Schools around the world

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Join us in this new adventure to show “Schools around the world“. Students through exchanges and discussions will learn about different schools worldwide.

The idea is to create a visual school network in order to sustain an on-going dialogue about how schools differ worldwide. Students must prepare a voicethread, youtube video or simply join our Flickr group and add pictures sharing all the information they require relevant for other students to know about their school. The rest of the participants can ask questions about their school.

You can check school calendars around the world thanks to the wonderful work done by Tom Robb.

Teachers interested in joining this project please add yourself to the following chart: Participating Schools.

Objectives

By the end of this project student will have:

learned about the educational system in several countries
learned different cultures worldwide
introduced themselves to the participants
added themselves to the Schools around the world map
gotten familiar with the features on our wiki
gotten familiar with voicethread and you tube

TUTORIALS

Sharing our School with the world

Please take a look at the You Tube video created by St.Matthew´s College students

Another group of students created a voicethread

Comments (7)

Dear Saša,
Congratulations on a completely pilot project.
Excellent work on sides, yours and your students.
Hala from Sudan

Wonderful project. I teach HS biology in NY and I am very interested. I will meet with my team teacher tomorrow and discuss. I also sent this out to my network.

Hi Jennifer and students,
What a great project!
It was great to know about your school.
Lusia, I loved your accent! Thanks for letting me know about St.Matthew´s Colleg.
Way to go!
Hala Fawzi (Sudan)

This is yet, another fantastic project, Jennifer. Congratulations! I am very much interested in this kind of projects as it helps us to promote peace inside our classrooms. When students and teachers learn more about cultural differences, it surely helps in clarifying misunderstood or misconstrued concepts or ideas. We're having mid-term exams in few days, but I will tell my students about this project so that we can join you..

All the best..

Buth (Kuwait)

Very well done to all the students and their teacher from France (Europe). The things which surprised me, that is to say the things which are different to school in France, is that you raise the flag in the afternoon ... people in France do not do that in school. I think that you are very luck to have Richard's next to you school :-).
And I think you are very luck too to have just 15 people in the class in the secondary class someone showed us. Here in Secondary school classes, there are up to 32 people in one class !
It would be nice if every time someone mentions a class, they give the average age of the pupils in the class. I teach at the University in Grenoble, and when I hear "grade 3" I don't really know what ages you are.
Vous étudiez le français à l'école, alors je peux dire: Bravo ! c'était très bien. Cela m'a fait plaisir de vous écouter :-)

Oops please change "you are very luck" to "you are very lucky" TWICE ! :-(

Very innovative project and you have a very nice classroom!

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