Story Writing

Age: 8,9,10
Project Year: 2012-13

The children wrote collaborative stories in wikis

The children wrote collaborative stories in wikis. They wrote a weekly blog on school activities and sent regular messages on the forum about their week in school and other social events. Videoconferencing in which each group spoke to their partner group about an aspect of Healthy Eating and Fitness Music - They played 'Love Me Tender' on the recorder for their partner school. Attempts for a podcast where the children sang 'Lean On Me' failed to get it online

Videoconferencing

1. Marita Conlon McKenna
2. Partner school. Played recorder for partner school. Each group gave a report to their partner group on aspects of a healthy lifestyle. Children in Tandragee videoconferenced about fire safety after a visit from the fire brigade. Brought a favourite author into our classroom and stimulated an interest in writing.

Schools Involved

Media Gallery

For Dissolving Boundaries Day 2014 we invited schools to send us short video recordings that show what DB means to them. We've pieced these together into a movie!

A documentary about linking schools through ICT; case studies of cross-border links between Northern Ireland and Ireland in the Dissolving Boundaries programme and in Israel through the TEC program.

 

School Participation

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