Schoolovision 2014: MediaSurfer

Sunday, 26 January 2014

MediaSurfer

Während die Vorbereitungen für Schoolovision 2014 laufen, bewirbt sich die Freie Schule Kassel mit ihrem Beitrag aus dem letzten Jahr um den Medienkompetenzpreis Hessen 2013.

Zum deutschen Beitrag für Schoolovision 2013 geht es per Klick:

Eine PDF-Version unserer Projektbeschreibung für die Bewerbung um den Medienkompetenzpreis Hessen 2013 steht hier zum Download bereit.

Project history

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It's difficult to believe, but we are now into the 6th year of Schoolovision, the project having been created early in 2009, as an idea to link primary schools from across Europe using the eTwinning platform in a project based on the Eurovision Song Contest.

Each participating country has the chance to choose a song, sing it and video it, before uploading it to the blog by the cut-off date, usually around 1 week before the real ESC. Then, all the pupils in all the participating countries watch and evaluate all the songs, before voting for their own personal favourite, usually the day before the real ESC. For this extra special live vote, we use the webcam conferencing tool, FlashMeeting.

Schoolovision 2009! was the first year of the competition, with a total of 30 countries taking part. The winners were ZS Husova school from Brno in the Czech Republic, with their beautiful song Hejkal.

In 2010, we had a larger entry, with 34 countries eager to win Schoolovision 2010! The standards were extremely high, and the winning song in a nailbiting live-vote came from Flataskoli Gardabaer in Iceland. Their entry was this fantastic version of Abba's Dancing Queen.

Then, in 2011, our previous winners ZS Husova from Brno in the Czech Republic came roaring back, winning the 3rd edition of Schoolovision in fine style, with their outstanding entry, Jaro.

Then, in 2012, we expanded eastwards, with new entries from several countries, including Ukraine, Russia, Georgia and Azerbaijan which helped take our total number of partners to 38, our largest to date. The standards also went up even further, and incredibly, all the top 3 entries came from new entrant schools! The winners were Hoknes barneskole, from Namsos in Norway, with Ærlighet varer lengst, a quite brilliant entry!

In 2013, our expansion east was recognised by eTwinning, and we were awarded a very special certificate for our "outstanding collaboration and contribution to eTwinning" at the European Conference in Lisbon. Two months later, and one of our newest countries, Israel, triumphed with an equally outstanding entry, their very own tribute to the only Israeli astronaut, Ilan Ramon, lost in the 2003 Columbia space shuttle disaster.

So, in 2014, what can we expect in the following few months? Lots of quite wonderful entries!

The countries...

Austria

Basque Country

Belgium

Bulgaria

Croatia

Cyprus

Czech Republic

England

Estonia

Finland

France

Georgia

Germany

Greece

Hungary

Iceland

Ireland

Israel

Italy

Latvia

Lithuania

Luxembourg

Malta

Netherlands

Norway

Poland

Portugal

Romania

Russia

Scotland

Slovakia

Slovenia

Spain

Sweden

Switzerland

Wales

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eTwinning Award 2010

Medea Award 2012

eTwinning Award 2013

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