Ecuisine and IdA in the newspapers !

At the begining of Ecuisine was IdA, a program meant to enable german students from TGz, our partner in Neuruppin, to spend one month working in the kitchen of some top notch french restaurants in Bayeux.

Last month, 8 new students came to France to live the french experience. This experience proved once again to be a life changer for these students and the people that worked with them.

Last week was their "graduation ceremony" and it was very moving to see those kids surrounded by their host families and new co-workers : you could actually grasp how grateful everybody was in every word.

As we mentioned before, their coming was for the Ecuisine project an opportunity to run a few test on some of our products and their graduation ceremony was a great opportunity to say a few words about Ecuisine and explain how this will become an essential tool for the forthcoming editions of the IdA exchange program.

Here is the support we used for that presentation. We made using one of my new favourite tools : Prezi. It's a clever way to spread a message using pictures, text and videos. Nothing too exceptional it seems but just try it and you'll never open Microsoft Powerpoint again.

Ecuisine, apprendre la cuisine et les langues en ligne on Prezi

Testing, testing, 1, 2

We're so happy to have some of our products ready (or almost ready) that we decided we would show it to some students and get their feedback.

A first test was organised in Germany at the begining of September. They gathered a few students that were already involved in the Hoogatrans Project and told them a little bit about our project.

They were able to show them :
The german videos for the soup recipe
The french videos made for the desert recipe
The glossaries made with Engage explaining some of the terms used in the french videos.



The results of this test is on page 12 of the following presentation :

Präsentation 27092012 scotland from Ecuisine

Another test was conducted at the begining of Octobe. This time it was in France and the Guinea pigs were also students involved in the HoogaTrans project : they had been working in France for two weeks, in some of the most prestigious restaurants in Bayeux (Normandie, France).

We decided to test the Language Module that we will use as an introduction to our course. It is mainly about getting them used to french and helping them to find strategies to guess new words from the context.

The testing lasted for a full hour and students were really excited about the project. They also pointed a lot of points we will be working on in the forthcoming days and weeks. This will be very helpful for all partners.

The experiment and the conclusions are detailed in this document (in French) : https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B5CuuqC9k_8OYVdGOW5pWjV6R2s