Digital Fairytales

	If you are working in primary education and looking to run an eTwinning project this fall, have a look at the newest “ready-made project kit” for inspiration. This kit is based on an award-winner eTwinning project.

Two primary classes work together on turning a chosen fairytale into a PowerPoint presentation. The PowerPoint presentation contains scanned pupils‘ pictures and a soundtrack in both languages. The final presentation is then published on the Internet. To make the experience more real, pupils also produce fairytale-related objects, present the fairytale on stage and organise an exhibition about the project.

Level: Easy

Age group: Primary Education
Duration: 3 months

Subject: Cross-curriculum, Foreign Languages, Informatics/ICT, Language and Literature, Visual Art, Theatre, Music, Dance
Proposed ICT tools: email, chat, forum, Skype, PowerPoint, video, web publishing

Objectives:

• Pupils learn to work together on an ICT-based project with their counterparts from abroad
• Teachers learn to integrate ICT-based projects at primary level
• Parents get involved in making fairytale-related objects and preparing the play and exhibition.

Process:

Getting started:

• Two classes from two different countries agree on a common fairytale;
• In each class, the children read and discuss the chosen fairytale in their mother tongue;
• The fairytale is divided into two parts and each class illustrates only one part of the fairytale;
• The pupils in each class establish the scenes to be illustrated and divide the work;
• Pupils use various techniques to design/draw the scenes.

Exchanging information and learning from each other:

• The pictures are photographed and scanned. Then, the classes exchange and print them. They organise an exhibition in their schools;
• The digital pictures made by pupils in both classes are put together in a PowerPoint presentation;
• Each class creates an audio track for the PowerPoint presentation version of the fairytale in their mother tongue;
• Both classes listen to the fairytale in their partners' language and compare the two languages.

Outcome:

• The final PowerPoint presentation is published on the Internet (for example, on school websites or in the public “TwinSpace”)

Follow-up options:

• More work on foreign languages can be done. Pupils may look for the same, similar or different words. They may also compare the spoken and the written form of the fairytale;
• Partners decide on objects to produce.  They should be related to the theme of the fairytale. For example, if they decided to work on a gingerbread house story, they could try and make a real gingerbread house;
• The fairytale is put on stage. The children perform it for their parents and other children from the school;
• The project outcomes may be exhibited and presented to the local community;
• Every child gets a CD with the fairytale and pictures from the project;
• The project outcomes are share with the press and at conferences for teachers.

Similar Project:

Gingebread House
URL: http://www.zsomsenie.sk/static/eTwinning

Original Idea:
Denisa Križanova, Základná škola Omšenie, Slovakia
Pavel Vrtěl, Základní škola a mateřská škola Sivice, Czech Republic

	Gepubliceeerd :	11/07/2007

	Laatst gewijzigd :	18/07/2007

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