An Example of an Informal Internet Cooperation on the Elementary Level Teachers' Forum

Sandra Vuk, Krešo Stojić
sandra.vuk@skole.hr, kresostojic@net.hr  
Osnovna šola Augusta Šenoe, Osnovna šola Žitnjak, Zagreb, Hrvaška

Povzetek

Članek predstavlja razvoj, vsebino in rezultate sodelovanja neformalne spletne skupnosti hrvaških osnovnošolskih učiteljev. Skupnost je začela rasti pred petimi leti na spletnem forumu za področje osnovnih šol. Prvotna ideja je bila ustvariti neposredno sodelovanje učiteljev pri vseh poklicnih vprašanjih. To je postalo tudi osrednji motiv za obstoj foruma. V največji meri teme pokrivajo vsebinska vprašanja glede razrednih aktivnosti, tako da je forum razdeljen na pod-forume glede na ocene in šolske predmete. Trenutno je na forumu registriranih 960 uporabnikov.
Zbirka izobraževalnega gradiva za osnovne šole, ki nastaja že tri leta, je viden in trajni rezultat tega sodelovanja. Do zdaj je bilo objavljenih že okoli 500 različnih gradiv, ki so bili razvrščeni glede na hrvaški izobraževalni načrt in program (2006). Gradivo je preverjeno, velika večina je bila javno in neformalno pregledana v diskusijah na forumu. Zbirka je prosto dostopna vsem uporabnikom: učiteljem, učencem in staršem.
Od leta 2008 se je k forumu pridružilo že veliko število učiteljev iz Bosne in Hercegovine, sodelovanje s slovenskimi učitelji pa se je začelo v začetku leta 2011.

Ključne besede: neformalno sodelovanje, zbirka gradiv, forum, učna ura na osnovnošolski ravni

Abstract

The article presents the development, content and results of the cooperation of the informal Internet community of Croatian elementary level teachers. The community started growing five years ago on the Internet Forum of Elementary Level. The beginning idea was to create direct teacher cooperation on all vocational issues. This has become the central motivation of the existence of the Forum. Mostly, the contents come from the direct classroom activities, so the whole Forum is divided into sub-forums according to grades and school subjects. At the moment, there are 960 users registered on the Forum.
As a lasting and visible result of this cooperation, a Collection of Educational Material for Elementary Level has been building for three years now. So far, about 500 educational materials have been published classified according to the Croatian Educational Plan and Program (2006). The materials have been checked, and many of them have also been publicly and informally reviewed through Forum discussions. The Collection is freely open to all users: teachers, pupils and parents.
Since 2008, an important number of teachers from Bosnia and Herzegovina joined the Forum, and the cooperation with the teachers from Slovenia has started in the beginning of 2011.   

Key words: informal cooperation, collection of material, forum, elementary level lesson