LCOGTN BC European Education Workshop Kraków 9

Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network
British Council European Education Workshop
Programme
Day 1
Sunday 8 July 2007
Time:
18:00
Description
Meeting at the Campanile hotel’s reception
Leading person /
chair / presenter
Beata Grudzinska
Hotel Campanile in Krakow
Ul. Św. Tomasza 34 str.
Kraków 31-023
Tel.+ 48 (0) 12 424 26 00
Fax.+ 48(0) 12 424 26 01
www.campanile.com.pl
18:05
Guided walk around Krakow’s Old Town Square
Grzegorz Sęk
19:15
Return to the hotel, meeting with late arriving participants Beata Grudzińska
at the hotel’s reception
19:25
Departure to the restaurant, inauguration dinner at
Beata Grudzińska
Morskie Oko Restaurant
Plac Szczpański 8 Square
31-011 Kraków
Tel. + 48 (0) 12 431 24 23
After dinner
Return to the hotel
(or guided tour continued)
Beata Grudzińska /
Grzegorz Sęk
Day 2
Monday 9 July 2007
07:00 - 07:45
AstroJog (or AstroWalk) around Planty Park for volunteers
(meeting at the hotel’s reception)
8:15
Breakfast
9:15
Departure from the hotel’s reception to the British Council
office in Kraków (workshop venue)
9:30
British Council
Rynek Główny 6
Kamienica Szara (Tenament House Szara)
I floor
Tel. + 0 12 428 59 30/39
Welcome by the British Council, organizational issues,
general introductions
Session 1
Title: General information and an overview of
LCOGTN / FT activities in Europe.
10:15
Official opening by the organizers
10:30
LCOGTN: present condition, future and plans for
international collaboration followed by Q+A session
Jan Pomierny
Beata Grudzińska
Cherry Gough / Beata
Grudzińska
Chair of session 1
Ewa Puzdrowska
(BC Poland)
Cherry Gough
Lech Mankiewicz
Jan Pomierny
Paul Roche, LCOGTN
11:15
Coffee & Tea Break, Posters Exhibition at the venue
11:45
British Council’s new strategy and regional working
principles – Poland and Russia perspective
Cherry Gough
Oleg Eletsky
12:00
LCOGTN activities in Poland – an overview
Lech Mankiewicz and/or
Jan Pomierny
12:15
LCOGTN activities in the UK - an overview
Paul Roche and/or Jon
Yardley
12:30
LCOGTN activities in Portugal – an overview
Rosa Doran
12:45
LCOGTN activities in Russia - an overview
Patrick Fullick
13:00
Lunch
Session 2
Title: Multi-observer campaigns and examples of
LCOGTN activities in schools
14:00
Introduction
Chair of session 2
Oleg Eletsky
(BC Russia)
Lech Mankiewicz
14:20
Open Cluster research projects for schools
Vanessa Stroud
14:40
Portugal Project
Rosa Doran
15:00
Asteroid Project
Pawel Maksym
15:20
Russia Project
Vadim Krushinsky
15:40
Supernova Project
Krzysztof Rochowicz
16:00
Coffee & Tea Break, Posters Exhibition
16:20
Teacher experiences and ideas: UK
Rebecca Parker
16:30
Student experiences and ideas: UK
David MacKenzie
16:40
Teacher experiences and ideas: Portugal
Leonor Cabral
16:50
Teacher experiences and ideas: UK
Jeremy Thomas
17:00
Teacher experiences and ideas: Poland
Grzegorz Sek
17:10
Discussion on the ideas proposed in session 2 linked by
videoconference to Cardiff
17:40
Return to the hotel
18:45
Meeting at the hotel’s reception, departure by bus to the
Grzegorz Sęk / Beata
Niepołomice Astronomical Youth Observatory for barbecue Grudzińska / Jan
Pomierny
Return by bus to the Campanile hotel – end of Day 2
Beata Grudzińska
Around 22:00
Beata Grudzińska
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Day 3
Tuesday10 July 2007
07:00 - 07:30
AstroJog (or AstroWalk) around Planty Park for
volunteers (meeting at the hotel’s reception)
8:00
Breakfast
8:45
Departure from the hotel’s reception to the British
Council office in Kraków (workshop venue)
Beata Grudzińska
Session 3:
Title: Practical ideas for international
collaboration
9:00
Summary of ideas from the previous day, clarifying
the aim of the Day 3
Chair of session 3
Paul Roche
(LCOGTN)
Lech Mankiewicz
9:10
Group brainstorm session about the possible
cooperation between countries, linked via
videoconference to Wolverhampton
11:00
Coffee & Tea Break, Posters Exhibition
11:30
13:00 – 14:00
Breakout group session (groups to form depending onAll
the interest area – each group to choose a
rapporteur)
Possible topics for breakout groups discussions:
- New exercises based on existing data
- Muliti-school collaborations: common observations,
data reduction and analysis
Lunch
Session 4
Conclusions and decisions
14:00 – 15:00
15:00
Reports from the breakout groups by rapporteurs conclusions
Around 14:45 Taxi to the airport for departing
participants
Coffee & Tea break
Session 5
Title: On-line and video-conference tools
15:15
Introduction
Chair of session 5
Jan Pomierny
(Astronomia.pl)
Jan Pomierny
15 :20
Internet tools
Jon Yardley
15 :40
Videoconference opportunities
Lech Mankiewicz
15:50
Supernova Portal
Krzysztof Rochowicz
16:00
Discussion: internet and video-conference tools
Jon Yardley
16:40
Workshop summary, final conclusions
Ewa Puzdrowska
Around 17:00
The end
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Jan Pomierny
All
Chair of session 4
Lech Mankiewicz
(Eu-HoU, CfTP)
Reporters
Beata Grudzińska