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Organizing, collaborating, work-sharing

• Create a teacher account to share work with students of twinned school. Make a student folder and share it with your twinned teacher. He/she will have access to your students’ work.

• Create a teacher account. While students are working, visiting a twinned school or on an outing, open Evernote and have them take notes, take photos and add audio recordings to their notes. Back in class, have twinned students do a writing activity using the notes that were taken. Notes can be organized in notebooks that you create for each student or for groups of students.

• Create a teacher account. In Lino, create a group and invite a teacher of a twinned school to post on your canvas. Students can post using their teacher’s account. Ask students to help plan a meeting day: post ideas for activities, outings, snacks, etc.
• On another canvas, one class can post questions regarding pastimes, hobbies, likes, dislikes, favourites, etc. and the other class can post answers.

• Correct each others’ writing (provide a picture of the text and record the corrections).
• Explain the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms by adding pictures to illustrate the Charter.
• Present members of one’s family and explain their origins with pictures and maps.

• Create a board game: build it and write the rules. Then, take pictures or film the game, explain the rules and show how to play it.
• Capture a response to literature: book reviews, plot, theme, characterization, authors, etc.

• Make a presentation of the school or the community.
• Prepare charts representing information collected with class surveys ex: Chart depicting sports played by students, musical instruments played by students, etc.

• Describe the different parts of a cell and their function.
• Tell what happens in a story through your drawings.
• Give a lesson on how to prepare a traditional ethnic meal.

• Prepare a grammar lessons (e.g. how to conjugate verbs, how to use prepositions).
• Explain how to write an introduction or a conclusion.
• Explain a historical event. Add pictures and Web links.
• Explain math or science concepts (e.g. long division, the water cycle, the phases of the moon).

• Take your own photos and write a paragraph as an introductory activity
• Groups of students take photos of the school, their class and or other important areas of the school such as the library and the gym, write notes and add recordings explaining why it’s an important part of the school.

• Groups of students create books together: write a story, take photos, select music, add sound effects and record comments or questions on every page of the story. Before starting the creation process, select a target audience. The book can be for younger students, for students new to the school, for future students at a specific grade level, for parents, etc.

• Research a favourite author, musician or actor and make a book to share findings.
• Students from twinned classes interview each other and make biographical books.

• Partners (groups of 2 or 3 students) create a page together that can be assembled in a joint yearbook.
• Create superhero photocomics. Each partner in a group is responsible for one page.
• Create photocomics featuring different careers. A career page can include tasks and responsibilities, work hours, working conditions, work environment, etc.

• For a week, write to a friend from the twinned class. Share entries via e-mail. The following week, the friend writes to you.
• Together, write in the same journal (send, copy, paste or share via Dropbox) taking on the role of a character in a story or a famous person. Share via e-mail or conference on Skype to do the work.

• Paired students help each other to write about their families and their culture. Stories could be shared in class using an interactive digital board.
• Paired students select and read about a personal hero. Then, together they make a book about their hero.

• Paired students write biographies of each other. Assemble the classes’ biographies in one ebook and add the Q&A for the interviews to each page.
  Students from each class can write and share a childhood memory.

• Paired students use provided stories and give them a personal twist by editing the text and reordering pictures.
• Paired students write and record a narration for a provided book to share with the class.

• Groups of nine students from the twinned classes do a StoryLine using vocabulary from a story being read in class.
• Each team does a StoryLine starting with a sentence about a character from a story.
• Groups of students do a StoryLine starting with a famous quote.

• Use Skype with the whole class to communicate with twinned class.
• Groups of students can use Skype to work on a project.
• Individual students can use Skype to interview each other

• Use VoiceThread to present yourself or your school
• Upload images of historical figures or events and present the individuals or explain the events.
• Document and comment on class outings.
• Use a series of pictures as a basic storyline. Take on the voice of a character and tell the story.

• Describe holidays or customs of different religions of students in the class.
• Create a story collaboratively using the characters provided by Puppet Pals.

• Twinned students create a video acting out an historical event.
• Create a video promoting a book and upload your creation to a classroom blog. Invite students from twinned classes to post comments.

• Teams of students record scary stories or mysteries to send to friends from twinned class.
• Paired students record recipes complemented by a picture. Students could then prepare the recipes during a class visit.

• After an outing together, share impressions of the day and e-mail them to each other.
• Create a movie together, asking each other a question.
• Prepare book-review movies and share them on a class Web site.

• Create stories for your twinned partner.
• Create stories together for younger students.

• Record daily horoscopes or weather forecasts and send them to your twinned partner by e-mail.

• Students record themselves reading a poem. Twinned students illustrate the poem or add music to it.
• Receiving students change certain verses and send back the newly created poem.

• E-mail questions, comments or opinions regarding current events or newspaper headlines. Receiving students can, in turn, share their views on current happenings. (text).

• Record reviews of books, films or video games. Reviews can be shared via e-mail or collected on a class blog or class Web site (audio message).

• Record weather forecasts, make up weekly horoscopes, predict sport games results, etc. and send to a twinned partner. In turn, the receiving partner can send feedback regarding the accuracy of the prediction.

• Use a map of your community and annotate it to show important places.

• Create a class photo collage summarizing your experience with the PELIQ-AN project.
• Create a common souvenir photo album with twinned school. Print copies for students.

• Create a class photo collage summarizing your experience with the PELIQ-AN project.
• Create a common souvenir photo album with twinned school. Print copies for students.

• Edit photos to create different moods and use in a story or iBook.
• Edit photos and create invitations for specials events.

• Create cards based on characters of a book. Twinned partners can add descriptors to cards.
• Invent a superhero. Draw the character, take a picture of him/her and add text. Make an electronic card or print and “exchange” the card with a partner.

• Make a movie of a class performance in dance class, music class or a school musical.
• Make a commemorative movie of the yearlong partnership between the schools.

• Paired students create a silent cartoon video and send it to their twinned partners. They in turn write a story based on the video.
• Take pictures during a class field trip with a twinned class and make a narrated photo collage.

• Tell the beginning of a story using the provided puppets and have twinned partners finish the story.
• Create an adventure story using puppets that are named after the twinned students.

• Create an animation together to get students and parents to buy a book that both partners read.
• Make an animation depicting part of a story.
• Create a movie by having groups from twinned school animate different parts of a story.

• Groups of students from twinned classes compose a song and write lyrics to promote chosen themes (i.e. anti-bulling, school rules, safety rules).
• Paired students make a podcast commenting a current event or expressing an opinion.

• Record a song using vocabulary words that must be included in the lyrics. Use the app’s dictionary to find rhyming words.
• Record a song for a special school celebration or open house.

• Write lyrics for a special school event (i.e. a holiday assembly, a graduation, etc.).

• Groups of students from twinned classes make a video to go with a song that they composed using Garage Band.
• Groups of students study the lyrics of a popular song. Take pictures to illustrate the lyrics and make a video with the pictures as background.

• Set up blogs with students from twinned classes to create classroom discussions around common themes.
• Have groups of students set up their own blog and have the twinned groups submit comments.
• Possible discussion can include reflections on assigned readings, films, news items, future goals, career choices, etc.
• Opinions could be given on selected music pieces, video games, favourite restaurants, etc.

• Take a photo of a favourite room at school. Twinned partners draw objects and incorporate them in the photograph to make the ideal room. Then, the creation is sent by e-mail to be shared in another app and to make a slideshow, a book or a podcast of the perfect school. Comments can be added to explain why the additions make it a special place.

• As an introductory activity, each student takes a self-portrait and draws items that represent hobbies and/or favorite pastimes. The creation is sent to a twinned partner by e-mail or shared in Dropbox.