Turkey. Week 2

We decide to prepare a video to share with the students in Catalunya and in Latvia to show a day in our school. They have a limited language in English as they have been learning English for only 7 months.We decided what they could talk to present on the video all together. They wrote their own sentences in groups of two with my little help of course.:) We made videos in 3 days and here they are .....Class 3-A from Ç.E.K 3 Mart İlköğretim Okulu ,Turkey.
PART 1
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTwus7_acQY
PART 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvWhBzJ7Wps

Turkey. Week 1

The first week I did a 30 minutes presentation to my students after my travel to Graz. I showed the pictures I took and told them about. They were very excited to see their teachers as a student and about everything I told them about my days and my friends and my teachers in Graz. I showed them the map of Europe,Austria and Graz.And asked them if they had ever been there. Nobody had.And then I asked if anyone have experienced abroad.Some of them had.They told us about their travels. I mostly asked questions about  their feelings of being abroad. Later on I told them about our project and asked if they were ready to help me.They were very excited. I told them that they will meet 2 new countries and new foreign friends where they will be in contact on the blog. AlsoI told them that I didn't know much about Latvia and Catalunya and I would be very happy to learn more with them.Our responsibilities about the project and the deadline was an other important point we should agree on.
I asked them to think about the two countries that evening and take some notes what they would like to know.The next day they were almost ready with their ideas.We made a mind map on the board.There were lots of topics which each of the sudents could easily work on one.For example where should we see in Barcelona ,what is the climate like in La tvia,what are their favourite food,their folk dances,famous people of Latvia and Catalunya and examples of their work,their map,population,their flag,important cities and capitals,famous pop singers and songs,alphabets etc.I wrote a small note for the parents and explained what we will do for the project and asked their help.Because my students are only at the age of 9 or 10 :).By this way,parents would help their children to search for information on net ,related with their topic,share knowledge and share time with them.I told my students to get clear and important information only.They had plenty of time for the search at the weekend.On Monday,they did a presentation about their own topics and showed us related pictures.And then, we prepared a corner on the noticeboard just in the school hall for everybody's interest.

 

Latvia. Week 3

During this week students made presentations of their lifestyles. They presented their town, daily routines, themselves. Some students (having their parents permission) gave their e-mail addresses to put on the blog for students of other countries-they really want to make friends with them.

OUR TOWN-GROBIŅA

 River – Ālande

There is a wonderful river which flows through our town. We can swim and go fishing there.

Castle ruins

A beautiful place – we have parties there in summer and there is a nice park around for walking.

Chatolic church
One of the churches in our town.

„Crane square”

A nice place in the center of the town – the main square- there are lots of flowers every season.

Lutheran church

The oldest church in our town.

Sports center

A place where we spend our free time-we can do lots of different sports there. It’s a new and interesting building.

Hey, students from Spain and Turkey! There are our e-mail addresses if you want to make friends with us:

Sintija - sintija.ru@inbox.lv

Marta - martatreilone@inbox.lv  or find me on Facebook - Marta Treilone

Jānis - jkronbergs@inbox.lv

Elīna - udovenkoelina@inbox.lv  or find me on Facebook - elina 2005

Agnese - mazais.tene@inbox.lv or find me on Facebook - Agnese Tene

Dana - danalanka@inbox.lv

Dāvids - superdachs@inbox.lv or find me on Facebook - Dāvids Vorobjovs

Laura - laurapriedolta@inbox.lv

Valdis - valdisotankis@inbox.lv or find me on Facebook - Valdis Otaņķis

We all hope to hear from you soon!!!



SPAIN: Week 2

The next step was to search for information about Latvia and Turkey in groups and prepare a mindmap in a poster.

They found out about the capital city, the official language, the flag, the approximate population and the currency of each country.

SPAIN: Week 1

 Students took pictures of some parts of the school to make a presentation.


https://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0B-0_JzVpGDjBNmEzMGI2ODUtNjQ1Mi00ZmQzLWFmYzUtNjlhMmQzYTAwYTIw&hl=en_US&authkey=CI-40_gK

Latvia. Week 2

During this week:

• we did a brainstorming activity in order to find out what topics students would like to share with students from other two countries. There is the result:

                 OUR SCHOOL                                                                                             OUR TOWN

Buildings                                                                        buildings

Classrooms                                                                    events

Teachers

students                 

                                       OUR LIFESTYLES

               OUR HOLIDAYS                                                                                          OUR WEEKDAYS

national food/drinks                                                daily routines

national holidays                                                     hobbies

customs/habits                                                      

• I divided students into two groups and students had a homework - to search for some information about Turkey (one group) and Spain (another group). After in the classroom they made prosters about Turkey and Spain and gave presentations to others.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Latvia. Week 1

First Latvian students decided to present themselves by a video. This video was made by themselves so it doesn't have a high quality but Ī (as a teacher) think that the most important thing in teaching is to let students do themselves as much as it's possible because only through doing and feeling that they are involved and responsible and a teacher accepts their ideas make teaching and learning process successful.

P.S. There are some students missing on that day, but there will be a chance to meet them later...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31-dzxwmadg

Structure of activities

These are some of the activities you can prepare in each step (before the project, during the project and after the project). It's been generalised, you will also find the activities for our own project in Daily Routines very soon.

- Before the project
1- Mindmap: basic concepts joined by lines to see the connections.
2- Brainstorming: what do you know about the topic? what do you want to know?

- During the project
1- Searching for info: in small groups of  3-4.
2- Preparing the presentation: power point, pictures, posters, etc.

- After the project
1- Final presentation to other classes.
2- Include a brief explanation of all in the school's magazine

EXPECTED PRODUCTS & RESULTS

The blog which will be updated every week to share the products and results.

EVALUATION PLAN

During the project there will be reflections on each step individually by the participants.
At the end of the project we´ll build a common conclusion.

ROLES & RESPONSABILITIES OF PARTNERS

Every partner will equally work on the creation of the activities and updating of the blog.

USE OF ICT

- Blog: for students and teachers work.
- Email: to share ideas with partners.
- Facebook: to share ideas with other colleagues from the European teacher´s chain.
- Moodle: to exchange all the information with the other members of the European Teachers´ chain.

WORK PROGRAMME: SCHEDULE

- WEEK 1 (25th April -1st May)
Email partners to share ideas about the activities for each step and add them to the blog.

- WEEK 2 (2nd May -8th May)
Pre-activities before the project.

- WEEK 3 (9th May-15th May)
While activities during the project.

- WEEK 4 (16th May -22nd May)
Post-activities after the project.

- WEEK 5 (23rd May -29th May)
Try-out & Reflections.

- WEEK 6 (30th May -5th June)
Evaluation of the project.

OBJECTIVES

1- Put some techniques in common to use in projects.
2- Set up the guidelines including the activities to use before, during and after the project.
3- Create a blog.
4- Share ideas with other European teachers.

TOPIC

Guidelines for teachers on how to make students work on an international project.

Welcome message

Dear colleagues,
Thank you for visiting our blog. We are 3 partners of a European Teachers´ project (ETSize) and we are here to help you in the process of developing an international project with your students. We will share our experiences in each step, so follow us! ;)
Our project focuses on students aged 9-12 and will last til the end of this course.
We hope this will be helpful.

Inga - Latvia
Ebru - Turkey
Anabel - Catalunya