11 th May, Friday
Closing ceremony and certificates
The closing ceremony was held on the last day of the mobility and the participants received their certificates. Students had fun with music and dance from the food organization and cake cutting aid.
11 th May, Thursday
Trip to Sahinkaya Canyon and Amasya province
A trip to Şahinkaya canyon and Amasya province was organized with the teachers and students of all participating countries.
Şahinkaya Canyon is a canyon located in the Vezirköprü district of Samsun. Şahinkaya Canyon, which forms the deepest point of Altınkaya Dam and is Turkey’s second largest canyon after Ulubey Canyon, is approximately 1500 meters long and 324 meters high.
According to the archaeological research and findings, the first settlement in Amasya started in 4000 BC and continued uninterruptedly during the Hittite, Phrygian, Cimmerian, Scythian, Lydian, Persian, Hellenic, Pontus, Roman, Byzantine, Danishmend, Seljuk, Ilkhanid and Ottoman periods.
The King Rock Tombs built by the Pontus (333 BC – 26 BC) have reached the present day and are among the monuments of the city.
Amasya, which was under Byzantine rule for 700 years, was conquered by Melik Ahmet Danishmend Gazi in 1075 and the first Turkish-Islamic Sovereignty was established in this city.
Amasya is one of the places where Turks first transitioned to city life in Ottoman Anatolia, and it was found appropriate to raise Ottoman princes in Amasya because of the fact that the original Turkish tribes settled in and around Amasya, and it had a sheltered structure.
9th May, Tuesday
Workshop 1 – Making a poetry collage with Google Docs
Google Docs is a web-based word processing software developed by Google. Google Docs acts as a collaborative tool for editing documents in real time. Documents can be shared, opened, and edited by multiple users at the same time, and users can see other collaborators’ changes, character by character. Users cannot be notified of changes, but the app can facilitate collaboration by notifying users when there is a comment or discussion or reply.
In this study, six groups of students from each country were formed. The teacher explained what google doc does, how it is used and how it is used, and then each group was given 5 love poems by famous poets from five participating countries and asked them to compose a new poem using the lines in these poems. Newly created poems by all groups were written and shared on the common page on google docs. Later, the poems were presented by the groups, and the other groups’ comments on the poems were made on google doc.
The poems used are in the link below
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Iizk2ZVWV4sudWELCG0L7_QRCQNF3sVOTkmY7g-Vkc4/edit?usp=sharing
The created collage poems are in the link below
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1FdrjoSgCUegvO0HMnL3_6GGvcnqSB5AzXVNG8ctaQoA/edit?usp=sharing
Photos from the workshop;
Visiting Samsun Olgunlasma Institute
Samsun Maturation Institute; In addition to education in our province; It is the only educational institution that preserves the Turkish handicrafts that are on the verge of disappearing, one of our cultural values, and pioneers the transfer of them to future generations by staying true to their originality, promoting their distinguished examples at home and abroad, and continuing artistic-oriented education and production activities together in this field. During the visit, unique examples of Turkish handicrafts were seen.
10 th May, Wednesday
Workshop 2 – Making book cover design with Canva
Canva is a graphic design platform that allows users to create social media graphics, presentations, posters and other visual content. It can be used on web and mobile and integrates millions of images, fonts, templates and illustrations.
After the Canva platform was introduced, students were asked to design the cover of a book they chose. After the designs were finished, all groups presented their designs.
book cover designs made in the link below
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1J-n4icO3wd9IBpKq0B2zgh-u49autdjR?usp=sharing
Workshop 3 – Create a literature blog with Google Blogger
Blogger or Blogspot is a website that allows you to open a blog site on the Internet.
After the blogger was introduced to the students and the steps for creating a blog were shown, the students were asked to create a literature blog. Three creation tasks are given on the blog. On the first page, they were asked to place the poem created in the first activity, and on the second page, the book cover design and book promotion worshiped in the second activity. On the third page, they were asked to create a story about five Erasmus students from Turkey, Portugal, Italy, Latvia and Bulgaria with the help of Chatgpt and place it on the page. After the blogs were created, they were presented by the students.
The blogs created are in the links below
https://somethingerasmus.blogspot.com/
https://matrioscalove.blogspot.com/?m=1
https://descemm.blogspot.com/?m=1
https://erasmustea.blogspot.com/
Marbling work activity
The art of marbling, one of the traditional Turkish arts, was introduced by the art teacher and a demonstration was made. After the screening, all teachers and students performed their own marbling work.
8th May, Monday
Opening ceremony, Introduction of the participants and presentation.
After the arrival of the guest countries to the school, the opening ceremony was held. After the national anthems of the participating countries were sung, school promotions were started. Students from all countries promoted their country, city and school.
Ice breaking activity An Ice breaking activity was carried out for the students to define each other and get to know each other.
