Last year, in July, I thought that it could be interesting for my students to do an Project with students from other countries. As I had been working with blogs before I thougt that this tool could be an easy and motivating way to exchange information. I decided to enter the e-Twinning space where everybody can include their projects to look for partners in other countries. A lot of people answered but the first difficulty was finding good partners. Some of them had students aged differently than mine, others were interested in doing other things…At last, I found two partners: one from Portugal,Maria and another form Italy,Catherine. Maria, Catherine and I exchanged e-mails during August and September to plan our project. We decided that we were going to work with blogs. Our students will create their blogs and then exchange information through them, writing about their countries: customs, describing cities, geographical situation, important munuments , famous people…They will also add comments on their blogs to make the exchange more interesting. In september we first waited for our timetables and groups, and when we started classes we decided which classes were going to participate in the Project. At this moment we are just creating our blogs . The next step will be reading the blogs from the other countries and adding comments on them, as well as adding more entries to our blogs, of course!!! At the moment students can see everything at my own webpage http://www.xtec.cat/~ehugas. We thought that grouping all the blogs together would make things easier for our students. We will also add them in our e-Twinning website.
HOW EVERYTHING STARTED…
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