Mission accomplished

Mission accomplished!

Final toughts

1. What have you learnt from the course?

I have learnt collaboration through peer review.

2. What are the positive aspects of the MOOC?

·         Peer review and group collaboration.

·         The possibility to access the MOOC and complete the activities at your own time  

·         The opportunity to engage with fellow teachers and share resources, experiences and expecially ideas

3. What are the negative aspects of the MOOC?

I don’t know

4. What would you suggest to improve it?

I’d like to attend webinars on different topics, for instance good practices, use of different tools …

Project: Play with my country

Project: Play with my country

AGE GROUP

Primary school, 8-11 years old

PARTNERS INVOLVED

as many as possible (between 5 and 10)

TIME

Whole school year

MAIN SUBJECTS

Geography, English Language (EFL), ICT

LANGUAGE

English and native languages

TOOLS USED

Twinspace, Google Docs, Kizoa, PowerPoint, Prezi, PowToon, Animoto, Padlet, Kahoot!, LearningApps, Surveymonkey, Tricider, Answergarden…

DESCRIPTION

This project aims to compare geography, cultures, languages… of the partners’ countries and communicate with students from other countries. Students will create a blog where to post messages and simple presentations on several aspects of their country, they will create also online games about geography, culture, food, sports… to test their partners’ knowledge about their country. Some games will be created collaboratively by students of different countries. A mascot will be travelling from school to school. The mascot will be in each school between 15 and 20 days, collecting postcards and messages of each partner’s country , then it will go to the next school according to the schedule which will be published on the project’s TwinSpace (at the end of the project students will have all collection about every partners’ country)

AIMS

1)    Increase students’ knowledge of each own country.

2)   Develop students’ knowledge of some of the cultural features of the partners’ countries;

3)   Increase students’ knowledge of language and cultural diversity in the EU;

4)   Help students feel part of the EU diversity of cultures;

5)   Help students compare their culture with the partners’;

6)   Develop a sense of belonging to an European citizenship;

7)   Develop students' creativity

8)   Increase motivation to communicate in English;

9)   Develop oral and written English skills;

10) Develop ICT skills through the use of different softwares and platforms;

11)  Learn how to use the Twinspace

12) Develop collaborative skills.

13) Develop students’ critical thinking through the project evaluation.

WORK PROCESS

The project will include 9 main activities:

●     introducing each other;

●     creating an online blog

●     getting information about their country;

●     creating presentations about several aspects of their country;

●     creating online games to be played from partners

●     creating online games collaboratively by two or three schools to be played by other partners;

●     viewing presentations made by partners (and learning about their country);

●     playing games made by partners;

●     evaluating the project.

FINAL PRODUCT

A blog made collaboratively by all partners' schools containing all the presentations and all the games made by the students

DISSEMINATION

Link to the blog of the project in each schools’ website.

Presentation of the blog to parents.

Publication of the project and of the main activities in local newspapers.

Unit 4: P2P activity

I received my peer-assessment: 14 out of 16
They were very generous, because I forgot to explain clearly the objectives of this activity and I forgot also to paste the evaluation rubric of the activity (forgive me... it's June!... I'm really tired...it's time for holidays).

Here are some of the comments that I received:

USE OF TECHNOLOGY

I like a way, how your project will be realised. I like idea about mascot travel, collecting postcards. Just how you will share it later. Think about, because, students want to have all collection about everyone partner country. 


FINAL PRODUCTS 
 

You are planing many activities, but final product isn't clearly described. Let's think about.

PEDAGOGICAL OBJECTIVES

there aren`t evaluation criteria, you could add

Additional comments 

I like your idea. You have many interesting activities. I think your students will be happy participating in this project. My best wishes

I'm sure your students enjoy with it. Congratulations!

 

Very interesting activity. The games motivate children and facilitate learning. Congratulations.