The European Chain Reaction 2014 is a science/art project for primary schools wishing to create, film and upload a "Rube-Goldberg/Robert Storm Petersen-like" chain reaction. This project is a competition and a European collaboration! The school which uploads the most astonishing, creative chain reaction not only wins a trophy, but also wins tons of faim! In the end all videos will be emerged into ONE BIG CROSS BORDER EUROPEAN CHAIN REACTION (look at the European Chain Reaction 2013)!
This
eTwinningproject allows as many as possible European schools - all from
different countries - to enter the competition! By entering the competition you
agree to the following rules:
TIMELINE
- When you
enter the competition, your school e-mails an image of the school and a short
text in which the school presents herself!
- Your kids
present themselves in a short video. The best way to do this is by
presenting themselves in a human chain reaction. This video should be
uploaded by Friday December 20th 2013.
- You and
your class will have until Friday 24th January 2014 to
create, practice, film and upload a video of your chain reaction to a videosite
(like Vimeo, Youtube, ...) and embed it in this blog.
- When all
videos are uploaded to the blog every school will watch the entries of the
other participants and will decide on wich countries receive wich amount of points.
All points
should be e-mailed to Dave Schrauwen by Thursday January 30th 2014.
- On Friday January 31st the class of Dave will record a newsflash announcing who will be the winner of the project. The link to this video will be kept secret until Monday February 3rd 11:00
(Brussels time).
- On Monday February 3rd 11:00 Brussels time the video will be embedded into the website, so everyone can find out how well they scored in this competition and how fabulous the ECR 2014 really is! The winning school will be sent a specially commissioned trophy, but above all wins the everlasting respect of all the other participants!
- On Monday February 3rd 11:00 Brussels time the video will be embedded into the website, so everyone can find out how well they scored in this competition and how fabulous the ECR 2014 really is! The winning school will be sent a specially commissioned trophy, but above all wins the everlasting respect of all the other participants!
RULES
1. Only one
school from each country will be allowed to enter. We would like to have as
many as possible European countries involved!
2. The
European Chain Reaction 2014-project is for primary schools only!
3. Once you
have agreed to enter and submitted your request to the project coordinator,
Dave Schrauwen you will receive an invitation to become a partner in the
project, followed later by a separate invitation to contribute to the project's
blog. You need to sign up for the blog, whereby you will be able to upload your
finished chain reaction in due course. In addition, please send Dave a brief
description of your school, along with a photograph, that Dave will add to the
blog, so that each country can see who is all taking part.
4. All
schools will upload a short video in which they present themselves so all
contestants can get to know their opponents/partners! The best way to do
this is by creating a human chain reaction video!
5. The
actual technological chain reaction should be created and practiced by the
students and their teachers (giving them advice) only! The chain reaction
has to be a technological chain reaction. Children may appear in the video
shortly, but the technological aspect is the most important! Look at the
winning 2011 video for a very good exemple!
6. The
length of the chain reaction video should be between 60 and 120 seconds.
The video may be shot by the teacher or the children
7. Every
partner is responsible for his own entry! When inserting music into the
video, please use music that is copyright free. You could use a creative
commons sound or song. You can find free sounds and music here: http://dig.ccmixter.org/
8. All
entries should be completed by Friday 24th January 2014.
When your chain reaction is ready, you upload the video of this chain reaction
to the blog, via www.blogger.com using either the “upload
video” section of the site, or by uploading your video to Vimeo, YouTube, ...
then copying and pasting the embed code into your blog post. All files MUST be
uploaded by Friday 24th Januray, as each country will then
need to watch all the entries and judge them during the following week- Monday
27th - Thursday 30th January.
9. Please
encourage your children to post a comment on the videos sent in by other
countries. By doing so, your children will learn some ICT -skills and learn to express themselves in a foreign language.
10. Once
you and your pupils have watched each entry and chosen your favourites, email
your choices to Dave Schrauwen, BEFORE Friday 31st
January, so the pupils of Dave can create and record the newsflash on who is
the winner of the project on Friday January 31st. YOU MUST NOT
VOTE FOR YOUR OWN ENTRY!
11. The newsflash in which the winner of the
competition will be announced and the European Chain Reaction will be showed
will be added to the blog on Monday February 3rd at 11:00 Brussels time, in order
for everyone to find out at the same time who has won the competition!
GOOD LUCK
to all countries! Enjoy making your entry, and watching all the other entries!
Michael
Purves & Dave Schrauwen
Project
founders
