This is another Web-based classroom project, which was running under Together in Europe. The project was carried out by pupils of Class 6 in Nareg School, Nicosia, Cyprus, and 12-13 years old in IES El Calamot, Gava (Barcelona), Spain, between March and June 2004.
The coordinating teachers were Nora Nadjarian (Cyprus) and Núria de Salvador (Spain). Pupils from Nora's class sent to Nuria's pupils information about Cyprus by snail mail, following the "Culture in a Box" framework created by another Spring teacher, Theresa Giakoumatou, from Greece. They were really happy to get mail from such a faraway country!
In the first picture you can see my learners holding the material our Cypriot friends had sent to us. In the second image there is an example of what Cypriot kids taught my students.
They read The Culture in a box information about Cyprus in class, as a whole class activity, and made two posters:
The Spanish students then sent all the sentences they had written to their Cypriot friends, again by snail mail. Nora's pupils answered, and sent questions as well, which unfortunately were unanswered because it was the end of the school year by then.
My pupils enjoyed all the exchange of information between the two schools. It was fun, simple and easy to do. We could not use the computer room with young learners, but it did not matter. E-mails or computers are not always necessary to get real communication with other schools. I only wish it had not been interrupted by the end of the year. It was real fun!
Nora represents her country in the Spring Day teacher group while myself represented it for 2003 and 2004 and now I am a member of the EUN team, in Brussels.
In the first picture you can see my learners holding the material our Cypriot friends had sent to us. In the second image there is an example of what Cypriot kids taught my students.
My pupils enjoyed all the exchange of information between the two schools. It was fun, simple and easy to do. We could not use the computer room with young learners, but it did not matter. E-mails or computers are not always necessary to get real communication with other schools. I only wish it had not been interrupted by the end of the year. It was real fun!
