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Magic of the Frame - Teach with documentary film! Project - second project management meeting in Bulgaria
The second project management meeting of Magic of the Frame - Teach with documentary film! Project took place in Lovech, Bulgaria between 9 and 11.11.2022. During the 3 days meeting the 9 partners - Palantír Film Vizuális Antropológiai Alapítvány, Hungary (lead parthner), Changes & Chances, Netherlands, Civil Initiatives Association - Lovech, Bulgaria, CROMO Alapitvany, Hungary, Kürt Alapítvány, Hungary, Professional school of veterinary medicine " Prof. dr. Dimitar Dimov", Bulgaria, Stichting Kunstzinnige Vorming Rotterdam (SKVR), Netherlands, VŠĮ Nepatogus kinas / PO Inconvenient Film, Lithuania, Youth Centre Babilonas, Lithuania - from 4 countries mapped the results and discussed the 4 lesson plans prepared in the previous project phase. Partners from each project country presented their selected documentary films as well as the lesson plans related to the selected topics/movies.
Dívák/Divas is the Hungarian team’s choice of documentary - “Belvárosi Tanoda” is a school where a last chance is given to misfit teenagers, banned from all other schools, to finish their studies and graduate. This is where he meets three strikingly different girls: Szani, Tina, and Emese, the Divas.
The Netherlands team presented the documentary film A Brothers Journey - two brothers, fled together from Syria lose track of each other in the Dutch asylum system.
The Lithuanian team lesson plan is based on the documentary Seahorse - where “The seahorse in the title refers not only to the creature that remains upright in the water, but also to the area of our brain, the hippocampus, where our memories are stored. This balanced documentary shows how water can take on a new meaning over time, and how swimming has become Hanan’s way of coping with trauma.”*
As final result of several discussions among the partners, the Bulgarian team has selected Bayer and the Bees documentary - insecticides are sometimes necessary in farming however some substances, like neonicotinoids, kill not only pests but bees as well. Scientists around the world have found that neonicotinoids are the main cause of mass bee deaths. One of the main manufacturers of these pesticides - the Bayer Group is coming under pressure.
During the three days in Bulgaria, 4 developed lesson plans have been presented and by the 9 partners of Magic of the Frame - Teach with documentary film! As a final result all of the plans received suggestions and ideas for improvement before the pilot beginning. The partners agreed on the schedule the lesson plans would start their pilot phase.
Particular attention was paid to the who took part in the meeting and their opinion and recommendations.
The project management meeting finished with some particular project management discussions regarding the next steps, narrative and financial reporting.
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Go-Live Magic of the Frame - Teach with documentary film! Project
The first meeting of the Magic of the Frame’s partnership took place in Budapest, Hungary on 21 and 22 of March 2022.
Through introducing a new mindset - use the potential of the documentaries in schools, the partnership has the ambition to develop useful methodology and tools for teachers and educators in support of their work with young people – to help them see and learn about the reality as “it is”.
The project started on 1st of January 2022. During the period of three months before the kick-off in Budapest, as partners, we have organized the start of this innovative, challenging but so inspiring and promising project. Defining in details our activities and plans, clarifying our goals and discussing how to make the project more useful for the final beneficiaries - teachers in secondary schools, etc. were among the activities our project team was engaged with.
The kick-off Project Management meeting opened space for discussion of many important topics as clarification of the project management rules, contract regulations, budget flow and reports, update of the project plan and gantt chart, distribution of activities and responsibilities, discussion of the project management manual (including evaluation and monitoring methodology), risk management, monitoring and evaluation.
Another important part of the Project meeting were the discussions on the methodology update based on preliminary research, forming a common knowledge base as a starting point, how to choose the documentaries, where is the cross point of the different points of view, etc.
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The project Magic of the Frame - Teach with documentary film! is funded by Erasmus+ Programme under contract N: 2021-1-HU01-KA220-SCH-000029686.
International Meeting in Lovech
"Magic of the Frame - teach with documentary"
Magic of the Frame - Teach with documentary film! teachers’ meeting in Vilnius, Lithuania, October 21-22, 2023
The teachers meeting of Magic of the Frame - Teach with documentary film! In Lithuania was as useful as interesting and inspiring for the participants.
During this 2 days’ meeting teachers from the 4 project countries had the great chance to be involved in the magic of a real documentary festival - https://nepatoguskinas.lt/2023/en/.
The Inconvenient Films festival is an annual human rights documentary film festival which one of the project partners - PO Inconvenient Film has organized for the 17th time. The teachers involved in the project and some project members had access to a unique documentary film selection from all over the world.
The program of the LTT meeting offered a lot of different activities among which reconnecting activities, discussions, exchange of experience, feedback and reflections. Teachers presented their work and demonstrated lessons. They had a lot of questions and reactions to each other’s shared experience.
On the first meeting day, the project team watched the documentary Grasshoper republic while on the second day all participants got involved in the real adventure of virtual reality movie - Missing 10 Hours. After the movie the participants reflected on the film - what feelings did they experience during the films? How do they feel now? What was the most shocking? Is the topic of the film relevant nowadays? If yes, how, where, when? How can we educate young people to be more aware of the topic? What they, as teachers, could do? How can they use this experience in their class? Later an educator shared her experience as a human rights educator working with documentaries as tools.
The project LTT meeting finished with a discussion regarding the Visual diary as one of the Project results.
Magic of the Frame - Teach with documentary film! is financed by Erasmus+ Programme under contract N: 2021-1-HU01-KA220-SCH-000029686
https://nepatoguskinas.lt/2023/en/films-in-libraries/
https://nepatoguskinas.lt/2023/en/movie/grasshoper-republic/
https://www.missing10hours.com/
Magic of the Frame - Teach with documentary film! Project - third project management meeting in the Netherlands
The cozy building De Nieuwe Schuur, situated in the magnificent area of Heprt, welcomed the project management team of Magic of the Frame - Teach with documentary film! for its third meeting on 12 and 13 November 2023.
During the 2 days meeting the 9 partners - Palantír Film Vizuális Antropológiai Alapítvány, Hungary (lead parthner), Changes & Chances, Netherlands, Civil Initiatives Association - Lovech, Bulgaria, CROMO Alapitvany, Hungary, Kürt Alapítvány, Hungary, Professional school of veterinary medicine " Prof. dr. Dimitar Dimov", Bulgaria, Stichting Kunstzinnige Vorming Rotterdam (SKVR), Netherlands, VŠĮ Nepatogus kinas / PO Inconvenient Film, Lithuania, Youth Centre Babilonas, Lithuania - from 4 countries presented their journey in the project using Pecha Kucha method.
All 9 project results have been thoroughly discussed - Curriculum development, Online Database, Tutorial Video for Field Work, Professional Visual Project Diary, Pedagogical Manual, Development of short trainings, Manual about Student Feedback, Toolkit/exercise book (good practices from teachers). The 9 partners paid attention to all PRs implementation. Most of them are already in their finalization phase however the Online database, the Manual about Student Feedback and the Toolkit/exercise book (good practices from teachers) will be in partners’ focus in the next project period.
On the second day, the project partners discussed project management issues and talked about the next LTT Teacher exchanges.
Magic of the Frame - Teach with documentary film! is financed by Erasmus+ Programme under contract N: 2021-1-HU01-KA220-SCH-000029686
Magic of the Frame - Teach with documentary film! teachers’ meeting in Rotterdam, Netherlands, November 14-15, 2023
The teachers meeting of Magic of the Frame - Teach with documentary film! in the Netherlands was focused on many practical activities which encouraged exchange of teachers’ experience related to the project. A theater workshop based on the HUGO Magic program (lesson 6) was hosted by Dutch teachers. The LTT program continued with discussion. Very interesting points of view and different perspectives have been shared: … The documentary of the Circle created beautiful conversations and moments of recognition and experiences among the students. Brotherhood, relationships, poverty, racism, and role models were all discussed. It was a beautiful thing for me to see how students with completely different backgrounds started talking to each other about the lack of good role models or the importance of recognition of a father figure in the family. Unfortunately, when I was growing up, these conversations were still taboo. I am happy that this is a project that creates a safe space for the younger generation to discuss their issues. (one of the Dutch teachers).
This emotional workshop was followed by creating a space where the project teachers can learn how to turn their efforts into an imaginative teaching method.
In the afternoon the participants went to 100% contemporary tour + workshop in order to face Rotterdam’s vibrant urban culture as a basis for activities, informing engagement with social topics and developments.
On the second day, the involvement into imaginative teaching methods continued. Ed Santman presented the short film Educating musical theory to a child, scolar, student, professional and a genius.
The project LTT meeting finished with a discussion regarding the next steps and teachers networking.
Magic of the Frame - Teach with documentary film! is financed by Erasmus+ Programme under contract N: 2021-1-HU01-KA220-SCH-000029686