1	Dafnord – Community for DaF teachers (German as a Foreign Language) 18th ESP conference, Prague, March 25-28, 2004 © Ilpo Halonen, Verkkokoulu.fi
2	Road map Dafnord – who, what, how? Website http://dafnord.eduprojects.net Activities: - Partner projects - Teacher training International cooperation
3	Background Initiative of the Stockholm Goethe Institute and other Nordic Baltic GIs 1999-2002 realization in Finnland 2002: Dafnord network of the Finnish DaF teachers 40 schools (now: 60), one distant learning network, one university official opening of the Website Dafnord October 10-12, 2002 at the 3rd Baltic DaF Teachers’ Day in Tallinn
4	Dafnord a community of non-German teachers of German promotes computer-mediated DaF teaching, intercultural learning and new media didactics concentrates on collaborative partner projects and on interactive services on the Internet would like to cooperate with colleagues all over the world
5	Partners and supporters National Center for Professional Development in Education OPEKO School administration Association of Finnish DaF Teachers COMP@CT, Comenius 3 –network/Eduprojects.net Goethe Institute Helsinki German Institute of Åbo Akademi
6	Activities Dafnord portal transnational partner projects teacher training international cooperation promotion of innovations research initiatives
7	Internet tools and resources
8	Portal : Website Dafnord 1/2 portal for everyday professional work of teachers of German a coordinating point for virtual activities of DaF teachers interactive services: E-Journal, mailingliste, calendar, discussion forums, chat shortcut for DaF teachers to adequate Internet resources
9	Portal: Website Dafnord 2/2 http://dafnord.eduprojects.net is present for everyone in the Internet Dafnord Website serves customers free 930 daily visits 3/2004 on the website Dafnord 1000 daily hits in the forums of Eduprojects.net
10	Project method Projects are primary activities: - independent work (learn by doing) - empowering - information sharing - community buildung - better learning, more productive work Use of digital resources - subordinate to the project making - skills of information search - command of knowledge
11	Partner projects independent computer-mediated teaching project world „Das Bild der Anderen“ (http://www.bild-online.dk) (2003-04: > 140 projects) Project idea = core of project activity > Das „Kochbuch“
12	Internet-Tool: eJournal 1/2 a easy-to-use tool on the Internet always achievable a browser ( IE, Netscape, Mozilla etc.) is the only program needed text-editing, mouseclicking and surfing are the only skills needed introduction in the training course ”Learn Internet Projects by Doing LIP” in 2002-03 (http://lip.eduprojects.net)
13	Internet-Tool: eJournal 2/2 Dafnord made national eJournals available in http://dafnord.eduprojects.net 36 German eJournals in March 2004 for Denmark, Japan, France, Turkey, the USA, Italy, Mexiko, Israel, Estonia, Serbia-Montenegro, Hungary, Poland, Russia, the Netherlands. in addition there is the eJournal DaF 13 for „Bild“-coordinators and contact persons in 33 countries
14	Teacher training 1/2 Learn Internet Projects by Doing LIP, teacher-in-service training courses 1 – 3, 2002-2004 Dafnord Workshops: - 1. International Dafnord-Workshop, ITK conference Hämeenlinna, 9.4. 2003 - 2. International Dafnord-Workshop 21.4. 2004 KLIK teacher-in-service training courses, OPEKO, 2003 presentations and introductions
15	Teacher training 2/2 in preparation (domestic): - Ope.fi 3 courses for DaF teachers - student teacher training - thematic LIP courses (LIP 4 Enterprise) in preparation (foreign): - Comenius 2 course in Santiago de Compostela, Spain, 14-19.9. 2004 - Comenius 2 course in Cracow, Poland, 4-10.7. 2005
16	International contacts 1/3 3. Baltic DaF Teachers’ Day in Tallinn 10-12.10. 2002 17. conference of European School Projects ESP, Rome 6-9.3. 2003 Final Seminar of Nordic-Baltic –Project, Tallinn 24-26.4. 2003
17	International Contacts 2/3 close cooperation with the learning world ”Das Bild der Anderen” , meeting in Denmark 12-13.9. 03 final seminar of GEH-MIT, Athens 26-27.9.2003 DaF teacher-in-service training initiative ”Netcoach”, Cracow Poland 24-26.10. 2003
18	International Contacts 3/3 Work meeting of the new Comenius 3 network DaF Südost, Athens 1-2.11. 2003 (Whole day school, international Workshop , Bonn 1-2. 12 2003)
19	Future Events 18th conference of the European Schools Project ESP, Prague 24-28.3. 2004 2nd International Dafnord-Workshop 21.4. 2004 19th conference of the European Schools Project ESP, Järvenpää/Helsinki 10-13.3. 2005