Local TV "documentary" - unexplained existence

Two reporters of local TV, Matúš and Adam, went to film the proof of unexplained existence. When they came to the place, they didn't know what to expect. Then, things started to happen. As they went further and further, more and more weird things happened.  Go and watch the whole video to find out more.

Working on Theme 5

Hello guys, little update. We are currently working on a video for theme 5. It will be amazing, super, Great, maybe funny and absolutely astonishing and it should have been done in one or two weeks. Stay tuned. ;)

We are happy to announce FOURTH COMENIUS MEETING!!! - UPDATE!

We know that many of you thought that Greece was the last place you saw your friends, so we did. But then we came with an idea! Thanks to the city of Komárno, our school and special european finance program we joined back in december we can prepare another, fourth, comenius meeting in Slovakia! However only 5 students from each country can come and so, this is when your time comes. You have to be as fast as possible and fill THIS questionaire. Only first 5 people from each country will be accepted and invited to Slovakia for another beautiful "comenius" week. :) We see you in June in Bratislava and High Tatras. :)

Slovak Comenius team

UPDATE!

As you guys know, it's 1st April and so we wanted to play with you a little. But we definitely don't want you to feel "fooled". Instead of that we decided that everybody who participated in questionaire and "got fooled" is in fact WINNER! :) Your prize is a big plate full of our national dish, bryndzové halušky! You will get your prize from us as soon as you visit us in Slovakia. ;) Thank you and as we, magicians, say, see you soon!

Winners:
Andrea, Luka, Selina, Maartje, Ilias, Ayra, Luka K., Deveney, Lotte, Tom and Sander. :)

P.S.: Also, Kofola extra for an anonymous guy who we made cry. We feel sorry for that.

Ebola in Slovak newspapers

Patrik, Ráchel and Matúš were looking for articles on Slovakia's biggest newspaper's website. Here are their reports...

Patrik's report...

The first article was from the 31st of July 2012 with title: "Ebola v Ugande už má 14 obetí, prezident varuje aj pred podávaním rúk" – what means - "Ebola in Uganda has already killed 14 people, the president warns about shaking hands". 

They wrote about Ebola, which is a Virus highly contagious disease that appeared 3 weeks ago and it hadn’t got any antidote. But they didn’t want to scare people, so they calm us with a sentence which was said in a news DPA - "There is no reason for concern, because Uganda has the capacity to manage the spread of disease. ". They also mentioned the history of Ebola.  Then few month later in november 2012 they nearly copied they last report, because Ebola has appeared again in Uganda and killed 3 people.  After these reports topic "Ebola" had disappeared for few months. However in March 2014 they wrote about 88 victims in New Guinea. They ensured us that Ebola could not disseminate to another country. We were in secure.  Then every day new reports about Ebola were published on newspapers. The number of victims was bigger and bigger. They were trying to calm us down with interviews of famous doctors -"Ebola can not reach Europe and the disease is controlled." said one of them.  
 
On the 7th of July was the first report of infected American living in Ghana, who died the day after. They also mentioned that more than 800 infected people in Africa had died.  After these days we could read some short news about Ebola every day. They were describing how is the disease growing. On the 1st of August was written the first report by WHO. This time the report could scare us - "Ebola is bigger, than we thought.”, but they also said, that they are working hard on solution and they have many plans. They invested million dollars to the project against Ebola.  Other reports were really interesting, they wrote about how politics could affect diseases too.  

This internet newspaper  utilized topic Ebola in really interesting way and cogent. They were writing about everything so we could be in the scene and know the relevant facts about Ebola. They didn’t want to scare us. They have just stated the situations. I enjoy reading these reports and I learned some new facts.   

 Ráchel's opinion...

My personal opinion about Ebola in news is critic, of course it is horrible disease but in all news is Ebola pictured differently. My point of wiew is much more different. Of course there are some facts we can not change and facts that are supported by many world known scientists like it causes an acute, serious illness which is often fatal if untreated and it firstly appeared in 1976. It appeared in Nzara, Sudan, Yambuku, Democratic Republic of Congo. I personally think that media use these illnesses like ebola to allure as many readers as they can. Just look at different newspapers, everywhere is Ebola pictured like horrible disease but nothing else matches there.


Matúš's article...

I was focused at one of the most popular online newspapers sme.sk which also publishes daily newspaper. The first article about Ebola was published on 17. 5. 1995 in article - What is Ebola. This article described Ebola very well in details. It is amazing that since this one they haven’t published article which explains Ebola that great. I was curious what was the reason in that time because Ebola wasn’t so known and expanded. I found out that in 1995 was filmed movie „Outbreak" with Dustin Hoffman where an unknown virus with some of the characteristics of Ebola scares viewers around the world. Most of the new articles about this virus were focused on the numbers.. numbers of victims, deaths,etc.. They have also often mentioned progress of the virus in Africa and necessity of countermeasures to stop extension . For example in this brief chart. I really like this chart.. - "What will Ebola do with us?" which describes in detail the action of the virus on a body and at the bottom we can see a small but very useful and interesting chronology sequence of the Ebola extension. In many articles has been mentioned that European help is needed. I personally really like that I found articles where they wanted to make us thinking in the other way. They wanted to make us imagining that we live in their situation. They were trying to calm us with many precautions which airlines have done to stop extension to the world for example with infrared cameras at the airports. Very frustrating is that they have declared in some articles through doctors that Ebola can not get to the Europe but in other ones they have mentioned first potential victims of this virus in the Europe, which were later confirmed. I think this raises the worrying situation and make us think - Who we can trust? Which information is truthful? There were also many articles where is Ebola associated with other issues. In these two reports (first report, second report) we can read about chocolate price increase because of the virus threat in Ivory Coast and about rejection of football players in championships. I have read about antibody "a miracle cure" but always mentioned vague, fuzzy terms like "pair of American scientists" and so. It was really amazing to watch often different opinions of readers in discussions or in their blog which they can lead trough portal sme.sk. The most intimidating reports which I have found is the article with title: "Ebola wins and they can’t stop it". In this article also came first mention about Ebola in our country. This article acts really terrifying. I think that sme.sk describes Ebola mostly in neutral way. They did not want to scare readers that much that I expected. Maybe the diversity and variety helped. Articles were written by many redactors and they have used different sources. 

Links: (sk)

The link to the original report from Teraz.sk

TERAZ.sk
sme.sk
Chart one and chart two from sme.sk
First and second report from sme.sk
Article from sme.sk
Outbreak (movie, 1995, en)

We are working on theme number 4!

WORK IN PROGRESS!

Our group chose Ebola as the subject of theme 4. We will search through 3 newspapers and we will collect information about what they wrote about Ebola. Our results will be uploaded online soon. Then we will pick another "less serious" theme and we will collect information from 3 gutter presses. Stay tuned! :)