This document provides examples of communicative activities that can be used in the eTwinning online platform called twinspace to connect students in different countries. Some key activities mentioned include:
1) Students writing letters and recording audio clips about themselves to share with partner classes.
2) Creating avatars and profiles in Voki to introduce themselves without using their real names.
3) Holding online discussions and sharing student work like photos, videos and presentations through tools in twinspace.
4) Conducting polls and questionnaires to gather opinions from partners on topics like fashion trends or the best parts of each other's towns.
The goal is to use twinspace's tools to engage students in interactive cross-
3. Why twinspace?
• Safe and friendly settings
• Free
• Sufficient amount of tools
• Only for partners and friends
• Relatively easy using
• Twinspace is changing its structure – according to
meeting the requirements of IT development
4. Why communicative activities?
Children:
• Know more about partners´ countries, cultures, customs, children
each other
• Improve skills in foreign languages
• Increase their self-confidence
• Travel without travelling
• Make friends
• Use multimedia and ICT
• Become more creative
• Cooperate
• Play games together
• Teacher teaches pupils and pupils teach teachers
• Learning with interest and motivation
7. Letters, photos, speaking about
myself…
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Each student: - is writing a letter about himself
- is speaking about himslef - making an audio
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taking his photo with an identifying element /for example: playing the
violin, taking camera, reading a favourite book/
Task for partners: „Match photos with letters /speaking
Tools: camera, word document, PC with microphone for audio
PowerPoint, Slideshare, Webnode (combination)
Web Content / Blog / Forum/ Wiki (combination)
http://new-twinspace.etwinning.net/web/p87885
http://new-twinspace.etwinning.net/c/portal/layout?p_l_id=31339441
http://eu-zone.webnode.cz/who-is-who/czech-profiles/
http://eu-zone.webnode.cz/who-is-who/czech-photos/
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10. Who is who - voki
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Students create „avatar“ in „voki“: www.voki.com
Children take photo of their group, each of them creates his own avatar
with description of himself. Partners watch photos and listen to the
avatars, write right information. /woki, blog, archive documents, photo gallery/
http://www.voki.com/pickup.php?scid=9371561&height=267&width=200
11. „Blind meeting“
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Students introduce each other by letters and short videos.
They write short notices about each of partners.
Then they enter in chat /twinspace/, but change their
computers.
Each pair (Czech and partner) must find out through factfinding questions what is name of partner on the other side
of chat.
For example: http://eu-zone.webnode.cz/who-is-who/chat/
14. What logo is best?
• Pupils create logo of new project – draw or use ICT. Logos are in twinspace
photo gallery or archive documents. Then discuss in forum about best ones.
• Task for all: Vote the best in wiki.
15. Fashion – all about it…
• Topic „Fashion“ : Dress code, Good making-up, Up-to-date and young
people, Colour- types, About fashion, What fits you, Dialogs with creators
and designers in team…
/Word or PowerPoint documents – Archive document, wiki for cooperation with partners/
• Children made their own clothing from waste materials, wrote moderation
speech in German and English for „Fashion exhibition“
• Fashion exhibition and making video /youtube, blog, web content/, taking
photos /photo gallery, archive documents/
• The best model is? … children vote in poll
/flash-gear.com, web content/
http://bbb9.webnode.cz/fashion/
http://bbb9.webnode.cz/fashion-show/
16. Questionnaire in twinspace
• Topic – School now and in the past.
We made 2 questionnairies /Google doc - form, wiki in twinspace/:
1. in English for pupils and partners
2. in Czech for parents, relatives and friends of pupils. /child page in wiki/
http://myschoolinthepastandnow.webnode.cz/questionnaire/
17. Travelling in twinspace
• Topic: How to safely travel?
1. The both of partners wrote their ideas what must
they do and what musnt´t… /blog in twinspace/
2. We invited a professional soldier so that he had talked
„How to survive in nature“ /video – youtube - wiki,
photos – webnode – child page of wiki in twinspace/
3. Czech and Polish partners have their patrons: Hippo
and Bear. Mr Hippo and Mr Bear travelled through
Europe thanks to Google presentation. Each slide was
written by one of partners.
/Google presentation, wiki in twinspace
http://bbb9.webnode.cz/journey/
18. My town – let me know!
Students make photos and videos of part of town. 1 or 2 student = 1 film.
Then use PhotoStory or MovieMaker, create a short film with spoken
description of town. / youtube or vimeo and blog, wiki in twinspace/
http://youtu.be/c3wp-QDZi50
Task for partners: What is best part of partners´t town? Why? Partners vote:
www.flash-gear.com /blog, web content in twinspace/
www.answer-garden.ch
19. Presentation with task
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Students prepare presentation about school, town… in PowerPoint,
max. 10 slides and upload them as the only pictures. Then they convert
them into puzzle by:
http://www.flash-gear.com/puzzle/ - příklad
Task for partners: put puzzle together. Next activity: Google form –
questionnaire /wiki, blog, web content/
20. Theatre
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Various topic, video recording can be adapted by Movie Maker /captions/
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/MovieMaker, Youtube, wiki, blog, web content, archive documents in twinspace/
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Task for partners: Questions for partners in video
Possible answers: forum, wiki, blog, archive documents
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http://bbb9.webnode.cz/princess-bronchus/
21. Videoconference
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Direct communication, it is necessary to prepare topic and questions for
partners before this meeting. /Video recording - Skype, youtube, webcam, smartboard, blog,
wiki, web content/
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Next activity: „What news did you know about partners?“
Google form – questionnaire, poll – flash gear… web content, wiki, blog,
Archive documents, forum/
