1. Títle: OUR SHARED FASHION MISSION
Nyvångskolan (Sweden)
Participating
Marijampolės Petro Armino Secondary School (Lithuania)
Schools: Institut Jaume Callís, JAUME CALLIS (Spain)
Pepi Andreu (Spain) Zofi Holgerson (Sweden)
Marta Pey (Spain) Edita Grubienė (Lithuania)
Participant teachers: Elisabeth Backström (Sweden) Kristina Kavaliauskaitė
(Lithuania)
Duration: September 2009- June 2010
4th ESO (15-16 year- 13-16
olds): SPAIN
8th. & 9th. grades (14-16
Level: year-olds): SWEDEN
Age:
th. th
8 & 9 . grades (14-16
year-olds): LITHUANIA
English
Project language:
Art, Cross Curricular, Design and Technology, Foreign
Subjects Languages, Geography, History, History of Culture, Music,
Social Studies / Sociology
In this project, pupils exchanged information about themselves, their
way of living and their culture through the world of clothes and
Description of the fashion. They worked on different topics such as descriptions of
project: national costumes, debate on cross-curricular issues such music and
fashion, clothes and the environment, fashion and eating disorders,
among others. Finally they produced a fashion book in collaboration.
• to widen our pupil's experimental and cultural horizons;
• to use English as the lingua franca among different
European young people ;
• to use the ICT in a creative and educational communicative
way with the use of blogs, chats, forums, emails...;
• to improve and diversify the teaching and learning of English
through the use of the ICT to make students aware of the
importance of clothes and fashion in our everyday life
Objectives: making it a common ground to explore and debate on issues
related to the environment, eating disorders (anorexia,
bulimia...) and other cross-curricular issues;
• to exchange cultural realities of the different countries
related to the world of clothes and fashion: giving opinions,
reaching conclusions and developing a rich and multicultural
European reality.
Contents, activities
& programming in
each step:
STEP 1: INTRODUCTIONS:
TIMING: Sept-Oct
WORK: Everybody / individually

2. TASKS: 1. 1. students edit their profile in the twinspace
in www.etwinning.net
And introduce themselves .
1.2.in the blog:
http://kkristina.edublogs.org/: “Our shared Fashion
Mission” blog, students write
articles about:
1) MY CLASS (my classroom, my classmates,
subjects, teachers…):
2) MY SCHOOL (description, facilities, …):
3) MY CITY
4) MY REGION
5) MY COUNTRY
1.3. FORUMS IN THE BLOG ABOUT
CLOTHES AND FASHION
students leave comments (minimum. 1)
1.4. COMMENTS IN THE BLOGS: leave
comments on the different articles published.
(min. 1)
STEP 2: FASHION IN OUR
COUNTRIES
TIMING: NOVEMBRE-JANUARY
WORK: INDIVIDUALLY OR IN NATIONAL PAIRS OR GROUPS
PLACE: BLOG 2 (http://fashionmission.edublogs.org)
TASKS:
1) WRITE ARTICLES ABOUT DIFFERENT TOPICS RELATED
TO FASHION IN
THEIR OWN COUNTRIES (IN PAIRS OR GROUPS)
a) National Costumes: ). Write full
descriptions.
b) Popular fashion shops in my town: describe
what kind of clothes they sell, why you like them,
is it a franchise?...
c) Famous designers of my country: who, what
kind of clothes they design, what are they like
(designers and clothes), do you like them? Why?
…
d) Fashion events in my country
e) Urban tribes & fashion: Urban tribes in my
country, how they dress, do clothes represent
their way of thinking…?
2) QUIZZES ON BLOG 2 ARTICLES
About the articles about clothes and fashion inSweden, Lithuania
and Spain published in
BLOG 2: http://fashionmission.edublogs.or

3. Students prepare some questions on articles published by their
European partners.
Swedish Lithuanian Spanish
articles articles articles
QUIZ Lithuanian Spanish Swedish
PREPARED BY students students students
QUIZ Spanish Swedish Lithuanian
ANSWERED BY students students students
RESULTS
COLLECTED
AND
REVIEWED BY
Lithuanian Spanish Swedish
students students students
QUIZZES were prepared using a Web 2.0. tool called
www.polldaddy.com., collected the results
and embedded them in the blog.
3)EXCHANGE OF XMAS GREETINGS: collected in the twinpace
and published in the
Blog using www.slide.com or www.animoto.com .
4) Find partners from the other countries with similar interests to
form international
collaborative groups for the next step (in the GETTING TO KNOW
EACH OTHER
forum in the twinspace)
STEP 3: HISTORY OF FASHION
AND DRESS
TIMING: MID-JANUARY TILL END MARCH
WORK: INTERNATIONAL PAIRS OR GROUPS
PLACE: TWINSPACE / BLOG 2:
http://fashionmission.edublogs.org
TASKS:
1. GROUP STUDENTS FROM THE 3 COUNTRIES AND ASSIGN

4. EACH GROUP A PERIOD
OF HISTORY.
2. USE THE WIKI IN THE TWINSPACE, THEY WILL BE ABLE TO
EDIT, ADD INFORMATION
IN ORDER TO WRITE A FINAL ARTICLE ABOUT FASHION AND
DRESS IN A CERTAIN
PERIOD OF HISTORY. INCLUDE PICTURES. PUBLICATION IN
THE TWINSPACE OR
BLOG:
Periods:
1. ANCIENT EGYPT
2. ANCIENT GREECE & ANCIENT ROME
3. THE MIDDLE AGES
4. THE RENAISSANCE
5. THE 17TH CENTURY
6. THE 18TH CENTURY
7. THE 19TH CENTURY
8. THE 1900-10s: BEFORE THE 1ST WORLD WAR
9. THE 1920s: THE ROARING TWENTIES
10. THE 1930s & the 1940s
11. THE 1950s
12. THE1960s
13. THE 1970s
14. THE 1980s
15. THE 1990s
ARTICLES SHOULD INCLUDE:
1. brief description of garments.
2. Photos of the garments.
3. Social/historical/fashion background of the era of the
garments.
4. An estimated "story" of the garments, describing when they
were probably worn (parties,
work, wedding?), what price range they represent (custom
tailored, expensive, home-made,
mass produced cheaply?), and any other important information
they have been able to
deduce.

5. PRESENTATION IN WWW.EMPRESSR.COM
Slideshow with oral comments from each of the members of the
group on each slide.
Information gathered in the wiki in the twinspace by all members of
the international group.
3. FORUMS IN THE TWINSPACE ABOUT:
a) textiles and the environment,
b) fashion and eating disorders,
c) school uniforms,
d) second-hand clothes,
e) the Oscars and fashion.
STEP 4: FASHION BOOKS
TIMING: BEGINNING APRIL- BEGINNING JUNE
WORK: NATIONAL GROUPS
PLACE: TWINSPACE / BLOG 2
http://fashionmission.edublogs.org
TASKS:
DIVIDE STUDENTS IN NATIONAL GROUPS, THE SAME ONES
AS IN
STEP 3. EACH GROUP WORKS ON DIFFERENT COLLECTIONS:
CREATE A FASHION BOOK WITH STUDENTS OWN
DESIGNS (DRAWINGS,
USING THE AVATAR CREATOR www.digimi.com or www.i-
dressup.com., OR EVEN TAKING
PICTURES OF THEMSELVES AND GIVING ACCURATE
DESCRIPTIONS OF THE
GARMENTS, ACCESSORIES...)
SAVE THEM IN THE TWINSPACE. AND PUBLISH
IT IN THE BLOG
OTHER STUDENTS COMMENT ON THEM, VOTE
FOR THE BEST ONES.

6. SPECIAL EVENTS/ TASKS:
1) “THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA”:
- in December / in the twinspace
- Task 1: match trailer and predict about the film.
- Task 2: write an opinion essay about the world of
fashion depicted in the film.
2) EDITA’S VISIT TO VIC:
- in February / in the twinspace
- Exchange of presents (postcards and posters
prepared by students with the
help of the art teacher)
- Edita’s speech about Lithuania, the school, the
students, the project.
- Comments on the event and presents in the
twinspace.
3) VIDEOCONFERENCE LT/ES:
- in April/ in the twinspace
- communicate using www.skype.com and getting to
know each other better.
4) PODCASTS “LISTEN TO US”:
- in May / in the twinspace
- recording of students’ reflections on the project

7. • Articles in the blogs;
Results or products: • Comments on the articles;
• Posts in the forums;
• Take part in the videoconference;
• Work in collaboration in steps 3 & 4
- 10% of the final mark: writing assessment and project on the
Pupils assessment: whole.
Computer with internet connection
Hardware /microphone /webcamera /data projector
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Blogs: www.edublogs.org
Software Wiki: www.pbworks.com
Twinspace of www.etwinning.net
Presentations: www.slideshare.com,
www.slide, www.animoto.com,
www.empressr.com.
Podcasts: www.podomatic.com
Technical resources:
Video hostings: www.youtube.com,
www.vimeo.com.
Publications: www.issuu.com
Surveys: www.polldaddy.com
Avatars/designs: www.i-dressup.com,
www.digimi.com
Communication e-mail (twinspace and personal,
tools videoconference (www.skype.com), chat
(twinspace),
Coordination with other • Art, geography and history
subjects:
Communication of • In the twinblog and in the blogs.
results: