The schools were asked to introduce themselves, outline their ICT practices and their experience with the peer to peer visit. In addition to a presentation of how ICT works and is organised in their own school with examples of good practice, schools also highlighted inspiring practices seen in other schools.

The very ambitious C2K initiative which provides an integrated network with administrative and educational software to all schools in Northern Ireland was mentioned by several schools as an impressive example.

Another good practice outlined by Dundonald Primary School in Northern Ireland comes from their Finnish partner school Mantymaen Koulu which provides a comfortable learning environment where a variety of different learning styles are applied and a true partnership between pupils and teachers had been established.

Jakomäen Yläaste, an Upper level Comprehensive School from Helsinki, gives an inspiring description of the development of their school’s vision using ICT. The strategy is now systematically implemented at three levels: the school level, the individual level and at team level.

St. Cecilia’s College in Northern Ireland constitutes another good example of a school with a clear vision of using ICT for management, teaching and learning.

Also worth mentioning are the innovative ICT practices followed at Sintermeerten College in the Netherlands: the school has constructed several web-based learning areas the latest of which is industrial heritage.

In its partner school, Tikkakosken Koulu, in Finland, students are using ICT to make an online newspaper: they use Internet for collecting information and afterwards they publish their articles at the school website.

The French team from the Lycée le Grand Chenois (‘Académie’ of Besançon) was impressed by the experienced use of ICT by the Finnish teachers of the lower secondary school Kilterin Koulu in Vantaa.

If you want to know more about the virtual and pluridisciplinary WKTO project visit the presentation from Lycée l’Oiselet in France. The project enables teachers from different subjects to work with students from 30 schools in 15 countries.

The Collège-Lycée Molière in Paris has a long reputation in foreign language teaching and shows examples of ICT use for teaching different languages. The school also offers possibilities for non French speakers to acquire a better language level actively using ICT in a preparatory class.

The presentations also give inspiring insights into the way ICT support is organised in schools and various examples of school–home links.

The schools showcased here are good practice examples of school collaboration and illustrate schools’ reflection on the peer review. Schools also plan to keep in touch and collaborate on other projects, for instance in the framework of eTwinning.

14 schools in Europe have participated in the P2P project, which run from January 2004-April 2006.

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