etwinning project : Name?

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etwinning project PLANS FINLAND FRANCE

• Participants
• Sääksjärvi primary (class 5) school in Mäntsälä,
  Finland
• École sainte Marie (class 5), france in valence ,

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• Topics
• School and school life (introducing our schools)
• School diary (making some entries telling what is
  happening / or what happened at school, e.g.
  Special events at school or just about ordinary
  school days, using texts, photos, videoclips)
• Pupils /everyday life (pupils introducing
  themselves using ready made forms or create their
  own prensentations using e.g. PowerPoint/Word
  telling what they want)
• Postcards, sending some postcards between the
  schools ?????
• September my pupils write postcards for you
  pupils.
• Great ! We will send the postcards after
  receiving your cards )
• Season topics like Xmas celebrations?

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What do you think? What would you like to add /
delete?PLEASE GIVE YOUR IDEAS ) HOW MUCH TIME
ARE WE SPENDING IN THIS? HOW LARGE / SHORT A
PROJECT SHOULD THIS BE? Your ideas .. -In my
class, there is several handicap to be
surmounted(overcome)1 - My pupils have
relatively mediocre English. The teaching English
in primary sector(primary school,Primary) is
average in France. But they have some bases.2 -
In our school there is that a computer connected
to internet, what limits the use(custom). Both
class of big (who(which) my class) are
prioraitaire. Having only one hour a week to work
on the project, we can send you once a month
news(short stories). We have only 2 English
lessons a week so, don't worry. We do what we can
and have time to do.
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• With the children, we have already created a web
  site of our class, a part(party) is specially
  dedicated to this project.He(It) is not fed yet,
  but you can view him(it) at this address https
  // sites.google.com / site / cm2bclassroomIn
  September presentation(display) of the pupils
  and the class.In October the functioning of the
  class (timetable, calendar(timetable) of the
  holidays, our exits(releases), etc.) in November
  the projects started in December traditions with
  Christmas at the school and at the house.Every
  time we shall try to communicate you moments of
  the class with videos.
• We have a good school website and we have an
  English page there and can create a page there
  for our project. All my pupils can appear in the
  website (parental permission).
• We can store some documents (photos/videos) in
  TwinSpace and in our websites.

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Timetable

• September/October presentation(display) of the
  pupils and the class.
• October the functioning of the class (timetable,
  calendar(timetable) of the holidays, our
  exits(releases), etc.)
• November the projects started in December
  traditions with Christmas at the school and at
  the house.
• Every time we shall try to communicate you
  moments of the class with videos.
• Postcards in September and October
• WHAT ABOUT THE SKYPE MEETING? Can we fix a date
  for it?
• Pupils could introduce themselves telling their
  names and hobbies (two to three sentences). I
  work in Sääksjärvi on Tuesdays and Thursdays
  (other days in my other school Saari primary
  school).
• For a meeting on Skype, we can fix on Thursday,
  October 1st at 1030 am. The time(weather) to see
  if my director(manager) leaves me the room on
  Thursday morning (I work only on Thursday and
  Fridays) and if I have his agreement we can
  settle this moment, if it is not a problem for
  you.

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Tools to be used in the project
Twinspace for storing documents, Pupils' Corner
(emails, chat)???When we project is registered we
will have the access to TwinSpace. Blogger.com
for displaying our project???? What do you
think? Texts, pictures, video clips? If we use
the blogger, it is an open blog and all the
internet users can read it and we need parental
permissions for their kids to appear in that. I
think that we can forget this as we have
Twinspace and school websites. Other option in
our school website I have an English page and you
can create an closed blog there with a key to
enter. I can create a page which is just for the
project. I have never used twinspace, we shall
maybe have difficulty in communicating often
unfortunately. But we are going to try to give a
specific day to put it ready(in position).When we
project is registered we will have the access to
TwinSpace.We are in computer room Thursday from
130 pm till 230 pm. It is possible to exchange
at the present time, for example. We can change
for Friday otherwise, it is also possible. On
Fridays I am at other school. Your time 1.30-2.30
is 2.30 -3.30 in our time and our school day is
then over. Would it be possible to arrange any
earlier time for the skype meeting on Thursday or
Tuesday? I have still quite no authorizations of
the parents(relatives), but from October, I
should have the permissions (or not) to
spread(broadcast) on the Internet.For the page
of English which you propose in the website of
your school, my pupils they can post videos or
images?? Is it a page for both schools?
Sääksjärvi school. I can create you an account so
that you can work in our project page. In the
left hand site it says ENGANNIN OPETUS, so I will
create a page there for our project.
https//peda.net/mantsala/sk https//peda.net/man
tsala/sk/eol
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Timetable

• Register the project AS SOON AS POSSIBLE
• Starting the project in September or at the
  beginning of October and ending it
  ________________.

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Starting the project

• A skype connection between the schools to
  introduce who we are and get started?
• Would that be a good start? So everybody could
  introduce themselves (name, age, class) Would you
  be able to do this? It is easy, you only need a
  computer and internet connection.
• Here is a link of one of my project's skype
  meetinghttp//www.youtube.com/watch?vx3buJ-BBYW
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• It is a good idea. I go and look at the next week
  if it is possible and I send you a message
  immediately to arrange an appointment on Thursday
  or Fridays.
• Read my earlier comments on skype
• On Fridays I am at other school. Your time
  1.30-2.30 is 2.30 -3.30 in our time and our
  school day is then over. Would it be possible to
  arrange any earlier time for the skype meeting on
  Thursday or Tuesday?
• I am going to try to see for Thursday morning, if
  I can have the computer room and what we can see
  itself by Skype. In my school, it is rather
  difficult because the computer room is
  multifunction.

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School

• Introducing our schools this topic in
  January/February
• Taking pictures and writing texts. We could put
  these in our blog (if we choose to have a blog).
  In this part it would be a good idea to have a
  group pictures taken of the students (and the
  teacher), too.
• Video clips Some students could be reporters
  and ask other students questions about school.
  Maybe they could also interview for example the
  headmaster or other teachers or people working in
  the school canteen? I think that it would a nice
  idea to do some short video clips of this (if
  possible) which we can then show in our classes.
• Maybe questionnaires prepared by the students
  about the other school and school life?
• Your idea is brilliant, I hurry to propose it to
  my pupils to determine journalists. The questions
  will be very short and very simple, because
  neither my pupils nor the adults of the school do
  not master English. That is why, I found the
  etwinning experience(experiment) very
  interesting.
• In October, we are going to write a small
  questionnaire for your pupils to know their
  school.