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

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 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 

What do you wear on a daily basis?

Estonian and Portuguese students shared what they wear on a daily basis. :)

What we wear from skindeep2014

Written Assignments

One of the aims of the Skin Deep project is to stimulate our students by offering them activities which engage them in exploring real-world issues, so we asked them to share their opinion on 2 different topics. Below you can check some of the work they did.

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What is Beauty?

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Project Logo

For our 3rd activity we asked our students to design a logo for the SkinDeep project.

Turkey

Up for voting

 

 

Germany

Up for voting

 

France

Up for voting

 

Estonia

Up for voting

Portugal

Up for voting.

You can check out the rest of their creations below.

 

Ukraine
A variant of a project logo from Ksenia Dziuba (Kharkiv Gimnasia 82, Ukraine)

What makes my country unique?

Estonia 

 

France

 

Ukraine

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Portugal - Bragança

 

Portugal - Madeira

 

Germany 

Field Trips - Escola Básica e Secundária Gonçalves Zarco

Art has its own version of beauty, clearly showing just how subjective the concept of beauty really is. 

With that in mind we visited 2 different types of museums. On the 3rd of December we visited the Museum of Contemporary Art and on the 17th we visited the Museum Universe of Memories - a repository of memories built throughout the life of João Carlos Abreu as a journalist, traveller, poet, writer, politician, actor and artist, as he travelled through the world.

We asked our students to choose one piece from both museums and share their own interpretation of them, share what, in their eyes, made those pieces beautiful.

Museum of Contemporary Art

Museum Universe of Memories

Here's a glimpse of the lecture on Art & Beauty the kids attended before visiting the museum. The museum staff was awesome and even gave their lecture in English to keep to topic of the English lesson and the project the kids are working on.

Merry Christmas - Escola Básica e Secundária Gonçalves Zarco

Looking to make the most of our own school resources and in an attempt to expand the reach of the Skin Deep project we have joined forces with another project in our school - the "Tutores Juniores". Together we have planned  a number of activities which meet both projects' aims.

The 1st activity took place on the 16th of December. Our 9th grade students - those who participate in both projects -  and the 5th graders they mentor were in charge of creating Christmas decorations so they could decorate a space in our school and share what they had created together with the rest of the school community.

The aim was not only to celebrate Christmas but also strengthen the 5th graders' sense of belonging, boost their self-confidence and ultimately ease their integration.

After the decorations were in  place we got together in the classroom of the Special Needs Teaching Unit where 6 special 5th graders awaited Santa's visit. Carolina, our in house Santa, did not disappoint them and soon joined us, spreading around laughter and the kids' sweet version of all the joy in the world: chocolate :)

Halloween :)

This is long overdue.
With so many things at hand we got a bit sidetracked, but it's finally here.

The challenge we set for our students was simple: one class would write halloween stories and then send them to one of the partner schools, which in turn would try to transform the written versions into digital stories.

So German students created the written stories and Portuguese students tried to create the digital versions. Check out what they did. ;)

Halloween Stories

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Me Trailers - Escola B. e S. Gonçalves Zarco

We have finished the first activity. :)

You can check the written version of our bio poems HERE . 

Just below you have the digital presentations. We used Blabberize, Glogster, Animoto and even simple power points. 

Now, because they were too many to post directly here without making blogger a little sluggish we created an ebook with a screenshot of the presentations and their links. Please, follow the links to each individual presentation to view them properly, especially the videos. ;)

Me Trailers

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