Conference Rooms

Auditorium

(Δ3)

OPENING CEREMONY

PLENARY SESSION 1

PLENARY SESSION 2

PLENARY SESSION 3

PLENARY SESSION 4

CLOSING CEREMONY

Amphitheater

(Δ7)

PARALLEL SESSIONS

1, 3, 5, 8, 10, 13, 16, 19, 21, 24, 28, 30

Lecturer Hall

(Γ2-20)

PARALLEL SESSIONS

2, 4, 6, 11, 14, 17, 23, 26, 31

Audiovisual Classroom

(OA)

PARALLEL SESSIONS

12, 15, 18, 22, 27, 29

Laboratory ICT

PARALLEL SESSIONS

7, 20

Atrium (near Δ7)

PARALLEL SESSIONS

9, 25 (Posters)

7^th International Conference on Hands-on Science

Bridging the Science and Society gap

July 25 - 31, 2010 – Greece

The University of Crete campus at Rethymno - Greece.

http://www.clab.edc.uoc.gr/hsci2010

PROGRAM

Sunday 25 July 2010

17⁰⁰ – 18³⁰            Registration

                             (open also every morning till 10:30)

18³⁰ – 20⁰⁰            Opening Ceremony

20⁰⁰                       Welcome Reception

Monday 26 July 2010

09⁰⁰ – 11⁰⁰

Parallel Session 1

Room: Amphitheater (Δ7)

09:00 – 09:30

Science Fairs as Learning Tools

Z. Esteves & M. Costa, Portugal

09:30 – 10:00

Olympic School Science Fair: Playful and Explanatory Hands-on Experimentation for Elementary School Students

M. Patrinopoulos, V. Karakosta, Greece

10:00 – 10:30

Learning by Doing – Doing by Passion

Clementina Timus, Romania

10:30 – 11:00

Prospective Physics Teachers Design and Develop a Normative Lesson utilizing Hands-on Applications of Digital Technologies-Preliminary Results

Vassilios Grigoriou, Ourania Gikopoulou, Konstantia Papageorgiou & George Kalkanis, Greece

Parallel Session 2

Room: Lecturer Hall (Γ2-20)

09:00 – 09:30

Activity Kits on Weather and Biodiversity: An Indian Hands-On Experience

Brinder Kumar Tyagi, India

09:30 – 10:00

Enriching understanding and promoting responsible behaviour to combat climate change: A case study involving the use of Kolb’s experiential learning model

Evangelos Manolas & Michael Littledyke, Greece/Australia

10:00 – 10:30

Cloud Wheel

Gamolnaree Laikram, Thailand

10:30 – 11:00

Teaching Air Mass Movements to Pre-service Elementary Teachers

Αchilleas Mandrikas & Constantine Skordoulis, Greece

Monday 26 July 2010

11⁰⁰ – 11³⁰            Coffee Break

Monday 26 July 2010

11³⁰ – 12³⁰

Plenary Session 1

Special Session

Room: Auditorium (Δ3)

Women and Science. Tribute to Prof. Raquel Reis

Clementina Timus, Sónia Seixas & M. Costa

Romania/Portugal

Monday 26 July 2010

12³⁰ – 14⁰⁰            Rest Break

Monday 26 July 2010

14⁰⁰ – 16⁰⁰

Parallel Session 3

Room: Amphitheater (Δ7)

14:00 – 14:30

A Unique Call for S.O.S.: Students Around the World are Getting Together for the Project ‘Saving Our Species’

Nilgün Erentay & Mehmet Erdogan, Turkey

14:30 – 15:00

Microscope studies in Primary Science: following the footsteps of R. Hooke in Micrographia

Nektarios Tsagliotis, Greece

15:00 – 15:30

Alteration in the activity of antioxidant enzymes in Nigella sativa seed during different phases of germination

Iffat Zareeen Ahmad, Aisha Kamal & Mohammad Hayat-ul-Islam, India

15:30 – 16:00

Hands-on amphibians: teachers comparing traditional with hands-on instruction

Iztok Tomažič, Slovenia

Parallel Session 4

Room: Lecturer Hall (Γ2-20)

14:00 – 14:30

Special Relativity: A field where “minds-on” (thought) experiments could be proved valuable didactic tools

Kyriaki Dimitriadi & Krystallia Halkia, Greece

14:30 – 15:00

The elementary teaching of Bosonic String Theory

Alieh Chamani, Iran

15:00 – 15:30

Thermal entanglement in a three particles system

Safa Jami, Zahra Amerian & Mohsen Sarbishehi, Iran

15:30 – 16:00

Education of Nanotechnology with Problem Based Learning (PBL)

B. Arabshahi & M. Jalali, Iran

Monday 26 July 2010

16⁰⁰ – 16³⁰            Coffee Break

Monday 26 July 2010

16³⁰ – 18³⁰

Parallel Session 5

Room: Amphitheater (Δ7)

16:30 – 17:00

Scientific Research Projects in Vocational Training Schools

Zita Esteves & Manuel F. M. Costa, Portugal

17:00 – 17:30

Modular mobile training: developing a program on science and technology experiments

Mustafa EROL, Semra DEMİR, Uğur BÖYÜK, Turkey

17:30 – 18:00

The VALLA Tool: an application for the design of Lifelong learning Courses

Margaret Eleftheriou & Sónia Seixas,, Ireland/Portugal

18:00 – 18:30

Enhancing creativity and activism in teaching – important task in the club “Inquisitive Mind”

Adriana-Doina Mateiciuc, Romania

Parallel Session 6

Room: Lecturer Hall (Γ2-20)

16:30 – 17:00

A Hands-on Experimentation and Educational Study for a 2000 years-old Puzzle, the Mpemba Effect

Dimitrios Gousopoulos, Sarantos Oikonomidis & George Kalkanis, Greece

17:00 – 17:30

“Distance dependence” or “Angle of sun rays Incidence dependence”? The Design of an Experimental Device for teaching about Seasonal Change

Ioannis Starakis & Krystallia Halkia, Greece

17:30 – 18:00

To get familiar simply with higher dimensional space and time as a 2d quantity in physics

Alieh Chamani, F.Ahmadi, L. Motevalizadeh, Iran

18:00 – 18:30

Investigation of the Effect of Inquiry-type vs. Expository Chemistry Labs on Learning and Attitude for Iranian High School Students of 10th.Grade

Azarbarzin Mitra & Arabshahi Bahereh, Iran

Monday 26 July 2010

16³⁰ – 18³⁰

Parallel Session 7 (Workshop)

Room: Laboratory ICT

16:30 – 18:30

Concept mapping activities using CmapTools

Organisors: Argiro E. Kallivretaki, Charilaos N. Papaevangelou, Elias I. Chrysocheris, Greece

Tuesday 27 July 2010

09⁰⁰ – 11⁰⁰

Parallel Session 8 (Workshop)

Room: Amphitheater (Δ7)

09:00 – 11:00

The Model of Educational Reconstruction.

A Framework for improving teaching and learning science

Organiser: Prof. Reinders Duit

IPN – Institute for Science and Mathematics Education, Kiel, Germany

Parallel Session 9 (Posters)

Atrium (near Δ7)

09:00 – 11:00

Communicating Science through puppertry

Pooja Virmani, India

MOSEM Project – Experiments on Magnetism, Electromagnetism and Superconductivity

Josef Trna & Petr Novak, Czech

Effectiveness of Interactive Software on the Conceptual Learning in the Subject of Geometric Optic

M. Toghyani, F, Ahmadi, M.H. Nikonezhad, A. Chamani, T. Safari, &  A. khosroshiri, Iran

Physics learning with personalized system of instruction (PSI) in heat and gases law

T. Safari Hemmat Abadi, F. Ahmadi, A. S. Shekarbaghany & M. Ahmadi, Iran

The effects of instruction using experimental hand-made on high school girl students' achievement about light-refraction

S. Seiedy, F. Ahmadi, S. Nasri, Z. Ahmadi, R. Mirkarimi, A. Morad khani, Iran

Techniques of delivering science through newspapers

Tarun K Jain, India

The Theoretical Approaches to Improve Performance in Genetics and Develop Related Attitudes in Taiwanese Secondary Schools

Yu-Chien Chu & Norman Reid, Taiwan

Tuesday 27 July 2010

11⁰⁰ – 11³⁰            Coffee Break

Tuesday 27 July 2010

11³⁰ – 12³⁰

Plenary Session 2

Invited Speaker

Room: Auditorium (Δ3)

A Hands-on "View" of microKosmos

Prof. George Kalkanis

University of Athens

Pedagogical Department P.E.

Science, Technology and Environment Laboratory

Greece

Tuesday 27 July 2010

12³⁰ – 14⁰⁰            Rest Break

Tuesday 27 July 2010

14⁰⁰ – 16⁰⁰

Parallel Session 10

Room: Amphitheater (Δ7)

14:00 – 14:30

Geoenviromental Knowledge as Frame Foundation of Environmental Conscience

Charikleia Rekoumi, Konstantinos Chatzipapas & Michail Kalogiannakis, Greece

14:30 – 15:00

Expanding the Horizons through Field Trips: Developing Global Action Plan For Saving Endangered. Species and Threatened Environments

Mehmet Erdogan, Nilgün Erentay, Betül Aydogan, Mehmet Salih Çelik, Ümit Çakır, Dilek Balaban, Senem Şahin, Martha Barss, Ancuta Nechita & Kumarasamy Sampath, Turkey / USA / Romania / India

15:00 – 15:30

Renewable Energy Sources - Current Situation in Romania

Elena Vladescu, Romania

15:30 – 16:00

Teaching and learning energy transformations in the context of environmental crisis

C.Stefanidou, K.Tampakis, D.Stavrou & C.Skordoulis, Greece

Parallel Session 11

Room: Lecturer Hall (Γ2-20)

14:00 – 14:30

Summer on Campus - Learning Robotics with fun

Fernando Ribeiro & Gil Lopes, Portugal

14:30 – 15:00

Teaching thermochemistry with two simple experiments  in constructivistic context

Christina Stefani, Greece

15:00 – 15:30

Bernoulli Law

George Craciunescu, Adriana-Doina Mateiciuc & Adrian Beteringhe, Romania

15:30 – 16:00

Hands-on Educational Experimentation with LEDs, Optical Fibers and Photodiodes in a Modern Technology Dependent Society

Nikolaos Voudoukis & George Kalkanis, Greece

Tuesday 27 July 2010

14⁰⁰ – 16⁰⁰

Parallel Session 12 (Workshop)

Room: Audiovisual Classroom (OA)

14:00 – 16:00

Educating students by means of cross media (Case study of the protection of cultural-historic monuments)

Organiser: Alexi Danchev, Turkey

Tuesday 27 July 2010

16⁰⁰ – 16³⁰            Coffee Break

Tuesday 27 July 2010

16³⁰ – 18³⁰

Parallel Session 13

Room: Amphitheater (Δ7)

16:30 – 17:00

Teaching Science With Toys: Toys and Physics

Carme Zaragoza Domènech & Josep M. Fernández-Nove, Spain

17:00 – 17:30

Optical elements applied in simply building of toy realised by students in Fun Club Science

Aniţaş Cornelia, Romania

17:30 – 18:00

Learning science While Playing

Abhay Kothari, India

18:00 – 18:30

Science education for pupils with special needs
in a non formal environment

D. Ferreira, C. Nilza, & P. Trincão, Portugal

Parallel Session 14

Room: Lecturer Hall (Γ2-20)

16:30 – 17:00

Teacher Training on the Implementation of Science Research Projects In Classroom Context

Zita Esteves & M. Costa, Portugal

17:00 – 17:30

In-service training programs concerning Physics Education in Elementary School. 

Kosmas Dendrinos, Patroklos Siametis, George Tuntulidis, Elias Gavrilis, John Giapitzakis, Nikos Papadimitropoulos  & Sophia Platanistioti,  Greece

17:30 – 18:00

Experiences from Long-Term Teaching Physics to In-Service Greek Teachers – Analysis and Proposals

Sofia Straga, Greece

18:00 – 18:30

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Wednesday 28 July 2010

Parallel Activity 1

Interactive Educational Activities in the Natural History Museum of Crete

C. Voreadou & D. Grammenos

(declare your free participation at registration time)

Parallel Activity 2

Exploring Local culture

Guided tours (on extra fees) or free touring

Thursday 29 July 2010

09⁰⁰ – 11⁰⁰

Parallel Session 15

Room: Audiovisual Classroom (OA)

09:00 – 09:30

Influence of learning science in outdoor settings on 5th grade. Students' understanding of natural science

Esin SAHIN-PEKMEZ, Hulya YILMAZ, Cemile KAHVECI, Turkey

09:30 – 10:00

Broadcasting Science: a new bridge between science and society

Josep M. Fernández-Novell & Carme Zaragoza Domènech, Spain

10:00 – 10:30

Hands-on Science in Prison!

Dimitra Lelingou, Greece

10:30 – 11:00

The conduct of laboratory courses in
Secondary Technical - Vocational Education in Greece: Current situation

Pantelis Galitis, Greece

Parallel Session 16

Room: Amphitheater (Δ7)

09:00 – 09:30

Evolving Facets of Cyberchondria: Primum non nocere "First, do no harm"

Iryna Berezovska, Karen Buchinger & Oleksandr Matsyuk, Ukraine/USA

09:30 – 10:00

Hands-on Experimentation in Educational Physics Laboratory utilizing a Common Mobile Phone – The Case of Decrescent Oscillation

Vassilios Grigoriou, Konstantia Papageorgiou & George Kalkanis, Greece

10:00 – 10:30

Early Primary Education Students’ First Engagement with Basic Physics Concepts and Phenomena through an Interactive Board and Sandbox Physics Software - Proposal and Application

Dimitrios Sotiropoulos, Konstantinos Mitzithras & George Kalkanis. Greece

10:30 – 11:00

Using a wireless accelerometer with Bluetooth technology to estimate the acceleration of gravity

D. Amrani, Canada

Thursday 29 July 2010

09⁰⁰ – 11⁰⁰

Parallel Session 17 (Workshop)

Room: Lecturer Hall (Γ2-20)

09:00 – 11:00

Inspiring Science Learning

Convenor: Prof. Ch. Kourkoumeli

                (University of Athens)

Participants:

Dr. Sofoklis Sotiriou: 

“Inspiring Science Learning”

(Ellinogermaniki Agogi)  

Dr. Angelos Lazoudis:

“Associating Sports Activities with Scientific Enquiry and Experimentation”

 (Ellinogermaniki Agogi)

Dr. Nikitas Kastis:

“Open Science Resources”

(Lambrakis Foundation)

Dipl.-Ing. Hagen Buchholz:

“Science Center To Go - A mixed reality learning environment of miniature exhibits”

(Fraunhofer Institute)

Prof. Erik Johansson:

 "Particle collisions for students and teachers"

(University of Stockholm)

Thursday 29 July 2010

11⁰⁰ – 11³⁰            Coffee Break

Thursday 29 July 2010

11³⁰ – 12³⁰

Plenary Session 3

Invited Speaker

Room: Auditorium (Δ3)

On the role of the experiment in science teaching and learning – Visions and the reality of instructional practice

Prof. Reinders Duit

IPN – Institute for Science and Mathematics Education, Kiel, Germany

Thursday 29 July 2010

12³⁰ – 14⁰⁰            Rest Break

Thursday 29 July 2010

14⁰⁰ – 16⁰⁰

Parallel Session 18

Room: Audiovisual Classroom (OA)

14:00 – 14:30

An Optical  Model to Help  Improving the Functioning of a Political Coalition

Radu Chisleag & Ioana-Roxana Chisleag Losada, Romania

14:30 – 15:00

Mathematics in the Knowledge Based Society

Lucian Constantin Vladescu, Romania

15:00 – 15:30

Economic estimation of the benefits from the protection of the long Anastasian Wall.

Alexi Danchev, Turkey

15:30 – 16:00

Science, Scientists and superstition: Perspectives in Indian context

Anshu Arora, India

Parallel Session 19

Room: Amphitheater (Δ7)

14:00 – 14:30

Biochemical Characterization of Nostoc Muscorum under Multiple Stress

Iffat Zareen & Khan Uzma Aftab, India

14:30 – 15:00

An experience of teaching biological classification and evolution in e-learning environment

Sónia Seixas, Portugal

15:00 – 15:30

The contribution to different types of laboratory work to the biological knowledge of students´

Andreja Špernjak & Andrej Šorgo, Slovenia

15:30 – 16:00

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Thursday 29 July 2010

14⁰⁰ – 16⁰⁰

Parallel Session 20 (Workshop)

Room: Laboratory ICT

14:00 – 16:00

Hands-On Workshop on the “Learning with ATLAS@ CERN” Portal

Convenor: Dr. Sofoklis Sotiriou

(Ellinogermaniki Agogi)

(Part I)

Participants:

Dr. Crispin Williams

(University of Bologna)

Dr. Angelos Lazoudis:

 (Ellinogermaniki Agogi)

Dr. Sofoklis Sotiriou

(Ellinogermaniki Agogi)

(Part II)

Participants:

Dr. Crispin Williams

“A hands-on demonstration of the construction of Multigap Resistive Plate Chambers for the muon telescopes of the EEE project”

(University of Bologna)

Thursday 29 July 2010

16⁰⁰ – 16³⁰            Coffee Break

Thursday 29 July 2010

16³⁰ – 18³⁰

Parallel Session 21

Room: Amphitheater (Δ7)

16:30 – 17:00

The Use of Thought and Hands-on Experiments in Teaching Physics

Athanasios Velentzas & Krystallia Halkia, Greece

17:00 – 17:30

Study of doing simple practical work by inquiry method on attitude of 1 grade high school students in chemistry course

Rasol Abdullah Mirzaie & Zinab Nikfarjam, Iran

17:30 – 18:00

A "Horizontal" Study of Impedance, found in Different Chapters of Physics Educational Curricula, utilizing Hands-on Experimentation and Educational Simulation

Sofia Gatsiou, Dimitrios Sotiropoulos & George Kalkanis, Greece

18:00 – 18:30

The Effectiveness of Teaching Mathematical Prerequisites on Student learning Light Refraction in Physics Conventional Classes          A. Morad khani, F. Ahmadi, A. Chamani, M. Nikonezhad, S. Seiedy & M. Toghyani, Iran

Parallel Session 22

Room: Audiovisual Classroom (OA)

16:30 – 17:00

Different classroom activities derived from topic minicomposting – a step toward pro-environmental behaviour of students

Tatjana Vidic & Vesna Ferk Savec, Slovenia

17:00 – 17:30

Educational Support to Prospective Physics Teachers in the Field of Green Energy:  First Assumptions

Vassilios Grigoriou, Eleni Vithopoulou & George Kalkanis, Greece

17:30 – 18:00

A prototype Physics Laboratory using only Renewable Energy Sources: The Case of a Low-Cost and Easy-to-Build Electricity Generator

Anargyros Drolapas, Kostantinos Mitzithras & George Kalkanis, Greece

18:00 – 18:30

A Proposal for an Experimental Approach of Vectors

Miltiadis Tsigris, & P. G. Michaelides, Greece

Thursday 29 July 2010

16³⁰ – 18³⁰

Parallel Session 23 (Workshop)

Room: Lecturer Hall (Γ2-20)

16:30 – 18:30

Empowering access to and use of environmental culture content related to natural history and nature/environment preservation

Convenor: Dr. Sofoklis Sotiriou

                      (Ellinogermaniki Agogi)

Participants:

Dr. S. Sotiriou

 “The Natural Europe Initiative”

(Ellinogermaniki Agogi)

Prof. F. Bogner

“Environmental Education and the 2-MEV Model: Interaction with Attitudes and Values in Green Out-of-School Settings.”

(University of Bayreuth)

Prof. C. Voreadou

“Connecting Formal and Informal Education in the Natural History Museum of Crete”

(Natural History Museum of Crete)

Dr. M. Papadakis

“Educational Activities in Cret@quarium”

(CRET@QUARIUM)

Dr. N. Manouselis

“Transforming the Visit to a Museum/and or Science  Centre into an engaging educational experience”

(GRNET)

Dr. P. Lameras

“Learning Theory and its Application in Schools

and Museums”

(Ellinogermaniki Agogi)

Friday 30 July 2010

09⁰⁰ – 11⁰⁰

Parallel Session 24 (Workshop)

Room: Amphitheater (Δ7)

09:00 – 11:00

The ATLAS Experiment for Schools

(Part I)

Convenor: Dr. Angelos Lazoudis

                      (Ellinogermaniki Agogi)

Participants:

Dr. Crispin Williams and Dr. Despina Hatzifotiadou:

 “The Extreme Energy Events Project”

(University of Bologna)

Dr. Despina Hatzifotiadou:

“An exercise based on visual identification of strange particles - an ALICE experiment proposal for the MasterClasses”
(University of Bologna)

Dr. Michail Koratzinos:

“The LHC adventure”

(CERN)

Dr. Kenneth Cecire:

“International Masterclasses in Physics”

(University of Notre Dame, USA)

Prof. Christina Kourkoumeli:

“Learning with ATLAS @CERN”

(University of Athens)

Friday 30 July 2010

09⁰⁰ – 11⁰⁰

Parallel Session 25 (Posters)

Atrium (near Δ7)

09:00 – 11:00

Communicating Science through puppertry

Pooja Virmani, India

MOSEM Project – Experiments on Magnetism, Electromagnetism and Superconductivity

Josef Trna & Petr Novak, Czech

Effectiveness of Interactive Software on the Conceptual Learning in the Subject of Geometric Optic

M. Toghyani, F, Ahmadi, M.H. Nikonezhad, A. Chamani, T. Safari, &  A. khosroshiri, Iran

Physics learning with personalized system of instruction (PSI) in heat and gases law

T. Safari Hemmat Abadi, F. Ahmadi, A. S. Shekarbaghany & M. Ahmadi, Iran

The effects of instruction using experimental hand-made on high school girl students' achievement about light-refraction

S. Seiedy, F. Ahmadi, S. Nasri, Z. Ahmadi, R. Mirkarimi, A. Morad khani, Iran

Techniques of delivering science through newspapers

Tarun K Jain, India

The Theoretical Approaches to Improve Performance in Genetics and Develop Related Attitudes in Taiwanese Secondary Schools

Yu-Chien Chu & Norman Reid, Taiwan

Friday 30 July 2010

11⁰⁰ – 11³⁰            Coffee Break

Friday 30 July 2010

11³⁰ – 12³⁰

Plenary Session 4

Invited Speaker

Room: Auditorium (Δ3)

Bridging the gap between formal education and informal learning: towards evidence based science education

Hannu Salmi

Research Director

University of Helsinki, Finland

Heureka, The Finnish Science Centre

Friday 30 July 2010

12³⁰ – 14⁰⁰            Rest Break

Friday 30 July 2010

14⁰⁰ – 16⁰⁰

Parallel Session 26

Room: Lecturer Hall (Γ2-20)

14:00 – 14:30

Bridging the gap through Hands-on Science & Technology

Abhay Kothari, India

14:30 – 15:00

Improvement of Science and Technology Literacy by means of ICT-Based Collaborative Action Research Including Hands-on Experiments

Josef Trna, Eva Trnova & Petr Novak, Czech

15:00 – 15:30

Hands-on Activities using Video Analysis of Motion with Low Cost Equipment - An Inquiring, Innovating and Utilitarian Proposal for the Hellenic Physics Curriculum

Anargyros Drolapas, Dimitrios Zarkadis, Sarantos Oikonomidis & George Kalkanis, Greece

15:30 – 16:00

An Effective Strategy on Knowledge packaging and Delivery dynamics towards S&T literacy to transform common mass into science oriented society (SOS)

Navneit Singhal, Italy

Parallel Session 27

Room: Audiovisual Classroom (OA)

14:00 – 14:30

e-lab: an valuable tool for teaching

Sérgio Carreira Leal, João Paulo Leal & Horácio Fernandes, Portugal

14:30 – 15:00

eXe a powerful cognitive tool

Argiro E. Kallivretaki, Charilaos N. Papaevangelou & Elias I. Chrysocheris, Greece

15:00 – 15:30

Learning Computer Programming: Start from Scratch!

Afroditi Michailidi, Greece

15:30 – 16:00

F files. A different book of physics

Adriana-Doina Mateiciuc, Adrian Beteringhe, Romania

Friday 30 July 2010

14⁰⁰ – 16⁰⁰

Parallel Session 28 (Workshop)

Room: Amphitheater (Δ7)

14:00 – 16:00

The ATLAS Experiment for Schools

(Part II)

Convenor: Dr. Angelos Lazoudis

                     (Ellinogermaniki Agogi)

Participants:

Prof. Erik Johansson:

“The ATLAS Outreach Programme”

(University of Stockholm)

Prof. Peter Watkins:

“Educational Scenarios for University Students based on the ATLAS experiment”

(University of Birmingham)

Prof. Franz Bogner:

"The users' impact of the ‘Learning with ATLAS@CERN’ portal"

(University of Bayreuth)

Dr. Christian Reimers:

“Mobile Applications for the ATLAS Outreach Programme”

(Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, Arts and Culture)

Dr. Michael Barnett:

 “Educational Programs in the US with ATLAS Data”

(Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

Friday 30 July 2010

16⁰⁰ – 16³⁰            Coffee Break

Friday 30 July 2010

16³⁰ – 18³⁰

Parallel Session 29

Room: Audiovisual Classroom (OA)

16:30 – 17:00

ICT integration in Education: a right to democracy by way of Emancipator Education

Maria Fragaki, Greece

17:00 – 17:30

The action of electronic twinning (etwinning) in the early childhood as starting line of innovative practices for the didactic of natural sciences

Stamatios Papadakis & Michail Kalogiannakis, Greece

17:30 – 18:00

Use of Computer-Based Data Acquisition to Teach Physics  Laboratories: Case Study- Simple Harmonic Motion

P. Paradis, Canada

18:00 – 18:30

Science Education and E- Learning and Teaching for Secondary Education

Sarantos Psycharis & Georgios Chalatzoglidis, Greece

Parallel Session 30

Room: Amphitheater (Δ7)

16:30 – 17:00

A Robotic Chemical Analyser

Miltiadis Tsigris, Simos Anagnostakis & P. G. Michaelides, Greece

17:00 – 17:30

Demonstration of the Hands-on Experiments. Introductionary lecture of the video-textbook on Economics of Culture

Alexi Danchev, Turkey

17:30 – 18:00

Educational evaluation of Matlab simulation environment in teaching technological courses: The example of Digital Control Systems

D. Papachristos, N. Alafodimos, E. Zafeiri, I. Sigalas & K. Alafodimos Greece

18:00 – 18:30

A Method and Research for Hands-on Measurement of the Propagation Speed of Microwaves through Dielectric Material in Educational Physics Laboratory

Vasileia Nikitaki, Sarantos Oikonomidis & George Kalkanis, Greece

Friday 30 July 2010

16³⁰ – 18³⁰

Parallel Session 31 (Workshop)

Room: Lecturer Hall (Γ2-20)

16:30 – 18:30

Workshop on Organic.Edunet: Challenges in Linking Environmental Education to Sustainable Development and Environmental Protection

Convenor: Dr. P. Lameras & N. Palavitsinis

                  (Ellinogermaniki Agogi / GRNET)

Participants:

Dr. N. Manouselis and Mr. N. Palavitsinis: 

“Retrieving learning resources with the use of simple and advanced searching functionalities”

(GRNET)

Mr. N. Tsagliotis:

“An Organic Garden Coming into Being”

 (Primary Science Laboratory, 9^th Primary School of Rethimno)

Dr. S. Sotiriou:

“Enhancing Social Networking and Teachers’ Professional Development in Remote Rural Schools”

(Ellinogermaniki Agogi)

Dr. P. Lameras:

“Designing and delivering learning scenarios with the use of ICTs to support teaching and learning related to environmental education”

(Ellinogermaniki Agogi)

Saturday 31 July 2010

10⁰⁰ – 12⁰⁰        Conference Conclusion