Grants available for our course in Copenhagen

European in-service training within the framework of Erasmus+ KA1

This in-service teacher-training course deals with how to make sense of statistical information through different presentation forms and media. The participants will understand how to develop students’ statistical concepts and thinking.
Special attention will be paid to international databases and functionality related to presentation of data in graphs, tables and maps as well as comparisons of time-series data sets. Also the developed toolbox offers the interactivity of uploading own data.
The pedagogical advice will use an activity-based approach, based on problem-solving and on concept development.

Date and venue

Date:  Monday 7 till Thursday 10 September 2015.
Venue:  Københavns Åbne Gymnasium (Copenhagen Open Gymnasium), Sjælør Boulevard 133   Valby
We hold 15 rooms for participants in First Hotel Exelsior (arrival Sunday 6, leaving Thursday 10 September), very close to the venue and the Central railway station of Copenhagen.

Funding Possibility/I-Use grant

If you have been unable to obtain funding you will be eligible for one of a number of an I-Use grant to cover all training, residential and food costs. These grants will only be available on a first come, first served basis. Applications for these grants must be received no later than May 31 2015. Further details are available from the I-Use website.

I-USE Teacher training Pilot course

Two images taken during our pilot teacher training course which is taking place at the University of the Aegean this week.
Iain Palôt is presenting in the top image.

2014... a year of activity for the project

Welcome to the first update post of 2014...

We have a busy 2014 ahead of us... and there has already been plenty of activity behind the scenes on various aspects of the project.

After the setting up of the project over the last year, we are now beginning to prepare the teaching materials which will be used for the courses that will be run as part of the course.
These will be piloted over the summer at the University of the Aegean, and the materials will then be shared online (and on further face to face courses)
The project is being disseminated through a range of channels and has been mentioned at a number of meetings and events in several EU countries.

We are also preparing for our next meeting, which will take place at the University of Surrey in Guildford as part of the Geographical Association's annual conference.

There will be a workshop as part of the session on the Wednesday the 16th of April.

We have also worked with the very talented designer Bryan Ledgard to produce a range of dissemination materials which will form part of the project as we move into 2014. Watch out for those shortly.

The I-USE project has also formed part of a lecture given in Altentejo, Portugal by Alan Parkinson last week, and also the inaugural School on Cloud meeting at Doukas School in Athens at the end of March 2014.