Paper dolls
Pupils from each school create cut out and dress paper dolls in their national costume. The dolls are photographed and the photos are uploaded to VoiceThread. Pupils who created the doll record themselves while describing their paper doll and its national dress. Pupils from other schools record comments and give feedback.
Example tool: VoiceThread
Write It. Draw It
Pupils write a collaborative fictional story so that one school proposes the characters, the setting and the plot; another school writes the beginning of the story; other schools continue until the last school finishes the story. After each school has finished writing their part, pupils from other schools draw the scenes from the story. They use their Twinspace for writing the story and publishing their drawings. Once they have finished, they can use their story and drawings to make a book which they can publish.
Example tool: Calameo
Play it
Pupils use an online canvas to sketch, draw and write a story about their favourite animal (or a fictional character, best friend, and so on). They can also use images and annotate them. They will then record their screen as they are writing, drawing or annotating. They can narrate the story by using their voice or record a video of themselves narrating the story by using a camera. When the recording of the story is finished, they embed their narrated story in the Twinspace.
Example tool: Powtoon
Word clouds
The teacher creates a word cloud made of the biography of a famous writer, artist or composer. The pupils try to find out who the biography is about. Then they create their own word clouds about their favourite writers.
Example tool: Word Clouds
They post the word clouds on Tricider and invite another pupil to discover who their favourite writers are. Pupils explain which words made them guess who the writer is.
A travelling mascot
Pupils choose a mascot for their project. The mascot will travel all over Europe and visit different cities. Something funny will happen to the mascot in each of the cities it visits. In international teams, pupils create comic books to describe their mascot’s adventures. Each team creates their own script. Each comic is written in the language of the project and then translated into pupils’ native languages. Pupils perform different roles. They divide the roles themselves: scriptwriter, cartoonist, illustrator, translator.
Example tool: Pixton
Example comic book: Pek Traveller
Traditional tales
Pupils from each school choose a traditional tale that they want to share with their partners. They record themselves narrating the story.
Example tool: Vocaroo
The recordings are embedded in a Padlet . Other pupils ask questions, post comments and give feedback.
