Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group Newsletter 2017 No. 7 | Page 80

Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2017 Newsletter
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Trucks of taste
by Murièle Dejaune
The eTwinning project “Trucks of Taste”
https://twinspace.etwinning.net/9698/home uses
the theme of healthy alternatives to fast food,
served from food trucks, to develop students’
entrepreneurial skills by integrating several school
subjects: marketing, advertising, gastronomy and
ICT.
each of these groups, four sub-teams were formed
(sometimes pairs). In France pupils worked in pairs
from level one and level 2 of CAP of the training
Agent Polyvalent de restoration. They then worked
together as four school teams to complete different
aspects of project work. Simultaneously, they were
members of international teams. Therefore the four
groups consisted of Polish and French students who
were experts in different areas. Students took the
roles of market researchers, advertising designers,
accountants and chefs. They also had to
communicate with teachers of different subjects to
make sure that the work content is correct. Since
students were the key participants of the project,
they decided on the majority of content of the
project and how to organise the project activities.
Within their sub-groups they appointed leaders and
shared the many tasks and responsibilities
according t o their own decisions.
Students communicated to get to know everyone
and they completed their profiles and in pairs (1 +
1 first year second year) they presented their pairs
to the other partners on a Pallet. They posted
messages on the project diary (some students were
administrators). They also answered to publications
on the project diary. They communicated to wish
Christmas and a farewell message at the end of the
project. They also communicated to choose their
fruits and vegetables in season and then voted to
look up recipes with fruits and vegetables selected
for the season.
Students from France and Poland, coordinated by
their teachers Murièle Dejaune and Dominika
Tokarz, worked in four international teams whose
aim was to design small business enterprises. To do
so, team members worked on multiple aspects of
the project – planning the business strategy,
running an advertising campaign, selecting menu
options, calculating cost and preparing food for
sale. This is the link to the eMagazine of the
project:
https://madmagz.com/fr/magazine/638678.
Each student contributed to the overall result of the
project by individually completing a part of shared
work. This allowed creating an environment in
which work for a bigger company was reflected.
Students worked in teams which were formed on
many levels. Within the school, students came from
different grades, and they did not have classes
together, but they had to take into consideration
what their teammates were doing. In Poland we
had a group of waiters, a group of hotel workers
and a group of advertising design students. Within
In the forums our students had threads to discuss
in order to find the theme of their food trucks and
then chose in which groups they wanted to work
and then commented and gave opinions of their
recipes.
They had to communicate in English and they
appreciated these exchanges and it was not
perceived as a burden but as a means to an end, a
goal.
In France our students also presented in French
their project to explain to people who came to eat
in our restaurant the aim of their project and at the
end of year ceremony a student presented the
project to our guests.
Students collaborated to work for the smooth
running of the project because each needs the
other to move forward, they collaborated to choose
their team of Food Trucks to decide on recipes,
logos and names of their Food Trucks, to achieve
brainstorming on fruits and seasonal vegetables
and on the creation of a multilingual dictionary and
to create advertisements, menus.
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