Module 5 #TwinMOOC

PROJECT PLAN

PROJECT NAME

Discovering the World through the Eyes of My Friends

AGE OF STUDENTS:
5- 9 years old

NUMBER OF SCHOOLS:
Two partner schools

PROJECT LANGUAGES:

English  and the native language of students

SUBJECTS: Art, Music, Social Studies, Foreign Languages

ABSTRACT:

Not all of children have the opportunity to travel, visit and discover first-hand different parts of the world. Through this project the children can collaborate with students from other countries. They will make presentations of their countries, they will compare and contrast different holiday traditions, they will teach each other holiday greetings using ICT tools . The final product of the project will be a Padlet containing children's thoughts on what they learned and discovered during the project.

OBJECTIVES:

-          Collaborate with other students using the Twinspace;

-          Develop critical thinking skills by analyzing, comparing and contrasting different holiday traditions;

-          Build connections with peers from other countries;

-           Enhance children's' knowledge about holiday traditions in their country and in other countries  using collaboration activities with their peers from the partner school.

-           Develop communication skills in the native language and English;

-          Create a joint learning journal using Padlet

WORK PROCESS

-          Project estimated time : 1 year

1.      The students and teachers will introduce themselves using Twinspace. At this time they will discuss with the students the objectives and the activities of the project, and they will make a presentation of their country/city/school.

2.      In November each class will decide upon a holiday tradition they will present for their partners.

3.      In December a on-line meeting will be held. During this meeting each class will present their tradition. Together, the students from the partner schools will compare and contrast their traditions. They will complete a Venn Diagram for this with the help of their teachers. They will use Padlet to record Christmas wishes for each other. They will each help learn easy Christmas wishes in English and the native language of the participants.

4.      For Easter there will be a activity similar with the one in December, but the focus will be on Easter traditions.

5.      End of the school year activity -  "This is What I saw through my friends' eyes" - poster activity using Padlet. 

EXPECTED RESULTS

-          Presentation journal via Twinspace

-          Christmas Padlet

-          Easter Padlet

-          Learning Log Padlet

Module 4 - Collaboration in eTwinning #twinMOOC

Here is my activity for this module:

https://padlet.com/dolghia1/47llflk2c1k2

MODULE 3 #twinmooc 

PROJECT NAME

Discovering the World Through the Eyes of My Friends

STUDENTS' AGE:
5- 9 years old

NUMBER OF SCHOOLS:
Two - three partner schools

PROJECT LANGUAGE:
English 

ABSTRACT
Not all of children have the opportunity to travel, visit and discover first-hand different parts of the world. Through this project the children can collaborate with students from other countries. They will make presentations of their countries, they will compare and contrast different holiday traditions, they will send each other holiday e-cards. The final product of the project will be a Padlet containing children's thoughts on what they learned and discovered during the project.

GOALS

Collaborate with other students;
-Develop critical thinking skills;
-Build connections with peers from other countries
-Provide interesting learning opportunities;
- Enhance children's' creativity;
- Develop adequate self esteem;
-Build confidence;
- Develop communication skills;

WORK PROCESS

Partners will communicate using E-mail, social media, Padlet.
-Evaluation will be carried out using checklists for the goals/activities, and by analyzing students' work.
- Examples of activities : Power-point presentation of students in the project; on-line meetings, video conferences with the teachers; On-line Christmas meeting with the children from the countries involved in the project; "This is my country/city" - presentations made by children; Christmas e-cards for my friends"; "Holiday traditions in our country" - PPT made by the students; "What's the same/what's different?" - Venn Diagram to compare and contrast holiday traditions in different countries;
"This is What I saw through my friends' eyes" - poster activity using Padlet. 

EXPECTED RESULTS

-Students will collaborate to make presentations of their country/city;
-Students will make/send holiday e-cards for their friends;
- Students will meet on-line and carry-out conversations, exchange opinions;
- Students will compare and contrast holiday traditions;
-Students will make posters to showcase their learning experience.

Module 2

Module 2

As I decided that incorporating technology more often into my kindergarten classes is something I definitely need to work on, that was my focus when going over the best practices in the listy link provided during Module 2. I identified some projects that are extremely interesting form my point of view : "Tasty CLIL 2.0" is my favorite, followed closely by "All about us" and "powerfulnaturekingdom.et".  I plan to use  Storyjumper, Voki, and Padlet with my kids.
 Thank you Olga Milicevic for this list https://list.ly/list/2Wvk-web-tools-in-kindergarten . I found it very useful.

# eTwinning in 280

This Open eTwinning: PBL course is a great opportunity to evolve as a teacher and to improve my teaching skills in order to better guide my kindergarten students in their learning jurney.

You can check-out my 3-2-1 presentation here: https://padlet.com/dolghia/3zhbqveu9p58