- creating awareness among pupils, parents, colleagues, school management, local authorities - introducing the pupils TwinSpace and netiquette
2. Getting to know each other
In international groups of four pupils - write and draw your preconception about the Finns/Italians (character, appearance) - write your profile in Twinspace (name, sex, interests, family, favourite toys/games,What do you want to be when you grow up?, What is the nearest place to Finland/Italy you have been to?, Do you know any representatives of the partner country?) and comment the profiles of your group members - the Finnish group members write arguments about the Finns (true or false) and the Italian members about the Italians. The partners choose whether they are true/false (neighbouring countries, capital, flag, population, food, etc) - a chat session in TwinSpace (only with group members)
3. CREATING DETAILED TIME SCHEDULE - school starts, ends, school holidays
4. PREPARATORY PLANNING
- discussing and assigning responsibilities for each group (teaming in groups according to their talents and interests: ICT, painting, photography, movie making, music, sports, etc.) - the roles of the pupils - introducing and discussing the pupils ICT tools needed
5. DESIGNING TWINSPACE - a page for each task (= each group) with a description in the beginning of the page what does it contain
7. REFLECTING AND EVALUATING - pupils' opinions: What did I like? What I didn't like? What did I learn? What went well? What should have been done differently? - teachers' opinions: What went well? What should have been done differently?
8. PRESENTATION, DISSEMINATION - presenting for other classes, parents, colleagues, headmasters, wider community