Spring Projects
Spring Projects
Whether it be a sonnet or a cinquain, we encourage students to share their literary work and discuss it with one another. Students use this project to develop their poetry knowledge and writing skills by sharing and discussing poems they have written, narrated and/or illustrated (optional) in an online Poetry Month community.
- Teacher: Language Customization
Whether it be a sonnet or a cinquain, we encourage students to share their literary work and discuss it with one another. Students use this project to develop their poetry knowledge and writing skills by sharing and discussing poems they have written, narrated and/or illustrated (optional) in an online Poetry Month community.
- Teacher: Language Customization
Full info is found at
www.kidlink.net/index.php/wai-2000/
N.B. this page is still under development.
OBS! The latest version of this page is to be found at
http://www.kidlink.net/index.php/project-center/dd-2021/
Please click on the link above to open that page. Thank you!
Description | Objectives | Phases / timeline | Student activity Kidspace | Resources |
Please, go and join to the Private FB group for this project if you want to participate
If you need more information go to our public D/D Project FB Group
Project donated to Kidlink Association by author: Pia Avolio de Martino (Italy) Project manager: David D (Catalonia) Technical support: Stellan Kinberg (Italy) .
yyy"My hair is brown and long and wavy. I have no fringe at all I comb my hair backwards and I wear a broad white ribbon, my eyelashes are long and dark brown. The eyebrows are brown. My eyes big and brown. The shape of my face is long and my cheeks are a little round. My mouth is red with rather thick lips. I am pale and I like to wear a black teashirt." |
Portrait drawn by Arianna (Italy). They have been both very skilled in describing and in drawing. |
Objectives Join to this project and let your students learn how to write an accurate description and how to draw a portrait following what their partners have written.
Phases Dates are preliminary!
- When you receive the invitation, if you want to participate, please, fill in this teacher's registration form (link) in order to be registered in the project.
- Send to the project manager a list of your students' names (with name, age and gender of them). [deadline, February 21st]
- Start writing a presentation of your school and group (google drive document or email) and share with the project's manager to be published by him. [deadline, February 28th]
- By 1/3 2021 the project's manager will send you a list of registered schools matched in pairs, ready to start the following phase. All the matched schools will appear in the "Artwork 2021" page: DD home page (link).
- Send description by email
- Share descriptions in google drive's document. (Look at a description shared by a student in Katalonia)
- Share description in Kidspace: the teacher or the students (requires classroom registration to obtain students' login data to kidspace), as you prefer. You should publish your students' description in your school presentation page (if you are logged in, you will see a "create a page" button in the bottom of your school's page; The project manager must activate the page to become visible) (Look at a example in Kidspace)
- send image by email
- share it in the private DD FB group
- share image in google drive document (Look at a image shared by a student in Katalonia)
- The student who got the image can share in his/her page, in Kidspace (remember that this way requires classroom registration, Student login kidspace and got to his/her own description page)
Student work example Look at this nice description and drawings in Student activity kidspace
Read the rules to follow Register in Kidlink www.kidlink.org Fill out the DD - Application Form Ask to join our private D/D Project FB Group 2021 You can find some useful tutorials in our FB group DD (check the Files) Kidspace If teacher wants, students can participate even by creating pages by themselves where they will type their descriptions and make the teachers’ work easier. This can mean greater involvement and responsibility for students. How to participate - Kidspace for Students
Useful link:
- ww.kidlink.net/index.php/project-center/dd-2021/dd-resources/
- Exercize in classroom. Training description in your own classroom using your mother language One group sit on the floor in a ring with the back to the center. The second group forms a inner ring Sitting with an image on themselves visible on a mirror or a phone. The inner ring describes themselves. The outer ring makes a simple drawing. The outer ring may ask clarifications.
- DD en Català: "Jo em Descric i tu em Dibuixes"
- Join the project group in Facebook to get in touch with the managers of the project and the teachers collaborating in the project.