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CompuLingua:Talking Technology Across the Borders

Prof. Fiorenza CongedoProf. Fiorenza Congedo

Technical High School “G. Marconi”Technical High School “G. Marconi”

Verona, ItalyVerona, Italy

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CompuLingua - an eTwinning partnership

• The partnership is registered and approved

Technical High School “G. Marconi”, Verona, Italy

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CompuLingua: eTwinning label

Technical High School “G. Marconi”, Verona, Italy

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CompuLingua: Italian best practices

• http://etwinning.indire.it/content/index.php?action=read_cnt&id_cnt=511

Technical High School “G. Marconi”, Verona, Italy

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Schools, teachers and students

• Schools: two upper secondary technical and vocational schools for electronics and computer studies (Technical High School “G. Marconi”, Verona, Italy and Höhere Technische Bundeslehranstalt Leonding, Austria)

• Teachers: Fiorenza Congedo and Andreas Bärnthalerärnthaler• Students: 17-18 year old students 

Technical High School “G. Marconi”, Verona, Italy

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The project

• Content and Language integrated - a learning project on Computer Science and English (used both for specific and general purposes) integrated to the school curriculum

• A whole school year project • Students work in a virtual workplace • Innovation in foreign language learning and teaching• Students and teachers share curricular materials and

resources• Students will create a multilingual glossary to be web

published• A class exchange in March and April 2006

Technical High School “G. Marconi”, Verona, Italy

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CompuLingua -TwinSpace

• Students work in their TwinSpace

Technical High School “G. Marconi”, Verona, Italy

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EUN Community - CompuLingua

• Collaborative Virtual Classroom• http://community.eun.org/entry_page.cfm?area=1929

Technical High School “G. Marconi”, Verona, Italy

Students’ virtual classroom

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CompuLingua: a multilingual glossary

• Students work in their virtual classroom

Technical High School “G. Marconi”, Verona, Italy

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CompuLingua - MagazineFactory

• Teachers and the students work as editorial staff in their virtual classroom and publish a web magazine.

• http://www2.edu.fi/magazinefactory/magazines/2669_1440/index.php

Technical High School “G. Marconi”, Verona, Italy

Students’ Magazine

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