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An open ended intercultural task, involving an on-line social network on the grou.ps site, which links our students with students in a school in Nordenham in Germany. The task provides authentic learning which links strongly with their life worlds. || * grou.ps (social network) As part of a music based unit, students post thei opinions about a chosen German pop song and video clip.A good starting point for useful clips is the [|Step into German] site. Students are also encouraged to collaborate by adding comments to each others music selections. I also hope to involve another school in the activity. [|task sheet] || * wiki A unit of work for Year 9, integrating ideas to cater for Multiple Intelligences and different learning styles, as well as focussing on how to learn. The project is designed to be student centred, giving choice and integrating the use of authentic resources. A range of ICT tools form the basis of many of the activities.
 * == Year == || == Task == || == Technolgies, Software and Tools integrated == ||
 * 9 || Jugendkultur - Youth Culture
 * integrated wikis, discussion forum, video and picture sharing and chat rooms. ||
 * 9 || Music Forum
 * online music video clips ||
 * 9 || Musik in meinem Leben oral activity or assessment task. || * Voicethread ||
 * 7-10 || A wiki with vocabulay and grammar games, created with free tools from [|Content Generator], || * Content Generator ||
 * 7 || [|Weihnachten in Deutschland]- Christmas in Gemany presentation fo beginners. Introduces some essential vocabulay as well. Students designed a travel brochure aimed at young people, to encourage them to visit Gemany at Christmas. ||  ||
 * 9 || Fashion and Appearance

My presentation about the development of this unit of work: media type="custom" key="4487488" || * wiki A collaborative project with our sister school in Mainz, Germany. [|Wiki Instructions] || * Wiki A project to learn about German-speaking countries and reinforce past tense.
 * websites for reading comprehension
 * digital camera/ digital video
 * Voicethread
 * Scrapblog
 * Photostory
 * Movie maker
 * Audacity ||
 * 7 || [|A Photo Project]
 * Digital camera
 * Photoshop ||
 * 9 || [|A virtual backpacking trip]

[|Culture version] [|Wiki instructions] || * Internet research A imaginative project to apply vocabulary and grammatical concepts in a creative context. [|Wiki instructions] || * Wiki A Ning network for year 10. Collaborating with other schools. || * Ning network Personal blogs written by my Year 11 students in German. || * Blogs || A Ning network for senior students. || * Ning network http://twilkinson.edublogs.org/ A blog I have set up to share resources with my students and allow a forum for publishing work with an authentic audience. It contains links to my Year 11s own blogs. || * Blog || A culture and language based project around water areas in Germany. In pairs, students researched using my Rollyo searchroll, collected images and voice recorded a commentary. Most published their project on Voicethread. On completion the Voicethred was viewed by the other students, who left comments on the presentations. A sample project is published in the cell below.. || * Voicethread A colaborative collection of "dream towns", including annotated maps, a description of what there is to do in the town accompanied by piturs and voice or vido recrdings of 2 scenarios taing place in the town. Students were also required to complete a [|Learning Journal] for each lesson spent on the project. I also developed an [|Assessment Rubric] to use with the project, which I issued to students as we began the project. || * wiki Using a Ning network called //Treffpunkt// to communicate with a class in Germany, students from both countries investigate elements of the everyday to share with the class. We found our class using the [|Epals] website. The authentic context, sharing of pictures and the getting to know "real" speakers of German has been highly engaging and motivating for the students. || * Ning This activity followed on from a "speed dating" oral activity, which focussed on personal profile information with a particular focus on personal qualities, what is important in friendships and relationships. They received a picture and then created a profile for this person. Once their character was established, they had to do a speed dating role play in which they spoke to half the class for 2 minutes each to find out about them. After the speed dating role play, students then had to log into our Ning network as that character and make further contact with others, write to the //Kummerkasten// or discuss other issues about relationships in the discussion forum. || * Ning || Using Voicthread for oral tesing has been a great way of testing the whol class simultaneaouly. I recorded teh questions in German over a series of visuals and each student had to record their response onto each slide. Using the monitoring function, they were not able to hear each other's responses until afterwards. || * Voicethread This activity encourages students to think about what they know about Berlin, by using a series of visual images, and also to pose questions about them to further explore the topic of modern Berlin and historical Berlin. The link above takes you to a blank version of teh visuals. Students from 2 classes then responded to my questions, partly in writing and partly orally. It lead to much further discussion and really began t deepen their thinking. || * Voicethread
 * Wiki ||
 * 10 || [|Utopia]
 * Photoshop
 * Internet image search ||
 * 10 || Logg ein!
 * Digital Photography
 * YouTube (digital video clips) ||
 * 11 || [|German Blogs]
 * 11 || [|Deutsch? ja, klar!]
 * Digital Photography
 * YouTube (digital video clips) ||
 * all || __My Blog__
 * 9 || [|Wasserlandschaften]
 * Audacity
 * Rollyo ||
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 * 9 || [|Superstadt]
 * audacity
 * photoshop /fireworks ||
 * 10 || [|Ein interkulturelles Projekt]
 * digital photos
 * PowerPoint ||
 * 11. || [|Liebe auf den ersten Blick]
 * 12. || __Oral Testing on Voicethread__
 * voice recording (audacity) ||
 * 13. || [| Berlin - heute und gestern]
 * Audacity
 * Webcam ||
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