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Project
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PROJECT
TITLE |
e-magazine – The Bridges |
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Short
Summary |
The Bridges is an internet based electronic magazine which tries
to publish students’ articles from the countries world wide. |
| School:
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Solkan Primary School (Osnovna sola Solkan) |
| Country: |
Slovenia |
| Partner
schools:
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different schools from Europe and beyond |
| Classes:
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from 4 to 8 or first classes of secondary schools |
| Project
team: |
teachers of English or mother tongue and computering (at our
school: Viljenka Savli) |
| Project
coordinator:
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Viljenka Savli |
| Contact
person (name,
surname, e-mail address): |
Viljenka Savli , vili@mirk.si |
| Link
to the
Project:
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http://www2.arnes.si/~bridges/ |
| Collaborative
work at school:
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We
have invited students from all over the world to present their
school life and towns or countries, teachers and students have
discussed the given topics, they used word processor and e-mail
or html editors to create articles, they learned how to take
photos or scan pictures, they published ideas in Forum.
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| Technological
tools:
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computer, internet, e-mails, tools for writing, scanner, digital
camera… |
| Socrates
Programme:
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YES
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NO
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| Distance
Collaboration (among
Partners): |
YES
o
NO o
e-mail, forum, chat |
| RESOURCES |
Internal
(from your school) |
External
(outside your school) |
Costs |
| Human |
A team of Teachers
with competencies in English, Multimedia tools, |
Local journalists |
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| Facilities
(rooms, labs, etc) |
Classroom, Computer Lab |
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Equipment
(PC,
videorecorder, cameras...) |
Digital Camera, Computer, Scanner, Printer, html Editor |
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| Funds |
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| Other |
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Objectives |
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Overall objectives |
We wish to build our magazine called Bridges with a help of
different contributions from schools all over the world. We
gather written stories, illustrations, photographs, letters and
interesting news. We expect groups of students (up to 17
year-old) from different schools to: write their articles,
create photographs and drawings, animated gifs, write
questionnaires about their country or place, collect funny
stories, present their successful internet projects, discuss
music and hobbies, present snapshots of their place and school,
present their school or personal homepages, reveal their habits
and tradition. It’s an on-going project |
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Specific
objectives |
Find partners for publishing articles and images. Only simple
information via e-mail was needed and the teams of teachers and
students at different schools simply did their tasks and
presented them.
Giving information, collecting articles and publishing them. |
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Study
skills |
Learning to learn, learning to write an article or a poem and
use the computer tools for writing, expressing the feelings with
the help of poems, organizing materials, using other resources
(camera, Computer, e-mail Internet, printer, scanner, gif
animator…) Editing a magazine (a group of students aged 13-14
did that). |
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Social
skills |
Cooperation, exchange and evaluation of articles, |
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Subjects involved
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Sociology, history, tradition, geography |
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PROJECT
DESCRIPTION |
| Duration: |
School
year: on-going project
From: October
To: May
each school year |
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Children worked on the Project |
for ______ hours a
day
/ a
week
/ a
month
Depends how many articles they write, or how many people they
interviewed, the editing takes them quite a lot of time, I help
them with the layout and publishing on the web. |
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Teachers worked on the Project
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for ______ hours a
day
/ a
week
/ a
month
Depends on the number of students involved. I as a coordinator
worked one to two hours per week. |
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Work
has been done
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in
the class / at home
Work has been done in class and at home |
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Short description of how the Project has been
carried out
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Our project is a kind of collaborative project and could be also
developed into a better one with the right internet environment
– for direct submitting of the articles.
1) How work has been organized either in class and at
home (i.e. individually/in pair/ in small groups/all class)
The work was done at school. Teachers gathered groups of
students – different age groups and they discussed different
topics and students strated to write the articles. After they
have finished them they together evaluated them and selected the
best ones for the magazine. They were taught how to select them
– criterion. Teachers send the chosen articles or students
themselves did it to our address and they were edited by a group
of students and published in our e-magazine.
2) How the work has been shared among children: children
chose the best articles for the magazine
Children shared their work in their classrooms and on the net.
Partner schools organised it their own way.
3) How resources have been used/managed
As this project isn’t meant to be funded we didn’t think about
this topic. |
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USE
OF TECHNOLOGICAL TOOLS
Short
description of how technological tools have been
used |
Technological
tools
(videocamera/camera/digital
camera/computer/Internet/scanner/printer) |
videocamera/camera/digital
camera/computer/Internet/scanner/printer |
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Users
(teachers/children/experts): |
Teachers and students |
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Where
(at home/at school):
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At school – wordprocessor, digital camera, scanner, internet,
e-mail, forum, editor for html |
How |
In the computer classroom children worked in groups (different
partners in different ways). Tools utilized: Word, Internet,
FTP, html editor. Teacher supervised, mentoring, advising. |
| WORKPLAN |
| Activity |
Responsable |
Expected
outcome |
When
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brainstorming |
Teachers/students |
Ideas and mindmaps |
week
1 |
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Using a computer tool for writing |
students |
drafts |
Week
2 |
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Creating articles |
students |
articles |
Week
3 |
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Selecting best |
Teachers/students |
Article selection |
Week
3 ... |
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Sending articles to us |
Teachers/students |
Editing them –html andPublishing them on the net |
At the
end of the year |
| PROBLEMS/BARRIERS |
Lack of cooperation among teachers and late submission of
articles, difficulties in using certain ICT tools, organizing
the students’ work and collaboration among them, Problems in
sharing tools and camera Quality of the tools and PCs, not
many teachers are experts in the use of technological tools for
editing web pages, not good enough internet access |
| WAYS
TO OVERCOME
PROBLEMS/BARRIERS |
Helping teachers to acquire competences in the use of
technological tools needed for the success of the Project
Training children how to use html editors, how to create web
pages, write articles for magazines and to express their ideas
in English
Training children in the use of technological tools, learning
English through collaboration with other students
Convincing authorities and heads of schools that students need
good equipment for their work |
| EVALUATION |
| Evaluation
worksheets of operative
objectives |
e-mail questionnaires |
| Feedback
from students |
Articles and opinions |
| Feedback
from parents |
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| Feedback
from teachers |
e-mail answers |
| Other |
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OUTCOME
DISSEMINATION |
| Wall-charts
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| Article
on school/local/district
magazine |
articles on the local radio |
| Brochure |
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| Multimedia
products |
powerpoint presentations |
| Exhibition |
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| Website |
http://www2.arnes.si/~bridges/ |
| Seminar/Panel
session |
Infos rair Ljubljana, ESP conference |
| Other |
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I allow to
publish the above information on the ECOLE website
(www.ecolenet.nl) : YES
o NO
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