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:

Jugoslava Lulić｜@Jugoslaval

Jugoslava is a teacher of Serbian language and literature, currently employed in a vocational school. She is a certified instructional designer, author and moderator of several accredited professional online training programmes for teachers. For her, helping other teachers teach, especially in the field of ICT, is a life-long mission. She loves to explore, experiment, travel and write. 

She has been a blogger for a long time - 'Learning through adventure' is a blog created from pure curiosity and the desire to use new media for sharing her own, fresh and unusual experiences. It is dedicated to all those courageous people who perceive learning as adventure and who are willing to challenge themselves, especially in the field of using ICT for teaching and learning. 

Just2easy

Just2easy brings together world class tools to engage, motivate and inspire pupils to meet and exceed many elements of the UK National Curriculum. Their tools are used by thousands of schools across the UK and they have contracts with London Grid for Learning, Birmingham Grid for Learning and the Welsh Government. Just2easy has a reputation of delivering curriculum focused tools on any device, anywhere.

Karl Royle | @karlroyle

Assessing soft skills: a 21st century solution

26 FEBRUARY AT 16.00 | HALL 'INSERT'

This lecture will focus on how to develop the self organising learner. How visualising the learning process with digital tools can increase learner autonomy, agency and higher level transversal skills development in preparation for a working life based on change and renewal.

Karl Royle is Principal Lecturer for Curriculum Innovation and Knowledge Transfer at the Centre for Development and Research in Education (CDaRE), University of Wolverhampton where he works as a research project director. Karl has considerable experience of project management and materials development for both screen and print-based media and has a background in teacher education, professional development and education management. 

Katarina Aleksić | Verica Arula | Milena Zindović

Belgrade builders - project without a deadline

26 FEBRUARY AT 14.30 | HALL 'ENTER'

The value and importance of the teaching project not only confirmed by the quality of products of the students' work, the positive evaluation and rewards. The teaching project is really good if it has the educational strength to keep 'living' after the formal end of the activity, if it is powerful enough to include new students, to be a trigger for new research. Belgrade builders is one of those teaching projects.

Katarina is an informatics teacher and she will present this topic and the Belgrade builders project together with colleagues Verica , a Serbian language teacher and Milena, an architect.

Katarina Veljković

Robot assistant in class

10. FEBRUARY AT 16.30 | HALL 'SPACE'

The use of robots in classes develops a wide range of life skills for the 21st Century in pupils, like team work and cooperation, but also problem-solving, decision-making and logical thinking. Students create different applications to manipulate robots and in that way demonstrate STEM concept, or more accurately, while playing pupils apply the acquired knowledge in physics, engineering and maths. Katarina is one of the first teachers in Serbia to introduce robotics in the teaching process. For her work “Programming robots in Microsoft Robotics Studio” she won first prize in the European competition “Microsoft European Innovative Teacher Forum“. As a programming and maths teacher, she uses innovative learning methods with application of ICT (robot, mobile phone, etc.), motivates students and stimulates their creativity to solve diverse everyday life problems.

Kinoteka RTS black

Kinoteka, RTS

Klara Somogyi

A path to accessible learning – practical solutions

10 FEBRUARY AT 10.15 | HALL 'ALT'

This presentation presented a few examples that answer the question how can we make the learning experience more accessible for all. The Guidelines for Accessible Information weree introduced which offer solutions for text, image, audio and video based information and is a completely open source tool available in 26 languages. With a background in education as well as media and communication, Klara Somogyi is a Digital Media Manager in the Agency. She participated in the ICT for Information Accessibility in Learning project and has contributed to disseminating the guidelines for providing accessible information in learning. Ms Somogyi has been safeguarding digital accessibility within the organisation by developing a House Style, templates and work protocols, and providing in-house staff training sessions and consultancy on information accessibility.

Klett

Klett is one of the largest publishing groups in the world, with an enviable reputation in many countries. At the fair they will present the first interactive educational portal in Serbia masairasa.rs, digital textbooks, workbooks and computer interface kits for technical and IT education.