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THE LIFE-CYCLE OF AN ETWINNING PROJECT
AND COLLABORATIVE ACTIVITY MODELS
Elizabeth Sauser-Monnig, French National Support Service
eTwinning Plus Contact SeminarTunis, 22-24 November 2013
THE LIFE-CYCLE OF AN
ETWINNING PROJECT
STAGE 1: GETTING A PROJECT IDEA
Normally you go through the Desktop to find a partner. Here, you can find your partner through the Ice Breaking activity
STAGE 2: FINDING PARTNERS
1. Defining the project idea
2. Planning the project
3. Preparing the 1st activity for the pupils
4. Registering the project
STAGE 3: BUILDING THE PROJECT TOGETHER
Back home, you will …
1. Access your project Twinspace
2. Invite your pupils into the Twinspace
3. Launch a pupil-centered activity as an
ice-breaker
STAGE 4: GETTING STARTED
1. Communicate often and efficiently
2. Follow your planned phases
3. Be ready to adjust and adapt
STAGE 5: RUNNING THE PROJECT
1. Reflection - between the teachers- with the pupils
4. Benefits for the school and community
3. Lessons learned and recommendations
4. Celebrating!
STAGE 6: EVALUATING THE PROJECT
1. Presenting the project results+ benefits
2. Applying for a National Quality Label
3. Beyond the project: eTwinning teams, groups, ambassadors
4. Training colleagues
STAGE 7: SHARING AND DISSEMINATING
SETTING UP A PROJECT
1. Teachers connect on the eTwinning Desktop
2. They develop and register the project on Desktop
3. Both NSS approve project
4. Then teachers can start work on the Twinspace with
pupils
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TYPES OF PROJECTS
Documentary : research, collaborative reports and experiments, biographies, travel journals, …
Collaborative Fiction Writing : fairy tales, detectivestories…
Pen pal: exchanging messages about a theme.
Newspapers: writing about a theme.
THEMES FOR PROJECTS ABOUT WATER
Water and citizenship : water consumption, waste, lifestyles
Interdependancy around the Mediterranean: pollution, currents…
Water and economic, social development
Water in its different states (solid, liquid, gas)
WATER CONSUMPTION ACTIVITY
Activity suggested by Eric Vayssié, eTwinning ambassador
1. Define time period, measurements, parental agreement
2. Pupils track water consumption daily/weekly usingwater meter
3. Partners share data (on Twinspace, Google document)
4. Compare data and ask questions: find explanation for similarities, differences
5. [Extension] Brainstorm between classes : collaborative guidelines for responsible water use
ACTIVITY MODEL
Choose theme and goal with partners
1. Observe local environment: water use, flora/fauna
2. Collect data
Water meter, local weather, plant growth…
3. Compare data with partner countries
4. Find explanation for similarities, differences:
Small scale, individual explanation: baths for the wholefamily vs. showers
Large scale : geography, climate, local industries
21ST CENTURY PEN PALS
« Picture yourself », a projectfor and about teenagers
PICTURE YOURSELF
Claudine Coatanéa, English, Upper secondary
Project type: multimedia corresponspondance
Theme: teenagers’ lives
Countries: Spain, Poland, France
15-18 year old pupils
Language used: English
« Taking pictures as a starting point, the students write and interact about teenage related topics: their lifestyles, their background and environments, their icons, their worries and concerns. The idea is to share their experiences with other European teenagers while improving their English and reinforcing their ICT skills.”
PROJECT ACTIVITIES
A succession of activities over 8 months. For example :
Ice breaking activities, individual and group : « e-show and tell », « our school »
« Story of my daily life » : photos montage, would youlike to be in my shoes.
« Let me show you how to… »: video tutorials
« The music we like »: debates using interactive wall, collaborative European playlist
« STORY OF MY DAILY LIFE »
1. Take 7 pictures at different times of day (school daymostly), record sound
2. Small groups (3-4): choose 1 photo for each time of day, then explain why this photo, what moment it represents, what you do and how you feel at that time of day. A time you like? Why/why not?
Groups produce powerpoint presentations (Fanny and Dina’s)
« STORY OF MY DAILY LIFE »
3. Compare routines between countries: would you like to be in my shoes? Whose life is easier / harder? What is the best/worst moment in our daily lives?
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French schedule:
Step 1 (indiv): Nov 7-8th
Step 2 (groups): in class, Nov 21st
Step 3 (on TwinSpace, forum): in class, Nov 28th
GOAL, « GO OUTSIDE AND LEARN ». MATHS, ENGLISH
Siegfried Maillard (maths, lower secondary)http://bit.ly/1ab0p8l
Concept: using maths to solve real life problems, …likeconverting, translating and eating apple pie!
Pupils: 13-15
Project type: documentary, problem solving
Language: English
Countries: France, Poland, Finland, Spain, Croatia, Slovenia
VIRTUAL TRAVEL JOURNAL
A Simple Collaborative Project
Idea: Present our school, city,… to our partners, and vice versa
Problem: a little disappointing because there’s no cooperation
PROJECT IDEA…
Each class will make a Virtual Travel Journal for their partner class
Cooperation: exchanging and transforminginformation about each other’s environments
INSTEAD …
1. Gather information and send it to their partners (mixed nationality small groups…)
2. Organize, interpret partners’ information
3. Create a travel journal for their partners’ country
4. Send their journal and receive the partners’ journal
BOTH CLASSES :
1. Research + data selection about our ownenvironment. Necessary for the partners, mustn’t let them down!
2. Need to receive info : waiting, discovering partners’ environment
MOTIVATION
3. Creating Journals: discovering and understandinginformation about partners’ environment, thentransforming it into something new
4. Curiosity : how will the partners perceive and presentour environment? How will they perceive us?
MOTIVATION
Length is up to you
Different possible focuses :
Environment: school/home/neighborhood/region…
Themes: history, environmental issues, music, literature…
Paths: daily path to school, local festivals, leisure…
Etc.
ORGANIZATION
Objective, general, macrosocial
History, famous people+events, literature…
Statistics, maps, press clippings
Personal, subjective, microsocial
Pupils themselves
« What I like in my neighborhood… »
« The city when my grandmother was young… »
Drawings, photos, texts
2 KINDS OF INFORMATION
Images: photos, maps, postcards, video
Texts: articles, collected data, literary texts
Objects: real objects, scanned/photographed
Sounds: from pupils’ environment, music
MATERIALS
Have a great seminar!