A presentation for teachers of English about this year's edition of Talking Cultures project and the use of wikis with students

1. Talking
Cultures
Sanja Božinović
OŠ Nikole Hribara,Velika Gorica
sanja.bozinovic@skole.hr

2. Talking Cultures:
• organised by British council
• students collaborate on a wiki
• celebrates cultural differences
• an opportunity to compare British
culture with our own
• sharing our culture with students
from other countries

3. School Year 2010/2011
• Talking Cultures: Armenia and Croatia
• http://talkingculturesd.wikispaces.com

4. School Year 2011/2012
• Armenia, Azerbaijan, Croatia, Israel, Kazakhstan,
Macedonia, Russia, Ukraine
• our cluster 7 wiki:
• http://007talkingcultures-2011.wikispaces.com/

5. Collaborating on a wiki
Wiki = Quick in Hawaiian 
http://pbworks.com/
http://www.wikispaces.com/

6. Wiki: why and how?
http://weplayandlearnenglish.pbworks.com

7. The benefits for students
• access to lessons
• protected environment
• autonomous in work
• sharing

8. The benefits for students:
collaboration
skills for
communication creativity
21st century
critical
thinking

9. The benefits for the teacher:
• easy to set up
• easy to monitor
• free
• easy to start or join a project

10. Setting up a wiki for students
• settings
• content
• design

11. Celebrating cultural differences
• Our tasks on the wiki:

12. Task 1: Introducing a friend
• learning doesn’t
end with the end of
the lesson
• collaborative
writing
• peer correction
• work stays on
display forever

13. Task 1: Introducing a friend
• Voki avatars
(http://www.voki.com/)
recording voice and
listening to others
• learning while using
the tool
• learning about the
internet

14. Task 2: Our town and country
• sharing
research results
• collaborative
writing

15. Our country –
using web 2.0 tools
• Google maps
• Glogster
http://edu.glogster.com/

16. Task 3: Food
• expressing opinion
http://answergarden.ch/
• fun - wordle

17. Task 3: Food
• Writing our
recipes:
-vocabulary building
-responsible use of
the internet

18. Task 4: Famous people
• presenting our
country
• critical thinking
• fodey
http://www.fodey.com/

19. Task 5: Festivals
• turning a real life
event into a lesson
• comparing different
cultures
• glogster

20. Task 6: Music
• revising vocabulary
• favourite songs
and musicians
• http://audioboo.fm/
• http://wallwisher.com/

21. Task 7: Holidays
• presenting places in Croatia

22. Task 8: Sports
• writing
• photos
• http://animoto.com/
• http://animoto.com/play/dvACTu7T11QuJGvaU9o9XQ?utm
_source=pbworks.com&utm_medium=player&utm_
campaign=player

23. Task 9: Farewell
• students take initiative
• collaborative learning with the
teacher facilitator

24. More web 2.0 tools
Voicethread
http://voicethread.com/share
/1727091/
-comments in voice and
writing
Wallwisher
http://www.wallwisher.com/
- Sticky notes plus
attachments

25. More web 2.0 tools
• Bighugelabs
http://bighugelabs.com/
• Photopeach
http://photopeach.com/
album/ihrj6d

26. The challenges
• availability of computer room
• getting other teachers from
school to take part

27. The Impact on Students
• more confident in the use of
language
• more confident in the use of
technology
• think critically about topics and
problems
• collaborate


28. sanja.bozinovic@skole.hr
http://allworkandnoplay.pbworks.com