This document outlines an eTwinning project called "Our City" taking place from October 25th to November 5th, 2010. The project involves pupils aged 14-18 from 9 schools in 7 European countries sharing photos and information about their cities through online tools. Students will take photos of places, people, and monuments in their cities and write short descriptions in English to give their partners a sense of their region. They will communicate via TwinSpace, Flickr, blogs, and Skype to learn about each other's local cultures and identities while improving their digital skills. The goals are for pupils to learn about regional diversity, develop multimedia and communication skills, and understand their shared identity as Europeans.

1. OUR CITY
eTwinning project plan
25 october -5 november 2010

2. Partners:
∀ • Giulio Prevedello: Technical Institute – Italy
∀ • Biserka Kamenova: Vocatonal school –Bulgaria
∀ • Nadina Carmen Nicolici: Technical College - Romania
∀ • Victoria Pavlenko: Technical College, Latvia
∀ • Alena Jandlova: Commercial High School, Czech Republic
∀ • Veronique Sanguinetti: High school, FRANCE
∀ • Maricela Tuchiac: Colegiul Agricol, Romania
∀ • Mihaela Anton: - Colegiul Economic, Romania
∀ • Daniela Grecu: Art High School, Romania
• Liliana Rossetti - High School, Italy

3.
Details:
• Pupils’ age : 14- 18 years old
• Language: English
• Duration: 2 months
• School type: high school, technical institute / vocational upper
school

4. Short description
Pupils from partner schools create a photo album presenting their city.
Pupils take and upload photos of places, people, interesting monuments,
etc., in order to give a profile of their region and life there.
Students write short texts in English to describe the pictures. They present
their city / region to their project partners.
Students will write letters to their partners according to the schedule and the
letters will be combined by the quizzes which will be created by students.

5. Goals
Pupils improve their ICT skills by learning more about the places where their
partners live.
They learn about regional originality of different countries.
Develop skills in the use of multimedia tools in order to present photos or
create photo slide presentations; improve communication and research skills.
Make students aware of their local identity and its importance.
To make students realise that we all live in one large family the EU.
We are different, we have different customs, festivals, and foods but on the
other hand we are the same.

6. ICT TOOLS
• TwinSpace
• Picasa or Flickr
• Blogger, WordPress
• Slideshare presentation
• Skype
• Magazine factory

7. Pedagogical basis
• Pupils can examine their own locality and compare it with those of other
places, so international collaboration can be encouraged.
• Move towards an education for diversity and multiplicity.
• Provide to pupils, the tools and flexibility needed to move from a cultural
identity to another without too much fear.
• Students become aware of the importance of collaborating. They discover
their project partners by discovering themselves.

8. Working methods
• Each class discusses and chooses a series of monuments, landmarks
and/or other interesting places in their area.
• Pupils search for images of the places they have chosen or take their own
digital photos, if possible.
• The photos are then uploaded into a gallery in the TwinSpace or in Picasa
• Partners discuss the gallery using the TwinSpace chat or website
Magazine Factory and vote for the most interesting photo.
To see the Working methods in detail go to the link:
PROJECT PLAN "OUR CITY”