Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2013 Newsletter
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Targets
To learn to create photo slideshow with Movie
Maker using some transition effects.
To exercise in writing a description in their own
language and in English as well.
To learn about each other’s Christmas traditions.
To learn carols and traditional Christmas Songs in
English.
To exchange Christmas wishes and small gifts so as
to start developing friendly bonds.
3rd sub-stage with the title: School subjects or
Let me teach you.
The idea here was pupils from both schools to
learn about the school subjects their partner
have and to work on several school subjects
by making their own video clips.
Activities
Pupils wrote scenarios for school subjects
such as: advertisements and natural disasters, in
Greek language, mixing colours and painting a
rainbow in art, experiments in science.
Pupils translated the above scenarios in English
Pupils created storyboards for the above scenarios
Pupils shot the above scenes
Pupils worked on Movie Maker to edit the scenes
(photos during the shots)
Pupils converted their clips into 3D using a relative
freeware program (stvmkre) or the one given by
YouTube tool in the cyan/red form.
Pupils watched a stop animation film to learn what
moving pictures means.
animation film e.g. equalities, fractions, decimals,
ratios etc.
4th sub-stage with the title: City spots or Let’s
go sightseeing.
The idea here was to search and learn the
local history so as to present some city spots
to their partners.
Activities
Pupils searched the internet, files, took interviews.
Pupils wrote scenarios made storyboards for the
relative shots and edited those shoots with Movie
Maker.
Targets
To learn the local history
To exercise in writing, translating , and describing a
site or landmark.
Stage 3: Long Shot scenes
This is the stage where students faced different
angles of shots and moving bodies.
Targets
To learn about their partners’ school subjects
To learn their own school subjects by making a film
To exercise in both English and their own language
with making scenarios
To address maths exercises based on that stop
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