La Ville Plurielleby Giusy de Petro, Liceo Alessi, Perugia, Italy

•The Project in general terms•Tools•Cooperation•Meetings

La Ville Plurielle(eTwinning-Comenius project 2009-2011)

Coordinator school: Lycée Jean Lurçat Martigues, France

Partner school: Liceo Scientifico Alessi Perugia, ItaliaPartner school : Hanse- Berufskolleg Lemgo,

Allemagne Partner school : Lycée Ogolnosksztalcace im. Janca

Bytnara, Kolbuszowa, PolognePartner school : Ies La Rabida Huelva, EspagnePartner school: Liceul Pedagogic Jean Monnet,

Ploiesti, Roumanie (only eTwinning)

The topic The languages

• The city through literature, but also everyday life with its positive and negative aspects, the problems involved and the investigation of common solutions.

• The languages we use are French, English, Italian

Tools

• Multiblog La ville plurielle (each of the six countries, in turn, leads the management)

• Desktop eTwinning (Twin Space)

• Twinagers news

Pedagogical objectives

• To foster intercultural dialogue and multidisciplinary teamwork

• To integrate ICT with traditional learning• To improve spoken and written foreign language skills• To promote the understanding of cultural diversity • To participate in creating a European identity • To reflect upon the current life in our cities identifying

problems and proposing solutions• To foster a sense of common research concerning

culture, the environment, the facilities in an ideal city

MultiblogLa ville plurielle

• It was created by the teacher-coordinator who is the webmaster

• It has a multilingual interface• Each country can administrate and manage it in

its own language

eTwinning tools(Twin Space)

The Twin Space is very useful. It:

• facilitates cooperation in editing articles trough Wiki

• stimulates contacts among students and teachers trough chat

• makes everybody aware of the whole project, as it contains all of the activities

Twinagers news

Twinagers news is our on line magazine in which the articles are published. It used to belong to a previous eTwinning project with Lycée Jean Lurçat as the main partner

Working groups

• Proposals and comments on the blog: teachers and students from different classes

• Articles published in Twinagers news: students who have proposed a topic on the blog together with a partner student for glossary help

Cooperation in eTwinning

On the eTwinning desktop:• Mailing• Forum

In the Twin Space:• Files sharing (written/audio documents…)• Wiki for editing articles• Chat

In each school: • Interactive editorial staff for the articles published in Twinagers news• In each country the schools organize themseves in different ways ,

but they all take part in a common work plan

Cooperation in Comenius

On the multiblog:• through comments on topics proposed every day• through the Progress Card, thanks to which the teachers can

communicate with one another, discuss the progress, inform about the progress of the project and monitor the work

During the meetings:• the students work together, socialize and communicate in different

languages to report the outcomes of the workshops • the teachers pilot and discuss about the progress of the students’

work, the use of ICT …

Benefits of meeting

The students:

• get to know each other

• work together in multilingual groups (in the workshops)

• Confront themselves with different cultures

• Strengthen spoken foreign language competences

Student workshops Lemgo

• Local Christmas traditions• Coats of arms of our cities• Features of a European ideal city• Young people’s problems, hopes and worries

Student workshops 1 Perugia

The six hats strategy was used in

the exploration of the following topics:• Culture and free time in our cities• The environment• Facilities for citizens

Student workshops 2Perugia

• The Project’s manifesto Work steps (preparatory work in Twin Space and France):

Twin Space photograph collectionMartigues photograph printingPerugia photograph selection and collage by students

• The Project’s logo

Student workshops 3Perugia

Story writing:

• Walking by night in the historical old part of a big city

• I dreamt that my city changed and became

Video:

• The environmental issue: some solutions

Teacher workshops Perugia

• How to use:

- Twin Space

- Wiki

- ICT

• How to improve the work

• How to facilitate interunderstanding (articles and glossaries)

Mock-up of  Ville Plurielle:

  the Common City of the United Europe

Student workshops 1Kolbuszowa

Student workshops 2Kolbuszowa

The Ville plurielle legend(performed by the students)

Student workshops 3Kolbuszowa

Architectural styles of European cities

Student workshops 4Kolbuszowa

Three drama writing about a life scene in a city of the past, of the present, of the future

Teacher workshopsKolbuszowa

• How to register the students in theTwin Space (to show the country of each one)

• How to form a list with mixed students (from all the countries) in theTwin Space

• How to organize podcasting (one article in Italian and one in French in a month)

• English reading by all the countries (to reflect about the different pronunciation)

For students and teachers

Short course of Polish languagein Kolbuszowa

European dimension

• In each school the project is integrated in the yearly educational offer plan

• The proposals on the blog present information about the European events organized in the different countries.

Final products

• Power points• Manifestoes• Logo• Articles published in Twinagers news• Virtual albums• Audio and video files• A performance by the participating students of

Alessi High School

Students assessment

The students’ work is evaluated in every discipline involved through a grid used by the teachers

Mobilities for individuals (only for Comenius)

• December 2009 Germany

• March 2010 Italy

• October 2010 Poland

• April 2011 France

Key points of the project

• It provides a European dimension to the school’s activities • It makes learning by competences easier

• It changes the role of the learner, who becomes an active protagonist

• It changes the role of the teacher, who becomes facilitator and guide

• The teacher therefore: - allows greater students autonomy in work organization - integrates teaching with various learning strategies - applies different modes of assessment with focus on the achievement

of individual competences

Addresses

Multiblog: http://lavilleplurielle.blogsactifs.com

Magazine: http://twinagersnews.free.fr

Twin Space:

http://new-twinspace.etwinning.net/web/p18021/home