ICT TASK INVOLVING REAL COLLABORATION

The task that I am going to design is quite basic. Since my students are aged 6 or 7 the type of task must be not very demanding as far as ICT  managing is concerned.

Within our planning we have established the use of stories that catch up our student's attention. Among the stories we aim at working we would like to use incorporate "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" by Eric Carle. 

With it we may allow students to cope with food, likes and dislikes. It may give us an oportunity to work with our partners from other country typical food from our countries (we must not forget that we teach English and we want to communicate with other students by using that languate). We will include some kind of meeting (skype/hangouts) videoconference to talk about the story, student's opinion, favourite part, where they will talk to their etwinning friends. We have to consider that this is not the first time they met as they have already worked from the beginning of the school year.

After all this work is done, we will develop a collaborative activity where children will make up a new story. We will have to agree how will it go (who creates pictures, who writes text, if there is audio who records it, who incorporates it and who publishes it. This task will be agreed between teachers.

The general outline of the activity would consist of making up  a comic about a caterpillar where they will have to decide the food it will eat all through the week (it implies rewriting Carle's story) but incorporating the items of food they agree.

We should not lose perspective of our student's age and level of language regarding English.

To create the comic we propose the use of mobile devices rather than computers since it is easier for young children to tackle with them. Among the different apps we propose the use of PIXTON

as it may be used with iOS or Android devices.

The development of this within our eTwinning planning will imply work at two levels. On the one hand, with our students providing them with the necessary language and, on the other hand with our partners by the end of the project when building up the new story.