The document outlines the 'Talking Cultures' project organized by the British Council, which fosters collaboration among students from various countries through the use of wikis to celebrate and compare cultural differences. It details activities and tools used in different school years, highlights the benefits for both students and teachers, and discusses the impact on students' confidence in language and technology. Additionally, it addresses challenges faced in implementation, such as computer room availability and teacher participation.

1. Talking
Cultures
Sanja Božinović
OŠ Nikole Hribara,Velika Gorica
sanja.bozinovic@skole.hr

2. Talking Cultures:
• organised by British council
• students collaborate on a wiki
• celebrates cultural differences
• an opportunity to compare British
culture with our own
• sharing our culture with students
from other countries

3. School Year 2010/2011
• Talking Cultures: Armenia and Croatia
• http://talkingculturesd.wikispaces.com

4. School Year 2011/2012
• Armenia, Azerbaijan, Croatia, Israel, Kazakhstan,
Macedonia, Russia, Ukraine
• our cluster 7 wiki:
• http://007talkingcultures-2011.wikispaces.com/

5. Collaborating on a wiki
Wiki = Quick in Hawaiian 
http://pbworks.com/
http://www.wikispaces.com/

6. Wiki: why and how?
http://weplayandlearnenglish.pbworks.com

7. The benefits for students
• access to lessons
• autonomous in work
• collaborate
• share
• authentic communication
• protected environment

8. The benefits for the teacher
• easy to set up
• easy to monitor
• free
• easy to start or join a project

9. Setting up a wiki for students
• settings
• content
• design

10. Celebrating cultural differences
• Our tasks on the wiki:

11. Task 1: Introducing a friend
• learning doesn’t
end with the end of
the lesson
• collaborative
writing
• peer correction
• work stays on
display forever

12. Task 1: Introducing a friend
• Voki avatars
(http://www.voki.com/)
recording voice and
listening to others
• learning while using
the tool
• learning about the
internet

13. Task 2: Our town and country
• sharing
research results
• collaborative
writing

14. Our country –
using web 2.0 tools
• Google maps
• Glogster
http://edu.glogster.com/

15. Task 3: Food
• expressing opinion
http://answergarden.ch/
• fun - wordle

16. Task 3: Food
• Writing our
recipes:
-vocabulary building
-responsible use of
the internet

17. Task 4: Famous people
• presenting our
country
• critical thinking
• fodey
http://www.fodey.com/

18. Task 5: Festivals
• turning a real life
event into a lesson
• comparing different
cultures
• glogster

19. More web 2.0 tools
Voicethread
http://voicethread.com/share
/1727091/
-comments in voice and
writing
Wallwisher
http://www.wallwisher.com/
- Sticky notes plus
attachments

20. More web 2.0 tools
• Bighugelabs
http://bighugelabs.com/
• Photopeach
http://photopeach.com/
album/ihrj6d

21. The challenges
• availability of computer room
• getting other teachers from
school to take part

22. The Impact on Students
• more confident in the use of
language
• more confident in the use of
technology
• think critically about topics and
problems
• collaborate


23. @bsanja
sanja.bozinovic@skole.hr