This project proposes an approach on reading by sharing reading experiences, doing podcasts on selected stories, authors’ biographies and illustrations. Teamwork is the key to this collaborative project. Each pupil will be part of a multicultural team and they will share a common story which shall be selected randomly by a teacher. Schools must select common story books from their school libraries. Using a mind map they will outline the story main features. A survey will be applied at the beginning and at the end of the project to assess the results on the reading motivation.

• Subjects: Art, Citizenship, Cross Curricular, Drama, Ethics, Foreign Languages, Geography, History, History of Culture, Informatics / ICT, Language and Literature, Music, Primary School Subjects
• Languages: EN
• Pupil's age: 6 - 11
• Tools to be used: Audio conference, Chat, e-mail, Forum, MP3, Other software (Powerpoint, video, pictures and drawings), Project Diary, Twinspace, Video conference, Virtual learning environment (communities, virtual classes, ...), Web publishing
• Aims: This project is aimed to improve reading habits, enhance communicative skills in L2, reinforce schools libraries role in the learning... read moreThis project is aimed to improve reading habits, enhance communicative skills in L2, reinforce schools libraries role in the learning process in each school of the partnership. To promote activities that support creativity and collaborative learning in the partnership by the use of ICT. To let pupils and teachers be aware of similarities and differences in their schools libraries dynamics. To become aware of European the cultural diversity. To make use of Web 2.0 to establish authentic communicative activities among European pupils. hide
• Work process: Step1: Pupils will share information about their hometown, school, culture and favourite country writer through PowerPoint presentations or other online... read moreStep1: Pupils will share information about their hometown, school, culture and favourite country writer through PowerPoint presentations or other online presentations like Prezy and share them on the project twinspace - October Step2: Teachers display schedules for pupils to use the chat channel and pupils must be presented to their fellow partners (chat in pairs). They will establish communication using the English language, they introduce themselves and display a link to their school presentation or school website (15 min activity for each pair or group) - November; Step3: Teachers prepare a survey on pupils’ reading habits - November; Step4: Christmas activity – recording a Xmas tale, a song, presenting a Xmas tradition of each country and illustrate it and send it (file/pen device, card …) to be displayed on a digital photo frame or computer at school - December Step5: Each school will prepare a video about the school library and share it on the project twinspace- January; Step6: Slideshare with each school books and most important writers and illustrators shared on twinspace - February; Step7: Teachers decide upon the books to read collaboratively (in pairs or groups of 4) - February; Step8: Pupils explore the story collaboratively using an online mind map tool like Mindmeister - March; Step9: Pupils prepare a Podcast, each group member will record parts of the book, using Audacity and link it to the mind map - April; Step10: Using Calameo (or other) to publish the pupils perceptiveness of the story: favourite parts, their own illustrations and different settings … - May; Step11: Sharing what they have read and learned about specific books with other school classes at the school library (possible use of videoconference with a partner school) - May; Step12: Presentation on the school website/moodle of the different achievements of the multicultural group work - end of the school year; Step13: Final survey on reading habits. Assessment and results display on the different schools website - end of the school year. hide
• Expected results: Creating collaborative network reading clubs using interactive mindmaps, multicultural teamwork in podcasts design. Improvement in reading, speaking, writing and listening... read moreCreating collaborative network reading clubs using interactive mindmaps, multicultural teamwork in podcasts design. Improvement in reading, speaking, writing and listening skills in L2. hide

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