The winning group from Cyprus had a special celebration on coming back from Budapest with a Bookraft cake and diplomas for every pupil at the Agios Stulianos Primary School in Lakatamia. Well done to the green-caped group that made their town known to Europe for the second time in three years!
Μια τελετή απονομής αναμνηστικών διπλωμάτων περίμενε τα παιδιά από την Κύπρο με τον γυρισμό τους από την Βουδαπέστη. Στο δημοτικό σχολείο Αγίου Στυλιανού στη Λακατάμεια κόπηκε τούρτα με θέμα το Bookraft και τιμήθηκαν οι μαθητές που έβαλαν την πόλη τους στον εκπαιδευτικό χάρτη της Ευρώπης!
So teenagers don't read anymore? Or is it that reading has mutated because of the digital era with the multimedia and the hypertext? Secondary School librarians and a primary teacher took up the challenge to motivate their pupils with a wide range of digital tools, arts and crafts, and the etwinning experience of making friends by computer. "Active hands, active minds" was our moto, and the story of El Lector our influence. The result was three months of library magic, where pupils entered famous paintings on Reading, saw their drawings come to life and where the Polish Romeo courts the Greek Juliet in the Balcony Scene.
In the workshop "Encouraging the students to read-an etwinning experience", Chrysanthea Papakonstandinou (Cyprus) talked about integrating the project into primary school curriculum, Aneta Szadziewska (Poland) catered the creative part of Bookraft and Helen Karavanidou (Greece) spoke about the collaborative aspect of the project. Here are the presentations:
Booklovers not only love books but also they love every things connected with books and reading. They collect and make creative bookmarks. Readers care about the aesthetic quality of reading. They admire beauty of books, places and objects inspired with reading. Our hand-made bookmarks are in decoupage and bookscrapping techniques.
...which inspired us in Elefsina to make paper jewels! Click here for the printable edition!
"Bookmarks. A happy thriller" Bookmarks, made of any kind of material, but mostly paper, are small works of art. They carry information about the time they were made and reflect the aesthetics of their creators.
Collecting bookmarks is a journey, a personal adventure; it is an endless field trip, a passion like any other: it includes searching, sacrifices and dedication. Bookmarks show me around the universe of books, they inform me, they take me all around the world, the languages, the cultures. They keep me far better company than anything else that has enchanted me in the past. I hold them, spin them in my hands, understand their “language”. They’re my cat, my dog and my joy.
Their simplicity pleases me, since they have yet to become officially a collector’s item, as stamps, coins and other objects have become. I find them in book stores, I trade them with collectors all over the world, whom I later befriend and who make up my very own “international village”.
Categorized in dossiers on bookshelves, they are a different kind of book case in the house, just as warm and friendly, a book case with very small two-paged books, which can be browsed through and read just like the most exciting thriller.
Dimitris Papakostas, collector Translated by Constandinos Papageorgiou
One bookmark for one class. The Dewey classification system in Elefsina school library through bookmarks here!Apart from the ten classes, there are bookmarks to show the rest of the collection, such as the digital part (cds, dvds) the Greek literature bookmark, the Internet bookmark (no library is conceivable without it!) etc
Look what we came across today in the Greek library. A monastery lamp, a special "tama", with the island of Cyprus hanging at its end.
The Cyprus team will explain everything its special meaning.
The photo belongs to one of the 22 books on Greek monasteries donated by OPAP to the school libraries. The coincidence was too big to ignore today, waiting to chat with the Cyprus team. We had an interesting chat on the oncoming 5th anniversary of etwinning!
Η εικόνα από τον τόμο 19 της σειράς "Μοναστήρια και Προσκυνητάρια της Ελλάδας", εκδόσεις Πήγασος Α.Ε. που μόλις παραλάβαμε στη βιβλιοθήκη.
Περιμένοντας να συνομιλήσουμε με την Κύπρο, το θεωρήσαμε....καλό σημάδι. Πράγματι σήμερα δεν είχαμε τεχνικά προβλήματα και είχαμε μια ευχάριστη κουβέντα με τα παιδιά για τα επερχόμενα γενέθλια του etwinning και τις ετοιμασίες μας.
