Academic year 2016-2017

Projects’ goals and partners

Project 1: Information workshops for elementary school students

The aim  of the project was to encourage elementary school students to search the Internet and use social media in a responsible and careful way and to teach them to work in ISSUE Digital Publishing platform.

The link to the Prezi presentation: https://prezi.com/adl5fgwyggti/informacijska-radionica/

The link to the video: https://youtu.be/ZNgls_6ZFvM

Project 2: Digital imaging for primary school children

The first objective of this project was to point out to the elementary school children that pictures on the covers of magazines are not a real measure of beauty and that the photographs of celebrities are being edited by a whole range of experts and that this "artificial beauty" is not realistic. In this way, the students wanted to boost the self-confidence and self-esteem of children in higher grades of primary schools, who are, being in the adolescent age group, very sensitive to their external appearance and are constantly exposed to media pressure and photographs of the "perfect" men and women that impose a sense of inferiority. Another aim of the project was to present the "light" side of the Photoshop through practical workshops for children where they were designing various invitations and flyers, receiving skills that can come in handy during their future education.

The link to the video: https://youtu.be/xabbkgpZTN0

The link to the Prezi presentation: https://prezi.com/p0qxoopftap1/dku/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy

Project 3: Safe friend is always a trend!

Since the informatics curriculum for primary schools does not include topics on safety and child security on the Internet, students have recognized the community need to convey the most important information on the protection and self-presentation on the Internet to children through a series of workshops.

The link to the video: https://youtu.be/RMvFwezEHaI

The link to the Prezi presentation: https://prezi.com/ilrh0jbajsc_/siguran-frend-uvijek-je-trend/

Project 4: TOOROOM-VIRTUAL TOUR of the Velika Gorica Youth Club

The results of the survey adminstered by group Mladi and members of the Velika Gorica alternative scene showed that young people in town Velika Gorica (15 -29 years of age) lack the alternative places to go, they lack free educational workshops and debate club, cultural, sporting and social events and are in need of new contents. In order to meet the needs of these young people, the city mayor has encouraged the opening of the Youth Club.

In this projects, students created the applications TOOROOM that promotes and encourages young people in Velika Gorica to visit their Youth Club. Students aimed to help the city and the local community in raising awareness of the existence of such a useful place in as many young people as possible.

The link to the video: https://youtu.be/alYf1qAR5sE

The link to the Prezi presentation: https://prezi.com/doq35psc1l8s/vr-tooroom/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy

Project 5: Information literacy as a key attribute for lifelong learning

The aim of the project was to conduct workshops of information literacy to elementary school pupils in the age of 10-12 years, more specifically, to teach them how to search for and evaluate information, to present the acquired knowledge, and to protect themselves on the Internet.

The link to the video: https://youtu.be/ITk-U7CGnWk

The link to the Prezi presentation: https://prezi.com/1dqsovkmnpjb/drustveno-korisno-ucenje-radionice-informacijske-pismenosti-20162017/

Project 6: Cronauts

Specific project objectives were to determine the level of knowledge of online interactive tools in elementary school pupils and to replace traditional tools which children previously used (such as PowerPoint presentations and posters) with online tools that enable greater interactivity in transmitting multimedia messages (eg. Prezi, SMoR and Mindomo).

The link to the video: https://youtu.be/RuLKr0LyfN0

The link to the Prezi presentation: https://prezi.com/gcmuad_il2ff/projekt-cronauti-klub-iz-i-i-radionice-multimedijskog-opismenjavanja/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy

Project 7: Social inclusion of elderly at risk of social isolation

The project plan was to design and implement workshops of information literacy in the home for the elderly, aiming to help the elderly at risk of social exclusion.

Residents at homes for the elderly belong to a group of elderly people who are at risk of social exclusion due to lack of knowledge and inability to use ICT. The project enabled students to develop competencies and skills applying already acquired knowledge and has helped the residents at one institution (homes for the elderly) to gain ICT skills to a certain extent.

Students have concluded that older people shy away from new technology for several reasons:

a) physical disability (loss of vision, poor cognitive function, tremors ...)

b) mental "fence" (discomfort due to ignorance)

c) lack of knowledge and experience in use of the new technologies

After the workshop, however, their interest in the use of information technology grew for these reasons:

a) the ability to do what they were pleased (quizzes, online games ...)

b) better and more frequent contact with the families

c) knowledge about current events

d) recall of the past through viewing digital photos

e) socializing and quality free time

The link to the video: https://youtu.be/8Jm0TIiaJ6I

The link to the Prezi presentation: http://prezi.com/lquzjgtrr3qh/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy 

Project 8: Information literacy education for women asylum seekers

The aim of the project was to conduct workshops of information literacy to women asylum seekers in Zagreb (Croatia), to help them fight the social exclusion. Getting to know the cultures of women asylum seekers which are very different from their own, students managed to get rid of prejudices that they had at the beginning of the project, they reported that they became more tolerant and more aware of social problems.

The link to the video: https://youtu.be/mrlP9XIhFo8

The link to the Prezi presentation: https://prezi.com/s8a06a62wdyq/rad-sa-zenama-iz-prihvatilista-za-trazitelje-azila-porin/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy