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DESCRIPTION OF EXCHANGE PROJECTS IN ENGLISH

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      TYPE OF EXCHANGE PROJECT                                       CYPRIOT CLASS  FOREIGN SCHOOL 

email exchange on epals' community project

"The Way We Are"

A1  Davis Ramoth School, Selawik(Alaska) 

email exchange on epals' community project "The Way We Are"

&valentine cards /bookmarks with haiku poetry exchange

 

email exchange on epals' community project "The Way We Are"

&food recipe exchange, Spanish-Cypriot menu creation

A2 

 

 Kellam High School in Virginia Beach(USA)

 

 

IES Palamos in Palamos(Spain) 

 

email exchange  A3 & A7  Erasmo da Rotterdam, Arbitaire, (Italy) 
snail mail, card exchange & donations to Kenyan children  A1  Holy Trinity School, Nairobi(Kenya)
snail mail & game instructions exchange  A3  Westmoreland Elementary School, New York(USA) 
postcard exchange  A1  Autorskie Gimnazjum Samorozwju GASSA, Wroclaw, (Poland) 
Culture box exchange  A1  UNESCO Peace Centre, Incheon, (South Korea) 

 

 

 

CEFR level: A2

CLASS:      GYMNASIUM A

AIMS: Develop global and cultural awareness, make friends around the world make learning an experience for students, promote the use of new technologies as effective way of learning(ICT, web2.0-wikis, blogs, glogs), integrate learning with creativity, aid students in processing realistic and authentic reading texts at the appropriate level of proficiency, enable young learners to use written english for practical communication practices, provide real audience for students,  establish active role and autonomy in learning, provide alternative assessment/peer assessment and self reflection opportunities,meet the criteria of the new curriculum in foreign language

    

THEMES COVERED from the New curriculum of foreign languages

Personal identification, Family, Food and drink,Education(school/activities), Free time, Sports, Holidays, Travel around the world (countries, sights, customs),Weather, Communication(letters, postcards, e-mail), People and lifestyles, Relationships(friendship, email friends), Local culture, World issues(eg poverty), Literature(poetry)

 

 

DESCRIPTION OF THE EXCHANGE:

 Students Connect, Communicate, Collaborate and Contribute via ICT/Web2.0 and Media!

 

 Students  connect with peers abroad, communicated on subjects of common interest, collaborated on work, and make a contribution to their epals’ learning and notably a contribution to their African epals’ life by expressing friendliness  and care by sending them goods and making donations. Specifically, the project has taken place between four Gymnasium A classes  and schools abroad via the Global epals community at  www.epals.com  (a safe site for schools to exchange email) and has taken various lengths of time(the shortest being two weeks and the longest seven months). The exchange has been smoothly integrated in the A Gymnasium class curriculum and covers the  Thematic Units listed above. The email exchange is based on the project, “The Way We Are” available at the epals site with the following partners: Davis Ramoth School in Selawik(Alaska,) IES Palamos school in Palamos(Spain), Kellam High School in Virginia Beach(USA) and Erasmo da Rotterdam in Arbitaire(Italy). Also, there was correspondence with Westmoreland Elementary School on the American School’s project, “Traditional Games around the world”, correspondence with Holy Trinity School in Nairobi (Kenya), a postcard exchange with Autorskie Gymnasium in Wroclaw (Poland) and a cultural box exchange with the UNESCO Peace Center in Korea. In many cases, the email exchange among students went beyond  writing to exchanging cards ,bookmarks(with haiku poetry written on them) and other small gifts in a box, preparing and sending videos/power point presentations/glogs  in order to present their city, culture, school, recipes/menu.  Apart from the many letters that the students have in their epals account inbox, each individual exchange is shown in ppt and/or video that the students (in groups) produced, which serves as a final presentation of their work and shows the whole process of their learning – reading and replying to email, comparing and contrasting lifestyle and other elements, using extra information about their epals’ country  they found from searching on the Internet, selecting, evaluating, reflecting and synthesizing.  

All students and Teachers’ work is presented in various formats  hosted in this wiki which also links us to our students’ class wikis and some of our partner schools’ blogs and wikis; this way, our work is made public so as to be shared by others, allow for self reflection, peer assessment and others’ comments.

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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