Curriculum Vitae 22/10/2017

Personal Information Stavroula (Pola) Misthou

ICT and Math Teacher , [email protected] [email protected] linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stavroula-pola-misthou-18a222107/

Nationality Hellenic

Work Experience

▪ Member of the European project MakeITReal Working Group

January 2017 – Present (9 months) Edumotiva -European Lab for Educational Technologies (Greece)

Member of the European project MakeITReal Working Group on educational innovation, implementation and evaluation of 3D educational technology in school environment, dissemination of project results.

MakeITReal is an Erasmus+ KA2 project that engages secondary school students, 13- 17 years old, that underperform in STEAM education and keep distance from STEM related disciplines in creative product design and making practices. Special focus is placed on teachers’ professional development and on building the pedagogical and technical skills needed in order to facilitate the learning process, to support students’ in 3D modeling and 3D printing and to make connections across STEAM disciplines. http://makeitreal.info/ https://www.facebook.com/makeitreal4all https://eclass.gunet.gr/courses/SOCGU268/

▪ ICT teacher in Public Junior High School

2015 – Present (2 years) 7th Junior High School of Athens Topics: Blockly, MicroWorlds Pro, Scratch, MicroSoft Office, Linux, Windows.

Responsible for the extracurricular programme “Coding Club: I Code Creatively in the Digital Environment”.

▪ High School Principal

2011 - 2015 (4 years) 13th General High School of Athens.

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▪ ICT Teacher in Public Junior High School

1994 - 2011 (17 years) 28th Junior High School of Athens Topics: MicroWorlds Pro, Scratch, MicroSoft Office, Basic.

Responsible of the school’s network and IT infrastructure.

2010-2011: Responsible for the extracurricular programme "Math Reading Club". 2002-2004: Responsible for after school tutoring. 2000: Responsible for the pilot school library programme PNYKA.

▪ Programmer, system administrator, trainer (private sector)

1991 - 1994 (3 years) Informer SA System administrator: AIX, HP-UX, UNIX. R&D, support, Unix and AIX trainer, developer and system programmer.

Project "elmail": responsible for the development of the first email communication system in Greece, among ELTA branches using TCP/IP over X.25 and X.400, X.500. The application was implemented in Siemens, IBM and Olivetti Unix systems and was written in Micro Focus CoBOL combining Unix Shell Scripting Jobs.

▪ ICT and Math teacher in technical high school

1988 - 1991 (4 years) Sivitanideios Technical High School Programming Languages: Pascal, RM CoBOL, Basic, dBase III Plus

▪ Programming Training Assistant

1986 - 1989 (3 years) Control Data Institute Greece Programming Languages: CoBOL, Pascal, Basic, C

Education

University of Nicosia Cyprus

-MΕd. with Distinction [9,36] in Educational Leadership and Administration, School of Humanities, 2015.

Hellenic Open University

- MSc. in Computer Science Information Systems [8,32], School of Sciences, 2008. Thesis Title: Analysis, Design & Development of Web-Site Application Software for "Matching" Supply & Demand in Professional Institution's web-sites. The application "matches" offer and demand (e.g. employment, participation in consortium, collaboration in European projects, goods & services supply, etc.) Application name: "e+matching" [Apache web server with PHP, MySQL, HTML] Page 2 of 7 Stavroula Misthou

National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

-BSc. In Mathematics, 1985.

Training

1. June 2017 Certificate Training activity C2: 3D printing and Entrepreneurial Thinking - Erasmus+ Project MakeITReal 5 days – 35 hours Nicosia, Cyprus- Cy.R.I.C Cyprus Research and Innovation Center.

2. March 2017 Certificate Training activity C1: 3D modeling 3D printing with FreeCAD - Erasmus+ Project MakeITReal 5 days – 35 hours Aristotle University of

3. Sept. 2016 - March 2017 Certificate PY4HS CRS265: "Learning and Teaching PYTHON in (and after) school" (supported by Google Computer Science for High School CS4HS) Lab. Of Distributed Multimedia Information Systems and Applications | TUC/MUSIC School of Electronic & Computer Engineering – 6 months - 200 hours - Technical School of .

Modules: Introduction to Python, Study and Evaluation of Educational Material (Pythonies), Training Material creation, Code Club creation, Code Club evaluation. http://portal.coursevo.com/?course_id=270 http://www.music.tuc.gr

4. April 2016 Certificate Making construals as a new digital skill for creating interactive open educational resources – KA2 Erasmus+ Project CONSTRUIT! 2 days – 5 hours University of WARWICK – Edumotiva

Page 3 of 7 Stavroula Misthou 5. Febr. 2016 Certificate ROBOTICS based learning interventions for preventing school failure and early school leaving – KA2 Erasmus+ (LEGO Mindstorms EV3, ARDUINO) 5 days – 25 hours Project RoboESL - Edumotiva

6. March 2015 – April 2015 Statement of Accomplishment Programming for Everybody (PYTHON) - 10 weeks Michigan University, COURSERA

7. April 2013 – Oct. 2013 Second Level ICT Teacher Certification (#41995) Greek Ministry of Education

8. July 8-13th, 2013 Certificate of Participation Training “Creating (simple) Educational Apps” – 1 week ATiT, Leuven, Belgium, COMENIUS in-service training scholarship.

9. May 2013 – July 2013 Statement of Accomplishment Inspiring LEADERSHIP through Emotional Intelligence - 6 weeks Case Western Reserve University, COURSERA

10. Jan. 2013 - March 2013 Statement Of Accomplishment Developing Innovative Ideas For New Companies -5 Weeks University Of Maryland, COURSERA

11. Sept. 2012 – Nov. 2012 Statement Of Accomplishment Model Thinking - 8 Weeks University Of Michigan, COURSERA

Page 4 of 7 Stavroula Misthou 12. Dec. 2011 Certificate 11.10.283.34 Educational Administration 10 Days - 70 Hours National Center For Public Administration (EKDDA)

13. June 2011 – Nov. 2011 Certificate Social Economy & Entrepreneurship - 135 Hours Adult Education Educational Institute (IDEKE)

14. Sept. 2010 Certificate Joomla 5 Days - 35 Hours National Center For Public Administration (EKDDA)

15. June 2010 – May 2011 Certificate Organization And Management in Education, annual - 400 Hours

16. July 2007 Certificate Programming Language JAVA 10 Days - 70 Hours National Center For Public Administration (EKDDA)

17. April 1993 - May 1993 Certificate Application Development In INGRES Using Ingres/Vision - 5 Days Ingres User Interfaces, SQL & Report Writer - 3 Days INGRES Hellas

18. Feb. 1992 Certificate AIX LAN Communication - 5 Days IBM Hellas

19. Oct. 1985 - July1986 Certificate Computer Programming (UNIX, CoBOL. PASCAL, BASIC, C) – Annual – 414 Hours CONTROL DATA Greece Inc – Control Data Institute Athens

Languages

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Mother Tongue Greek French C2 English C1 Russian B1

Organizational / Managerial skills

Initiatives related to educational innovation, mentoring, administration: ▪ Website and CMS creation-content-administration using WORDPRESS and MOODLE for the 7th J. H. School Coding Club, 2016. https://greekcodersk12.school.blog/ https://greekcodersk12.moodlecloud.com ▪ Organizing Coding events at the 7th J.H. School of Athens for Europe Code Week 2015, 2016, 2017. ▪ Upgrade Computer Lab with UBUNTU LTSP at 7th J.H. School of Athens in collaboration with KEPLHNET A΄ Athinas, 2015. ▪ Site and CMS creation-content-administration using JOOMLA and MOODLE for 13th General H. School of Athens, 2011-2015. ▪ Intern mentoring at 13th GEL of Athens, 2014-2015. ▪ Organization of the Young Power programme in cooperation with AIESEK to develop "Soft Skills" programme in English at 13th GEL of Athens, 2013. ▪ Upgrade Computer Lab of the 13th GEL of Athens- UBUNTU LTSP installation with the HELLUG volunteer team, 2012. ▪ President of the Examination Center of Panhellenic Examinations 2015, 2014 and 2013 at the 13th GEL of Athens.

Speeches / Conferences / Papers

▪ 27-11-2016: Paper "Coding Club: Μια Κοινότητα Μάθησης στο Σχολικό Χώρο - Coding Club: A Learning Community in the School", in the ERASMUS+ Project ROBOESL Conference: “Robotics-based learning interventions for preventing school failure and early school leaving” that took place on November 26, 2016 at Technopolis City of Athens, Greece. Publication R. Alimisi (Ed.) ROBOESL Conference Proceedings, Nov. 2016, Athens. http://roboesl.eu/conference/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Misthou.pdf

▪ 20/4/2016 Seminar / workshop lecturer on "I do not fear the code" in non- ICT teachers, DDE D΄ Athinas.

▪ 7/3/2016 Speech on the initiative of the "Girls go Coding" team at the Living Postcards event dedicated to the woman's day at the National Hellenic Research Foundation.

Page 6 of 7 Stavroula Misthou ▪ 20-22/4/2013 Presentation at the 6th Community Conference (FOSSCOMM 2013) on "Reconstruction of the 13th GEL Athens Computer Lab with UBUNTU LTSP with the collaboration of the HELLUG Volunteer Team".

▪ 21-22/9/2012 Participation in the 3rd Educational Organization and Administration Conference, Union Of Greek Physics, paper "Stereotypical perceptions and prejudices in the school class - The case of the mathematical and digital gap with a gender perspective".

▪ 8/9/2012 Presentation at the 30th Art Teachers Union Conference on "Experiences from the application of PROJECT at the General Lyceum".

▪ 14-15/1/2012 Presentation at the Greek Physics Conference "Sciences and PROJECT", on "PROJECT in the General Lyceum".

▪ 28/10/2011 Participation in EDEN Open Classroom CONFERENCE "Never Waste a Crisis! -Inclusive Excellence, Innovative Technologies and Transformed Schools as Autonomous Learning Organisations" 2011, PAPER «E-LEARNING PLATFORM FOR GREEK SIGN LANGUAGE TRAINERS» Dimitrios Kiriakos, IEK Ag. Dimitriou, Dimitrios Loukatos, EPAL Haidariou, Stavroula Misthou, 13th Lykeio of Athens, Greece ISBN: 978-963-87914-7-4 http://www.eden- online.org/wpcontent/uploads/2016/05/OCLR_2011_Athens_Proceedings.pdf

Volunteer initiatives

▪ Founding member of the NGO "Girls Go Coding" 2014 - present NGO "Girls Go Coding" is an initiative of Greek ICT professionals to reinforce and encourage girls of any age to learn to code.

Activities: Speeches, workshops, interviews, school visits, awareness events, hour of code etc. http://www.girlsgocoding.gr/ https://www.facebook.com/girlsGoCoding

▪ Founder of a Coding Club in 7th Junior High School of Athens 2015 - present Coding Club is an environmental after school programme entitled “Coding Club: I Code Creatively in the Digital Environment”, team name GreekCodersK12.

Activities: Programming, Scratch, 3D modeling/printing, Lego Mindstorms, Arduino, Python, Physical computing, BBC Micro:bit, presentation skills. http://7gymathin.att.sch.gr/wordpress/?p=443 https://greekcodersk12.school.blog/

Copies of the above are available upon request. Page 7 of 7 Stavroula Misthou