PROJECT OUTLINE

Children supervised by teachers perform a series of unusual activities such as research, games and experiments. Children and teachers analyze the results of the activities, describe, exchange and publish them on the project’s website. Some multimedia are also published in blogs. The reports, descriptions of results of the children’s research make the basis of educational resources which develop different strategies of thinking and listening to others.

USE OF ICT WITHIN THE PROJECT

Implementation of the project is supported by many different sources of information, like: e-books, multimedia programmes, the Internet (links on web pages), direct observations during trips to a museum, a science festival or at science exhibitions. What is more Children  also learn using the computer, a digital camera, a printer and finding multimedia files on a desktop and in folders. Children know that the folder called CHILDREN which can be found in Favourites is theirs and that they can use it to surf the Internet. – the sites intended especially for them. They are aware that the Internet helps people but can also be dangerous so they get to know how to handle with the dangers.

Tools of cooperation: computer/scanner/digital camera/Microsoft Office 2003 & 2007  (PowerPoint; Word; Excel)/E-mail/You Send It/IrfanView/Corel/Draw/PhotoStory3/Macromedia Flash/Video Studio 9/Windows Movie Maker/Flash Spring for Power Point/Slide.com/RockYou/PrintKey/ the eTwinning TwinSpace/Web News for Textalk.se/Mediablog/Blogger/Multiply/Coppermine Photo Gallery

RESULTS AND BENEFITS

Results: Children are the authors of board games, puzzles made of digital pictures, films, interviews, e-cards. They make some measuring tools and models individually (e.g. sundial, compass, thermometer, planetarium, scales, a block, inclined plane, telephone, etc). Children print signs and name cards. They discuss, negotiate, reason, decide on the content of the notes, create mind maps, organise and arrange room for plays and make records of their actions. Supported by their teachers children use wide range of ICT tools and multimedia software chosen to suit their perceptive abilities.  

Benefits: a) making playing and learning more attractive for children and  increasing children’s cognitive motivation. b) Integration of the eTwinning project with early years curriculum and the development of teaching resources. c) Making use of the examples of good pedagogical practices of the teachers from partner schools (examples of classroom arrangements, making presentations, films, exchanging information on software and the use of ICT).  d) Increasing teachers’ motivation to learn foreign languages esp. English.

WHAT THE JUDGES SAID

“A brilliant example of innovation in pedagogy and technology”
“A very strong project which is fully embedded within the curriculum”

Visit the project’s public Twin Space to find out more.