Get to know our partners and co-organizers on journey of introducing ICT solutions to education in Western Balkans region. In parallel with our two-day conference, we also organised a fair where over 30 ICT companies and educational institutions presented the latest technological solutions in education that they developed or introduced to the market. The participants were able to visit their stands, try out interactive classroom solutions, find out how to use the internet for high quality teaching and see a micro:bit devices for coding. 

Fair exhibitors:

Ivan Stojanović | Jovica Milisavljević

New Technologies and particle physics

26 FEBRUARY AT 11.45 | HALL 'ENTER'

By using the CERN website pupils can learn about the different aspects of particles. 'Minerva' is a CERN app in which pupils, like real scientists try to find the Higgs boson and its properties. This project also includes video conferencing with other schools, comparing results and discussing different values. 

Ivana Bankovic

Ivana Banković

BIOGRAPHY

Ivana Banković has eight years of practical teaching experience, as an English language teacher. She was a trainer for several programs of professional development, presented at several international conferences and published authorial works on the topic of education. She is currently working as a young project advisor at the Tempus Foundation and is in charge of the implementation of eTwinning and Erasmus + projects for schools in Serbia.

PRESENTATION

Improving teaching through eTwinning projects

eTwinning is a platform that allows schools and pre-school institutions across Europe to collaborate. Project teaching organized through eTwinning projects has the effect of raising the level of digital competencies of teachers and educators, improving the quality of teaching in schools and preschool institutions through the use of ICT tools in working with students and improving interpersonal competences among students.

Ivana Banković | Sanja Tasić | Marko Banković

EcoReporters application for learning English

27 FEBRUARY AT 12.15 | HALL 'ALT'

EcoReporters is a mobile app for learning English language developed by a team of Serbian teachers that won the international Learnathon 2015 contest in Budapest. This app enables students to create their own video stories about ecology and the preservation of the environment while developing their English language skills.

Ivana Ćirković | @i_cirkovic

Ivana Ćirković is the owner of the 'OrganVlasti' portal, social media, digital PR and marketing consultant, owner of KickStart.rs agency, active member of the Serbian online community and a mother of three. She educates others by sharing her professional experience both here and abroad.

OrganVlasti.com

Ivana Gađanski | Nikola Božić | Miroslava Raspopović

Fab lab Petnica: digital fabrication in STEM curricula

26 FEBRUARY AT 15.15 | HALL 'ENTER'

Project of Fab Lab Petnica formation funded by Royal Norwegian Embassy is a joint project by Fab Initiative, Petnica Science Center and Belgrade Metropolitan University that deals with the formation of a educational fab lab to provide high school students/teachers in STEM field in Serbia with knowledge and tools to start implementing FabLab @ School concept and STEM entrepreneurship principles in practice.

Ivana Katavić | Hrvoje Mladinić

Method I3 – interactivity on the third

27 FEBRUARY AT 11.30 | HALL 'ALT'

The last three decades have seen a number of research projects that tried to better understand difficulties that students of physics faced and develop teaching methods that would contribute to more meaningful lectures. As a result more and more teachers are using interactive methods in order to increase the engagement of students during classes. One of these projects tested strategies that include the use of computers and digital materials in five schools in Croatia.

Ivana has been studying student preconceptions at the primary school level, but also at the position of the higher advisor for physics and technical culture at Croatian Education and Teacher Training Agency. Hrvoje is a physics and IT teacher in a primary school. Aside from teaching he also creates digital materials and computer simulations in this area.

Ivana Kovacevic

Ivana Kovačević

BIOGRAPHY

She graduated from the Faculty of Philology at the University of Belgrade, works in the school for students in hospital and home care, she is the leader of national trainings and workshops at ICT seminars, winners of awards, participants in projects for equal participation of students in the educational process, educational site administrator and platform.

PRESENTATION

Virtual excursions and literary section 

With the arrival of new technologies possibility of having virtual excursions, in addition to real excursions, presented itself. Places that would be hard or impossible to visit are now accessible. For students in hospital and home care, this type of excursion is the only way to "travel" and socialize with peers. These excursions can be followed by reports, essays, etc. at the meetings of the literary section.

Ivica Županjac

Ivica is a teacher in 'Milun Ivanović' Primary School in Ibar. He is the author of the blog ’Cyber Teacher’ and ’Cyber Web Tools’. He is author and creator of accredited seminars through which he is trying to show how much can be gained by using ICT in the classroom. He intensively explores the use of ICT in school whish makes him think that this exquisite tool can greatly increase the quality of lecturing. He likes to experiment, draw comics and creates e-newspapers.

His moto: ’Where there's a will, there's a way’.

http://sajberucitelj.com/

http://sajber.weebly.com/

Logos

Izdavačka kuća „Novi Logos”

After nine years of existence publishing house "Novi Logos" offers more than 300 titles. The quality materials used by renowned authors enable the successful implementation of the teaching process. Our goal is quality education and preparing students for the future.

Bearing in mind that digitization is a process that permeates all spheres of our society, the Publishing House "Novi Logos" has prepared digital textbooks, which fully follow the contents prescribed by the Program of Teaching and Learning. Carefully prepared multimedia content, in the form of animations, educational films, photo gallery and interactive tasks, students and teachers will open up new opportunities in the learning process.

Jana Živanović

Potent Power Point and other hi-tech blisses

11. FEBRUARY AT 14.45 | HALL 'INSERT'

This presentation aims to show how programmes such as Power Point and Windows Media Player or websites like YouTube can be used in classroom to bring the real life events closer to students. Jana will discuss how technology helps development of different skills and promotes critical thinking. Finally, this will be followed by exercise samples to demonstrate their application in the classroom environment. Jana is a student of the first year of PhD studies in the linguistic area and English professor. Currently she teaches integrated skills at the Military Academy in scope of preparations for Stanag test, and in her free time translates medical documentation under the Translator's Heart project. Her areas of interest are applied linguistics, translation and teaching methods.