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Project plan

  • a. SHORT DESCRIPTION:

    The project is aimed at cultural orientation and language development.

    Students are expected to create a collaborative magazine in English (five pages per partner school), with 4-5 issues, both digital and printed. The topics will be drawn from their course book, their school curriculum subjects and their school activities and will be focused around the things that interest them.

     

    Age of students: 9-12

     

    b. AIMS:

     

    - To make students aware of cultural similarities and differences

    - To make students sensitive to people of different origins

    - To make students eager to broaden their horizons

    - To motivate students to learn English for communication purposes

    - To make learning English more fun and effective

    - To develop linguistic and ICT skills

    - To develop students’ communication and social skills

    - To promote co-operation between schools

    - To familiarize students with magazines and teach them the different roles they could have as reporters, photographers, artists, editors, etc.

    - To create a collaborative magazine in English

     

    c. CURRICULAR AREAS INVOLVED:

    Cross Curricular, Design and Technology, Science, Geography, History, Foreign Languages, Informatics /

     

    d. WORK PROCESS:

    SEPTEMBER

    • TEACHERS: Introduce project and the twinspace to the students, invite students to Twinspace, inform the parents about the project and ask for their consent to use photos/videos of the students in the twinspace
    • TEACHERS: First online teacher meetup to discuss details/problems/make suggestions
    • TEACHERS: All the teachers help organize the twinspace, they get informed about project activities required of them as well as the deadlines, they upload a little information about themselves/their schools/their towns to get to know each other (tools: google maps, google calendar, linoit, biteable) {if the project starts in the summer, we can do that earlier than September}
    • STUDENTS: Find a name - design a logo: contest among the partner schools about the title and logo of the magazine
    • STUDENTS: Make their twinspace profile

    OCTOBER

    • STUDENTS: Discuss and prepare the 1st issue
    • STUDENTS: Online meeting (topic: me, my daily routine and leisure time)
    • TEACHERS and/or STUDENT ADMINISTRATORS: Publish the 1st issue “DAILY ROUTINE vs. LEISURE TIME”

    NOVEMBER - DECEMBER

    • TEACHERS: Second online teacher meetup
    • STUDENTS: Discuss and prepare the 2nd issue “COUNTRIES & CITIES THAT I LIKE
    • TEACHERS and/or STUDENT ADMINISTRATORS: Publish the 2nd issue
    • STUDENTS & TEACHERS: Exchange Christmas & New Year cards (via mail or/and the twinspace)

    JANUARY - FEBRUARY

    • STUDENTS: Discuss and prepare the 3rd issue “GOOD – BETTER – BEST”
    • STUDENTS: Online meeting (topic: my city/my country)
    • TEACHERS and/or STUDENT ADMINISTRATORS: Publish the 3rd issue

    MARCH - APRIL

    • STUDENTS: Discuss and prepare the 4th issue “SPORTS, GAMES, BOOKS, FILMS, MUSIC & MORE!”
    • STUDENTS: Online meeting (topic: my favourite sport/book/film/video etc.)
    • TEACHERS and/or STUDENT ADMINISTRATORS: Publish the 4th issue

    MAY

    • TEACHERS: Third online teacher meetup about final details 
    • STUDENTS: Prepare the 5th issue “SUMMER’ S HERE!”
    • TEACHERS and/or STUDENT ADMINISTRATORS : Publish the 5th issue
    • STUDENTS & TEACHERS: Evaluation of the project

     

    e. WEB TOOLS:

    Padlet, Skype, thinglink, fodey, powtoon, Google drive, google maps, issuu, animoto, slidely, smilebox, wordart, (video and audio tools), canva, audacity, movie maker

     

    f. EXPECTED RESULTS:

    - Mobilizing cultural, scientific and technological knowledge to understand the world around us and to approach situations and problems of our daily life;

    - Doing activities in an autonomous, responsible and creative way whilst cooperating with others in common tasks and projects;

    - Using languages from different cultural, scientific and technological areas adequately to express oneself, especially through the use of images, gestures, sounds, illustrations or diagrams;

    - Mobilizing linguistic and paralinguistic resources in verbal interaction, in the reception and production of oral and written texts, having in sight adequate performances in communicative situations;

    - Using mother and foreign languages to communicate in daily situations, gathering knowledge and structuring self-awareness and European awareness

     

    g. PROJECT PRODUCTS: a collaborative school magazine (digital and printed)

     

    h. EVALUATION:

    at the end of the project in May

    - online survey in Google Forms

    - posts in project journal

    - answergarden

     

    i. TOPICS of the 5 issues:

    1. My hobby / My daily routine
    2. My town, My country / My favourite town or country / An imaginary town or country / My dream town or country
    3. Good – Better – Best (Most remarkable, strangest, funniest… , etc. records we have heard of or our own records)
    4. My favourite sport / film/ book / group / singer / game …
    5. Summer in my country

     

    j. The magazine could include:

    • articles
    • short stories/poems
    • interviews
    • photos/pictures/drawings
    • fun pages with crosswords/quizzes/puzzles/jokes/comic strips/competitions…
    • charts/infographics/...
    • recipes
    • school news relevant to the topic of the issue
    • ...

     

     

    Our collaborative google doc with the project plan

     

     

    Below we upload photos or photo collages of our SEPTEMBER activities in class which were basically introducing the project and the Twinspace to the students.

     

    18th Elementary school of Kalamata, Greece

    Here we are, being introduced to the project for the first time!

     

    GÜLHANIM BAHADIR YAVUZYILMAZ-Fener Primary School,Turkey

     while being introduced to the project and editing profiles