In this task, primary school learners create a short story using the Puppet Pals App, which allows the user to make animated scenes and add audio recordings. The story consists of three scenes: creating a shopping list, talking to the shop assistant, and paying at the cash register. In the post-task phase, the finished outcomes … Continued
This project involved online collaboration between two primary schools in Germany and France. Although located in different countries, the learners were able to share documents, annotate directly on their whiteboards and save the changes, with the help of the “Bridget Conferencing Software” which supports online collaboration. A webcamera, microphones and speakers were connected to the … Continued
In this task, third graders, having read a story called ‘Gentle Giant’s Garden’ create a new version of it on the iPad. They first draw and cut out the assigned characters, as well as the background (garden). Then they re-create the story as a combination of narration and dialogue. In order to complete the text, … Continued
In this task, a group of fourth-grade learners use a combination of two apps to create a virtual tour of London. The final outcomes were displayed in their classroom at the Doors Open Day at their school. In the pre-task phase, the learners worked on the vocabulary by reading small texts related to six famous … Continued
Following a Skype video-conference in which the learners got to know each other and exchanged video-selfies using the Google Drive to store them, two remote classrooms in Germany and France decided to create new versions of stories they had previously read in class and shared them with the learners in the other class. The new … Continued
In this task, two remote classes, one in Germany, one in France, communicated firstly via Skype, then exchanged video-selfies in order to get to know each other a little bit better. In the pre-task phase, the learners first engaged in a Skype video-conference and introduced themselves to the learners in the other remote classroom. Afterwards … Continued
In this task, two remote secondary classrooms, one in Germany and one in France engage in a video-conferencing session, using the IWB, camera and microphones. The teachers of both classes, after an in-class discussion, decided that the topic of the videoconferencing sessions would be ‘phubbing,’ . This is a relatively new concept in the English … Continued