Following the collaboration among some teachers that started two years ago, this new project, whose focus is the future, has been created as an extension and enrichment of the curriculum of English lessons with the support of various Web 2.0 tools and with the collaboration among different schools.
The aim is to encourage the students to improve their skills in English and to
take an interest in learning English while having fun and creating their own
learning materials in a collaborative way.
AIMS
To improve
students' all communicative language skills in English
To focus on extending the student’s vocabulary
To offer students' a means of cooperative learning
To develop students' digital competences
To use innovative applications, teaching techniques and Web 2.0 tools .
To produce their own ideas
To improve cooperative teaching and learning by integrating technology and Web
2.0 tools
To promote a student-centered learning.
To become competent users of ICT tool in education positively.
To develop students' self-confidence and creativity,
To increase their motivation towards English course.
To give students the opportunity to get to know different cities, cultures and
schools and make new friends. To make English a fun lesson.
Each country had to suggest a logo that would be part of the common one and also a poster that would take part in a competition.
Half of our group made logos and a poll was made to choose our representative.
David's was chosen:
These are the logos suggested by all the teams.
The same happened with posters.
Olai's was the chosen one:
We voted for the final poster for the project:
And the poster chosen for the project was the one made by the team from Mehmet Azman Çavuş Secondary School in Balikesir, Turkey.
Here you can see the posters made by all the teams.
These are all the logos and posters made by the Spanish team.
Our first important activity had to do with Code Week. We created an event for the Europe Code Week: all the groups would code using Pixel Art, a simple technique to start coding, and the others would decode these works.
We put all the students' wonderful works together in a book.
The students had great fun decoding their partners' codes.
Finally, teachers and students got their certificates for taking part in CodeWeek 2021.
And we also got our 'Certificates of Excellence'.
We wanted to show our towns / villages to our partners.
The next activity had to do with the future. The students in mixed groups made predictions about different topics: home, education, public safety, traffic / transportation, health, diet, communication and entertainment. After that, they made cards with them and they were used to make a video where they made predictions about their mates' future.
We also made a time capsule for all the things we wanted to save for the future.
This is the result of all time capsules:
It was time to work on what fashion will be like in the future.
First, students discussed on the forum about fashion in 30 years' time.
Then, each team was in charge or designing a future item of clothing.
bag
1.Arzu Körpeoğlu' s Team
Blouse
2.Demet Koçoğlu's Team
Boots
3.Emanuela De Marco' s Team
Cap/hat
4.Fatma Özmen Ersoy' s Team
Dress
5.Gamze Kaya' s Team
flip-flops
6.Inna Kim' s Team
gloves
7.Isabel Redondo Vigil' s Team
hoddie
8.Katarina Arnaud-Nitze' s Team
necklace
9.Katerina Didila
jeans
10.Lúcia Tardão' s Team
jumper
11.Margherita Rizzuto' s Team
pyjamas
12.Maria Chistol' s Team
raincoat
13.Maria Grazia Monaco' s Team
ring
14.Marina Orazi' s Team
Scarf
15.Marlena Ochocka' s Team
Shirt/T-shirt
16.Nino Chkhetia' s Team
shorts
17.Oana Crihană' s Team
skirt
18.Rita Filippetti ' s Team
sneakers
19.Serhan Arı' s Team
socks
20.Tuğçe Akyol' s Team
sunglasses
21.Violeta Nazarska' s Team
sweater
22.Waldemar Cymes ' s Team
tie
23.Yonka Dyulgerova' s Team
trousers
24.Yusuf DELİER' s Team
umbrella
25.Zehra ŞENTÜRK' s Team
vest
26.Zuhal Hande KAYABEY' s Team
Wallet
27. Ş.Sedef Aktas' s Team
We were responsible for GLOVES.
The students designed their own ideas, then they were shown in class, where there was a poll to choose the best.
Gonzalo had the winning idea.
These are all the ideas that appeared.
Then it was handcraft time.
Students had to think about materials, ornaments, .... There was a common book to write the instructions to make the items and finally a model would be made and a video recorded.
This is how Gonzalo talked about his idea.
This is the collaborative video with all the items.
Here you can find our fashion alphabet book.
We also played a game called JEWELS OF WISDOM based on this activity.
In December came one of the best parts of a project: meeting partners online.
We had an online meeting with the Italian team from Pescara, Italy.
Finally, we sang together the Christmas song 'Feliz Navidad' with English and Spanish lyrics.
This is our wonderful meeting.
We dealt with the topic of holidays in class and we made a travel brochure based on the countries involved in the project.
Christmas came and we wished the best to all our partners.
The new year started and we had a new task.
We thought about jobs of the future. Each team chose one, we chose SPACE TOURISM OPERATOR.
Then we had to write and make a presentation about them and also a Quizziz game. In the presentation we described the activities and skills that the job would involve and we added images related to it.
Some of us volunteered to draw the images related to our choice:
In January we met the students from Konyaalti (Turkey).
We played a Kahoot based on the project activities and we showed how much we know about it since Miguel came 3rd, Mateo and Lucas 2nd and Nora 1st.
Then we asked and answered questions about our countries. Unfortunately, we didn't have much time for that.
It was so enjoyable!!! We hope we'll meet again to continue having fun and learning.
In order to celebrate Safer Internet Day we made a collaborative infographic about safety rules on the net. Each team chose a letter of the alphabet and wrote a rule starting with that letter. These rules would be used to play a Kahoot in an online meeting.
We had a meeting where some students talked about eSafety rules and then all the participants played a Kahoot about them and there were certificates for the top 5 students.
In February we had a wonderful meeting with the project founders' teams from Turkey.
We watched two videos about our countries and we played a Kahoot about them.
Then we introduced each other by telling our names and hobbies.
We learnt and we had lots of fun.
A week later we had another meeting with Turkish partners, this time Sedef's and Yusuf's students.
It was good fun and we learnt a lot.
Teachers introduced themselves, some students too (unfortunately, there wasn't time for all of them to introduce themselves), we watched videos about both countries and we played a game about them, we also saw two presentations about the Turkish cities and another one about words that are similar in both languages that were read by Spanish and Turkish students.
Of course, we'd love to meet them again.
In March teachers held their second online meeting.
They talked about the activities to be done and had their Ukranian partners in mind so it was agreed that some special activities would be done to show them their support.
In the next activity we wrote collaborative stories.
There were 6 mixed international groups, each of them mentored by a teacher, to write about 6 different topics:
1. Environment
2. Hi tech
3. Entertainment
4. Space
5. Communication
6. Human Survival
10 students from different teams wrote the story collaboratively on the forum, and another team made drawings, told the story and finally, made a video.
We were in charge of making the video about space.
This is our paper slide space video:
And these are the other teams':
ENTERTAINMENT
COMMUNICATION
ENVIRONMENT
HI-TECH
And this is the resulto with all of them together.
Our Italian partner, Maggie, made a game based on them.
Then Ukraine was attacked by Russia and we wanted to send our Ukranian partners our support.
In our high school all our students wanted to share their feelings and their support.
In order to celebrate Earth Day, the Spanish team made posters with tips to protect our planet and our environment, which are essential for our future.
Our final task was a game / evaluation of all the project.
The students in mixed international teams prepared questions and answers about all the activities done in order to make an online questionnaire.
