Exploiting Web 2.0 eTwinning Learning Event (25 October - 27 November 2010)
eTwinning project plan
Name of the project: | BE THE CHANGE! |
Partners:
| Daniela Arghir Silvo Muršec Maria del Mar Rioboó Lela Golikidou |
Details: | Age of the pupils: 12 - 15 Used language: English Duration: 12 months School type: secondary
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Short description:
| Volunteer work is something that should be encouraged among all members of a community, especially young people. If we can develop generosity, awareness and commitment in young people, then we can look forward to a caring and considerate generation in the future. In this project our students will improve their knowledge about volunteering and will organize themselves into teams that will perform voluntary public service. |
Goals:
| - to develop a great sense of personal satisfaction and accomplishment - to share experience and skills possessed - to develop new skills and receive training in new areas - to explore and analyse different career options - to better our community and our world -to “create” more responsible future citizens -to built a new society more sensitive -the students will learn to collaborate in order to achieve a common purpose |
ICT tools:
| - TwinSpace - TwinBlog (Project Diary) - google docs - survey tool: surveymonkey - video conference tool: elluminate, ARNES VOX, Skype - bookmarking tool: diigo - OpenOffice.org documents - Glogster - video camera - photo camera - interactive whiteboard |
Pedagogical basis:
| Project-based teaching and learning with use of modern ICT and learning equipment. |
Working methods:
| - discussion about jobs and voluntary work - exchange of experiences of volunteering - designing a poster to encourage young people to volunteer in their community - selecting the volunteer work to be done in teams - planning, implementing and evaluating the teams’ voluntary public service |
eTwinning project timetable
Time / period | Task description – tools to be used | Responsible person(s) |
Weeks 1 and 2
| 1 Introductions of teachers and students involved - in the TwinSpace 2 Charting the milestones of the project - in the TwinSpace (the shared Calendar) 3 Deciding on the end-products - in the TwinBlog | The 2 founders |
Week 3
| Interview people who have done volunteer work | all teachers and students |
week 4
| Survey to find out the most relevant positive and negative aspects of it | all teachers and students |
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