“The future is wide open” – words referring to a song by Tom Petty, which reflect the ideas of our teenage pupils whose life is full of plans - and sometimes so complicated. Although there can be disappointment and sad moments, most of them think positive about their personal development. After our pupils had introduced themselves, their school and their hometown we want to share more personal thoughts and feelings. Everybody has his or her personal favourites, e.g. a favourite colour which is associated not only to objects but also to emotions. The red rose which is given to someone stands for deep feelings, yellow as a colour makes us think of warm sunshine, and these are just two common examples, what personal ideas might come into someone´s mind. What are your thoughts while looking at a colourful rainbow in front of a dark sky? And a clear blue sky might evoke memories of a wonderful summer holiday, a thunderstorm the one of a bad argument..... By sharing their experiences and comparing their associations they will not only improve their foreign language knowledge, but they will also find out about cultural similarities and dissimilarities. This may lead them to a better understanding of other cultures which will help them to lose prejudices and to tolerate and accept differences and might even make them become friends.

• Materias: Arte , Geografía , Informática TIC , Lenguas extranjeras
• Idiomas: EN
• Edad de los alumnos: 12 - 15
• Herramientas a utilizar: Chat, Diario del proyecto, email, Entorno de Aprendizaje Virtual (comunidades, clases virtuales, ...), Foro, Otro software (Powerpoint, video, fotos y dibujos), TwinSpace, Video conferencia
• Objetivos: Sharing experiences, finding out about similarities and dissimilarities, improving foreign language knowledge, ICT skills and intercultural competencies, attempt to bring... más informaciónSharing experiences, finding out about similarities and dissimilarities, improving foreign language knowledge, ICT skills and intercultural competencies, attempt to bring forward creative thinking ocultar
• Proceso de trabajo: Introduction/basic presentations of school/region, group forming, developing and sharing ideas by various means of communication, regular email exchange about the... más informaciónIntroduction/basic presentations of school/region, group forming, developing and sharing ideas by various means of communication, regular email exchange about the ongoing of the work process between teachers involved, leaving room for development and including pupils´ ideas during the work process, collecting results video/audio conferencing only if possible at schools involved ocultar
• Resultados esperados: Improved foreign language knowledge, improved ICT skills especially for foreign language students with little ICT experience/knowledge, strengthening of social competencies,... más informaciónImproved foreign language knowledge, improved ICT skills especially for foreign language students with little ICT experience/knowledge, strengthening of social competencies, better intercultural awareness, discovering the fun side in learning by being creative - well, at least more creative than usual in the foreign language classroom, presentation of results on platforms ocultar

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