Subjects: Informatics / ICT, Primary School Subjects.
Languages: English
Pupil's age: 6 - 9.
Tools to be used: e-mail, Other software (Powerpoint, video, pictures and drawings), Project Diary, Twinspace, Video conference, Web publishing.
Aims:
• Meet other school systems;
• Share educational activities carried out with ICT in the classroom;
• Build a "deposit" /database activities with ICT;
• Motivate students and teachers in the use of ICT and Web 2.0;
• Develop skills in using ICT;
• Develop skills with Web 2.0 tools.
Work process:
1. Make a short presentation of the classes/groups and their schools, using a Web 2.0 tool to share in the blog (ThingLink http://www.thinglink.com/ or Prezi http://prezi.com/index/).
2. Quiz about our countries in English - ProProfs http://www.proprofs.com/.
3. Creating logo of the project and choosing the best one (Tux Paint http://tuxpaint.org/).
4. Learning in teams - using the Internet to interact with one another and working on a similar topic for a specific length of time. Children are going to give their propositions in https://bubbl.us/ teachers are going to organize a polling in Kwiksurveys. Working on the one topic in all schools concerned in project.
5. Creating Educational comic connected with the main topic of the project (ZooBurst).
6. Teacher Resources, Worksheets and Activities, Presentations (ppt, Prezi) and free resources. Share regularly, an activity carried out with the students, the blog created for that purpose, in virtual learning environments, or by video conference.
7. Evaluation in Popplet http://popplet.com/.
8. In the end, will be a compendium of all the shared activities.
9. The project lasts for one academic year.
Expected results:
• Motivating students and teachers to work with ICT and Web 2.0 tools;
• Developing ICT skills;
• Encourage the use of ICT and Web 2.0 tools in primary school;
• Create a list of activities that can serve as inspiration for other teachers.