This second issue of the Worthy newsletter arrives at half way of the Worthy project. The activities are currently in development and we're approaching a spring plenty of pursuits, even if a Joint staff training event (JSTE), which was planned in Vicenza (IT) from 2 to 5 March - in order to create a pool of teachers and operators with reinforced abilities to become “trainers of trainers” in their respective territories - was cancelled due to the Coronavirus.

But the Worthy partnership has already found alternative solutions that you can read below, in order to go ahead exploring various options to “digitally augment” the experience of 13-19 year old students while approaching history, even the most unmotivated and underperforming ones.
The aim is to turn documents, maps, photos, objects and stories into a living history - an intense-lived experience for young students. In this way they can participate, transform and augment what they will find at home, asking their families to recover the stories of their relatives during the War, thus applying digital competencies, collaborating with peers, developing new skills and, ultimately, being more engaged in recreating history.

Other news are in this issue, such as the one concerning the Monitoring Centre on digital innovation in cultural heritage and activities of the Polytechnic in Milan, one of the most outstanding European universities, that has chosen Worthy as a case study.

Worthy Project is about to fly (in spite of the Coronavirus)! 

Next steps

Coronavirus can't stop the Worthy project: online lessons in substitution of the Joint staff training event 

As everyone knows, late in February the Covid-19 broke out in the north of Italy, where a Joint staff training event (JSTE) was scheduled from 2 to 5 March. So, due to force majeure, the partnership had to cancelled the event, even if it would have been very important to train in the Worthy methodology a group of 14 selected teachers and educators working in the partner organisations (Pforzheim - DE, Niepolomice - PL, Osijek – HR, Vicenza - IT). This would have allowed them to use the WORTHY Platform to create augmented contents, to teach and share resources and methodology with their collegues in their respective territories.
Despite this unpredictable occurrence, the partnership has already found alternative solutions in order to be able to finalize the project on time (August 2021). The partnership, in fact, is now working on online lessons to retrieve the JSTE.

So most of the toolkits provided for educators by partners in charge for (or that have worked on) their realization will be presented in video lessons to be uploaded on the Worthy Platform.
 

Hands-on seminars

After the Joint staff training phase, four hands-on seminars will be organized in Vicenza, Pforzheim, Niepolomice and Osijek, to recruit other educators (and learners), who want to test the Worthy approach.

The trainers will be the same teachers trained with the online lessons the partnership is working on instead of the Joint staff training event cancelled due to the Covid-19.