Activity 10 Option 1
For
activity 10, I connected with Naftal Mandi, a teacher at a Tanzanian University. Naftal attended BGSU and has made several
trips to the U.S. I met him through our
librarian, who is teaching our current sixth graders about Africa. Naftal has helped to put us in contact with
several schools throughout Africa. Right
now, we are working on an African study through an Edmodo group. Our students posed questions to a school in
Tanzania to find out information about their day, weather, food, hobbies,
etc. In return, the African school’s
students also returned questions and answers.
By the end of the year, it is the goal to have a Skype class with the
African school, but this is still being worked out with timing, materials,
etc. Our sixth graders are making
posters, pamphlets, booklets, etc. to display their newly gained knowledge of
the African Culture. I hope to remain in
contact with Naftal through Facebook and e-mail as we continue this exciting
connection.
That's fantastic! Would it be possible to add me to your Edmodo group so that I could take a look at what you are doing? I'm not sure if your school would allow this, but I'm really interested to see this type of collaboration.
ReplyDeleteI talked with my principal, and I am not able to add you to our edmodo group. He said it has nothing to do with you or trusting you, more so for privacy policy and liability issues. I can keep you updated on the progress of our project though, we spend 40 minutes every Friday working on it.
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