The Greek National Holiday on 28th October

Pupils become reporters and write about major events and celebrations taking place throughout the school year.

An important school celebration

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Our Hometowns and Regions

We have prepared presentations for the other children to see where
we come from, what is worth seeing in our regions and get an idea
on how we spend our time.

England and us

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Quimper our home town[team1]

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Plovdiv city (2)

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Plovdiv province (bulgaria)

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Serres region

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The best known places in poland

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Traditions of catalunya sp

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Catalonia[1] sp

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Catalonia sp

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Who We Are

We decided that the content of our first issue should be relevant to who we are
and contain information about our schools, our hometowns and regions.

You can see here the Greek school's presentation

Pentapolis school and region

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Ivan vazov language school[1]

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I bartłomiej nowodworski secondary school.2(3)

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Our lycée

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The School from Barcelona:

Our school sp

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Final Products

The final products of our project will thus be:

• several issues of the magazine 
• presentation at our schools
• dissemination  to the local community
• a wide range of benefits with respect to pedagogy since:

-          students learn about cultures of the participating schools

-          they explore topics they find interesting, develop their interests

-          students develop and practice the skill of writing interesting articles

-          they become less afraid of being criticized and express their opinion more openly

-          students learn constructive criticism

-          they apply to copy rights while preparing their articles

-          students use various tools to prepare the articles

-          they spontaneously initiate communication with other participants of the project

Means and Tools to be used

A variety of means and tools are to be used, such as:    

Chat and email
Software (powerpoint, videos, photos, collage, podcasts)
Audio and/or videoconference
Blog
Virtual learning environment
forum

Process

The course of our actions is planned as follows:

1^st month-October 2010

• Create the groups of pupils in each school
• Bonding of the group members through experiential activities (icebreakers etc)

2^nd month-November 2010

• Brainstorming for the magazine’s name and the frequency of issues released
• the participants learn to operate TwinSpace and acquire user names and passwords
• publishing of information about their schools, cities and counties (1st Issue: About Our Schools)

An issue per month (until June 2011)

• At the main stage students write their articles and submit them to the teachers, who check the works and approve of them. When ready articles are published. In particular:

1^st step

-          Discussion over the choice of topics to be covered

-          Sub-groups with common topics

-          Plan of work

-          Assigning tasks

2^nd step     

-          Presentation of the first draft

-          Discussion-editing

3^rd step      

-          Presentation of the final form of the text

-          Error correction

-          the articles are available to participants of the project and their guests.

-          The authors of articles (from any issue) and editors (teachers) are entitled to comment all the articles.

• To sum up the project (at the end of the school year) the special issue is released concerning personal experience of the project by participants.
• The incorporation of the project in the educational process will take place by covering everyday school events and the cross-curricular approach, according to which subjects such as English and national languages, ICT and any other subjects relevant to the topics of each article will be involved in producing our stories.

Our Goals

In particular, our objectives are, in terms of :

1.      Knowledge: Our pupils to learn how to :

·         read and write texts belonging to different literary genres, in a variety of communicative situations

and to practice

·         reading and writing skills in English

·         using ICT

2.      Skills: The pupils should be able to

·         Read in an active way and write creatively

·         ‘Learn-how-to-learn’ working individually (eg decision making process, research on the internet, bibliography, questionnaires)

·         Process the data they gather

·         Make their own assumptions

·         Collaborate in a democratic way with the other team members

·         Develop their imagination and creativity

1.      Attitudes: The pupils to acquire a positive attitude towards:

·         Different cultures of children of the same age

·         The European dimension of education

·         Expanding their horizons

·         Reading extra-curricular texts/books

·         Their own self (boost their self-esteem) and encouragement of constructive criticism

·         Respect for copy rights