Collaboration with the partners

After having done my task 4 of Open eTwinning MOOC, I have to move on to my next task: developing my project draft and finding the ways to communicate and collaborate with my future project partners. 

The main space used for collaborative activities would, of course, be the project journal, chat room or a video conference. 

For sharing ideas or brainstorming I would use Padlet, which is a great collaborative tool. 

Since my project is dealing with history and historic sources, my idea for collaborative activity number 1 would be to present your school through its history and to use MyHistro as a tool to map the schools and write short introduction of them. Each school would have a national team of 6 for this activity. Each student would also have to introduce oneself through old photos or objects from early childhood presented as a video or a slideshow.

In other activities, students would, working in national teams, have to record a video at a historic site from their neighbourhood. Those films would be presented using any video editing tool.

Using Skype or a video conference, all participants would discuss the videos and ask questions about them and material presented.
They would also give tasks to other national teams to find a historic source from a certain period of time, write a story how it was used, and put it on the time line using MyHisto.

All teams would assess the stories and choose the best one. 

In the third activity, each team would have to create an online quizz for their school mates, and the questions would be discussed and created together using Padlet.  The results of the poll would be presented on the Project journal wall and the tool used would be Socrative.

In the final activity, international teams of students would work together on a collaborative comic book  presenting one period of time. All teams would assess the other teams' books according to certain evaluation criteria created by teachers.  The tool used for this activity can be Pixton any other tool chosen by students.

Expected products of the project

The expected products of the collaborative activities would all be vivid and presented on the project journal wall. These would include the padlet board with the brainstorming ideas and suggestions, a time line in MyHistro, videos, poll results and an eBook as a final result of the project.


All activities would be assessed both by teachers and students throughout the whole period and the criteria would be discussed among the teams. 

Methodology techniques used in the project would be various. Some activities would be designed as an individual work ( introducing oneself), as a  national team work (presenting the school and the historic site) and as international team work (creating pages of the eBook/comic book).