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EVENTS

Kick-off meeting

The NET-IS project was launched on the 1st of November, 2006. We held a kick-off meeting between 17-19 November, 2006 in Budapest. The meeting was led by the BUTE-ITTK and had a twofold focus: to develop a common understanding on the project and to start thes common work by discussing the work-plan in details. Except two organisations all the partners were present at the meeting. The next meeting is scheduled in April, 2007, in Bologna.

2^nd project meeting

The second NETIS meeting was held in Budapest, 14-16 May, 2007.  First day Robert Pinter, the professional coordinator of the project, presented the striking outcomes stemming from the Segmentation survey and the consequences as regards the participating countries. The leaders planned the second steps of the segmentation: the interviews with lecturers. They also discussed the present state and the more developed structure of the course book and the text book. Second day the participants dealt with the questions of E-learning transformations and issues on test teaching. The last day served for clarifying organisational and management issues in order to promote the more effective implementation of the project.

3rd project meeting in Thessalonica

NETIS held its third general meeting in Thessalonica, Greece at ATEI between 5-8 September, 2007. Main topics of the meeting were the segmentation interviews, preparation of course book, content and structure of textbook (country reports, research papers, students’
essays), NETIS Moodle (e-learning system), test teaching and the dissemination strategy.
 

Book launches in Hungary

NETIS has organised the book launches of its Course Book in Hungary:

Sopron, 11th October.

Budapest, 16th October.

Slovakia, 18th October.

On 16th October at the book launch of the “Information Society – from the theory to the political practise” we were welcoming the authors:  István Bessenyei, Márton Holczer, Bence Kollányi, Szilárd Molnár, Árpád Rab and Levente Székely. The book was presented by the editor of the volume, Robert Pinter (BME-ITTK). For more see the blog. Pictures from the events here.

4th project meeting in London

NETIS held its fourth general meeting in London, UK at Middlesex University between 2-7 March, 2008. The meeting has focused on:

• Segmentation interviews (with presentations on the results).

• English edition of our Course Book and its dissemination.

• Progress in Textbook (with country reports, papers from students and experts, and papers by NETIS partners).

• eLearning and experiences of NETIS Moodle.

• Teaching activities of all partners and future plans.

• Milestones of NETIS dissemination strategy (e.g. new website, newsletter, project blog, conferences, presence in media. Dissemination of Course Book, Textbook, and Moodle were discussed separately earlier).

• Management, Financial and Evaluation questions.
 

Presentations:

Network Learning Experiences - István Bessenyei (ppt)

Interview Results: ESTONIA - Tarmo Kalvet (ppt)

NETIS teaching: ESTONIA - Tarmo Kalvet (ppt)

Segmentation Interview Results in Hungary - Róbert Pintér (ppt)

NETIS test teaching in Hungary - Róbert Pintér (ppt)

Survey of Information Society Users Understanding of Our Situation - Alan Richardson (ppt)

NETIS Segmentation in Greece - Kerstin Siakas (ppt)

NETIS Teaching in Greece - Kerstin Siakas (ppt)

NETIS Teaching Experiences in Slovakia - Veronika Stoffa (ppt)

NETIS at 6th International Conference on Networked Learning

6th May, Tuesday afternoon NETIS projects partners presented their experiences on the current project experiences in Halkidiki at 6th International Conference on Networked Learning. After the short introduction by Robert Pinter (NETIS co-ordinator, ITTK, Hungary), Chris Sadler (Middlesex Univ., UK) presented the data on teaching activities, Istvan Bessenyei (University of West Hungary) spoke aboout eLearning 2.0, then Kerstin Siakas (ATEI, Greece) summarized the multicultural aspects of the project. The conference had app. 150 participants and was organised by Lancaster University, Technological Educational Instititue of Thessaloniki and University of Piraeus.

More information on the conference: http://www.networkedlearningconference.org.uk/

Slides of NETIS participants are available here:

Information Society Studies in Practice – a Networked Learning Case Study: Introduction  -  by Robert Pinter (ppt)
Student needs and feedback in the NETIS project - by Chris Sadler and Tarmo Kalvet (ppt)

E-Learning experiences – between linear and networked model - by Istvan Bessenyei and Veronika Stoffova (ppt)

A Distributed Multicultural Network for Teaching Information Society: Cultural Diversity Aspects - by Kerstin Siakas (ppt)

5th project meeting in Bologna

NETIS participants met 5th time in Bologna, Italy (7-10 September 2008). The meeting focused mainly on the 2nd monitoring visit and evaluation of the Leonardo Office. Project partners had a long conversation on financial and management issues in order to be ready for project closing. They also spoke about the Evaluation Plan of the project. Products were also important parts of the agenda: the Greek Course Book will be published in September, the Textbook is under construction and the Teaching reports with Teaching guidelines are prepared in these days. Due to the prolongation of the project, this meeting was not the last one as planned earlier this year. The project partners will meet again in November, in Komarno, Slovakia.

6th project meeting in Komarno

NETIS participants met last time in Komarno, Slovakia (23-25 November 2008). Originally the project members have planned the last meeting to be held in Bologna, but it turned out at the 5th meeting that there are still a lot of things to do before closing the project. In this final meeting the project participants have clarified the finalization of Textbook, could take a look of the just printed Greek edition of the Course Book, summarized the dissemination activity and had a conversation of “life after the project” (because the project materials, e.g. website and Moodle environment will be publicly available until 2013).