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Hi everyboy! We are creating our introductions using avatars. We hope finishing them in the end of the week. Lluís

Hello again! I changed teams pages today, now I hope all is fine and we could start adding the introductions-recordings in the page of each pupil:) Nobody said a word about creating avatars!!! I will add my pupils introductions by using avatar, as my pupils loved this idea!  Have a nice long weekend!!!!!!  Cristina

HELLO DEAR FRIENDS. FIRST OF ALL THANK YOU FOR FILLING THE TABLE SO QUICKLY:) AS YOU ALL COULD NOTICE IT OCCURED THAT SOME OF THE GROUPS (ESPECIALLY THE LOWEST LINES) WERE ONLY WITH 3 STUDENTS AND WHAT'S MORE- FROM THE SAME COUNTRY. THAT'S WHY WE HAD TO TRY TO SOLVE THIS PROBLEM. ME AND CRISTINA WERE DISCUSSING THIS SITUATION AND TRYING TO ORGANISE THE TABLE SO AS ALL YOUR SUGGESTIONS AND IDEAS WERE TAKEN UNDER CONSIDERATION. (UNFORTUNATELY NOT EVERYTHING SEEMS TO BE POSSIBLE). BELOW WE PRESENT A TABLE, WHICH WE MODIFIED A LITTLE BIT. OF COURSE IT'S ONLY A SUGGESTION AND WE WISH YOU TO TELL US WHAT YOU THINK. WE CHANGED THE NUMBER OF GROUPS (THEY ARE NOW 20) AND IN EACH GROUP THERE ARE 10 STUDENTS. WE TRIED TO DO OUR BEST BUT OF COURSE NOW IT'S YOUR TURN TO CHANGE YOUR STUDENTS IN THE WAY YOU THINK IS THE BEST. PLEASE LET US KNOW AND DON'T HESITATE TO CHANGE ANYTHING TO MAKE IT BETTER:) WE APPRECIATE IT:) P.S. AND ONE MORE THING - PLEASE MAKE CHANGES ONLY HERE. AT THE VERY END WHEN EVERYTHING WILL BE SETTLED WE'LL ADD THE NAMES TO THE GROUP PAGES:) THANK YOU AND LET'S KEEP IN TOUCH  JOANNA AND CRISTINA  Lluís, 07.11.11  Hi! My name is Moises, I'm a teacher of Lluís school and I try to help him. Today I go to the TEAMS section and I try to do some changes. I put a table in the TEAM 1 page and then I put the avatars in it, At the bottom I put the name of the students. I think that it's better now. Sorry for my english level and if you need something about web-ideas you can localize me through Lluís. Lluís, 18.10.11  Hello everybody  On Friday we are going to discuss ourselves about avatar proposal of Anna. Next week we'll answer you. Bye Joanna, 17.10.11  Hello everybody :) It's a great pleasure to take part in this project. I hope we'll all have lots of fun with our students here:) To be honest - I'm sure of that:) I wish us all a great time of coordinating together:) Let's keep in touch  Joanna  Cristina 16-10-11  Hello! It seems finally we will be 6 schools involved in this project!  In my school I will involve my 5th level pupils, they are 10 years old now, and a total of 49 pupils.  I like the proposal of Anna about creating avatars to add our recorded pupils voices there. What do you think?  We proposed a project for 3 months, but if we agree for some more time, all is possible:). If you would like to receive a mail each time someone will add a new comment or work here, you should change your notifications at the top of the page:) I'll start recording next week. Have fun!!!!  Cristina  Nataša 16-10-11 Dear Cristina, sorry for my absence. My son and I was ill. Yes, I want to participate in your and Joanna's project. My pupils are 7 years old. I think that can involve 5 pupils in project. I am still in beginning, so I say 5 pupils. If I am good understand, some of us can have more pupils, but than will one pupils send more than one postcard. Is it enough pupils for activities? Hugs from very cold and windy Bjelovar, Nataša Lluis Matabosch, 14-10-11 Hi Cristina, of course we are interested in the project. We are 49 students fron Primary (5th). Two groups of 24 and 25 each one. Most of them, they are 9 and 10 years old. If you want I could attache the list of their names. Would you mind to tell me the name of the schools that are involved in the project and their country, please? Now we are recording the students introductions (audacity?). Looking forward your answer, Lluís Carole Marcil, 13-10-11 Hello, I am still interested, but I thought I was only joining a school in Spain. You didn't mention this is your email. I would like to know the school names and countries that are participating, so I can tell this to my students and parents. I hope you did not change your projects ( voice recording, school video, Xmas cards, a fall or winter diaporama and a summary). In your first email, you said that you wanted to do these projects before December. It doesn't give me much time cause I have two classes that I see two times per month. It would be better for me to do one project per month. Examples: October (voice recording) November (school video) Making Xmas cards at the beginning of December I have a total of 47 sudents aged between 11 and 12 years old (21 girls and 26 boys). Bye Carole Marcil Anna, 13-10-11  Hi, Cris! Just to inform you, Mr Koutandos, my headmaster, will send a report to our regional superintendent tomorrow morning, mentioning the name of our project as well as our names (mine and his) as the teachers in charge. The teachers of E' and ST' classes will let me use some time out of their //flexible zone classes// (classes aiming at free project work) to carry out our project.I had to change my profile in twinspace as I work in Maroussi (a suburb north of Athens) for two years now. A friend lent me a digital voice recorder to use for my students' recordings (E' class: 22 std., ST' class:18 std. = 40 std. altogether). The following week I will ask them to write down a brief presentation of themselves - of about10 lines - and read them in class. I won't record them yet. I am not in a hurry, but on the 28th we have our National holiday and we will have to prepare stds. for the parade. This means that every day they'll have to practise marching and this is not only done during the P.E. lessons but also during the English lesson. I was also thinking that it would be a nice idea if we had our stds. //talk about themselves through animated images.// I don't know how hard or easy this might be and how long it would take, but as I was surfing the //voki// site I thought that it will be fun for them to create voki avatars and give them their voice to speak and present themselves to their peers in Spain. I visited the //free voki site// and I found out that every student has only 60 sec. to speak. Do you think that's enough time for a single presentation? Moreover, in the free version of voki each std. has to register, which is a time consuming process, giving his/her e-mail address (not the school's). In Greece very few stds. have e-mails. So, I've started giving up the idea of creating a voki. What do you think?Looking forward to hearing from you, xxx Anna  P.S. Have in mind that I know a little about P/C programmes, I am only interested in learning more and that I will be actually working alone, despite the big words and promises of the previous month ...  Anna, 13-10-2011 Hi, Cris! Of course I am interested in joining you! I have accepted your invitation in the e-twinning site and visited the wikispace you've created. The total number of my students is 40 out of which the 22 are 5th graders (9 boys and 13 girls) and the 18 6th graders (10 boys and 8 girls). The 5th Grade stds are 10 to 11 years old and the 6th Grade stds are 11 to 12 years old respectively. A few questions which are important to me - as next week I will have very little time with my students due to the National Holiday on the 28th Oct. so I will have to ask them to write a few things about themselves the soonest possible - are: a. How long will each recording last on average? (less than 1min? up to 2 minutes?) b. Should they all start their presentations mentioning their country of origin? c. As more experienced in computers what's your opinion on creating voki animations for our stds. presentations? - I was thinking that if we wanted to pair off our stds, a good way would be (apart from their possible common interests) the similarity of the vokis they would have created..Of course I don't know whether the variety of vokis the software provides allows for such similarities to occur... Doing so, we also get some clues about the way our stds see themselves without being afraid to be criticized... By the way, have you read my last e-mail? I'm writing some ideas about voki avatars in there... Your opinion counts here as the time span for our project seems prohibitory for this kind of plans... I wish we all have another interesting e-twinning journey! Anna Joanna and Cristina 12-10-2011 Dear friends, Hope you all are fine and ready to new adventures:) Our project is ready to start, and first we would like to ask you few questions: The first one, of course, is if you are still interested in the project! If the answer is yes (We hope so), our second question is if you know how many pupils would you like to involve? We were thinking in a nice way to organizate the wiki and also our pupils trying that each of them could have the possibility of knowing a "partner friend" to who they'll send their Christmas card by post. To do it, we need to know how many pupils we will have and how to join them . We need also to know the age of your pupils. Also we were thinking in a way to comunicate all teachers and have all of us the same information. Sometimes when we send a mail to all members, one of them don't get it and when it happens, it is a problem. We though a nice way is creating in our wiki special page where we all could comunicate and write the messages there instead of emails. It will be ready soon. But for now, as it is still not ready, I will be waiting your mails with the answers:). Have a nice week! Looking forward to your answers! Cristina and Joanna