Project Design

In Unit 3 we are asked to draft a collaborative project to work with our students in school. As this year I had the great experience of working with 3 different classes on creating a class yearbook, I think it would be a great idea to expand and instead of making a classbook, make a European Newspaper, where students from different countries can share their experiences with others. For this I have elaborated the following draft of my project.

PROJECT: The European School Newspaper

ABSTRACT: The European School Newspaper will feature the different events that students engage in during the school year, such as their complementary activities and extra-curricular activities. It will also have a section where the students share their curiosities and tastes on music, films, and past time activities.  The idea is to create a newspaper where different activities performed by students of Europe  are shown.

GOALS: 

1.  Improve writing skills in English.  
2. Improve communication language skills (speaking in English). 
3. Use ICT tools successfully. 
4. Learn about interests and the different activities other students from Europe engage in.

WORK PROCESS:

The students of a given class will work in small groups of 4. Each group will have a task in the school newspaper. One group will be the one in charge of taking the different pictures to include. Other groups will write the articles of a given section. We will have one group working on the editing of the newspaper.

Communication among the partners will be done by email, social network, and twitter among others.  A common platform will be used to share the different articles that each group writes, being assessed by one another  on the contents and gramatical correction.

We will evaluate the project considering the implication of the students, using a rubric to score each group, and individually.

For the writing of the articles the students will have to create a guideline of the different information that should be included in them. This guideline will also be shared with others to help one another in the writing of the articles. The students will use word processors to write their articles. The articles then will be edited by the responsibles, and they will have pictures included.

EXPECTED RESULTS:

By the end of the project, the students will have printed out a full newspaper with the different articles created by their collaborative partners and them. They will also have the digital version which will be the one which can be shared online with the rests of the schools.

At the end of the project each student will have:

     -Cover an event at their school.

      -Learn how to write an article.

      -Practice writing an article.

      -Review their peers work.

AGE: 12-16

NUMBER OF PARTNERS: 2-3

AREAS OR SUBJECTS: English as a foreign Language / Computer Class

LANGUAGE USED: English

I hope you find it interesting to work with. Hope to get feedback on my ideas. Thanks a lot for reading...