31. We celebrated the New Year in a very colorful way. We sent real postcards to
each country and they all sent postcards to us and to each other as well. THE
CARDS ARE PREPARED BY SPAIN, TURKEY, ROMANIA and BULGARIA
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32. The most enjoyable part was our Ancient Roman cooking workshop. We searched for
the Ancient Roman Meal recipes on the net and translated them into Turkish. To
show a respect to the Ancient Romans, Marta and his students translated the
recipes into Latin. We had big cards which involved Ancient Roman recipes and
the students cooked by following the cards and tasted the meals at the end. The
feeling that they had was interesting because they said “it was as if they had
been back to history of these lands”
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33. We also visited the Local Museum and collected data and share with the other
countries about Romans’ statues, daily items and medical tools. We all got
surprised with the things that Ancient Romans used at once. We created a
PowerPoint presentation to introduce the Ancient Rome’s daily items, tombs,
medical tools, knitting machines, statues, tiles, glass and furniture. At the
end we went to a café and discussed what we have seen and learned in the Museum
trip and determined and shared the task how to publish and share our experience
with our partner countries.
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34. According to our project schedule, we had another activity and it was building
Ancient Roman buildings like theaters, villas etc. The Spanish group sent us
some model books and the students created beautiful roman structures with them.
We built a roman town in our e-twinning project corner in our school.
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35. OUR PROJECT CORNERS
TURKISH TEAM
We updated our e-twinning corner every month and tried to keep students informed those who did not have internet access or
computers at home as well as the students who were not involved in the project...
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37. TURKISH Team prepared a THE END OF PROJECT QUIZ consists of 20 questions
to find out how far we have gone. SPANISH, TURKISH, BULGARIAN, ROMANIAN
students did the test and shared
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38. QUIZ RESULTS. The results in Facebook, BlogSpot and twin-space for
dissemination
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39. POST EVALUATION QUESTIONARRE (FEEDBACK)
EVALUATION(FEEDBACK) RESULTS
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40. The teachers from different countries wrote their ideas on the blog and twin-
space about making an e-twinning project with different countries.
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41. FEEDBACK FROM THE STUDENTS
Spanish Students...
From Marta B. and Zaida M.
We’ve found this project
very interesting as we’ve
known a very different
culture from ours and we
have met people from other
countries. Besides we have
been able to show how
beautiful our country and
our city are.
From Marcos David P.
I consider the e- From Rubén A. and Rubén G.
twinning project
which I’m taking I believe that this project
part in this year has allowed us to know the
very interesting culture of other countries,
because we have as Turkey, Bulgaria and
learnt a lot about Romania. Besides, with the
new cultures. I work we did, taking pictures,
liked the postcards we realized the big amount of
we received very remains and the importance
much and I enjoyed that the Greek and Roman
making some for our architecture has in our city.
partners. I’d like With the visit to the
to do another archaeological site of
project next year. Segobriga, we could also know
From Claudio M. the important site of an
older Roman town in our
With this project I’ve liked province.We also loved the
knowing different cultures cards received from the other
and the history of each other students to wish us a new
that our common ancestors year, specially the Turkish
left in several sites of students’ cards, who sent us
every country which has taken one for everyone of us.
part in this etwinning
project. I am also happy with
meeting people from other
countries.
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42. TEACHER’S COMMENTS AND EXPERIENCES ABOUT THE PROJECT
MARTA PENA (THE TEACHER FROM SPAIN) COMMENTS ON THE
PROJECT:
When I started this e-twinning project, I was really looking forward to working
with teachers and students from other countries, and I have to say it has lived
up to all my expectations.
Although the development of the project with my students hasn’t been as perfect
as I would have liked, perhaps due to my and their lack of experience, it’s
been really nice and worthwhile.
They have met other people interested in the same things, even in the same
subjects they are studying, with different cultures or ages, who consider
exotic something they are really used to: Roman civilization. It’s been a
chance to show what they know about them and the archeological sites around
their city, but also an opportunity to remember that Romans were not only in
Spain but in many other countries. They were surprised with videos and pictures
from Turkey, Romania and Bulgaria.
And what can I say about me? I don’t have enough words to thank Mutlu, the
Turkish teacher, everything I’ve learnt from him, not only about the work in
the project but also about his enthusiasm for teaching. Watching his videos and
talking very often with him I already know how could I involve my students in
other activities in order to make them enjoy their studies? Without realizing,
he has been a perfect teacher for me, and then a good friend.
This is one of the things I liked more: teachers working together sharing not
mainly their knowledge but their humble way of seeing teaching, so, always
learning from each other, not only professionally but personally.
I’ve never thought I could have students so far! I love my new Turkish
students. I know they have enjoyed and learnt a lot with the materials I sent
and this is very fulfilling and rewarding for a teacher.
I can’t wait for the next E-twinning or the Comenius we have applied for. These
activities are like fresh air in our classrooms for students and teachers.
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43. MUTLU HASPOLAT (THE TEACHER FROM TURKEY) COMMENTS ON
THE PROJECT:
"How did the e-twinning project benefit to teach the
lessons?" by Mutlu HASPOLAT
As a teacher of English Language, I have never had a chance to teach another
language which even I, myself barely know. I am talking about Latin. The first
time I came across with the language was in our Twinspace. I downloaded the
Latin Language Notes of Marta Pena who is also another language (Latin)
teacher. The most interesting thing about this experience is I am both learning
and teaching, or let's say my students and me are teaching and learning at the
same time. It is really fun and enjoyable.
The Project Ancient Rome in Your Modern Town gave us the opportunity of sharing
our teaching and learning experiences. Before starting this great project, my
students had no idea about Romans. Although our country (Turkey) was founded in
the midst of the Roman Towns, they didn't know that all those ruins belonged to
Romans at once. Now, along with the knowledge of our local Roman towns, they
know what Romans used to eat, wear, believe, sing and listen... They also will
cook and taste some of the Roman meals in one of the coming weeks.
This project also taught us about other countries' backgrounds and we made many
new friends. We saw where our friends live and what kind of beauties their
lands embody.
The best thing about the project is my students who are not very well on
languages are eager to learn new languages and interested in the history more.
The way that they follow at school is really different when compared with their
past. They are more enthusiastic about searching and getting the knowledge.
They like spending time in the project and they say that it feels great.
In Turkey, the students address their teachers with their first names plus
"teacher", like "Mutlu teacher". It sounds interesting that they accept Marta
(who sends our monthly Latin Documents and writes a lot in the blog) as one of
their teachers and they call her "Marta Teacher ". They liked Spain's power-
point presentation about St. Valentine's Day (which was in Latin). They used
Google translation to learn what the pages tell.
They also enjoyed with the other PPTs about Roman Gods and beliefs. They really
enjoyed the story about Hera, Athena and Aphrodite. Their English is not enough
to understand the story and I translated most of the story for them in our
weekly project meeting. One should have seen their excitement in their eyes
while we were translating the text sentence by sentence about who would Paris
choose to give the apple. At the end, they clapped Aphrodite for taking the
apple. It was really fun. Such kind of activities, which are not compulsory
highly motivates them. It also seems so eccentric to them. I observed that the
students who take part in our e twinning project study their English lessons
more and they always do their English homework.
Shortly and briefly, they know more about Ancient Romans, Romania, Bulgaria,
and Spain. They feel great to prepare themselves for the next month’s tasks
although their English is not so good. We are all happy to share our
experiences with our friends from other countries and spend time to teach and
learn with them.
Mutlu HASPOLAT
Turkiye
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44. INTERVIEW WITH THE TURKISH TEACHER MR. MUTLU
HASPOLAT WHO IS THE CO-FOUNDER OF THE PROJECT
-Our Project with Questions-
Mr. Mutlu HASPOLAT, Turkish e-twinning team's contact person and leader answering the questions
about the Project "Ancient Rome in Your Modern Town"
-Why this project is needed?
-By the help of this project, we aim to raise students who have good human relations and
communication skills, organizational abilities, critical and creative thinking methods, the
ability of goal setting and decision-making, and a great sense of responsibility for the
historical heritage of Ancient Rome, as they are supposed to be potential tourism employers or
employees of the future.
-How did the partners meet? Was it arbitrary to have Bulgaria, Romania, Spain and Turkiye?
-Actually, it wasn't an arbitrary choice. We came together because of some specific reasons.
All the partner institutions are located in the areas, which have remarkable Ancient Roman
wonders. The advantage of living in such kind of beautiful places motivates us to use all
these precious sources to produce suitable employment opportunities and to let the Europeans
know about our historical wonders.
-Who found whom while coming together?
Well, Turkiye was searching for friends all around Europe to start this project in E-twinning
partner finding pages. It all began with the respond from Spain. Then Romania and Bulgaria liked
the idea and came on board.
- How did you form the schedule?
- Like in the other important decisions, we all decided together. The teachers specified the
needs for their schools and searched for the lack of Ancient Rome knowledge of their students.
Then, every teacher added something to the list.
- How did you form the e-twinning teams in your schools?
- We generally used some tools and specified some criteria to choose the e-twinnies. For
example, in Turkiye, I created a questionnaire with lots of questions about their personal
interests for history and abilities to make models or taking pictures, preparing power-point
presentations or their eagerness to learn about ICT skills. The students volunteered for the
action and joined the teams, happily.
- How did the students find the idea at first?
- To be honest, they found the idea very unusual and unnecessary to spend time on. Because, they
had no idea who the Romans were and what they did or how important they were in the history
scene. Some of them even used to know very little about Roman's settlements in Turkey’s modern
cities.
- How were they convinced?
-Although we have several Ancient Roman Settlements in our own town , they just didn't know to
whom the historical ruins belonged to and for what reason those cities established. Most of them
didn't want to take part until the first school trip to an ancient city in the guidance of an
archeologist who told and taught many important historical events took place on the land which
they were standing on and surprised them with the stories of wars and heroes even tales and
legends.
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45. -How was the reaction of the other school teachers?
-They liked the idea and found it useful, but doubted whether the students at school would like
the idea and be successful on taking part in a such kind of project, which is very unfamiliar
with the Turkish history, culture and traditions. They were right in a way. I saw it during the
process of our project work. When we started to prepare some documents about Ancient Roman Gods,
they were terrified to talk about more than one god. However, they sooner understand that it was
a culture lived with its own positive and negative aspects.
-In what way the school manager reacted?
Mr. Demirci has always supported the team and provided all the necessary equipments for the
project activities. He provided us flash- disks to give the students as rewards, the restaurant
for Roman food cooking activity, printed Project T-shirts for students, attended the cooking
activity in person, helped sending the new year postcards, took the photographs of the e-twinning
corners any time it changed (two times a month or once a month). I was rewarded with a success
plaque by him, as well.
- How did you integrate your project with the ongoing activities and curriculum?
It wasn't so difficult to integrate the activities to the project although Romans aren't taught
in detail in our schools. They learned more about Geography, History and Foreign Languages.
Students improved their ICT skills while they were preparing PPts and uploading files in twin-
space. They also learned a lot about communication skills while communicating with their peers in
European countries.
- How about the Latin Language Classes? Were they successful?
It was cooperation between Spain and Turkiye actually. The Greek/Latin teacher Marta sent the
necessary documents for the basic Latin structures. I studied them at home and learned them
first. then we had very enjoyable Latin classes as the pronunciation of it very close to ours.
Students liked it and learned faster than English. Of course they just know the very basic
structures of it. The best thing about it, they spoke Latin in the ancient roman Ruins and
brought back Ancient Rome into life. Another interesting point is that some of the teacher joined
the classes to learn a little Latin. They also came up with other possible project to learn other
languages with such kind of cooperation.
- How did you form the e-twinning School team with the other teachers at your school?
The school team formed itself actually. My colleagues were following the E-twinning activities
from our e-twinning corner at school. They found it really interesting and wanted to take part in
the activities since they knew they could be very helpful. Then we started to organize the
activities together. They want to create new projects and study on them together from then on.
- What was the most interesting memory in your school trips and other activities?
-Well, there are many of them. But the most significant was we all (students and teachers) rode
bumper cars after a visit to Kibyra (an ancient Roman town). It was really enjoyable and a life
time memory.
Did the project have an impact on the locals and people around you and your school?
Of course, it did. Beyond our students, the parents learned about Ancient Romans a lot. We were
on the newspaper, for example. People in our town learned what we were trying to do and what
Ancient Romans did on these lands.
Did you eat what you cooked in your Roman Dishes Cooking Activity?
The students doubted at first, but when they tasted a little, everything changed.
We liked the ancient taste.
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46. A simple book is written just for fun how our e-twinning Project was created and it
was published in the section of “The Story of our project”. You can read a story
about a teacher who discovers e-twinning in an odd way. It is written by Mr. Mutlu
HASPOLAT (the e-twinning team leader of Turkish group). We hope you enjoy it.
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52. HOW WE USED THE ADVANTAGES OF ICT?
Ticaret Meslek Lisesi (Turkish School) has an ICT department. The students
learned to use flickr, glogster, storybird met the Google documents for the
first time. They also learned how to prepare Power point Presentations and
upload them in the twin-space. They learned to take good pictures and to record
with video cameras from the right angels.
We organized a chat session to provide
students a chance to talk their friends
simultaneously. It was really enjoyable and
informative…
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53. A photo just after the chat session…
Happy faces, ha?
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54. HOW WE INTEGRATED THE PROJECT INTO THE ONGOING
ACTIVITIES AND CURRICULUM:
The topic of the project was integrated into the educational content of
Geography, History, Literature, Foreign Languages, Latin and Classical
Languages, Environmental protection and Information technologies. Students
developed their communication in a foreign language, in both oral and written
form, to interact with partners. They learned to express themselves and
interact by using ICT, apart from using them to find and organize information
from ICT. Social and civic competencies, which refer to personal,
interpersonal and intercultural behavior, were developed by joining other
people to who live in other countries in order to make a project together. They
were taught, individually or in teams, to update those essential competencies
they couldn’t acquire due to being early school dropouts or people from
difficult home environments. The project was also integrated into the subjects
of Management, Accounting and Finance to calculate the risks of starting a
historical tourism business in a specific area. They, now, have better
managerial skills especially on historical tourism.
Mutlu HASPOLAT: Teacher of English- The team leader,
founder of the project, creates the schedule
and distributes the tasks.
Yavuz HARMANKAYA: Teacher of Literature- guided
students for Roman Literature
Esra KAVAL: Teacher of English- helped for the
language issues
Mukaddes KAVAS: Teacher of English helped for the
language issues
Ilgın ERTEN: Teacher Of History- helped with the Roman
History
Turan ÇİÇEK: Teacher of Geography- helped with
the geographical structure of the Ancient Roman
Towns.
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55. HOW WE DISSEMINATED OUR PROJECT:
The local newspaper visited our school in our activities while we were cooking
Ancient Roman Food and they published the news both on their internet site and
printed newspaper.
Our Project was also subject to the Spanish School Magazine and there was a
fool page of news about our activities and outcomes.
We shared our works and outcomes on Facebook and BlogSpot. We also introduced
our project in 2011 Antalya e-twinning seminar and in 2012 Berlin e-twinning
seminar.
In Romania our project was the subject of a school spring celebration.
We also contacted with some parents and local organizations to finance the
school trips, printed t-shirts, Roman food Cooking workshop and making Roman
model houses. The all learned about our intentions and works so they shared
what we do in their Facebook accounts and daily lives.
ROMANIAN BIG SPRING EVENT
One of the students is wearing an e-twinning t-shirt which was especially printed for our project by Turkish
Team. The t-shirts were sent to all partner countries as memories of “The Ancient Rome in Your Modern
Town”
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56. SPANISH SCHOOL MAGAZINE
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57. 2011 ANTALYA (TURKEY) E-TWINNING CONFERENCE
Third Picture
The minister of Turkish Education Technologies is visiting the stunt. Mr.
HAPOLAT (Turkey) is informing him about the projects' activities. After the
informing process, he congratulates the works.
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58. 2012 E-TWINNING ANNUAL CONFERENCE – BERLIN
In the first picture, you can see our town's e-twinning ambassador while holding a Roman Dish with one of our
project e-twinnies. The writing is “E-twinning, share what you have”
In the following Picture:
Mr. Mutlu Haspolat (One of the founders of Ancient Rome in Your Modern Town
Project) is with Turkish NSS Team at the Multiculturalism Stunt.
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59. In the poster of cooking team you can see our school manager and Burdur's
e-twinning ambassador (Turkey) with students after the cooking activity.
LOCAL MEDIA
You can see some news about our project on a local newspaper below. The news is in
Turkish.
www.cagdasburdur.com/haber/1010-bolgemizdeki-roma-kulturu-tanitiliyor
http://burdur.meb.gov.tr/haberoku.php?idd=75
http://burdur-etwinning.webnode.com.tr/news/ancient-rome-in-your-modern-town-proje-faaliyeti/
Another piece of news on a local newspaper.
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60. WHAT ARE THE INNOVATIONS AND FIRSTS IN THIS PROJECT?
The project was so successful that it has some innovations:
1. The first e-twinning school team in our city.
2. The first Weekly Latin Language workshop was held in a high school in
Turkey
3. The first Ancient Roman cooking activity was organized.
4. The people had a better chance to know the Ancient Roman culture which
generally forms the Modern European culture.
5. The local people became aware of the treasure that they lived on.
6. An ancient Roman town brought back into life by models.
WHO CAN BENEFIT FROM THIS PROJECT?
1. Anyone who wonders about ancient roman culture
2. Anyone who wants to see fantastic pictures about different countries with
their historical landmarks.
3. Anyone who isn’t aware of the importance of historical tourism.
4. Anyone who wants to learn the basic usage of Latin Language.
5. Anyone who wants to cook and taste Ancient Roman meals.
6. Anyone who wants to know more about Bulgaria, Spain, Romania and Turkey.
7. Anyone who wants to get inspired by the beneficiate of making an e-twinning
project as e-twinning projects motivate the students to come to school and
study their lessons more.
8. Anyone who is looking for a good country/city to spend their summer holidays
this year.
9. Anyone who wants to learn about different cultures and different societies.
THIS DOCUMENT IS PREPARED BY MUTLU
HASPOLAT
JUNE 2012
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