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Add comment December 27th, 2008

List of Participants in Sister Classes’ Project

Teachers and students from a variety of countries around the world are taking part in a sister classes’ project. This was started in 2008 with a group from Kuwait, the U.S.A., Romania, Hungary, Argentina, Venezuela and Brazil. Since then, it has expanded to include people from other countries, e.g. Spain, Mexico and Russia.

Students are able to display their work online in the Student showcase blog. Short movies, paragraphs, voice threads, flowgrams and more are displayed there. Then anyone can post comments on their work and/or take part in student forums.

The project aims to develop the students’ knowledge of other countries and cultures, and their writing and computing skills. Teachers taking part in the project also develop their computing skills. It is an interesting way to show everyone we are all part of the global village.

Name	Location	Start	Institution	Ages	Blog/Homepage
Berta	Venezuela
Dot	Kuwait GMT +2	Oct	Kuwait University	18 to 35	ELU Science ELU Science homepage KUOLL Dot MacKenzie Homepage for 161 and 162 students Kids’ Writing, Malaysia Displays written work by Malaysian students and teachers Malaysia Provides information for Malaysian teachers and students Hands across the Oceans Displays work for university students Kuwait University Older blog for KU students
Elena Delgado	Mexico
Guillermo Lopez	Pereira, Colombia	Aug			Guillermo Guillermo (Wordpress)
Hala	Sudan	Nov
Isabel Neves	Portugal	Mid Sept
Ismail Fayed	UAE
Larinda
Larry Ferlazzo	USA	Sept			Larry Ferlazzo
Lisa Stornes	Norway				Lisa
Maria R Di Monaco
Michael Stout	Japan	Oct			Michael
Mona Bran	Romania		University of Timisoara	18-19	Class blog
Pau De Las Heras	Spain	Mid Sept	IES Collblanc, Tarragona	16-17 (43 students)	Class blog
Ronaldo	Brazil				Ronaldo
S Gray	Alaska, USA	Sept		Alaska standard time
Sebastian Mercado	Argentina				Sebastian
Sister classes					Student Showcase This is our student blog. You can subscribe using an RSS reader for the posts here Student Showcase comments. If you don’t use an RSS feeder, you can subscribe to the posts by email, but have to go to the blog to do it. You’ll see info on the right side. However, you can’t subscribe to the Student Forum comments, so I would suggest that once a class has left comments there, teachers let the rest of us know. Sister classes teachers’ blog This is our teacher’s blog. You can subscribe using an RSS reader for the posts here.
Tibor Prievara	Hungary
Victor Kirllin	Russia

Add comment November 16th, 2008

Procedure

Hi, you all!

This is Pau from Spain. Just a couple of things.

In SHOWCASE: I can only see one post from Kuwait by Ahmed.Is it so? Is there only one?

And I can’t see the presentations from Mexico. Do I have to do something special?

Somthing else, we posted in the FORUM because we thought it was there where we were expected to introduce ourselves. Perhaps we should have started by doing it in the SHOWCASE adding some nice photographs…..

By the way,Larry,my students are answering the questions your students posed. I hope they will be on the cyberspace this week. And some Urban Tribes presentations which I’ll upload in the SHOWCASE if that’s ok. We will be adding some photos to our Introductions as well but I can’t say when!!!

Love from beautiful Tarragona, in Spain!

PAU

4 comments October 17th, 2008

Introductions from Spain in Forum

HI, you all! Greetings from beautiful Tarragona in Spain.

Just a short note to tell you my students have introduced themselves in the Forum so they are ready to hear about yours!!!

Love

PAU

1 comment September 23rd, 2008

Hi everybody… from Pereira, Colombia

Hi everybody

A warm greeting from Pereira, Colombia. I´m Guillermo López, EFL teacher at INEM Felipe Perez school. It´s great to be part of a project like this. You wouldn´t believe how much this post has cost to me. Not talking of money, but time and effort. Maybe some day Larry Ferlazzo will tell you. I still laugh about the ¨tech¨problem I had. By the way, thanks a lot for your support and patience, Larry, two qualities for a teacher.

My students are now working on the project. They will present a real (at the classroom) and a virtual (online) exposition of the western region of our country, Colombia. They are both enthusiastic and scared. I hope everything will be ok. I have two 9 grades, with EFL beginner students from 14 to 16 years old.

Hope to see your posts over here soon,

Guillermo

2 comments September 8th, 2008

Isabel Neves from Benavente, Portugal

Hi everyone !

I am an EFL teacher and I teach in Escola Secundaria de Benavente, in a quiet, small town in Ribatejo. I’ll be having a class of teenagers who are pre-intermediate to intermediate. Some of them are quite good. The challenge will be motivating them to participate in this exchange and get a computer room at school. I ‘ll be starting lessons in about a week and that’s when I’ll be presenting them this project. Hope to learn a lot from you !

Isabel Neves, Portugal

2 comments September 7th, 2008

HI from Spain

HI!

I’m not sure this is the place I am supposed to write or if I need to add it to any category… but I just wanted to try it and to say hello to you all. So, Pau from beautiful Tarragona in Spain greets you and hopes to encourage students to participate in your project.

Loads of love!

4 comments September 2nd, 2008

Finally!

Hello everybody,

we’ve finally finished our voicethread and we’ve uploaded it on the students showcase. It’s been more difficult than I would have predicted when we started but personally I’m quite pleased with the final result.

On a different note, I’d like to tell you that I’ll be away for 5 days and I don’t think I’ll access our blog. Please leave comments to the voicethread, we’d love to see your reactions.

Thanks a lot,

Mona

2 comments April 4th, 2008