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Beginning French
Add to Favorites| Status | Completed | |
| Contact Information |
Jason Horne Education: Teacher Greeneville City Schools Education: High School Greeneville, TN United States Phone: (423) 787-8030 hornej@gcschools.net |
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| Objective of Collaboration |
I have a beginning French class who would like to collaborate with another beginning French class or with an English class in a French speaking country. We would like to practice our basic skills and possibly have some cross-cultural conversations. |
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| Time Frame | March 2008 - May 2008 | |
| Target Audience | Education: Grade(s): 9, 10, 11, 12 | |
| Disciplines | Foreign/World Languages, International, French | |
| Technology | IP, | |
| Number of Students Involved | 40 | |
| Number of Teachers Involved | 2 | |
| Number of Schools Involved | 2 | |
| Location of Participating Site(s) | Spring Grove, PA | |
| Impact of Learning for Students | I think my students learned quite a bit. They had to use the French they have been learning. It was a great experience. Vanessa Weinlein went above and beyond in participating in this exchange. | |
| Impact of Learning for Teachers | Vanessa and I both learned a lot. | |
| Lessons Learned | It is extremely important to have a border controller if you have a Tandberg unit. The school in PA was using a different system and therefore needed to use different ports in our firewall than those we had permitted Tandberg units to use. We had some connection difficulties in the beginning; those are resolved now due to having installed a border controller. | |
| Additional Comments |
I highly recommend this type of activity. FL teachers! Even if you can't find a school where the target language is spoken, it is still worthwhile to hook up with another language class to do activities in the target language. If you have any questions, I would love to share what Vanessa and I did with you. I can even link you to some archived sessions of our activities. |
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