MOOC 'Open eTwinning -Irene Confalone

Project Title:Working as Escher

Age: 10-11 years old

Participants: 3-4 schools

Outcomes:

Students

Collect information aboutgeometrical painters

Acquire knowledge about modern  geometrical art ,new shapes,maths

Draw a fantastic pictures

Write short stories

Create and compare statistical diagrams

Design  new producs

Use language and second language effectively

Evaluate their creations and their partners work

Share their work with the wider school community

Practise collaboration and ICT skills, develop imagination and critical thinking

Curriculum: Cross curricular

Subjects: English as a second language, Language, ICT, Art, Science,  Maths

Time planning: 6 months
1^st month is for establishing the project:
get to know each other, make groups,
create accounts, choose names and activities.

2^nd month: First activity

3^rd month: Second activity

4^th month: Evaluation and dissemination

Steps:

1^st month

• Teachers communicate and decide which aspects of the topic they prefer to work on.
• Teachers collaboratively create a list of tasks for the groups of students . Students suggest activities to be added on the list.
• Students, with the help of their teachers, form mixed nationality groups  of 5-8 .
• Members of each group communicate on Skype and take a name (e.g. Wonkas). Afterwards the group is given a list of tasks and they choose two of them. 

2^nd month

• Students in mixed groups communicate and work through padlet, titanpad, googledocs, twiddla, ppt, tricider, vimeo. youtube, moviemaker , on one of the proposed activities (see below)

3^rd month

• Students in mixed groups communicate and work through padlet, titanpad, googledocs, ppt, tricider, vimeo. youtube, moviemaker, minecraft .

4^th month

• Final product: A blog where all the finished activities will be posted.
• Evaluation and dissemination

Proposed activities:

1. Collaborative drawing-synchronous or asynchronous- : Students draw collaboratively or individually free pictures as Escher . They use chat to decide  what to do and which pictures they like more. The final drawing can be close or far from reality.

Students take a screenshot and upload it on the project's blog. They can vote (TRICIDER) for the best drawing (if they decide so) as evaluation. Students can also write comments as peer evaluation.

2. Creative writing activity-synchronous or asynchronous- (GOOGLE DOCS, TITANPAD): Students in multi-nationality groups write a mystery short story personalizing the characters they created with geometrical shapes. Students upload their final stories on the project's blog. They can vote (TRICIDER) for the best story (if they decide so) or write comments as peer evaluation.

 3.Presentations can be created on any other related topic e.g. art tutorials films , pictures of different painters etc. (PREZI, PPT, POWTOON, ANIMOTO).

4. Create quizzes –asynchronous- students (mixed groups) create quizzes (ONLINE QUIZ CREATOR) using information they have gathered. Each subgroup attributes with one or two questions.

5.Posters – activity for national groups of two- students create posters about what they created  and upload them on the project’s blog (voting optional). Peers comment on posters

Final product and dissemination:

All the final products of the group activities (drawings, short stories,  presentations, presentations, posters, videos etc) will be uploaded on the project's blog (TWINSPACE, BLOGGER, ). The blog can be linked to the participating schools' websites, so the results of the project will be disseminated in a wider audience. Some presentations may worth sharing within the schools’ communities.

Evaluation:
Students will comment on the blog's posts as peer evaluation. Groups will be asked to self-evaluate collaboration (effective communication, distribution of tasks, group organisation, keeping time schedule) and their final product/s. Teachers will use project evaluation to the individual assessment of their students. Teachers will communicate the results among them as a final evaluation.