3. DETAILS
Age of the pupils: 10-14
Used language: English
Duration: 4 weeks
School type: Primary/
Secondary school
4. SHORT DESCRIPTION
Pupils from different schools and countries
- Communicate and exchange material (presentations,
short films, photos and data) around the theme of
November;
- Record and compare the weather, the landscape
this season;
- Describe autumn tales or customs and
festivities in their towns;
- Describe their daily life this time of
the year.
5. GOALS
- To improve pupils’ communication skills using ICT;
- To encourage them to know about other cultures and
lifestyles.
- To enhance their social skills (cooperation, decision
making, organising and presenting themselves and their
lives)
- To enhance teachers’ social skills
(cooperation, decision making and
coordinating a project) in order to achieve
professional development
6. ICT TOOLS
- PowerPoint / Smilebox (for the photo presentation);
- Imagechef (to make a logo for the project);
- Forum (introductions and short discussions);
- Chat;
- e-books (www.myebook.com);
- wiki (www.wikispaces.com) or googlesites
as final product;
- animoto.com can be used to prepare videos
- blogger or wordpress for blogging
7. PEDAGOGICAL BASIS
- Cooperative learning;
- Encouragement of pupils’ making decisions and taking
responsibilities;
- Project work and motivating all pupils to participate
taking into consideration their different
skills and abilities
- Creative use of ICT
