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Project for the Special School at Filiro by our Psychology students – 1st project meeting
The first meeting for the project that students from the Psychology Department of CITY College are going to undertake this year for the Special School at Filiro took place on Monday 7th of October. A group of student-volunteers visited the school together with Mr Vassilis Tsoulis, Director of Career, Employability & Enterprise Centre and discussed with the school’s social worker, psychologist and supporting personnel the details of the project. The project will involve supporting children’s with special needs social life and activities. Our students will be meeting with the school’s young students in their free time and will organise different outings to help them socialise, engage in social activities and develop social skills necessary for their social integration, quality of human relationships and level of happiness. During the meeting, the school staff provided our students with information about the school, its activities and its students and their needs of course. The project presents our students with an invaluable opportunity to get hands on experience from their contact with the children with special needs. Lecturers from our Psychology Department will be guiding our students and providing meaningful feedback during the project. This specific activity is another way in which the Psychology Department and CITY College overall will give back to the community and support those in need putting knowledge into practice. The first meeting concluded with both our students and the school staff feeling positive and excited about this new collaboration.
24/10/2019
The English Studies Department Considers the Value of Adapting
1st Personal and Professional Seminar for academic year 2019-20 The English Studies Department’s first Personal and Professional Development Seminar for the 2019-2020 academic year commenced Tuesday, 22 October, 2019 with an engaging thematic area significant to teachers and learners. Our guest speaker and staff member, Ms Maria Sachpazian delivered an engaging seminar titled: “Reasons and Rationale behind materials’ adaptation in the digital age” thus bringing forward the concept of adapting in the teaching/learning context. In nature and in life, to not adapt can result in becoming obsolete to say the least! Similarly, teaching and learning with regard to methods, material, types of assessment, aims, Learning Outcomes, use of technology and more, need to adapt as the components and aspects of teaching and learning change and develop. For teachers, especially novice teachers, the idea of adapting ready-made course books and similar material can appear overwhelming or even unnecessary. And this may be the case as Ms Sachpazian highlights, so one always needs to consider the context. Initially, a teacher needs to know the course book and the material; a SWOT analysis can further help to see what is weak or missing from such material. Next, Ms Sachpazian suggests personalizing the material to ourselves as teachers but more importantly to our students. Ms. Sachpazian with Dr Marazi, lead organiser of the PPD seminars Drawing on McGrath (2016), Ms Sachpazian informs that when adapting we need to consider the 3 Es: Extemporation (on the spot-thinking/spontaneous reaction), Extension (quantitative change), Exploration (qualitative change). Of course, this is not done randomly, without rationale, aim, purpose, or considering different parameters of learning such as materials, classroom, steps/stages, time availability, learner level, the teacher’s role and the overall purpose of a course. Teachers, amongst other professions, need to adapt so as to meet their learners’ needs, so as to consider the whole class as well as the individuals that comprise it, to increase learners’ emotional engagement and motivation, to balance certain imbalances, increase exposure and interaction and keep students on their toes. Teachers do this because as Ms Sachpazian confirms they care – or should care – about effective learning and engaged, motivated learners. More often, adaptation is unprincipled thus lacking in creativity, purpose, rationale, suiting the teacher’s preferences rather than the students. According to Ms Sachpazian, effective lesson planning, lesson preparation and our reflective teaching practices are and can be accompanied by adaptation but it needs to be the right type of adaptation where we: amend, add, supplement or reject BUT deliberate! When our goal is teaching meaningfully we need to adapt – ourselves as well as methods and materials – so as to be relevant, knowledgeable, aware, flexible, effective, creative and productive!
24/10/2019
Gaming Club Monthly Tournaments
22/10/2019
CSU Vice President Elections 2019-20
Contact: Theofano Kyriakou, Director of SSAD email: tkyriakou@citycollege.sheffield.eu Office: L.Sofou Building ground floor
21/10/2019
Welcome Party by the Students' Union (CSU)
Thursday, 24 October 2019
21/10/2019
CITY MUN Club: First meeting for academic year 2019-20
Tuesday, 22 October 2019
21/10/2019
Our Computer Science Department receives re-accreditation from the British Computer Society (BCS)
CITY College International Faculty is pleased to announce that its Computer Science Department was re-accredited for another five years with no conditions by the British Computer Society (BCS). The accreditation holds for the undergraduate programmes (Bachelors) delivered in Thessaloniki: BSc (Hons) in Computer Science BSc (Hons) in Computer Science (Business Informatics) BSc (Hons) in Computer Science (Internet Computing) The programmes met the rigorous criteria and high standards set by the BCS. The BPS accreditation is a definite hallmark of quality of our programmes. More specifically the panel commended the Computer Science Department for: the collaboration that staff has with students while at the same time maintaining the balance and boundaries between a friendly supporting environment and professionalism the outstanding NSS scores that reflects overall student engagement the staff development process and the integration of new staff the strong links with industry the focus on people (students and staff) The BCS is the industry body for IT professionals, and a Chartered Engineering Institution for Information Technology. The first (BCS) visit to CITY College was carried out in 2004 when the Computer Science received the first BCS accreditation. Graduates of the undergraduate programmes of our Computer Science Department may become members of the BCS. CITY College warmly congratulates the staff of the Computer Science Department on their hard work and commitment clearly confirmed by the BCS re-accreditation.
18/10/2019
Open MBA Class on digital revolution by Dr Dimitriadis in Belgrade
CITY College organised a successful Open MBA Class that took place 9 October in Belgrade with Dr Nikolaos Dimitriadis, our Regional Director for Serbia, who discussed digital revolution. In his seminar “Stupid AI, Startup Bubbles and the Revolution that Never Was: Uncovering the Dark Side of Digital" questioned whether digital revolution includes diverse subjects such as the startup explosion, the shared economy, social media domination, online business models, AI and robotics. Dr Dimitriadis used economics, business data, case studies and neuroscience to prove that the digital revolution is not exactly what most people think and also spoke about an upcoming revolution for which we need to prepare. The event offered the opportunity to participants to get a feel of what an MBA class at CITY College, International Faculty of the University of Sheffield is like and get informed of the Executive MBA offered in Belgrade.
17/10/2019
CITY College supports the 8th Thessaloniki International Symposium in World Affairs
Download the Symposium Agenda (PDF) Official website: thessalonikisymposium.org
16/10/2019
Personal & Professional Development Seminars 2019 by our English Studies Dept.
October - November - December 2019 FREE ADMISSION Join and share! Online Participation Form
16/10/2019
CITY College Lime-Riders!
Note: The event is addressed only to CITY College students and staff. The event is endorsed by the Career, Employability & Enterprise Centre of CITY College. For more information please send an email at vtsoulis@citycollege.sheffield.eu.
14/10/2019
English Studies Department students volunteer for Alzheimer Hellas
ESD students translate BrainBright, an application developed by Computer Science students Students of the English Studies Department have once more shown their sensitivity towards social issues as well as their professional attitude and excellent work ethic, firmly establishing the Department’s social profile and commitment to professionalism. Congratulations are in order for our 1st and 2nd level Bachelor’s students as well as alumni of the English Studies Department for volunteering their time, effort and expertise towards the completion of a project in collaboration with the Computer Science Department at CITY College and the Greek Association of Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders "Alzheimer Hellas." Our warmest gratitude goes to Dr Dimitris Dranidis from the Computer Science Department who reached out to ESD and encouraged our students’ involvement in the project. More specifically, we would like to congratulate our students Anna Dalakoura, Ioanna Friki, Christina Giannakou, Pelagia Massarou, Sarra Mavridou, Elpiniki Pantanela-Connell and Styliani Papachristou who under the supervision of Dr Kelly Pasmatzi and Dr Zoi Tatsioka translated the BrainBright application and its dictionaries. BrainBright is an application developed and maintained for the last 6 years by Computer Science Department 3rd level students within the Industrial Project (INVENT). The BrainBright application is used every year by hundreds of visitors of Alzheimer Hellas centres for the prevention of Alzheimer’s disease. The English Studies Department is committed to providing students with various opportunities aimed at cultivating their professional skills, making them socially responsible citizens and, crucially, allowing them to gain prior experience in order to explore future paths.
14/10/2019
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