Our Window to the World This is a multilingual project with over 80 students from 5 different schools. It‘s created by teachers (Group B3) joined the WITF 2008 in Hongkong

Our Window to the World AuthorWildisen Nicole, KS Seetal, Baldegg (Lu), Switzerland, in collaboration with Gitte Tjellesen from Denmark, Elke Mayer and Sandra Hoffmann from Germany and Dusa Vukovic from Serbia Text comprehension, text production, writing a curriculum in a foreign language Individual (virtual) work with unknown partner in a foreign language Objectives Window Live Tools: Hotmail, Space, Blog, Group, Skydrive, Discussion Software DescriptionStudents from Denmark, Germany, Serbia and Switzerland present themselves by creating their own spaces and exchange by SkyDrive about animals, vegetation, sightseeing and the questions „How do I learn“ and Why do I hate?“. The result is a multilingual project to open a window and have a view how life is in other countries. Learning Areas Foreign Languages, History, Geography, Ethics, Pedagogic, Biology, interdisciplinary work, social cultural subjects Levels Different levelsteamwork, window live tools, foreign language, multilingual, interdisciplinary, social culture Keywords Project Overview

Our Window to the World Teacher Planning and Management Click the document Background and Planning below to help you understand the context of this exemplary learning project: You will get information about the involved schools the involved teachers the project goals the planning origine of the project the curriculum context of the project the technology context the project management Documents

Our Window to the World Teaching Resources Click the document below. It is a student project overview in English, Spanish and German with all the steps to respect during the project. If you click the student’s papers you get some idea about the papers they wrote. In the following link you can enter to get an idea of a space the students were asked to create: If you would like to be a member of the community, you are welcome to mail to You will get an invitation to the

Our Window to the World Assessment and Standards Click the document below to see the evaluation of the participating teachers in this learning project. Assessment Rubrics: in this project the motivation for computer work gets netted with the motivation for foreign language and interdisciplinary work. The students like working with the Window Live Tools and by doing that they work with the objective: they make creative and interdisciplinary activities in foreign languages. The result is a joyful workshop and furthermore with the special challenge because they also have to work in a team with unknown partners. Evaluation: The papers will not get a mark. Nevertheless the papers are very good, in this sense they neither have to be graded. The students know that their products will be read by the whole community and this is the reason why they produce good texts. National Educational Technology Standards for Students (NETS): (Foreign) Language curriculum context: this project includes different facilities which are important in the language acquisition. These are reading and comprehension of foreign language texts, writing summaries, commenting texts, exchange of opinion, translation. Social cultural and interdisciplinary curriculum context: furthering of knowledge in subjects like geography, biology, ethics, pedagogy, and gastronomy. ICT curriculum context: creating and publishing of own texts using Word or PowerPoint, working with the Window Live Tools: space, group, SkyDrive, blog, forum, , handling photos and pictures, using online dictionaries. Documents

Our Window to the World Background Information Switzerland: Nicole Wildisen, KS Seetal, Baldegg (LU) Germany: Elke Mayer, Gesamtschule Bellevue, Am Hagen, Saarbrücken Germany: Sandra Hoffmann, Christian-Kretschmar-Schule, Merzig Denkmark: Gitte Tjellesen, School: Maglegaardsskolen – Maglegaardsskole vej 1 – 2900 Hellerup Serbia - Dusa Vukovic School: Racunarska gimnazija, Knez Mihajlova 6, Beograd