Download - Communicating Our Culture
Context
Looking at our own experience
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Connecting the Classroom
Making the world look closer together
How?
Blended Approach
F2f Sessions focusing on:
•Presentation techniques
•Learning how to describe and explain items and events (games, group activities, etc)
Group Work:
•Choice of topic of their presentation
•Online research (based on guidelines for the presentation)
•Access to tutorials on how to create presentation
•Practice using the e-conference room as both speakers & audience
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The Learning Process
Goal: Present to an international, online audience LIVE!
Practice English!!
Hard work Pays off
Goal: Present to an international, online audience LIVE!
Practice English!!
The result of their hard work
Students’ ReflectionsMaking a presentation to an audience other than just their classmates and teacher made the activity “real”.
The audience did not all speak English the same way their teacher did (different accents, different words etc), so it was challenging.
Explaining to someone who did not know the items or events was exciting but very scary.
Teacher’s Reflections
•This experience provided an extreme “boost” to the
level of confidence the students had in their English
skills.
•English was no longer merely a subject in school.
•Through this experience they were actually able to
communicate with people on the other side of the
world and to see the usefulness of this so-called
“international” language.
Overcoming Barriers
The value of technology is in the connections/ learning relationships we are able to establish with people.
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Overcoming Barriers (2)
Time Zones
An issue when connecting with
the global village
synchronously!
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Realising the Potential
Thank You!
Presentation for The 5th Education in a Changing Environment ConferenceSalford, UKSeptember 2009
Elisabeth [email protected]
Cristina [email protected]
