Academic year 2013-2014

Projects’ goals and partners

The first project named Children and heritage has been realized in collaboration with the Elementary school “Davorin Trstenjak” and the Ethnographic Museum in Zagreb. As part of the classrooms lectures, children were taught on heritage and folklore and made familiar with basic concepts of folklore as well as tangible and intangible heritage. Through various workshops children were presented with traditional children’s games, children’s traditions at Christmas and Croatian traditional songs and instruments. The practical parts of workshops were completed at the Ethnographic Museum where children learned about the heritage conservation. The main objective of the project was to teach the younger generation about preservation of their heritage and to encourage similar classes with teachers and mentors. The project is described in Prezi: http://prezi.com/ojcmfm7zjksl/untitled-prezi/

The second project named Reader’s club for children was conceived as a meeting point for children, students and professional librarians. The aim was to offer creative workshops within which the participants were encouraged to express themselves in writing, drawing and acting; to gather children that love books and writings and to provide them with the quality content. Those who weren’t fans of books were encouraged to socialize, play and participate in informal learning. As a result of the project, students held several workshops with the partner institution – Children’s Library “Marin Drzic”, designed a poster and promotional video material and conducted surveys about reading habits of the school children, as well as the final evaluation of the workshops.

The project is described in YouTube video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KToWEsGnvSA

Prezi: http://prezi.com/pe7nlmyfxfui/projekt-drustveno-korisnog-ucenja-/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy

and Google site: https://sites.google.com/site/citateljskikulub/

The spin-off of this project was Bibliocycling (Bibliocikliranje), a new project where the idea of the Reader’s club was connected to bicycles, and the process involved the Faculty of Philosophy Zagreb, Reader’s Club of the Children’s Library “Marin Drzic” and 7 other libraries on the route Zagreb – Split, as well as the orphanage Maestral in Split.

The third project named Info-tea party aimed to provide the basic knowledge on using computers to middle-aged to elderly people who were active members of the partner organization - Croatian Stroke Prevention Association. During the workshops participants were made familiar with the following content: using Windows OS environment, basics of MS Word, fundamentals of information searcing and retrieval, learning how to use Internet to communicate (e-mailing, using Skype) and how to access entertainment content (YouTube, Facebook, Google Maps, different portals).

The project is documented in YouTube video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXTPtY1YN4w Prezi: http://prezi.com/uyr9iwkpercx/studentice-i-hrvatsko-drustvo-za-prevenciju-mozdanog-udara/ and Google site: https://sites.google.com/site/infocajanka1/

The fourth project named Our hearts for little hearts was realized in cooperation with the association „Veliko srce malom srcu“ with the aim to encourage the global recognition of the association and to connect it with other similar associations over the world, in order to help parents and children – members of the Association to communicate about their desease with other doctors, to show the importance of museums as sources of knowledge and the subject of (in)formal education, as well as to to enlighten the public about the problems of children with congenital heart defects. The final products of the project are: a brochure with basic information about the Association and its activities, translation of the Association website into English, personal health passport for children with heart defects, and a visit to the museum for children – members of the Association and their parents.

The project is documented in the website of the partner (association Veliko srce malom srcu): http://velikosrce-malomsrcu.hr/Vijesti/Osobna-zdravstvena-putovnica-za-djecu-sa-srcanim-b.aspx

Prezi: http://prezi.com/8hesm_cqkrgw/nasa-srca-za-mala-srca/ and Google site: https://sites.google.com/site/nasasrcazamalasrca/

The last project in this academic year Two-week hybrid e-course on basics of 3D digitization was held at the partner institution – School of Applied Arts and Design. The course was hybrid because it was performed both online and on site, enabling school pupils to adopt the basic concepts, principles and methods of 3D digitization as well as practice with software for converting 3D objects into 3D models. Pupils adopted the appropriate knowledge in their field of profession: photography, sculpting, architecture and modeling.

The project is documented in Google site:

https://sites.google.com/site/o3dprojekt/home