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1. Collaboration between children in Hungarian Schools all over the world and in
Hungary
Tóthné Bán Gyöngyi
Primary School Balatonboglar
Balatonboglár

2. Our collaborations
 For 6 years
 49 countries
 More than 60 live meetings

3. Aim:
 Meet other cultures
 Let other cultures know more about
Hungarian traditions
 Motivate learning languages

4. Forms
 Live sessions: skype, google hangout
 Writing mails
 Sending letters on post
 Working in projects

5. Our sites
 www.dondi.wikispaces.com
 www.lifeinourcoutries.wikispaces.com
 www.boglarangol.blogspot.com

6. Collaborations for American Hungarian Schools
and Hungarian Schools in Hungary
• Skype sessions
• Google hangout sessions
• Sending letters
• Writing mails in digital classrooms
• Working in the same projects

7. Aim
To meet the same age children
 For American children to know more about
Hungarian culture
 For Hungarian children to know more about
world
 Making friends
 Learning languages
 ( both: English and Hungarian)

8. How long does it take?
 Whole school year
 More school years
Partners
 Two partners
 More partners

9. The way we play
 Digital classrooms
 Mails
 Twitter
 Blog, comments
 Final result: wikispaces
Advantage
-everyone can edit
-Free

10. Web 2.0 tools

11. Way we plan
 Finding partners
 Teachers plan
 Sharing links
 Editing final products

12. For teachers
 Collecting usefull links in one page
 Collecting mail adresses of children and teachers
 Creating online groups: skype
digital classrooms-easier to communicate
 Meeting on google hangout: more participants

13. Problems
 Timezones
 Different working hours
Can be solved: sending video message

14. What can we win?
 Open our eyes to the world
 Know other cultures, traditions
 Live connections
 Making friends
 Learning new tools
 Language practise

15. Thank you 
Dondi
Tóthné Bán Gyöngyi