Getting the Word Out

Getting the word out about what our students accomplished through the project is also important. So below you'll find how we went about the dissemination of the project's results.

Portugal/Bragança

Presentation at the "Encontro eTwinning em Trás-os-Montes"

  

France

Presentation created to share with the parents what was done throughout the project.

Presentation - France from skindeep2014

Portugal/Madeira

To widen the reach of our project we established a partnership with another project "SUPER4RTE", helped organize a fashion show and shared with the general public what the SkinDeep was all about. We also invited some members of our school community - teachers, staff and students -  to take part of it by sharing their talents where music and singing are concerned.
Below you have some pictures taken during that event.

We organized a final exhibition to share with the rest of our school community what our students had achieved through the project and went to our teacher's lounge not only to explain what we had done throughout the project, but also to make them aware of what eTwinning was all about. 

Skin Deep Evaluation

We asked our students to evaluate the work we did throughout the project.

The teachers, on the other hand, accessed a form to share their views.

As we weigh all we did, we're the first to admit that we could have done more. Yes, we did accomplish a lot, yes, the kids had fun while developing their language skills, their creativity, and their critical thinking. But, we could have done more.

At times we were hindered by time zone and school calendar differences. It was hard to come up with online collaborative working times for our students and for ourselves. Maybe one way to overcome this would be to have a smaller group of partners, so as to make it easier to reach everyone and collaborate more.

Also, when we decided on the number of activities for the project 6 seemed to be a reasonable and doable number, but as it turned out, even though we tried to integrate the project within our curriculum, having to keep to our own school programs and prepare the students for the national exams made it hard to keep to the project's schedule. So it would have been best to have less activities and just strive for more interaction within the activities. 

Still, overall, the outcome of the project is clearly positive, and we are walking away from it more aware of our own capability to cooperate and compromise.

Research Assignment

Portugal - Madeira

Here's some of work our students created for their research assignment.

Schools for models from skindeep2014

Estonia from skindeep2014

Bragança, portugal from skindeep2014

Germany from skindeep2014

College de la Robertsau from skindeep2014

Body Image in Literature

Portugal/Bragança

We asked our students to read:  Butter; Sara's Face; Indian; Eleanor and Park and afterwards create presentations, and journal entries while establishing a connection between body image and the story they had read.

Body Image in Literature

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Guest Speakers

Portugal - Madeira

Within the scope of the Skin Deep Project we asked Licínia Macedo, former Miss Portugal and now a well known TV-show presenter in our country, to share her life experience with our students, so that they would be given the opportunity to broaden their culture and their knowledge of what it means to be a model.

We didn't video the whole presentation since it lasted about an hour, but you can check out the Q&A part below.

So as to capitalize on our teachers' know how, we asked one of our Art teachers, Alexandrina Canha, to provide a one hour, hands on workshop, for some of the members of the "Associação Olho-Te"- A non profit organization which aims to help the dwellers of Nazaré - a social housing neighbourhood, near our school - to have a better view of their own neighbourhood, through the introduction of various artistic techniques. 

Alexandrina was kind enough to accept our request and gave them the opportunity to learn a bit more about how to apply makeup. The idea was to give them the tools to be able to feel better about themselves, by teaching them some simple makeup techniques.

We also asked Luís Vasconcelos and Alexandrina Canha (Art teachers in our school) to create a presentation on the "Evolution of the concept of beauty", so as to help our students become aware of the changes that concept has suffered throughout history.

Logo Winners - Prize

France won the logo competition and as promised we gathered some goodies related to our country and sent it over to them. It was great fun to have our kids thinking about what they wanted to share and a pleasure to witness the French students reaction when they finally got what we had sent them.

Interviews for the research project

Check out some of the interviews our students did to prepare for the research project.

Portugal - Bragança

André Carneiro, a nutricionist.

Some teachers of Escola Secundária Emídio Garcia were interviewed on the topic of plastic surgery.

Hélder Afonso, a model.

Portugal - Madeira

4Affection a School for models in Funchal

Survey Results

Here are the results of the surveys each partner did. It's a good way to grasp the similarities and the differences between us. 

Portugal - Bragança

Click on the picture to view the results online.

France & Germany

 Click on the picture to view the results online.

 Estonia

 Click on the picture to view the results online.

Survey Assignment

Portugal - Madeira

Our students took to the streets and interviewed some tourists. It was great to watch their excitement as they looked around trying to pick their next "victims". It's activities like this that make learning fun, where they forget about the evaluation bit and just enjoy using the English language.
Here are some of the videos they recorded.

And here are some pictures I took while watching them from a distance.

Skype Calls

From January to March our students got in touch with one another over skype. It wasn't always easy to set up call times that worked for both partners, but we managed. Below you'll find some bits and pieces from each of the calls made. Even with some glitches (poor connection mostly) Skype proved to be a valuable tool and we loved finding out more about one another.

Portugal/Madeira - Germany

Portugal/Madeira - France 

 

  

 

Portugal/Madeira - Ukraine 

 

Portugal/Madeira - Estonia