Little classroom open eyes to the large world.pptx
1. Open our eyes to the large world
Tóthné Bán Gyöngyi
Primary School Balatonboglár
www.dondi.wikispaces.com
www.lifeinourcountries.wikispaces.com
dondi645@gmail.com
Hungary
2. Club Boglarangol
Small classroom in a small county
• Europe
• Hungary
• Balatonboglár
• Primary School Balatonboglár
• Boglarangol penpal club
• Open☺
• Closed☹
3. Our aim
• To know more about the world outside our classroom
• To help others to know more about Hungary
• Learn –practise language
4. Collaboration: open our eyes to the world
Collaborations
• Skype sessions
• Google hangouts
• Letters
• Mails
• Projects
• Join partners’ projects
• Create projects
• Planning projects with partners
5. Skype sessions
Online meetings
• Mystery skype sessions
• Cultural skype sessions
• Music skype sessions
• Christmas skype sessions
• Games to play
6. Problems
1. Language level
2. Time zones
3. School periods
4. Different thinkings
5. Technical problems
(sound,picture, net)
7. Mystery skype sessions• Find out the partners location
• WH questions
• Yes/No questions
• All over the world
• More than 60 school
• 20 countries
• Asia, Africa,
• Europe,
• Australia
• America
• ( Antarctica) Murdoc
8. Skype video message
More than 7 hours time difference
• Sending skype video message
• New Zealand
• Japan
• Australia
• Singapore
• USA, Iowa, California
9. Cultural skype sessions
Topics
• Coutry
• Town
• Holidays
• Food
• School life
• Weather
• Folk culture
• Traditions
• Houses, buildings
10. Music skype session
Music
• Classical music
• Folk music
• Child music
• Songs
• Teaching songs
• Singing songs
Holiday skype sessions
• Different traditions
• How do we celebrate
• Traditional food
• Traditional music
• Folk culture
11. Games we played ( smaller ones)
• Simon says (USA)
• Animal game ( USA)
• Animal bingo (USA)
• Action game ( USA)
• Hobby game ( Canada)
• Picture game (Sweden)
• Language game ( Pakistan)
• Character barchoba ( Canada)
12. Writing mails
E-mails
• Digital classroom
• Email address
USA, Canada, India. Thaiwan
Letters
• See, touch, feel☺
USA, Canda, Ireland
Mixed projects
• Mails, skype, videos Longer
• Return –more times
13. We join and learn
• Voicethread ( 1st☺ USA)
• Seed Project ( Virginia Beach)
• Story writing project (USA)
• Peace project-flags ( Uzbegistan)
• Glogsters ( Croatia)
• Poetry ( Russia)
• Holidays ( USA)
14. Our partners
Global Virtualm Classroom
Website building game
3 schools, 3 different countries
Find a topic
6 months long
HLWskypers
Get partners
ePals
To get partners
Mails
Projects
Videos
Drawings
Glogsters
