1. OUR CITY
eTwinning project plan
25 october -5 november 2010

2. Partners:
• • Giulio Prevedello: Technical Institute - Italy
• • Biserka Kamenova: Vocatonal school -Bulgaria
• • Nadina Carmen Nicolici: Technical College - Romania
• • Victoria Pavlenko: Technical College, Latvia
• • Alena Jandlova: Commercial High School, Czech Republic
• • Veronique Sanguinetti: High school, FRANCE
• • Maricela Tuchiac: Colegiul Agricol, Romania
• • Mihaela Anton: - Colegiul Economic, Romania
• • Daniela Grecu: Art High School, Romania
• Liliana Rossetti - High School, Italy

3.
Details:
• Pupils’ age : 14- 18 years old
• Language: English
• Duration: 2 months
• School type: high school, technical institute / vocational upper
school

4. Short description
Pupils from partner schools create a photo album presenting their city.
Pupils take and upload photos of places, people, interesting monuments, etc.,
in order to give a profile of their region and life there.
Pupils from the other school(s) then vote on the most interesting photos their
partners have taken.
Students write short texts in English to describe the pictures. They present
their city / region to their project partners.
Students create a logo of the project.
A short project about our countries, towns, schools and families. Students
exchange impressions in student room.
Students will write letters to their partners according to the schedule and the
letters will be combined by the quizzes which will be created by students.

5. Goals
Pupils improve their ICT skills by learning more about the places where their
partners live.
They learn about regional originality of different countries. Develop skills in
the use of multimedia tools in order to present photos or create photo slide
presentations; improve communication and research skills. Develop our
pupils’ abilities to communicate in a foreign language, share information and
connect virtually.
Make students aware of their local identity and its importance.
Students develop their artistic skills, their creativity and originality working in
a virtual team.
To make students realise that we all live in one large family the EU. We are
different, we have different customs, festivals, and foods but on the other
hand we are the same. We all are modern people who want to live in a free
society and to know about the others.

6. ICT TOOLS
• TwinSpace
• Picasa or Flickr
• Blogger, WordPress
• Slideshare presentation
• Skype
• Magazine factory

7. Pedagogical basis
• Pupils can examine their own locality and compare it with those of other
places, so international collaboration can be encouraged.
• Move towards an education for diversity and multiplicity.
• Provide to pupils, the tools and flexibility needed to move from a cultural
identity to another without too much fear.
• Students become aware of the importance of collaborating. They discover
their project partners by discovering themselves.
• Pedagogical approach in this project is based on "project learning", "inguiry-
based learning", "active learning", "peer-to-peer learning", “discovery
learnining", "collaborative learning", "knowledge building", "connectivism",
"learning-by-doing”.

8. Working methods
• Each class discusses and chooses a series of monuments, landmarks
and/or other interesting places in their area.
• Pupils search for images of the places they have chosen or take their own
digital photos, if possible.
• The photos are then uploaded into a gallery in the TwinSpace or in Picasa
• Once the pictures have been uploaded, the pupils can write short
paragraphs about the places (monuments, landmarks) which include
interesting background information, and also ask questions to the others
about their places (they can create quiz).
• Partners discuss the gallery using the TwinSpace chat or website
Magazine Factory and vote for the most interesting photo.
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To see the Working methods in detail go to the link:
PROJECT PLAN "OUR CITY"