I’m really amazed and thrilling to start working in the Project with all the students!

All the teachers are very participative and bursting with lots of ideas. See Daniel and Laetitia’s answers to my dilemma.

What tools are we going to use?
I’ve seen your proposals and I think that all of them are interesting, but…how are we going to tie everything? Are we going to work through the eTwinning desktop? Are we all going to use blogs? Are we going to use Daniel’s website ?( I think that this could be quite interesting, Daniel has done a great job!, we can add comments or also use it as a chat tool) Or are we going to do a mixture of everything? If so, I think that we must start making some plans.
Lastly, I also think that our students must start doing a brief presentation first ( through blogs, website as you wish..) There’s a wonderful tool in the web ( voki.com) where you can find avatar characters ( students choose their character and then add their own voices. It’s very funny and in this way we don’t have to add photos- which can be sometimes dangerous to use in internet)
Eva
eva hugas , 11-08-08, 13:50

I think that working with one website only (Daniel’s) would make things easier. Can it host a lot of people at the same time, if we decide to make them chat together for instance?But we could also, as you said, first make them visit all the other blogs or websites we’ve created (school websites included) to show them what has already been done in each country. Maybe we could also keep the etwinning desktop just in case there’s a problem with Daniel’s website to do the teachers’ chit-chat work. Thank you for your idea about avatar characters! It’s great! Laetitia Di Rosa , 11-08-2008, 15:37
	Website I agree with Laetitia that it’s easier to do everything on one website. Yes, my website can host lots of students. There are no limits. Students can be grouped according to their countries. Each student can use a private message box, write articles on topics they find interesting, submit photos (I have already prepared photo galleries for each country), share their opinion in the forum, and of course chat. If you want to check this out, we can arrange a time during the week when we can chat on my website. I suggest a time in the evening, say 9 pm. There are also downloads where students can download the presentations we are going to do. We could use my website as the main tool in our project. Moreover, I think that using different tools is a great idea!!! It could give our project a variety, which increases students’ motivation, in my opinion. To sum up, I suggest that we make my website the main tool of our project as it can host every single student participating in it. They can use it whenever they find it suitable – even at home. Any other tools like blogs, school website ect. would be complementary to the project. We would discuss which one to use and when. Lastly, I must admit that I’m really glad to see that we have many options to choose from:)Daniel Redko , 11-08-2008, 19:29