E-books and digital creations to fight for a cause: the environment. Web 2.0 collaboration in an international context. Barcelona Global Forum March 11-14, Marie-Hélène Fasquel.

 Combining motivation factors  ICT: collaboration, content creation, knowledge construction, online publishing,  The environnement topic: fighting for a real- world cause, Civic engagement  Opening onto the international Authentic communication  Developing creativity and autonomy 2 Main objectives

 Writing a collective e-book – magazine articles  Analysing other students’ articles  Creating logos  Making Glogs  Exchanging online (Twinspace) all year longTwinspace  Writing and sharing collaborative short stories  Turning them into comic strips  Taking part in class & online competitions (Ocean Challenge, The Paper Plane English Prize 2013)Ocean ChallengeThe Paper Plane English Prize steps to nurture creativity

 The learning activity calls on students to plan their work (as the tasks are ambitious ones: writing short stories from scratch, making cartoons…)  Tasks requiring creativity (creative writing, amking cartoons, writing articles, selecting views and taking photographs…)  and assessing one’s work regularly (to improve it). 4 Project description Autonomy – Team work

 Competitions: Students being rewarded and encouraged (diplomas & prizes) 5 Some of the Logos

Different steps towards building knowledge  Learning about the environment (lessons, research, webquests,…)  About the short story genre  interpretation  Analysing various short stories including 3 about the environment  Applying those 3 steps (synthesis)  writing original and creative stories collaboratively  Improving the final products thanks to teacher/peers feedback  constant evaluation of the product – leading to the best product possible. 6 Knowledge Building & Critical Thinking

 Online collaboration for the French students (google docs, Titanpad,  Actual meetings of groups at home during holidays…  Online collaboration on Twinspace with friends from Turkey & Italy  Access to content curation for all studentscontent curation  Access to resources – implementation of a flipped classroom (adapted to the LA & students’ needs) Access to resources flipped classroom 7 Extended learning beyond the class

Sharing  Workload,  Tasks,  Evaluation / feedback, Working as a TEAM.  Working as a TEAM. Making  Decisions together about characterization, the plot, …, the articles (topic to tackle, pictures to include, revisions…)  About which talents to showcase (For the Ocean Challenge, some students danced, others drew, wtote articles…)  self confidence / engaging tasks  All this would not have been possible without IT. 8 Collaboration