Name of the project:
| OUR CITY |
Partners:
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Giulio Prevedello: Technical Institute - ITSCG “ 8 MARZO” - Mirano (VE) - Italy
Biserka Kamenova: Vocatonal school for garment and catering “Mihalaki Georgiev”- Vidin, Bulgaria
Nadina Carmen Nicolici - “Lorin Salagean” Technical College - Drobeta Turnu Severin, Romania
Victoria Pavlenko- Riga Technical College, Latvia
Alena Jandlova - Commercial High School Tabor, Czech Republic
Veronique Sanguinetti - Mousseron-Jurenil high school, Denain, FRANCE
Maricela Tuchiac - Colegiul Agricol, Falticeni, Romania
Mihaela Anton - Colegiul Economic “Dimitrie Cantemir” Suceava, Romania
Daniela Grecu - Art High School “Marin Sorescu” Craiova, Romania
Liliana Rossetti - Istituto “ Enrico Fermi “ Castellanza - Italy
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Details: | Pupils’ age : 14- 18 years old Language: English Duration: 2 months School type: high school, professional secondary school, technical / vocational high school
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Short description:
| Pupils from partner schools create a photo album presenting their city. Pupils take and upload photos of places, people, interesting monuments, etc., in order to give a profile of their region and life there. Pupils from the other school(s) then vote on the most interesting photos their partners have taken. Students write short texts in English to describe the pictures. They present their city / region to their project partners. Students create a logo of the project. A short project about our countries, towns, schools and families. Students exchange impressions -in student room. Students will write letters to their partners according to the schedule and the letters will be combined by the quizzes which will be created by students.
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Goals:
| Pupils improve their ICT skills by learning more about the places where their partners live They learn about regional originality of different countries. Develop skills in the use of multimedia tools in order to present photos or create photo slide presentations; improve communication and research skills. Develop our pupils’ abilities to communicate in a foreign language, share information and connect virtually. Make students aware of their local identity and its importance. Students develop their artistic skills, their creativity and originality working in a virtual team. To make students realise that we all live in one large family the EU. We are different, we have different customs, festivals, and foods but on the other hand we are the same. We all are modern people who want to live in a free society and to know about the others. |
ICT tools:
| TwinSpace, Picasa or Flickr, Blogger, WordPress (can be used instead of the suggested TwinSpace, otherwise we should spend time learning how to use TwinSpace and Twin Space is used by real project partners not like we are).Google doc presentation or Slideshare presentation. Twinspace and Picasa is enough, as far as I’m concerned. Google presentation would be nice too for us to try and share Skype I totally agree with the Twinspace. I thought we were doing as if we were organising a project for our pupils, that’s why I proposed Twinspace.but as you like ! I propose to use and the site Magazine factory to achieve an online newspaper. Presentation may be published on slideshare.net. |
Pedagogical basis:
| Pupils can examine their own locality and compare it with those of other places, so international collaboration can be encouraged. Move towards an education for diversity and multiplicity. Provide to pupils, the tools and flexibility needed to move from a cultural identity to another without too much fear.
Students become aware of the importance of collaborating. They discover their project partners by discovering themselves.
Pedagogical approach in this project is based on "project learning", "inquiry-based learning", "active learning", "peer-to-peer learning", “discovery learnining", "collaborative learning", "knowledge building", "connectivism", "learning-by-doing”. agreed Task based learning,cooperative learning ,pluriliguistic and pluricultural approach,self esteem and motivation improving
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Working methods:
| Process Step 0
Create an interactive poster of the project so that other people (students, teachers, etc) know about it. we could use Glogster to create the poster
Step 1 Each class discusses and chooses a series of monuments, landmarks and/or other interesting places in their area. Pupils search for images of the places they have chosen or take their own digital photos, if possible. The photos are then uploaded into a gallery in the TwinSpace or in Picasa (agree on 5 similar places to compare) Step 2 Students create the logo of the project together. They create many logos and choose the best one (open voting lasting 1 day). (they will use the symbols of their city and community eTwinning ). To create logo's students can use CorelDraw.
Step 3 Once the pictures have been uploaded, the pupils can write short paragraphs about the places (monuments, landmarks) which include interesting background information, and also ask questions to the others about their places ? (they can create quiz) Partners discuss the gallery using the TwinSpace chat or website -magazine factory and vote for the most interesting photo
Step 4 Students agree on the contents of the photo / history album and create it. |
Time / period | Task description – tools to be used | tool | Responsible person(s) |
November
Weeks 1 - 2
| Creating the virtual space (Twinspace) accounts for our students. Ask students to write short introductions about themselves so that their partners may know them. We can ask students to create their introductions using Voki.
Create the interactive poster of the project
Discuss and choose the places to be photographed - in every country (maybe agree on 5 same places like main square, main sight etc and then compare)
Take pictures or search pictures on the web (Don’t search pictures on the internet! Think about the copyrights!!) We can use photos from internet (on educational not commercial purpose)only we should give the link to the source web-site of the photo.
Create a photo presentation on Slideshare and share it on our common blog - before uploading on Slideshare, we could do it together on Google and share
| Camera Internet Google Images Slideshare.com www.voki.com
Glogster (edu.glogster.com) | Each teacher in each highschool
Victoria Pavlenko
Nadina Nicolici
Each teacher in each highschool
We need to make our common blog (let it be on Blogger) and embed all our photos etc. I have made a common blog on Blogger, to invite you all I need to know your Google e-mails, the other e-mails don’t work here.
I create a wiki page. |
November Week 3
| Create Picasa and or Twinspace accounts.
Create the frames
Create the logo of the project and vote the best one
Inserting the views of students in Magazine factory
| Picasa
CorelDraw
http://magazinefactory.edu.fi |
Each teacher |
November Week 4
| Uploading pictures on Picasa and or Twinspace - MAKING COMMON PRESENTATION ON GOOGLE AND SHARE AND SEE
Accompany the pictures by texts in English to describe them. We can use Fotobabble (talking photos) | Picasa / Twinspace
www.fotobabble.com
| Each teacher |
December Weeks 1 - 2
| Ask the others questions about their pictures
Write paragraphs about the places, answer the questions.
Create a quiz | Twinspace, Forum, Word Skype | Each teacher |
December Week 3
| Chat about the photo gallery
Agree upon the contents of the photo / history album
Create the history album
| Chat
MS Word MS Publisher Skype | Each teacher |
December Week 4
| Vote There is google form for voting, see eg https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dGZGa1JoVTE1aDhPRjVMUHdaNk5yNUE6MQ
| Google form
| Each teacher
Alena Jandlova
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