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Swot Analysis workshop & Crafts Swot Analysis

Use SWOT Analysis is an system to assess an organization’s or sector current position to Find out what’s working well, and what’s not so good. SWOT stands for Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats, and so a SWOT Analysis is a technique for assessing these four aspects of your business.

Our students recived a workshop last week and they are collaborating in teams to create a Swot Analysis of the Crafts sector and uploading it to our Etwinning project page.

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Etwinning Manual for the students

We have created this manual for our students to create their reseachs and upload them to the different platforms of the project.

Activity proposal in E-twinning for students of the Eucraft project

a) Resume of the Activity :

Each student in the proyect will

  • Introduce themselves in Etwinning
  • make a research of several typical crafting in their country
  • make a powerpoint of the crafting (with the template )
  • Upload it to etwinning with your name
  • fill the form to include it in the virtual museum.

We are already working with the information (in the web site http://museum.eucrafts.eu/)

b) Student Work

Introduce yourself in Etwinning

1st) Access the page https://twinspace.etwinning.net/89268/pages/page/1570446

2nd) Login with your user in login

3) Press add Item Botton and Send a kind presentation of yourself

Make a research of several typical crafting in their country

1st) Students presentations Students must create Powerpoints, videos or pdf documents and can use this template to make the presentations

We have established the following categories of crafts that will lead to the different rooms of the virtual museum:

  • 4.1) Glass, ceramic and pottery
  • 4.2) Vegetable fibers
  • 4.3) Wood
  • 4.4) Marble, stone and plaster
  • 4.5) Metal and ironwork
  • 4.6) Fur and skin
  • 4.7) Textile
  • 4.8) Jewelery
  • 4.9) Musical instruments
  • 4.10) Others

They have to fill the following index

  • 1) Geographic Area
  • 2) Craft characteristics
  • 3) The technique
  • 4) Used materials
  • 5) History
  • 6) YouTube Vídeos
  • 7) Gallery
  • 8) Local Crafters

I send you some of the examples that students in Spain are already doing.

D) Delivery of works

The students will deliver the works by etwinning and by the work form. It is mandatory that they be delivered in two ways to comply with the commitments made in the project application:

IMPORTANT must be sent by both (form and etwinning)

1st) google form: Students will have to fill in the following google form to create the rest of the final products of the project:

Enter https://forms.gle/1QyNpHZNdxdoohk67

and fill in the fields following the instructions on the form.

We will use this information to create the European Museum of crafts . Important: In this field you should enter the information of the presentation. Just copy and paste it from the presentation.

2) By Etwinning:

In etwinning they should

1st) Access the page https://twinspace.etwinning.net/89268/pages/page/704263

2nd) Login with your user in login

3) Go to the “page” tab.

4º Add a File with your work clicking on “Add item” in each of the handicraft categories (Ceramic, glass, textile…)

For example for textile https://twinspace.etwinning.net/89268/pages/page/792065

5th) upload with the correct name.

When uploading, put in the “name” field: “country, region. name of the Craft ”and as“ description ”the name of the students.

Thanks 🙂

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How to upload your students to Etwenning Virtual Workshop

Some profesors of the eucraft project found some problems when creating the users f their students to Etwenning and to solve it we proposed this workshop of the How to upload your students to Etwenning

This workshop take place the day 18/01/2021 by videoconferece I upload here the document used as presentation

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Participation in Hackaton Tech 2020

Eucraft students partipates in the HACKATHON TECH contest to create some of the products of the project.

“A technological challenge applied to health, wellness or industry.

If you like everything that falls into your hands, you like programming and you love gadgets, then you have Technological Talent.

Smart Cities, IoT-Internet of things, Raspberry Pi, Home automation and smart homes, wearables … we want to know that idea and we want you to come”

https://hacemos.andaluciaemprende.es/es/retos-hacemos/detalle-retos/HACKATHON-TECH-27-DE-NOVIEMBRE/

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Mobility C2 United Kingdom – European Congress: “Collaborative entrepreneurship between european schools”

This Mobility C2 United Kingdom Mobility has been configurated as the 2nd European Congress: “Innovative methodologies for the implementation of international educational projects” of the Project : Using ICTs to preserve European Craftsmanship. with code 2019-1-ES01-KA219-065673

In this congress Teachers and students from the diffents schools of the erasmus project participated in the following activities : cultural activities, formation sessions , Working Sessions.

Mandatory Planned Activities

  • A7 Connection between skills in schools and the world of work.
  • A8 Artisan women entrepreneurs.
  • A9 CANVAS model in crafts.
  • A10 Financial education for craft trades.
  • A11 Marketing 3.0 in crafts.

You can download the pdf document here

Sunday 23rd

Welcome day

  • Arrival Times (Approximate arrival times in Sittingbourne in brackets)
  • Estonia: 16.45 (Gatwick) [20:00]
  • Czechia: 16:50 (Stansted) transport to Sittingbourne via minibus) [19:30-20:00]
  • Iceland: 14:25 (Gatwick) EZY8504: Easy Jet [17-17:30]
  • Lithuania: 13:00 (Luton) FR3469 [16:00]
  • Spain: 11:25 (Gatwick) (transport to Sittingbourne via minibus) [14.30-15:00]

Staff drinks and light food @ The Golden Hope, Sittingbourne from 7pm onwards

Monday 24th

  • Opening Ceremony @ Fulston Manor School

Activity A9: CANVAS model in handicraft.

Workshop: Introducing the Canvas Business Model and aims of the week

Creative Arts Workshops

  • Trip to University of Creative Arts, Rochester for creative workshops

Train departs Sittingbourne @ 11:13/ Arrive @ Chatham @ 11:31

Activity A7: Connection between competences in schools and the world of work.

  • Activity A7: Connection between competences in schools and the world of work.
  • We will Visit to Tatty Devine Studio (https://www.tattydevine.com) a renamed uk artist speciialized in Fashion and Jewellery . She will make us a nice conference.
  • Fashion and Jewellery groups will make a Design workshop.

  • Depart UCA @ 13:15
  • Depart from Tatty Devine @ 15:15
  • Train departs Chatham @ 16:05 /Arrive @ Sittingbourne @ 16:21
  • Staff meal @ Galata Mezze, Sittingbourne @ 19:00 [14 people]

Tuesday 25th

Arrive @ Fulston Manor: 8:30

Activity A8: Entrepreneurial artisan women Natasha Steer

  • Natasha Steer is one of the most renewed local artist in kent region. She will present us its project CREATABOT . A great tool to improve the Creativity and and also Guest Presentation: Life as a Creative Practitioner
    • Natasha Steer https://creatabot.co.uk
    • Students will have The Opportunity for Interviews with Natasha Steer

Workshop 1: Using Powtoon (Lauren Relf)

Lauren Relf a renewed artist and author will make for us a brief introduction to one of its dailywork tool: Powtoon

Workshop 2: Creating a Tile Transfer for Murals and Fashion Pieces (Jo Smith)

Project Activity: Creating Promotional Videos about Craft

  • Trip to Canterbury:
    • Photo-Bucket Challenge for students
  • Train departs Sittingbourne @ 12:01 /Arrive & Canterbury @ 12:21
  • Lunch for staff @ The Corner House @ 14:30
  • Train departs Canterbury @ 16:14 /Arrive & Sittingbourne @ 16:43
  • Staff: Free Time//Option: Drinks @ The Man of Kent, Rochester

Wednesday 26th

  • Arrive @ Fulston Manor: 8:20
  • Trip to London: Design Museum and Walking Tour
  • Activity : Coach to Design Museum. Depart from FMS @ 8:40
  • Activity : Visit to the Design Museum and the Beazley Design Awards Exhibition

Activity A11: Marketing 3.0 in crafts.

Interviews @ The Design Museum:

Akram Fahmi (https://1508london.com/) for Architecture and Furniture groups

Sebastien Stobbs (http://www.conquergear.com/) for Fashion group

  • Important hours
    • Walking tour: 12:45- 14:30
    • Staff lunch @ TitBits, Heddon Street @ 14:30
    • River Thames Clipper trip @ 16:00
    • Coach from Greenwich @ 17:30pm. Arrive @ FMS @ approx. 19:00
    • Staff: Free Time//Option: Drinks @ The Golden Hope

Thursday 27th

  • Arrive @ Fulston Manor: 8:30
  • A10: Financial education for craft trades
    • Guest Presentation: Innovative Business Ideas in the Creative Industries
    • Katie Briggs https://www.thetextilereview.com/
    • Interviews with Katie Briggs for Textiles and Fashion Groups
    • Interviews with Sarah Fisherman for textiles and fashion groups
  • Project work: Creating Promotional Videos about Craft
  • Visit to Chatham Dockyard
  • Coach departs FMS @ 11:45
  • Arrive @ Chatham Dockyard @ 12:15
  • Interview Opportunity:
  • Sam Hall and Barry Fentiman (https://www.wordsmithery.info/) for Written Word group
  • Daniel Cooper (https://www.darkironfab.co.uk) for Furniture group
  • Coach departs Chatham Dockyard @ 16:10
  • Arrive @ FMS @ 16:45
  • Special Staff Event @ The Cheese Room, Rochester (19:30-22:00)

Friday 28th

  • Arrive @ Fulston Manor: 8:30
  • Project work: Creating Promotional Videos about Craft
  • Project Work: Creating Fashion Pieces
  • Final Ceremony official start time: 14:00
  • Departure of Czech team @ approx. 16:00
  • Evening meal & bowling in Chatham
  • Train departs Sittingbourne @ 17:38 /Arrive & Chatham @ 17:55
  • Meal for 40 students @ 18:00 Spoons World Buffet & Bar, Chatham
  • Meal for 12 staff @ Sultan, Chatham @ 18:00
  • Bowling for staff and students @ Chatham Bowl
  • Train departs Chatham @ 21:43 /Arrive & Sittingbourne @ 22:00
  • Train departs Chatham @ 21:57 /Arrive & Sittingbourne @ 22:15
  • Option: Drinks @ The Golden Hope

Saturday 29th

Departure Times

  • Czechia: Departure Friday 28th 20:20
  • Estonia: Departure Saturday 29 Feb 17.45
  • Iceland: Departure Saturday 29th 15:30
  • Lithuania: Departure Saturday 29th 17:55

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Project Administrative Documents

These are the common Template documents that were used in the spanish C1 mobility and that can be reused in others mobilites.

They are in odt format so they must be open with free LibreOffice / Open office Software (if you dont own it can be download for free here https://www.libreoffice.org/download/download/ )

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Activity proposal in E-twinning for students of the UIPEC project

The Explicative document about this activity is here : Activity proposal in E-twinning for students of the UIPEC project

a) Activity Justification

We must create with the collaboration of the students, the following materials

  • a) The Virtual Museum of European crafts.
  • b) App of the Virtual Museum of European crafts
  • c) Etwinning channel

Etwinning is perfect for working with students but Etwinning is not very attractive so we will use Etwinning for students to keep their “Work on the crafts of each country” but also they must also fill in a google forms with information about the crafts. this form will facilitate the work to create the museum and the rest of obligatory final products for our project.

b) Distribution of tasks among students

1) Creation of the group of students. Each student / group of students (This can be organized as you wish) should do a “job” on “some of the crafts of Europe.”

2) We have established the following categories of crafts that will lead to the different rooms of the virtual museum:

  • 4.1) Glass, ceramic and pottery
  • 4.2) Vegetable fibers
  • 4.3) Wood
  • 4.4) Marble, stone and plaster
  • 4.5) Metal and ironwork
  • 4.6) Fur and skin
  • 4.7) Textile
  • 4.8) Jewelery
  • 4.9) Musical instruments
  • 4.10) Others

Students should look for crafts that are made in your country for the largest possible number of “rooms” (ceramic, glass, Wood…). The idea is that each country made several of each of the “rooms”, although they can also choose from other countries that are not in the project.

It is important that you distribute to each student / group a specific type of craftsmanship. For example, some who investigate on “Ceramics”, others on “plant fibers”, etc … This will be many more works for the museum.

Each teacher can distribute them among the students and evaluate them as they wish in Spain, they are being done as a class work for a subject and it is also part of the scale to select the students who will travel.

3) To facilitate the subsequent processing of the information collected. All jobs must have the same index. We propose the following, which is what our students are following:

  • Index
  • 1) Geographic Area
  • 2) Craft characteristics
  • 3) The technique
  • 4) Used materials
  • 5) History
  • 6) YouTube Vídeos
  • 7) Gallery

c) Student Work

As work students can create Powerpoints, videos or pdf documents

I send you some of the examples that students in Spain are already doing.

I pass the links of some who have already made the students of Spain

https://twinspace.etwinning.net/files/collabspace/8/68/268/89268/files/bfc4c616.pptx

https://twinspace.etwinning.net/files/collabspace/8/68/268/89268/files/b9a6882b.pptx

https://twinspace.etwinning.net/files/collabspace/8/68/268/89268/files/c6127b430.pdf

D) Delivery of works

The students will deliver the works by etwinning and by the work form. It is mandatory that they be delivered in two ways to comply with the commitments made in the project application:

1) By Etwinning:

In etwinning in should

1st) Access the page https://twinspace.etwinning.net/89268/pages/page/704263

2nd) Login with your user in login

3) Go to the “page” tab.

4º Add a File with your work Clicking on “Add item” in each of the handicraft categories (Ceramic, glass, textile…)

5th) When uploading, put in the “name” field: “country, region. name of the Craft ”and as“ description ”the name of the students.

2) Google Forms IMPORTANT

Students will also have to fill in the following google form to create the rest of the final products of the project:

Enter https://forms.gle/1QyNpHZNdxdoohk67

and fill in the fields following the instructions on the form.

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Final Products

Project Final Products Coordinators Responsabilities
Final Products
A0: Etwinning Channel
A35: Evaluation plan.
A36: Dissemination plan – Website & Social Networks A37: Online Radio
A38: Didactic Units on entrepreneurship A39: Translation (three languages) of the final products A40: Multichannel online platform.
A41: Entrepreneurship Crafting Board game made 3D printing
A42: Virtual crafting museum web. A43: App with trades at risk getting lost. A44: Collaboration Network

A0: Etwinning Channel

• Activities
• Establish Activities to dinamize our students in Etwinning
• Prepare forums between our students to share our products
• Prepare Video Conferences between our students to share our experiences

• Activities each member
• Insert our Students in the platform
• Create the pages about your school .
• Make our students work in the forums , chats & video conferences.
• Upload the activities developed in your own Mobility
• Upload links to the Products


A44: Collaboration Network

• Activities
• Create the collaboration network in the way of a NGO
• Create a Website for this Network

• Activities each member
• Sign the agreement document

A35: Evaluation plan.

• Activities
• Create a form in google forms after each mobility to test the quality of the activities
• Send this form to each partner participating
• Create Final report

• Activities each member
• Fill the forms after each mobility to test the quality of the activities

A36: Dissemination Plan – Etwinning & Social Networks.

• Activities
• Create the Social Networks (Twitter,Instagram,)
• Dinamize the Social Networks (Look for users, ask for likes)
• Update the Social Networks with the news
• Upload Videos to Video Channel

• Activities each member
• Like our publications
• Follow our acounts and make our students follow them.

A37: Online Radio

• Activities
• Create a Online Radio Channel in SoundCloud or other
• Prepare interviews between our students .
• Upload these interviews to Radio Channel
• Dinamize the radio channel

• Activities each member
• Participe in our interviews.
• Like our interviews .
• Follow our acounts and make our students follow them.

A38: Didactic Units on entrepreneurship.

• Activities
• Create Didactic Units on entrepreneurship at Crafts
• Convert them to Exelearning
• Upload them to the site

A39: Translation (three languages) of the final products.

• Activities
• Translate the Didactic Units from English to each language
• Translate the Museum Descriptions to each language

A40: Multichannel online platform. – Website .

• Activities
• Manage the domains
• Administrate the hosting
• Develop a Visual impacting Website

• Activities each member
• Upload the activities of each mobility (one per activity)
• Upload the activities which are make in your school and have to do with the subjets of our project to the site.

A41: Entrepreneurship Crafting Board game made 3D printing

• This Activity will be concreted further in the project

• Activities
• Create the rules of the game
• Create the Board of the game
• Create the pieces of the game in 3d Printing

• Activities each member
• Help in the development of this activity

A42: Virtual crafting museum Web.

• Activities
• Create the website of the museum
• Upload the documents and videos of each documents

• Activities each member
• Help in the development of this activity.
• Send documentation about the crafts of each region.

A43: App with trades at risk getting lost.

• Activities
• Port the museum website to an android app
• Upload it to Google play

• Activities each member
• Help in the development of this activity

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Dissemination

Planned Dissemination

Our strategic dissemination plan has the following dimensions:

1) Dissemination among the centers: Among the partners the dissemination of the results will be carried out using several ways. On the one hand, we will create working groups with the WhatsApp tool for teachers and the other with the Telegram tool for students. In them we will publish the different activities carried out within the framework of the project. Students will also use the eTwinning platform Through Twinspace students will be able to disseminate and share the activities that are done in each partner center through the live platform, using forums, chats or videoconferences. On the other hand, the partner professors pledged to upload the activities carried out to the project website (at least two entries per center and month). For this we will create a user to each center in a collaborative website.

2) Dissemination at local level: We will organize fairs and competitions on handicrafts to publicize the final products. We will invite local agents in which the media have an interest in providing coverage.

Implemented Dissemination of the project

Only in the eucrafts.eu webs, we have got more than 100.000 interactions, without counting on Social Networks & Newspapers. We have been granted with a Etwinning Quality Label.

Website eucrafts.eu : We have got more than 100.000 interactions in our website
(it can be checked here https://eucrafts.eu/stats-visits/ )

Twitter : We have worked in the interearcions of this Social network to count with more than 3000 followers. https://twitter.com/dtse_erasmus

Youtube: We have worked to create a very interesting Youtube channel with information about the activities in the project

Issuu / Ebook : many of the materials prepared in this project have been uploaded to this Channel for its diffussion.

Media : Several newspapers and local tv have informed of our activities.

Awards : We worked in the etwining platform and got the quality label in our project

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Sustainability

Participation in this project in the development of the long -term participating centers will involve a methodological and technological change. The exchange of training between centers with different potentials, but at the same time complementary, will allow the project objectives to be achieved. The way we are going to do it is by integrating the objectives of the project into our Annual Plan.We will do it in all schools.

The methodologies that we are going to learn, and exchange, are optimal for working on a competency -based curriculum. The technologies used are fundamental to guarantee in the long term the labor insertion of our students, and for the centers, they suppose some necessary tools with which to face the challenges implied by the fourth industrial revolution for the educational systems. Sustainability is guaranteed because:

1) The interactive virtual museum on craft trades, the “App” on trades at risk of being lost and teaching units, which will be published on the web and, therefore, will be freely accessible (Under Creative Commons license) . They are therefore the backbone of the sustainability of the project because they will be available beyond two years of subsidy. The work model in our project has a clear focus on social responsibility because we seek the general interest. The results of the project may be transmitted and used in other European countries.

2) The multichannel online platform is a great collaboration network that will bring together all the agents of interest in the craft sector. They will be added as through the dissemination plan in social networks it is implemented, beyond the two -year duration of the project.

The durability and involvement in that network will depend on the links between the centers, which will be strengthened through the mobilities and the network of stakeholders (associations of artisans, foundations, local and regional policy makers, universities etc). The dissemination through the media will make the project attractive to artisans and artisans, who have an opportunity to promote themselves within it. It will be available 24 hours a day and 365 days a year. With this final product we are contributing to preserve European cultural heritage, to value it and to guarantee its transmission to future generations. While reinforcing the idea that the preservation of handicrafts is linked to the concept of the circular economy.

3) The App on trades at risk of disappearing will be free to download from Playstore and will remain available after two years of project grant.

4) The personal relationships created between the members of the project teams of the associated centers will be maintained thanks to the virtual spaces, mainly through eTwinning.

Dissemination

Please describe the dissemination and use plans of the project results.How will you disseminate the results of the project within the association, to local communities and to the wider public? What are the main target groups with whom you would like to share the results? Are there other organizations or groups that will benefit from your project? Please explain how. Our strategic dissemination plan has the following three dimensions:

1) Dissemination among the centers: Among the partners the dissemination of the results will be carried out using several ways. On the one hand, we will create working groups with the WhatsApp tool for teachers and the other with the Telegram tool for students. In them we will publish the different activities carried out within the framework of the project. Students will also use the eTwinning platform Through Twinspace students will be able to disseminate and share the activities that are done in each partner center through the live platform, using forums, chats or videoconferences. On the other hand, the partner professors pledged to upload the activities carried out to the project website (at least two entries per center and month). For this we will create a user to each center in a collaborative website.

2) Dissemination at local level: We will organize fairs and competitions on handicrafts to publicize the final products. We will invite local agents in which the media have an interest in providing coverage.