The FUSION project was a strategic partnership in the field of education supporting the exchange of good practices, with 6 schools from Turkey, Hungary, France, North Macedonia, Greece, and Spain. However, the Fusion project officially started in September 2019, as an Erasmus+, it had already begun as an e-Twinning project a year before.

It was planned for teachers as an Erasmus+ project including 5 days of joint staff training activities. In addition, it was designed and implemented as an e-Twinning project for both students and teachers. It was built on an ongoing eTwinning project. And also, we continued as a simultaneous eTwinning project for students mainly. This partnership aimed to provide unity based on the culture of cooperation, which schools aim to improve by exchanging experiences and information directly with each other. Working together collaboratively with the same problems will positively affect mutual support in all schools. Our main aim was to improve the quality of education, create a common understanding of internationalization, increase efficiency through Erasmus programs, and prepare a common evaluation concept. All project activities served this purpose to realize our concrete results.

In the FUSİON project, partner schools encouraged and supported each other in solutions to common problems. FUSION consisted of key elements Future minded, Utilisable, Skillful, Innovative, Organised, and Non-stop. All these elements were used to improve teachers' skills and the quality of education.

The FUSION project helped participant teachers development of ICT skills, develop proficiency, and fluency with tools of technology and incorporate purposeful apps into the classroom. It also enabled participant schools to Integrate technology into the classroom and provided all students with equitable access to knowledge and skills that the 21st century needed.FUSION provided the necessary support for teachers to explore their competencies and to develop their ability to help students to prepare for the future. Our teachers started to be aware of ever-changing trends in technology and were in tune with what the future might bring to education. They learned what video, photography, animation, storytelling, music, animation, game, presentation, and assessment tools were, and how and when to use them. 

Interactive and encouraging training was given to them to explore the functions of technology and learn how to harness its full potential in the classroom environment to enhance their students learning and motivation. After every joint staff training activity participant teachers became more qualified, motivated, and supportive to create an environment that makes our students engaged in school. As teachers introduced more and more technology into the classroom, it raised the quality of the class. Technology also improved dynamics between teachers and students especially while they were working on the e-Twinning project of FUSION.

FUSION showed us the need for fun and engaging learning approaches in order to make the teaching and learning process more enjoyable for both students and teachers alike. Activities of FUSION highlighted the impact of technology on students’ social and cognitive development in addition to basic and soft skills.

The diversity of profiles created a dynamic learning environment to practice intercultural communication. Activities enabled participants to explore, understand, describe and compare and contrast lifestyles across Europe. We completed our project successfully because we had a reliable partnership via eTwinning, a resource plan, an operating agreement, documented objectives, and goals, good team communication strategies, and well-organized dissemination activities. eTwinning made our students the center of the project. They took part in the planning, implementation, and assessment phases. We used demonstration, quizzes, small group discussions, role-playing, hands-on teaching, and learning with-doing methods.

What’s more, numerous activities helped teachers to do  their jobs better. Our materials were published on Twinspace and the project’s Facebook page. We started 2 years but regarding Covid 19 pandemic, we completed our project in 3 years.2 years of physical and one year of online activities were done. Mobilities and academic content were realized with reference to physical and academic conditions and competencies of host schools. Technology had a universal language that connected people whose religions, nationalities, and languages.Knowing people from different backgrounds made participants develop respect and tolerance towards each other which is one of the priorities of strategic partnerships.Getting motivated to learn or improve their foreign languages were the natural consequences of partnership.

From May 22 to 28, the Erasmus Team of Spanish center formed by Francisco J. Felipe (project coordinator/Department of Greek), Javier Pérez (Department of Technology), Fernando Déniz (Department of Music) and Lourdes Martínez "Malu" ( English Department) has worked with our partners from Turkey, North Macedonia, Greece, France and our Hungarian hosts on the latest project mobility in Nyiregyhàza. This adventure began in 2019 in Ankara, Turkey and its central theme is the application of digital tools in education. We start the week with the reception of the different partners at the Nyiregyhàzi SZC Szécheni István Technikum és Kollégium.

Attila Szabó, director of the center, and Éva Kissné Sinka, coordinator of the project in Hungary, were waiting for us there. We dedicated the morning to the presentation of the Hungarian team that accompanied us throughout the stay, to the projection of videos including a brief summary of our mobility in Belfort (France) in March and to the visit of the center's facilities. We visited the city accompanied by Csilla, a history teacher, who explained everything about the origin of the place and its most emblematic buildings. At the Nyiregyházi Szakképzesí Centrum we held the first digital workshop where we worked on programming applied to design. The center is a space for Professional Studies Internships for students of Industrial Design in wood, textiles and metals. We dedicated Tuesday morning to a very interesting visit to the University of Nyiregyháza.
We were received by a team of professors from the center and the professor in charge of the university's Internationalization Program through the Erasmus + programs gave us a presentation followed by a brief discussion on the benefits of these programs and their possible future improvements. We visited all the facilities of the center and attended three workshops: a workshop on robotics and programming linked to previous content seen in mobility to Ierapetra and Tenerife, one on aerial simulation and one on the use of Lego in the classroom for skills development. In one of the presentations we attended, the benefit of Dual Education was explained, which is being implemented in the scientific branches, specifically, the agricultural ones. We found the content very interesting since we at IES Tegueste also have this educational modality in the Professional Cycles.

The cultural theme of this visit was sport. Linked to this content, we were able to visit the Nyiregyháza Sport Center, opened less than a year ago and considered one of the largest in Europe. There we could see Olympic athletics tracks with their different modalities, outdoors and indoors, as well as spaces for fitness, fencing and martial arts, among others. The building has bedrooms for athletes during the celebration of national and international competitions. During our visit to the Open Village Museum guided by Myrtill Juház, we had the opportunity to practice archery with master archer András Baku.

"Gamification" was present in the session dedicated to the use of different applications for didactic use. David Nagy presented us with Motivapp, a tool that allows us to evaluate the implementation and development of the different subjects from the mobile. Hengsperger István told us about applications to use in the subject of Physical Education (also for personal sports use!) and Judit Drevenyák presented us with Hashtag.School applied to the subject of Language and Literature. These sessions were included under the theme "gamification": another alternative to learn significantly, interactively, using digital media and enjoying the learning process. The mobility in Hungary ended with the delivery of the official certificates of attendance and a brief stay in Budapest to get to know the capital of the host country. We want to thank the Hungarian team, especially Edit, Zoltán, Attila, Lazlo, Csilla, István and Tamás led by Eve, for their hospitality and dedication to our FUSION project during this week.
This last meeting has been very emotional after having shared collaborative work and a sincere friendship for three years. We will continue working until the completion of the project and we hope to establish new collaborations with some of our partners for future projects. In the Instagram of our center you can also see images of the visit.

FUSION REGRESA DE NYIREGYHÀZA EN HUNGRÍA, ÚLTIMA MOVILIDAD DE NUESTRO PROYECTO ERASMUS +

Del 22 al 28 de mayo el Equipo Erasmus de nuestro centro formado por Francisco J. Felipe (coordinador del proyecto/ Departamento de Griego), Javier Pérez (Departamento de Tecnología), Fernando Déniz (Departamento de Música) y Lourdes Martínez "Malu" (Departamento de Inglés) ha trabajado con nuestros socios de Turquía, Macedonia del Norte, Grecia, Francia y nuestros anfitriones húngaros en la última movilidad del proyecto en Nyiregyhàza. Esta aventura comenzó en 2019 en Ankara, Turquía y su tema central es la aplicación de las herramientas digitales en la educación. Comenzamos la semana con la recepción de los diferentes socios en el Nyiregyhàzi SZC Szécheni István Technikum és Kollégium.

Allí nos esperaban Attila Szabó, director del centro y Éva Kissné Sinka, coordinadora del proyecto en Hungría. Dedicamos la mañana a la presentación del equipo húngaro que nos acompañó durante toda la estancia, a la proyección de vídeos incluido un breve resumen de nuestra movilidad en Belfort (Francia) en marzo y a la visita de las instalaciones del centro. Visitamos la ciudad acompañados por Csilla, profesora de  Historia, que nos explicó todo lo referente al origen del lugar y sus edificios más emblemáticos. En el Nyiregyházi Szakképzesí Centrum realizamos el primer taller digital donde trabajamos programación aplicada al diseño. El centro es un espacio de Prácticas de Estudios Profesionales para el alumnado de Diseño Industrial en maderas, textiles y metales. La mañana del martes la dedicamos a una visita muy interesante en la Universidad de Nyiregyháza.

Nos recibió un equipo de profesores del centro y la profesora encargada del Programa de Internacionalización de la universidad a través de los programas Erasmus + nos hizo una  presentación seguida de un breve coloquio sobre los beneficios de estos programas y sus posibles mejoras futuras. Visitamos todas las instalaciones del centro y asistimos a tres talleres: un taller sobre robótica y programación ligado a contenidos previos vistos en la movilidad a Ierapetra y Tenerife, uno sobre simulación aérea y uno sobre el uso de Lego en las aulas para el desarrollo competencial. En una de las presentaciones a las que asistimos se explicó el beneficio de la Educación Dual (Dual Education) que se está implementado en las ramas científicas, concretamente, las agrícolas. Nos resultó muy interesante el contenido ya que nosotros en el IES Tegueste también tenemos esa modalidad educativa en los Ciclos Profesionales.

El tema cultural de esta visita era el deporte. Vinculado a este contenido pudimos visitar el Sport Center de Nyiregyháza inaugurado hace menos de un año y considerado uno de los más grandes de Europa. Allí pudimos ver pistas olímpicas de atletismo con sus diferentes modalidades, en exterior y cubiertas, así como espacios para fitness, esgrima y artes marciales entre otros. El edificio tiene habilitados dormitorios para los deportistas durante la celebración de competiciones nacionales e internacionales. En la visita que realizamos al Open Village Museum (Museo Etnológico al aire libre) guiados por Myrtill Juház, tuvimos la oportunidad de practicar tiro con arco con el maestro arquero András Bakú.

La "gamificación" estuvo presente en la sesión dedicada al uso de diferentes aplicaciones de uso didáctico. David Nagy nos presentó Motivapp, una herramienta que permite evaluar la implementación y desarrollo de las diferentes materias desde el móvil. Hengsperger István nos habló de aplicaciones para usar en la materia de Educación Física (¡también para uso personal deportivo!) y Judit Drevenyák nos presentó Hashtag.School aplicada a la materia de Lengua y Literatura. Estas sesiones se englobaban bajo el tema "gamificación": otra alternativa más para aprender significativamente, de forma interactiva, utilizando medios digitales y disfrutando del proceso de aprendizaje. La movilidad en Hungría se cerró con  la entrega de los certificados oficiales de asistencia y una breve estancia en  Budapest para conocer la capitald del país anfitrión. Queremos agradecer al equipo húngaro, especialmente, a Edit, Zoltán, Attila, Lazlo, Csilla, István y Tamás liderados por Eve, su hospitalidad y dedicación a nuestro proyecto FUSION durante esta semana.

Este último encuentro ha sido muy emotivo después de haber compartido durante tres años trabajo colaborativo y una sincera amistad. Seguiremos trabajando hasta la finalización del proyecto y confiamos en establecer nuevas colaboraciones con algunos de nuestros socios para futuros proyectos. En el Instagram de nuestro centro puedes también ver imágenes de la visita.

Last meeting in Nyiregyháza in just a few days!

Covid 19 , the Brexit , the war in Ukraine and the general situation we are living in are not making our lives easy .
As teachers , we have the responsibility to catch up with students who are not used to working anymore , who skip school because they think they can manage on their own , and for whom it is difficult to go back to a ‘normal’ life .
Some students, and even teachers, were traumatized by this period because they lost someone or they could not stand the lockdown psychologically and more and more people present symptoms of mental health problems such as phobias, depressions, anxiety and so on.
Organizing ERASMUS + mobilities in this crisis was not easy even sometimes tricky , especially since we had to finish all the projects from 2019 to 2021, so for some of us, we had the double of projects and trips to organize as usual.
First of all you had to check about local and international rules about Covid 19 and make sure that all the partners could join the mobility. Will they have to be vaccinated? To wear masks, inside and / or outside? What type of masks is allowed? When and where must they show they green pass? So many different cases you had to cope with.

Secondly , some of our projects had been written two years ago, and some of the activities had to be cancelled because of security and sanitary rules, so you had to find new things to do, but still corresponding to the topic of the application. But we are all very creative and each mobility was the occasion to discover new applications, learn new things and enjoy the landscapes and cultural aspects of the countries where we stayed.

We mostly tried to find a maximum of activities outside, so the problem of social distances could be simpler to deal with.

Despite all of these obstacles, we could make it and enjoyed every moment we spent together and are very proud of all the work done.

 Fusion France was about photo editing and educational games and there was FOOD in the cultural background.
The workshops are intensive work in creating games, not just talking about it. They are very systematic, organized, insightful, and inspiring, as always. The lessons were practical and engaging. I now have more tools to teach my lesson.
We started with Action Bound to discover Belfort. We learned a lot about both Belfort and Antion Bound.
Then we learned Genially, Learning apps, and several photo editing apps.
We experienced how to play escape in education and for fun.
The level of expertise and knowledge of the presenters are excellent. In addition, I appreciate their positive attitudes, willingness to explain concepts, clarity of visual aids and handouts, and opportunities to ask questions.

Fusion France was a great educational experience for the Turkish team. We definitely learned new strategies. We gained a better understanding of the concept of knowledge and how to apply it to the curriculum.
I had the opportunity to gain a greater understanding of the elements of reasoning and the use of elements, as well as discuss instructional design so as to incorporate educational games.
My teaching is being transformed to inspire students’ development of my digital skills through practice and through effective facilitation.

After Fusion France, I shared my knowledge about the ‘Educational Games Tool’ in an online seminar at school with participants from 50 teachers in different subjects.

Enjoyed sharing my understanding with others.
Corinne is very knowledgeable; she inspires me to think more and more deeply.
Thank her and all the French team

During the week we have spent in Belfort, France, working in the Lyceé Condorcet with our host, Corinne Hoffert, within the fifth mobilitiy in our FUSION Erasmus + Project, we have learnt how to create escape games to motivate and facilitate our students’ learning in the different subjects we implement. Celine Gechter showed us Genially; Elizabeth Hoffman and Jane Neyret asked us to be students to solve the mystery of the stolen artwork in the museum; Elisabeth Clerc and Laetitia Claudel showed us an example of a commercial escape game on celtic legends and Corinne Hoffert taught us about the different apps we can use to create the challenges (Learningapps) as well as many mobile apps to create collages (Collage, Be Funky, InCollage, InShot, Phinsh), to remove the background of a photo (Remove Bg, Slazzer, etc..) and apps to create funny fonts for texts (Flaming Text, Textgiraffe, etc.) Corinne also created for us in ActionBound an escape game to visit Belfort and discover its cultural and historical treasures. This has been a very technological visit and we thank Corinne for her great idea to work this methodological aspect of teaching pursuing this goal: “What we learn with pleasure we never forget”.

Durante la semana que hemos pasado en Belfort, Francia, trabajando en el Lyceé Condorcet con nuestra anfitriona, Corinne Hoffert, en la quinta movilidad de nuestro proyecto Erasmus + FUSION, hemos aprendido a crear “escape games” para motivar y facilitar el aprendizaje de nuestros estudiantes en las diferentes materias que implementamos. Celine Gechter nos mostró Genially; Elizabeth Hoffman y Jane Neyret nos convirtieron en sus alumnos y alumnas para resolver el misterio del cuadro robado en el museo; Elisabeth Clerc y Laetitia Claudel nos mostraron un ejemplo de escape game comercial sobre leyendas célticas y Corinne Hoffert nos enseñó diferentes aplicaciones que podemos usar para crear collages (Collage, Be Funky, InCollage, InShot, Phinsh), para borrar el fondo de una imagen (Remove Bg, Slazzer, etc..) y apps para crear fuentes gráficas divertidas (Flaming Text, Textgiraffe, etc.). Corinne también creó para nosotros un escape game usando la app ActionBound, para visitar Belfort y descubrir sus tesoros históricos y culturales. Esta ha sido una visita muy tecnológica y agradecemos a Corinne su gran idea de trabajar este aspecto metodológico en la enseñanza con la finalida de conseguir nuestro objetivo docente: “Lo que se aprende con placer/divertimento, nunca se olvida”

The students of the 2nd CFGS of the Analysis and Quality Control Laboratory have made the following dissemination posters about some of the instruments used in the analysis of different substances.

Making use of digital resources such as Canva or Metaverse, they have designed posters that go beyond plain text in which, through the different incorporated QRs, information, images and even videos can be consulted, as well as enjoying an interactive experience created by students for this activity, included in those carried out in the Instrumental Analysis module.

The posters are located on the Training Cycles board, in front of the school's library.

We thank the students and teachers of the 2nd CFGS of the Analysis and Quality Control Laboratory for allowing us to publish their work

Once more, our students in the 2nd year of Professional Studies of Laboratory Analysis and Quality Control have done an excellent work creating a magazine and editing a video with the contents they have worked this term in the Lab tests and Laboratory Practices. Using digital tools they show us different contents such as measurament equipment like calypers, manual digital like micrometers and the properties of polymers. To edit the video they used InShot, an app we were told about in our FUSION meeting in North Macedonia. Six students participated in the recording and editing of this film.

In Canva, the second group with 7 students shared the same content in a different visual way creating a magazine. Ana Belén Déniz, our Erasmus + colleague who teaches the Bilingual Module in this level and worked with these students assessed the results very positively.

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Una vez más, nuestro alumnado del 2º año del Ciclo Superior de Análisis de Laboratorio y Control de Calidad ha hecho un trabajo excelente creando una revista y editando un vídeo con los contenidos trabajados este trimestre en los ensayos físicos y las prácticas de laboratorio. Usando herramientas digitales nos muestran diferentes contenidos como son el uso de los pie de rey y micrómetros y las propiedades de los polímeros. Para editar el vídeo usaron la aplicación InShot que conocimos en la visita a Macedonia del Norte en FUSION. Seis estudiantes participaron en la grabación y edición final del vídeo.

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En Canva, el segundo grupo de clase formado por siete estudiantes compartió el mismo contenido utilizando una forma visual diferente: la creación de una revista. Ana Belén Déniz, nuestra compañera de Erasmus + que imparte el Módulo Bilingüe en este nivel trabajó y evaluó muy positivamente los resultados.

Todd Ruthman said: “It’s the things in common that make relationships enjoyable, but it’s the little differences that make them interesting”. In all our mobilities within the FUSION Erasmus + Project we have enjoyed those little differences sharing our “tables”. Food has helped us to “break walls of shyness and communication”. As in our previous visits, at lunch time, we have shared not only our traditional food such as “our mojos” (red and green), “our papas arrugadas” or “our Spanish omelette with onion” with a final “barraquito” to end the meal but also, our stories about teaching in very similar conditions all around Europe. We want to motivate our students, to improve our digital skills in teaching and that’s the main goal of FUSION but, as we all know, at the end of this adventure, what we will have are “friends and colleagues” to keep in touch, to laugh via whatsapp and to share good memories and experiences from all those little things, common and different, which make friendship so enriching.

COMIDA Y AMISTAD: LA CLAVE DE CUALQUIER PROYECTO ERASMUS +

 Como Todd Ruthman dijo:“Son las cosas en común las que hacen que una relación sea agradable pero son las diferencias las que la hacen interesante”. En todas nuestras movilidades en el Proyecto Erasmus + FUSION hemos disfrutado de esas pequeñas diferencias compartiendo nuestras “mesas”. La comida nos ha ayudado a romper los muros de la timidez y la comunicación. Como en nuestras visitas anteriores, a la hora del almuerzo, hemos compartido no solo nuestra platos tradicionales como “nuestros mojos” (rojo y verde), nuestras “papas arrugadas” o “nuestra tortilla española con cebolla” con un último “barraquito” para cerrar nuestra comida, sino también, nuestras historias sobre la enseñanza en condiciones muy parecidas por toda Europa. Queremos motivar a nuestros alumnos, mejorar nuestras destrezas digitales en la enseñanza y ese es el objetivo principal de FUSION pero, como todos sabemos, al final de esta aventura, lo que tendremos son “amigos y colegas” para mantener el contacto, reírnos via whatsapp y compartir buenos recuerdos y experiencias de todas esas pequeñas cosas, comunes y diferentes, que hacen que la amistad sea tan enriquecedor