PROJECT SCHEDULE

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Approximate date (month/year)	Activity description (describe the nature of the activity planned)	Actors involved (identify the institution(s) and, if relevant, the function of the individual(s) involved in the activity, e.g. teaching staff, management staff , associated partners etc)
October 2007	Presentation of the participants through e-mail letter exchange; Sharing of contact details and agreement on the contact frequency; Presentation of the headmasters of both schools; Presentation of the teachers who will facilitate the project implementation; Establishment of communication protocol; Project presentation – definition of the goals and outlining the activities; Definitions of success criteria; Setting the necessary facilities for on-line communication and training; Designing a power-point presentation of all project participants.	All participants
November 2007	Exchange of the Power-point presentations of both teams; Sharing information about the schools – structure, rules, academic and sports culture, etc. Producing the first training material – presentation of the Bulgarian Alphabet; /The Bulgarian team will take the role of the tutor during the first year of the project and the Italian team will be the learner/ Planning the range of topics /everyday situations/ that will be covered in the language training; Beginning of on-line meetings – twice a week, aiming at Bulgarian Language teaching/learning; Starting the preparation of the Holiday Calendars of both countries; Establishment of a Project Notice Board in both schools which will give publicity about the project activities;	All participants The Bulgarian team of students and teachers
December 2007	Giving publicity of the project activities to the local community through the local newspapers, radio stations and other media; On-line language teaching / learning – continues on a twice-a-week basis; Exchange of Holiday Calendars; Observing these Calendars and greeting the partners on the special occasions /to be placed in the resource centre/ will be an on-going task; Exchange of Christmas Greeting Cards and letters, describing how the holiday is celebrated in Bulgaria / Italy. The language of correspondence will be English which is studied in both schools. Start designing a short Power – point presentation of both Bulgaria and Italy and the towns where our schools are.	All participants
January 2008	Exchange of presentations of the countries and towns; On-line language teaching / learning – continues on a twice-a-week basis; Initiating research on historical data about the origin of our alphabets and their spread and importance – class discussions during the lessons of History; collection of materials, announcing a contest among the students in the school for a presentation of the information in writing or drawing / start at the beginning of the month/; Start designing the joint project website;	All participants
February 2008	Finalizing the contest and awarding the winners /at the end of the month/; Sending copies of the best presentations to the partner school thus acquainting the partners with the historical background of the origin of both alphabets; Establishing in both schools a Bulgarian / Italian resource centre with the materials collected so far about the respective country, town, partner school, historical information; Mid-evaluation of the activities and measuring the success – questionnaires On-line language teaching / learning – continues on a twice-a-week basis;	All participants
March 2008	On-line language teaching / learning – continues on a twice-a-week basis; Preparation of drawings and objects of craft which are typical of the customs and traditions of both countries in the classes of Drawing and Arts; Make an exhibition of the souvenirs; Later exchange them as presents at the school visit;	All participants
April 2008	On-line language teaching / learning – continues on a twice-a-week basis; Identification of typical folk songs and dances that could be presented and taught to the partners during the Music Classes; Exchange of greeting cards for Easter and letters describing how this holiday is celebrated in both countries; Parents meeting with the students and teachers to talk about the plans for the exchange visit and its actual realization	All participants Parents
May 2008	Visit 1 – Italian team coming to Bulgaria School visits; School festival; 24th May – the Day of Slavonic Literacy and Culture – National holiday with great celebrations Presentation of the town and the region and their cultural heritage; Meeting with representatives of the local authority – the Municipality; Presentation of the project achievements to the local media;	“Prof. Dr. Assen Zlatarov” FLS, Bulgaria Haskovo, Bulgaria
June 2008	Evaluation of the 1st year of activities by the teachers and students involved; Review of the effect which the project activities had over the teachers, students, head-teachers and parents; Designing a common newsletter which to reflect the one-year activities on the project; Evaluation of the successes and weaknesses of communication; Evaluation of staff and students’ development over the first year of the project; Developing a photo CD / film with all the activities during visit 1 of the exchange and disseminating it among the participants; Launch of the Project Website	All the participants
July – September 2008	Summer holiday; Keeping in touch on personal basis and friendly terms; Exchange of e-mails, letters or just chatting to share feelings, impressions, experiences, etc.; Collecting photos and information about places of interest and holiday relaxation in both countries; The coordinating teachers should revise and draw the plans for the next school-year activities.	Everybody Teachers
October 2008	Renewal of the activities; Review of the contact details; Up-dating of the information about both schools – structure, organization, practices; Presenting the goals and defining the aims for the second year of the project; Setting the necessary facilities for on-line communication and training; Start designing the training materials in Italian; Update the Project Website with the newest information on the project development	All participants The Italian team
November 2008	Team work on a review of the collected materials during the summer holiday about places of interest and resorts in both countries; Joint design on a short virtual presentation of these places – on a CD; Producing the first training material – presentation of the Italian Alphabet; /The Italian team will take the role of the tutor during the second year of the project and the Bulgarian team will be the learner/; Beginning of on-line meetings – twice a week, aiming at Italian Language teaching/learning; Updating the Notice Board;	All participants
December 2008	Virtual trip through the places of interest and relaxation for holiday-makers in both Bulgaria and Italy – Geographical acquaintance with the participating countries; On-line language teaching / learning – continues on a twice-a-week basis; Exchange of Christmas greetings cards and letter in which students will present a recipe of their choice of a typical national Christmas dish; Cooking experimenting with these new dishes and sharing experiences;	All participants
January 2009	On-line language teaching / learning – continues on a twice-a-week basis; Announcing a school contest for designing a project logo; Stimulating and motivating other students from the school to participate, too;	All participants
February 2009	On-line language teaching / learning – continues on a twice-a-week basis; Pronouncing the winners from the logo competition at school basis; Start investigations on historical sources of information on how the originals of Bulgarian / Italian alphabet looked like; Compiling this information; Mid-evaluation of the activities and measuring the success – questionnaires; On-going update of the project website	All participants History teachers; Literature teachers
March 2009	On-line language teaching / learning – continues on a twice-a-week basis; Deciding on the Project Logo by choosing from best nominated in both schools; Initiating a workshop within each team on artistic re-production of the originals of the Cyrillic and Latin alphabets /involved in the Arts Classes/;	Special Jury of teachers and both headmasters History and Arts teachers
April 2009	On-line language teaching / learning – continues on a twice-a-week basis; Exchange of greeting cards for Easter and letters presenting a recipe of a typical national Easter dish; Cooking experimenting with these new dishes and sharing experiences; Finalizing the Artistic Re-productions of the original alphabets; Exchanging these products and enriching of the Resource Centres at both schools; Parents meeting with the students and teachers to talk about the plans for the exchange visit and its actual realization	All participants Parents
May 2009	Visit 2 – Bulgarian team coming to Italy School visits; School festival; Presentation of the town and the region and their cultural heritage; Meeting with representatives of the local authority – the Municipality; Presentation of the project achievements to the local media;	All participants Venosa, Italy
June 2009	Evaluation of the 2nd year of activities by the teachers and students involved; Review of the effect which the project activities had over the teachers, students, head-teachers and parents; Designing a common newsletter which to reflect the second-year activities on the project; Evaluation of the successes and weaknesses of communication; Evaluation of staff and students’ development over the two years of the project; Developing a photo CD / film with all the activities during visit 2 of the exchange and disseminating it among the participants;	All participants
July 2009	Final Evaluation of the project; Deciding on a strategy for securing the sustainability of the project results and keeping the relations installed; Exchange of letters that state the commitment of the two schools to future cooperation; Printing out booklets of all the materials that were used to teach the participants in both languages; Enrichment of the Resource Centres with these materials; Updating the web-site with the latest information on the project development	All participants

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