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education resources are being produced either by teachers or by developers with the support and evaluation of
teachers. Teachers training is considered as a development task.
3. Structure of the project
Schools and universities works in a autonomous way, through local and regional groups. A nation wide Task
Force group activates the project and represents the interests of the whole group. Nowadays, the leaders of the
project are some institutions, centers and enterprises: Irabia School, University of Tarragona, University of
Malaga, University of Barcelona and Apple Computer Spain. These leaders, the national coordinators team
(Grimm Task Force), promote the participation in the project and pretend to coordinate and facilitate the
communication between the participants.
The communication is based in a distributed concept. Irabia School, Apple and University of Barcelona support
the main Web sites with specific goals (resources exchange, data information, project management,...) One of
these sites is restricted to project partners. Other universities support teachers and coordinators lists (University
of Tarragona), paper printed materials distribution (University of Malaga), etc. Some specific projects are
supported e.g. the Finderina childhood distribution list project is supported from Barcelona, while the Teachers
instructional web pages project is supported by Irabia, etc.
Apple and other companies support the Internet access, the CD-ROM six-month distribution with the materials
developed in the project, the organization of task force meetings and the annual National Conference. The
teachers training projects include the local and regional actions, the Grimm real and virtual campus, the
technical introduction courses from companies, and other training actions.
4. Results
Grimm has played a first role in the introduction of computers at childhood school in Spain and it has supported
several research works in ICT school introduction field. It has destroyed some myths about the isolation
produced by computers, the collaborative work, the emotional development of young computers users, etc. The
computers use training of teachers have showed as an emotional process more than a skills developing one.
Schools have discovered that it is possible to collaborate with commercial companies, and these have found that
is is necessary to consider the teachers ideas.
More information -always in Spanish- from web sites, or asking for CD-ROM or books at.
http://www.doe.d5.ub.es/grimm2000
http://www.apple.es/educacion/proyectogrimm/Welcome.html