Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Halloween behind the screen


While it was no time for Halloween and custom desinging , last week our class had a remarkable time designing its costumes behind the screen.
The task was to create outfits of different culture and clothing styles among diverse group of people all around the world. The challenge was to make this possible behind the webcam in the virutal class of Online FL training. Where as adults usually are indolent in taking assignments seriously in classes, This task was taken rather more into thought.
We had learned different names for clothing within the first and second sessions of the week, with formal clothing, Casual clothing and Seasonal ( sizing, material,...). For the third session of class students were asked to participate in a Halloween parade behind the screen and wore different clothing.Not only did they wore clothes of different styles but also had made masks ( The task for the week before on presenting facial features)presenting them behind their cameras. Working on their computers, students could see their peers through webcams, voting on the best . Judges were also announcing the pieces worn and the winner of the best outfit was chosen.
The class though virtual had all the elements of a traditional class and all the students had consciously participated in choosing their outfit and have also written a description of their clothing before class.

Wednesday, April 7, 2010

Easter and Picnic Day


As a foreign langugae teacher, I have always bringing traditional holidays and customs into curriculum teaching students about the differences and similarities that divers cultures carry with themselves.
Just recently, my class was assigend to work on holidays around the world, describing each holiday, their occasions and dates and what people do during those days.
Students in my class worked together in groups of four, each assigned four different holidays from four different country. They were given resources on the web to search and organize materials in this regard.
The tools they used to design their artifacts were modified images from internet explainging about holidays, pictures of different people around the world celebrating their special days and graphic paint/draw images bringing the people around the globe all together to celebrate the Earth Day..

They also created Greeting cards, saying in two languages congratulatory messages to their friends for holidaysA group had also worked on a 3D artifact, creating colored eggs for Easter in collaboration with other group who made baskets for Picnic day on the Persian calendar