Do you want to propose and/or moderate a youth project in Kidlink? Please read this page carefully and then put yourself in contact with Pia that will help in the design and will provide you with the necessary tools.
Remember to include in your project all the items listed here using your creativity to make them artistically appealing.
Title and description of the project
Give a title to your project and write a brief description that allows the reader to decide whether to participate and how. Specify whether it is a collaborative project for classes / students or individual. We always hope that our students have the opportunity to work together and share activities, but we also know that sometimes the teachers prefer to be involved in projects that require a limited time commitment.
Materials Required
What will serve for teachers to participate? They will use a scanner or a digital camera? Teachers or their students will need to enter data in Kidlink? It 's very easy to do and we suggest it!
Timeline and deadlines
Set deadlines for each step of the project. Specify even if it is limited in time, with no deadline or if you will repeat it the following year. Some teachers like short projects lasting a month or two, others who see their students once a week in the computer lab prefer long-term projects. If some activities have a precise time limit, please indicate it. A precise temporal patterning allows the teacher to plan the participation in the project with a fair advance.
Age of students
How old should be students participating in the project? It is possible to open it to students of different ages allowing the older to have younger partners in a collaborative project!
Language of the Project
Kidlink accepts projects and participation in all languages. Specify the primary language of the draft but also ask for the participation in other languages. Need assistance in the translation?
Educational objectives, curriculum
Many teachers have to justify their participation in online projects demonstrating that the objectives of the project are part of their educational schedule. A comprehensive list will facilitate their membership.
Resources
There are resources such as web pages, which you can list as we did in the project Geo Quiz.
How to participate
Explain clearly the steps that teachers must take to participate in the project:
Teachers must submit the membership to the moderator of the project. Then enter the e-mail of the moderator. Then, send the names of project participants to Pia who will open their pages in KidSpace;
indicated exactly:
Name of teacher
E-mail of the teacher
School
City - Nation
Number and age of students
all students and teachers must answer the 4 Kidlink questions.
Planned activities
List in order the project activities to be done by the students. Be clear and precise.
The collaboration is part of the project? Make sure that teachers are aware of the importance that their students work with partners to ensure that no pupils are left disappointed.
The classes will have a project partner? As a moderator you have to help in research and in coupling.
The children will use images (photos, drawings) in their pages Kidlink? Make sure that the guidelines are clear for all.
Encourage children to make comments on the pages of other project participants.
Images in Kidlink
Respect copyright law and include only images for which you have explicit permission to use in the web. This means that you can't insert images from other websites without express permission from the owner of the page and if you want to include photos of you guys you should have the permission of their parents.
Encourage the use of drawings made by children instead of clip art. Each drawing should have the name and age of the student and possibly the technique used.
Give clear instructions for inserting images in Kidlink. Remember that they have to be .gif or .jpg and not more than 300 pixels.
Project evaluation
At the end of the project give a brief assessment of the same to participating teachers . This assessment may be sent by e-mail or put on a Kidlink page.
Moderator / s of the project
Indicate the name of the moderator / s of the project who the participants can refer to for any explanation.