My final project plan: Modern Myths

I`m teacher of French in a secondary school in Greece. My students` age is 16-18. In my class I want my students to collaborate and communicate with their eTwinning partners achieving the goals of the foreign language. The project, we will work, is about our tales, the students decide working in groups about their favorable hero and have to create their own stories in collaboration with their partners exchanging ideas. The main goal is the creative writing in the foreign language.

Objectives

-language skills

-communication skills

-collaboration skills

-digital skills

-to develop imagination and creativity

-to write creatively

Communication language: French

Duration: six months

Steps

-Teachers present the project to their students

-teachers and students present themselves on twinspace, also they present their schools, their countries and they know each other.

-All students are divided into multi-national teams, each group will have 4-5 students from as many different countries as possible (depending on the number of partners). The selection of teams will be made by the coordinating teachers, according to some criteria like: age, sex, interests, skills.

-Students are asked to ‘meet’ virtually using online tools: Skype, Google Hangouts, Facebook and to discuss about their favorite mythological heroes and each group to choose two heroes.

--After having decided about the two heroes, each team uses two  titanpads (two titanpads per each group, one per each hero) to write the begging of the story sharing ideas and collaborating on how to carry on the project. Also they use a padlet where they share pictures of theirs stories.

-Each group continues writing the story of another group, exchanging their stories and this process is continued until students to add the end of each story. Sometimes there are two versions of the story, one version ends happily, and another one ends sadly.

-Students are asked to ‘meet’ virtually using online tools: Skype, Google Hangouts, Facebook and to discuss about the stories they have imagined and created in collaboration. They take feedback and they make changes to improve the narration. They also decide which of the stories each group has to present.

-they draw pictures, they take photos, they create videos using moviemaker  or presentations using powtoon or prezzi, or PPT and they upload them on their padlet. Also, they make an e-book using epubeditor, a very interactive tool (each member of the group can collaborate to edit, add pictures, texts etc.). All products are uploaded on twinspace.

-Students are asked to ‘meet’ virtually using online tools: Skype, Google Hangouts, Facebook and to discuss about their products, to take feedback, to make their final products.

-each group works to prepare the final products, the e-book and videos or photo-romans or presentations of their stories, and also they record the narration of each story for a radio show (European school radio).

-Students meet each other virtually, and they present their products (uploaded on the Twinspace) and they discuss about.

-Students have to complete evaluation questionnaires. Teachers present the results to them.

-Each school presents the project to the community and uploads a video on the twinspace.

During the project, teachers encourage students to work and to communicate, to collaborate, they help them with digital tools, and they correct errors. Also, teachers communicate with partners using online tools.