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October

1. "Get to know the project teams"

Upload a picture of your team on the "Ice Breaking Activities" Page

"Ice Breaking Activities" Page on the Twin Space

2. "Where are you from?"

Place a marker on the map

on the Page "Ice Breaking Activities"

3. "Let's get Acquainted"

Introduce yourself in a few words

Twin Space Forum thread "Let's get Acquainted"

4. "Talking Pictures"

Create a funny talking picture using Blabberize or Voki

Place the link or embed it on the Forum thread "Vokis and/or Blabbers"

By November 6

5. LOGO submission

Design a logo with your team.

It should be something hand drawn or made by using a web tool. It should not contain something entirely copied from the Internet.

Upload your logo in the Materials Folder “Logo Voting”

From November 7 till November 15

LOGO voting

Vote for the logo that best represents the project.

Don't vote for your own logo. The votes that will belong to the same team will not be counted.

Go to the "LOGO Contest" page and follow the instructions.

Vote HERE.

November

"Our team, school, town/city, country"

Introduce your team, your school, your city and country.

Use SMORE as a suggested tool or any other tool you like.

Go to "Our team/school/town/city/country" subpage of your school

Embed/post the links to the video, PPT presentations on your SMORE or on the school sub-page under the page "Our team/school/town/city/country" after you place them in the MATERIALS section

by November 30

Shaping the Interview

1. Think about questions that you would ask your grandparent in order to compare life in the present and past.

2. Vote in order to select the most popular 10 questions.

3. Translation of the top 10 questions

1. Post the questions on the Mindmeister embedded on the Twin Space Page “Interview: "A DIALOGUE BETWEEN TWO GENERATIONS”

2. Go to Dotstorming link on the same page and vote for 10 questions you think you would like to ask your grandparent.

3. To be done by the teachers by December 5th

​November

Picture Gallery

Take a picture of your one of your grandparents (that you will also interview)

Use the application Trading Card or  THINGLINK to put the picture and write a short description under it (the age, job, preferences, likes, dislikes, interesting facts etc). When you are done, place the link on the FORUM.

Watch the tutorial on how to create a THINGLINK if needed or read on the PHOTO GALLERY the instructions on how to create a Trading Card.

IMPORTANT! Post the picture of your grandparent in the folder "Picture Gallery" in Twin Space/Materials/Photos

End of November

Online meeting 1 (optional)

Cultural sharing Asking the various teams questions about the information that was posted about their countries.

Learning about each other’s countries, cities, schools

eTwinning Live Event

December

Interview

1. Interview one of your grandparents.

2. Translate the Interview in English.

Give the translation to your teacher to be checked and upload the electronic variant in Materials/Files/Interview.

Then put it on the page INTERVIEW by clicking on the attach button on the Twin Space Page

IMPORTANT! Please follow the following format in naming the document: Name-Last Name-Country-Interview.

Example: Liliana-Nederita-Moldova-Interview.docx

Sometime between 19-22 December

Online meeting 2 (optional)

Meeting and sharing the results of the interview.

eTwinning Live Event

23-31 December

Things that never change

Hold a discussion with your grandparents. Ask them two questions: 

What things changed over time? 

What things stayed the same? 

After the discussion share your findings in the FORUM

1. Post your findings about the things that changed in the Twin Space FORUM "Changes in time". Share your thoughts. In the end of your forum post place one sentence that would simply list the things that changed. For example: The things that changed are: 1, 2, 3, ... n.

2. Post your findings about the things that stayed the same in the Twin Space FORUM “Things that never change”. Share your thoughts. In the end of your forum post place one sentence that would simply list the things that didn't change. For example: The things that didn't change are: 1, 2, 3, ... n.

The founders will make the Word Clouds and post it on the page “Things that never change in time”

Tool used: Tagul

1-8 January

Creating Multinational Teams

Teachers will assign students to teams

On the Page “Our Multinational Teams” write in the name of the students in the column assigned to your country in order to create teams (to be done by teachers involved)

January

January-March

Matching People

​Collaborative make-believe story

1. Each student on the team examines the pictures from the Page Photo Gallery and matches 2 people (randomly or according to the description) that they think would make best friends/partners and write a short explanation why they think so.

2. Choose one of your team matches and make up a collaborative story about the two people (when/how /where they met, etc). Each country team will create one story.

1. On the FORUM “Our Multinational Teams” in the team thread​ write your match.

Suggested tool: Answer Garden

It is a pretty simple tool, which doesn't require signing up. Just click on CREATE and start creating one. Students don't need to sign in either.

Then vote on the best match for your team.

Sugested tool: Sticky Moose

Note: Both of the tools to be used by the teachers and put on the forum for students' use

2. The collaborative story is going to be created by teams per country and passed on to the other country to continue. There are going to be only 3 parts and each country will begin a story to pass around.  Put the story on the page COLLABORATIVE MAKE BELIEVE STORY in the subpage of your country (the pages will be named after the country who will begin the story). Find on the subpage the Google slide (to write the story)

When the story is ready the founders will put it together in a ebook.

Suggested Tool: Issuu

Issuu is a simple tool which enables you to upload a file. It is important however to format it on your computer beforehand as it doesn't allow editing. You also need to SIGN UP before you can start uploading files.

IMPORTANT! ​Go to Publication List on Issuu, Find your publication, the Settings button on the Issuu created and tick the option "Allow Download".

1-15 February

Photo Collage

Meet as a team, discuss and design a photo collage using the pictures in the project

​Suggested tool: PhotoCollage

When you are done save it in jpg format and submit in the Materials/Photo/Photo Collage

Name it in the following way: Team number-PhotoCollage

Example: Team12-PhotoCollage

Post it yourself on the Page Photo Collage or the founders will do it for you once you post it in the materials. 

15-28 February

Best Photo Collage

Vote for the best Photo Collage

Go to “Photo Collage” page and find the VOTE button. Vote for the best photo collage.

Tool Used: Tricider

Memory Game

Play the memory game to see if you remember the pairs that were matched

Go to the page “Memory Game” and match the photos

Tool used to create the memory game: Learningapps

April

The e-Book​

Each country will select 5 interviews and will post them on the Twin Space.

The founders will put the selected interviews and the 15 photocollages created by the 15 multinational teams together in an e-book

Post the interviews in the Interview: "A DIALOGUE BETWEEN TWO GENERATIONS" Twin Space page

Select and post the interviews by March 31

The e-Book will be embedded on the page or the link will be shared.

Tools used: Issuu, Joomag

Tutorial on how to use Joomag here

End of April

Online meeting 3 (optional)

Sharing the findings and impressions related with the project

eTwinning Live Event

May

Evaluation and feedback

Evaluate the project process and outcomes

Find the page “Evaluation and Feedback” complete the survey.

Tool used: Google Form