Time flies very quickly. Yesterday children sent letters to their peers and waited for the answers. They could hardly meet, only if they rested in summer camps. Today they can easily chat, Skype, discuss using social network and even create online projects using educational collaborative spaces. This school year my students and I got acquainted with an amazing educational tool- iEARN Collaborative Center. Pupils from all around the world meet there and work together on various projects.
Analyzing different offers we have chosen to participate in One Day in the Life Project. It is a very simple but in the same time a very engaging project. Through this project my students collaborated with pupils from Russia, Uzbekistan and Taiwan. They created Power Point presentations about one day in their life. They shared them with their peers from abroad and were very surprised to see that they have a lot in common with other pupils. The most interesting fact is that after the end of this project we didn’t stop collaborating with one of the countries. Taiwan school proposed to have cultural package exchange and we even decided to Skype in order to find more about each other. The Affiliated High School of Normal University (HSNU) - the name of our school partners, studied about Moldova and we, of course, studied about Taiwan. I hope that our collaboration will continue and it will bring only benefits to our students.
Another project that had a great impact on my students was MY HERO Learning Circles Project. Workings on this project, pupils have learnt about heroes from other countries and they have also understood who their heroes are. They have written essays and created video presentations. Their videos participated in iEARN Moldova National Student Media Conference and won the first and second prize in the nomination “My Hero” video project. Those of my students who didn’t participate in this project got interested and wanted to tell the world about their heroes too. That is why this term we have engaged again in MY HERO Learning Circle Project and started collaborating with pupils from Algeria, Sierra Leone, Russia and Moldova. I am sure that this project will make my students be more creative, sensible and their communicative skills will greatly improve.
I want to thank Daniela Munca-Afteniev and Olga Morozan for the elaboration and implementation of iENGAGE Project, which allowed us, teachers to find so many opportunities to bring diversity in our English classes.
Analyzing different offers we have chosen to participate in One Day in the Life Project. It is a very simple but in the same time a very engaging project. Through this project my students collaborated with pupils from Russia, Uzbekistan and Taiwan. They created Power Point presentations about one day in their life. They shared them with their peers from abroad and were very surprised to see that they have a lot in common with other pupils. The most interesting fact is that after the end of this project we didn’t stop collaborating with one of the countries. Taiwan school proposed to have cultural package exchange and we even decided to Skype in order to find more about each other. The Affiliated High School of Normal University (HSNU) - the name of our school partners, studied about Moldova and we, of course, studied about Taiwan. I hope that our collaboration will continue and it will bring only benefits to our students.
Another project that had a great impact on my students was MY HERO Learning Circles Project. Workings on this project, pupils have learnt about heroes from other countries and they have also understood who their heroes are. They have written essays and created video presentations. Their videos participated in iEARN Moldova National Student Media Conference and won the first and second prize in the nomination “My Hero” video project. Those of my students who didn’t participate in this project got interested and wanted to tell the world about their heroes too. That is why this term we have engaged again in MY HERO Learning Circle Project and started collaborating with pupils from Algeria, Sierra Leone, Russia and Moldova. I am sure that this project will make my students be more creative, sensible and their communicative skills will greatly improve.
I want to thank Daniela Munca-Afteniev and Olga Morozan for the elaboration and implementation of iENGAGE Project, which allowed us, teachers to find so many opportunities to bring diversity in our English classes.