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Sharing our e-project with the world

Today we have shared our Open Voices' project with the world at the 7th Virtual Round Table Web Conference! As you can see in our blog, we want our students to become brave journalists! We want them to keep in touch with the news, to debate, to make interviews or to create a newspaper with interesting things for them. In our project we will explain the students how to conduct a good interview, how to create a newspaper online, how to work with headlines every day...
Our idea is the teacher to use Factmonster to challenge the students and catch up with current events and also talk in class about different news. We want the students to watch the news or read newspaper the way they can and propose every week three or four interesting topics for them they want to discuss about. The teacher will create a doodle every week and the most voted topic of that week will be debated the following week.
As they are 5th graders, the teacher can use the session of Civics/citizenship to discuss. We think is very important for our students to keep in touch with news and events around them, especially in this society in which everything is happening so fast. And, as Spain has students from different countries, is a very good idea to share what's happening there and connect experiences.
We'll try to encourage our kids to OPEN their VOICES and tell what things they are interested in and enjoy with news and events. Thank you very much to Mª Jesús García San Martín for giving us the opportunity to share our project and to the Virtual Round Table Web Conference for being the stage!

Great event taking place!

Have a look at it  Sharing our e-projects with the world

Using DOODLE

Doodle is a great tool to give students opportunity to vote. The most voted topics can be  debated. Here you are a link to be part of it!

Doodle

Have a look at our newspaper

Let's make a newspaper!

Make my newspaper

Have a look at these great tool to easily create a newspaper.

Using Prezi to explain our e-project

Supporting students to interview

Have a look at our tutorial explaining children how to conduct an interview!

Kids Reporters Interview Barack Obama

http://www.scholastic.com/browse/collection.jsp?id=843

TO BE A GOOD REPORTER WE NEED TO HANDLE A COMPUTER PROPERLY!

LET`S BECOME COMPUTER DETECTIVES! By playing these games, students will improve their skills at using computers. Have a look!


DISCOVERYKIDS GAMES

CATCH UP WITH THE CURRENT EVENTS

What's up lately? Have a look at this great website FACTMONSTER and CHALLENGE your students. They will read some key events in world news for the month. 

Furthermore, it is full of interesting articles, readings and activities to carry out with our students. For instance, Easter is coming, so use FACTMONSTER! What about a cooperative project in which students in groups investigate about different facts?