The Bookraft teams have the second Prize in Polish etwinning competition 2011. We celebrated this event in Toruń - Copernicus's city and we met there our partners from Bogatynia. We are very happy again!Thanks to all friends!
Bookraft is more and more famous and popular. We are very glad! The interview with us is in newspaper.pl (gazeta.pl) and in regional newspaper "Kurier Lubelski".
And here is the article in the Greek regional newspaper "Epikairotita"
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:
Happy Valentine's day! This heartwarming gift came from Lublin to Elefsina along with other goodies, one day before we knew we made the finals. Thanking our Valentines up there!
Today was our Goodbye Day Chat. Lublin and Elefsina School Libraries connected via Skype. We presented our partners' towns according to the books they sent us and the slides they made for the project and enjoyed our freshly published common calendar, "Reading Beauties". Both groups sang Dylan's "Knocking on Heaven's Door" since we felt more than ever Borges's saying that a Library is his idea of Paradise,while we tweeted all through the chat. Lublin also heated things up with the bookish version of the Black Eyed Peas' song "I got a feeling". We've got a feeling this is not the end. Thank you, our friends!
Σήμερα, μετά τη σχολική γιορτή στην Ελευσίνα, οι Βιβλιοθήκες του Λούμπλιν και η δική μας συνδέθηκαν μέσω skype για το τσατ του αποχαιρετισμού. Αξιοποιώντας τα βιβλία που μας έστειλαν οι συνεργάτες μας και αρχεία που δημιουργήθηκαν για τις πόλεις μας, κάναμε σύντομες παρουσιάσεις για το Λούμπλιν και την Λακατάμεια Κύπρου, συζητήσαμε, χαρήκαμε το κοινό μας ημερολόγιο "Αναγνωστική Ομορφιά", τραγουδήσαμε το ίδιο τραγούδι και άλλα δικά μας με την συνοδεία συνολικά 4 κιθάρων και το κέφι ήταν τέτοιο, που μετά το τσατ και οι δύο ομάδες άρχισαν να χορεύουν χωρίς να έχουν συνεννοηθεί! Το Bookraft ήταν μια αρμονική, ιδανική συνεργασία που μας γέμισε ικανοποίηση και ανέδειξε ταλέντα και ικανότητες με τον καλύτερο τρόπο. Ευχαριστούμε θερμά τους καλούς μας συνεργάτες!
Lublin and Elefsina library members made their interactive ebook on bookquotes. Enjoy!
Κοινή δουλειά των παιδιών στο Λούμπλιν Πολωνίας και στην Ελευσίνα.
Απολαύστε τα αρχιγράμματα που έκαναν οι Πολωνοί και τα αποφθέγματα για βιβλία που βρήκαν οι Ελευσίνιοι.
I'm proud of my work. I hope the competition will be like it. I wait for your ansers and reply. For winner is waiting a prize! Good luck and enjoy your fun!
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
This school year we popularized book fashion. The most important adventage is design clothings and jewellery from materials you use in a library. We designed dresses, skirts, hots, T-shirts and necklaces. We used foil, newspapers, covers, plastic bag, CD, postcards and bookmarks. We hope somebody would like to go to school or library party dressed in this kind of eco-friendly clothing.
"Το βιβλίο είναι ένας κήπος που μεταφέρεις στην τσέπη σου". Πόσοι πίνακες απεικονίζουν αναγνώστες αφοσιωμένους στις σελίδες του αγαπημένου τους βιβλίου ή την στιγμή του στοχασμού επάνω σε ό,τι διάβασαν. Η ομορφιά της αναγνώστριας είναι το θέμα του ημερολογίου μας που ετοιμάζεται και οι βιβλιοθήκες μας αυτή την εποχή μεταμορφώθηκαν σε κήπους ανάγνωσης.
Art and books inspire readers. Every woman likes reading in the garden. You can see it in presented photos and painting. Art shows and teaches us too that time isn't important and that it connects people.Our photo shoot was a nice experience, and we all enjoyed ourselves enormously. Try to say :
Which painting is in the original? (An Author and Title)
Do you know persons in next photos? (Names)
Can you make a suggestion about reading? (Quotes)
"A book is like a garden carried in a pocket" (Chinese proverb).For keen readers is so beautiful like a favorite flower, for those who don't like reading is like a cactus.
We hope you agree with us. Show us "your reading garden" please.
Look at our libraries. We show how they looked in June. Tell us what do you see similar? Do you like our redecorations? Can we inspire you? Is it important in your opinion to redecorate libraries from time to time? We prepared comfortable places for reading, funny and modern designs and book gifts.
Κοιτάχτε πώς μεταμορφώνονται οι βιβλιόθηκες μας από τις ιδέες που μοιραζόμαστε. Πρωτότυπες αναγνωστικές γωνιές και ευφάνταστα ράφια, νέα έπιπλα (έστω και φερμένα από τα σπίτια μας!). Όλα για την απόλαυση του αναγνώστη!
Our little library friend is a dwarf. He comes from different Polish city. This time he lives in Lublin. The dwarf is the best reader in the library. He is called Booklover and he is very smart and prudent. We know him such an intellectual and a multilingual person. Sometimes he helps pupils to study but not everybody can meet him. You should respect books and from time to time you should to look for him beetwen books in the library.
Watch the little library friend move in the Bogatynia school library. He seems a booklover, don't you think?
Maybe he can find a twinner in the partner libraries soon!
And here they are! Pinio in Bogatynia-Poland and Pinia in Elefsina-Greece!
Οι μασκώτ των βιβλιοθηκών μας. Ο βιβλιόφιλος νάνος του Λούμπλιν και ο Πολωνός Πίνιο που αγάπησε την Ελληνίδα Πίνια. Φτιαγμένα από τους μαθητές μας με πλαστελίνη.
We even made the littelest Pin(ia) compared to a pin. Φανταστείτε πόσο μικρή είναι αυτή η Πίνια, η μασκώτ της βιβλιοθήκης!
World Book Day and Copyright Day
23 April - World Book Day was first made in 1923 by booksellers in Spain as a way to honour the author Miguel de Cervantes who died on that day. This became a part of the celebrations of the Saint George's Day (also 23 April) in Catalonia, where it has been traditional since the medieval era for men to give roses to their lovers and since 1925 for the woman to give a book in exchange. Half the yearly sales of books in Catalonia are at this time with over 400,000 sold and exchanged for over 4 million roses. In 1995, UNESCO decided that the World Book and Copyright Day would be celebrated on this date because the date is also the anniversary of the birth and death of William Shakespeare, the death of Miguel de Cervantes or Vladimir Nabokov.
Today our Bookraft eTwinning Team have read books in a especially place in our school library. We created Reading Corner. Our team and many readers (pupils, teachers and visitors) have read nonstop (5 hours) favourite books. We read loud adventure books, crime stories and fantasy. We proposed reading books for pleasure. This day is connected with Earth Day. Why? Because we protect trees, the environment and the Earth not only by cleaning our schoolyard, but reading and buying books too! We collect scrap paper , cans for recycling and plant trees around our school.
and here is our students from school libraries in Poland and Greece celebrating in their own way
Take a moment to browse through a wonderful book on our town’s past, just as our Reading Club did. They have their own way of looking at things. We recorded their comments for you.
You can find the book digitally here
You can browse and tell us what you liked best!
Παιδιά, πέστε μας τι σας κάνει εντύπωση από αυτό το βιβλίο, που θα βρείτε εδώ!
