Monday 08.11.99 |
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We arrived at the school in
the morning, and everything was ready. Our partners were Ryszard,
IT-teacher, Joanna, English teacher and Andrzej, head of the machine
department. We were welcomed at the headmaster’s office and
afterwards we went to the classroom, where we were going to spend
the next two weeks. We started going through the programme and a few
changes had to be made. The 11th of November is the
national day in Poland, but our partners would be at work this day
because of our project. The technique seemed to work, as it should.
The ISDN line was there an analogue modem had just been installed,
and we opened e-mail no.1.
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E-mail no.1 was ready and
after instructions in using the digital camera we took a walk around
the school taking pictures for the presentation.
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Back in the classroom
we had to start using the first programmes. It caused us a
great deal of trouble to reduce and edit the pictures as the
programmes were in Polish, in different versions, some used
Corel Photo Paint 8,0, others Paint Shop Pro 4.1 and 5.0. We
also used Winzip this worked out fine.
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The presentations were
send to Holding before 4 o’clock. We zipped our files, and
they were not too big, but as the technique in Prague didn’t
work, we didn’t finish sending our presentations until the
following morning.
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Evaluation:
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We were met with a
high level of engagement, and the Polish teachers would do
anything to make us feel comfortable and to make everything
work.
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Tuesday 09.11.99 |
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We started the day
with a cup of coffee and had time to go through the programme
of the day. After that we opened e-mail no.2. We were asked to
send our presentations to our co-operators. This worked out
fine in Poland and Italy, but the team in Prague had big
technical problems, which meant that we had to use the fax to
send all the presentations to all the partners. This took a
very long time.
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After this we were to start
using the videoconference. Our Polish colleagues already knew the
system, and during the next hours we had a chance to talk to all our
co-operators, which was a good experience.
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After the coffee break, we
started looking for e-mail no. 3. It wasn’t there. We tried to
call the Holding company both by videoconference and mobile phone,
but had no luck. After having waited a long time we received e-mail
no.3. In Poland we had a feeling that nothing really happened.
After a break we started
making the necessary agreements with our partners concerning
dimensions on the cube. The negotiations were still running as the
day ended, and it can not be finished until Wednesday.
From time to time the
videoconference was misused a little. It is important that people
know what they want to talk about before they make a call. Otherwise
other partners get too much waiting time.
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Evaluation:
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Again
today we found a high level of engagement and high spirit,
everybody help each other and problems are there to be
solved.
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Wednesday 10.11.99 |
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Thursday 11.11.99 |
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Tuesday 16.11.99 |
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Wednesday 17.11.99 |
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Thursday 18.11.99 |
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