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Play to Learn, Learn to Play Life Youth Foundation and Asociation for Consultation and Training - ACT is inviting you to participate at two creative events a training course and a seminar, that shows how to select, design, and facilitate games that boost the fun factor while maximizing learning. The training is structured into two phases: 1) The on-line phase that will lead participants into the Game Univers (1 April - 25 of April) 2) And the on-site phase, a game development seminar that will take place in Romania, Oradea form 24-29 of May 2005 Apply on-line now at http://thefishbowl.org.ro/ Deadline for accepting the application form is 25 of March 2005 Purpose of the training course * Shows you how to "sell" the benefits of games to your learners. * Gives you effective assessment tools for evaluating existing games. * Provides you with detailed worksheets for designing or modifying games. * Adds fun and excitement to your courses. * Helps you to deal with different types of participants * Gives you tips and techniques for facilitating a successful game. * Gives you a comprehensive course manual full of decision tables, step-by-step directions, tips, checklists, job aids, and time-saving shortcuts. Training course Objectives * Choose the best game for your content. * Select an existing game to save time. * Adapt an existing game to meet your training needs. * Design a post-game debrief to reinforce learning. * Prepare yourself to conduct a game. * Facilitate a game so that maximum learning takes place. * Handle disruptive players. * Evaluate the effectiveness of the game. Methodology and program elements The e-learning course is different that other training courses that you may have suffered through. You have total control of how you learn. * If you are a riguros structured type of participant, you may begin at the library and proceed to the playground and the café. * If you are a wild and impulsive participant, you may hop, skip, and jump your way among the modules and sections. * If you feel lucky you may skip all of the styding, go directly to the Assessment Center, and complete the assignment. We put the emphasis more of helping you to achive all the knowledge that you need in order to get the results that are usefull for you and for the job you are doing. We designed this course to be engaging. We are not interested in spoon-feeding you. We want you to take responsibility for your own learning. For the hole process you will have assigned a trainer that you may contact for any enquire. The second part (25-29 of May 2005) is design as an open floor for the participants to design and to run workshops using what they have learn so far in a safe enviroment and to get feedback on their approach. Working language English will be the working language of the traing course (on-line and on-site phase). Any kind of interpretation will not be provided. Candidates must have sufficient understanding of the working languages in order to fully participate in the training course without assistance from another person. Profile of the participants * Voluntary or employed staff of non-governmental youth organisations, and other organisations who are conducting educational activities for young people * Be committed to attend for the full duration of the course (including on-line training course) * Be aged between 18 and 30 years old * Competently able to work in English language * Resident of one of the Council of Europe Countries. A full list of the eligible countries you can find at the following adress * Only 100 participants will be selected for the on-line training course and from these 30 participants will be selected for the second phase based on assesments. Financial conditions * board and lodging (for the second phase) are provided and paid by Life Foundation * we will reimburse 100% of the travel costs (on-site phase) for participants from the following countries: Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Slovenia, Slovakia and Ukraine. * For the rest of Council of Europe Countries we will reimburse only 70% * there is 50 euro participation fee Contact For any futher questions you may contact us directly by chating with us at www.thefishbowl.org.ro every day from 10-18 CET or at the following adress [EMAIL PROTECTED] Have a nice day :-) . Janina-Diana Pasaniuc http://trainers.salto-youth.net/PasaniucJanina ))))) (o o) =================oOO=(_)o00=========================== | European Youth Exchanges e-group is moderated by | | Life Youth Foundation | | | | vist our site http://life.org.ro | | | | | | | | The mission of the Life Youth Foundation is to | | empower the civil society by strengthening the role| | of all his actors, focusing on young people and | | youth workers. | | | ====================================================== EuroAtlantic Club: http://www.europe.org.ro/euroatlantic_club/ *** Birou de traduceri autorizate. Oana Gheorghiu - tel/fax: 252.8681 / [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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