My Fellows Guidelines

for moderator

for teachers

Guidelines for Moderator
 
Hi fellow,

We appreciate your participation in the project My Fellows and we hope to develop together an exciting educational experience.

The project My Fellows is a group of several projects developed in different countries. In your country, the project will have the subtitle "My Fellow plus your nationality". 

Initially the team of moderators will implement the following phases:
 

• Translate the whole home page of the project into the local language. My Fellows will be developed in the language of every participating country

• Coordinate experts that will work out the virtual books on HTML starting from the texts and drawings completed by the students
• Widely advertise the project all over the country through the several Kidlink discussion lists,  the Kidforum-Kids discussion list and the directions on how to subscribe in the project My Fellows
• Send a welcome letter to all new subscribers and introduce the project timeline
• Set up the development phases and project schedule, giving directions to the students that are participating individually (using the guidelines for teachers)
• As far as the project is concluded the moderators will be responsible to make available the result of project within a graphic format of a book on HTML.
• Make the necessary steps to translate the virtual books of the other participating country into the local language. Therefore, the students of every country will be able to read all of the virtual books.

 
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Guidelines for Teachers

Hi fellow,

We appreciate your participation in the project My Fellows and we hope to develop together an exciting educational experience.
 
My Fellows is a multicultural and multidiscipline project. It brings an excellent opportunity to the content integration of the curriculum of the several disciplines considering that every personality chosen by the students could be analyzed in his several contexts such as social, cultural, historic, geographical, economic, political and so forth.

In order to accomplish the book, the students will have to apply for their skills on reading, research, writing and drawing besides their abilities of reflection, decision, criticism, analysis and synthesis.

We intend that the students' participation in this project can develop their potential and provide an opportunity of exchanging experiences with other children around the world and so getting acquainted with a multicultural environment that respects the existing differences between the people and the nations.

The project My Fellows will have the following phases:
 

• All students will make an analysis of their answer to the Kidlink question " How do I want the world to be better when I grow up?" after a consult to the Response mailing list. Then, the students will be able to expand and to modify their answer.
• All students after reflecting about their answers, shall reply the question " Which individuals in my country have contributed to the world for it to be a better place?". If the project is being developed in a school, the students should undertake a class discussion in order to look for a consensus but respecting the dissension. The limiting criteria for this selection is that only dedeased individuals can be included in the book.
• Every student or group of students shall write a synthesis about the lives of the selected individuals, with a maximum of five lines, and shall include an illustration of the individuals. The report of every student or group of students will be identified by his (their) name(s).
• The moderators of every country, together with the teachers, will make a classification according to the activity areas of the selected individuals, with the aim of establishing the book index e.g. poets, entrepreneurs, sportsmen, artists and so forth. In case of several references to the same individual, all of them must be considered and within each activity a chronological sequence must be followed.
• The book presentation will have the participation of the group involved in a specific text, where students can complement the description initiated by their mates. Later on, the moderator of every country will make a revision and organize the text.
• The book cover will be entitled My Fellow followed by the nationality (for example: My Fellow Brazilians), showing an illustration or a set of illustrations arranged by the students.

 
Briefly, the virtual book My Fellows for every country will include:
 

• Cover with a title and an illustration made by the students,
• Presentation to be written by the students,
• Index for the activity areas of the selected individuals, organized by the teachers in association with the moderator,
• Presentation with text and illustrations of the individuals that in the students' opinion contributed to the world for it to be a better place.

 
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