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Foreign Languages - Multimedia, Netmeeting, and Video Conferencing |
Aim: Improve foreign languages lessons on high school
(Czech-English, Czech-???)
Participants: Students at Gymnasium F.X.Saldy, CZ aged
15-18, participants of Global School Network (GSN) and Computer Pals Across
the World (CPAW)
Coordinators: Jiri Sulovsky, Pavel Knobloch
Contact: Jiri Sulovsky mee@klokan.sh.cvut.cz
Software Requirements: Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 with Netshow
server, Windows 98 with Internet Explorer 4.0, Netmeeting, Microsoft
Powerpoint, Microsoft Frontpage
Hardware Requirements: Videoconferencing kit, CCD camera, multimedia
PCs, scanner
Output: Case study in English, Czech
0. week: training teachers to use equipment, testing connections,
finding the most suitable videoconferencing program.
1. week: Introductory week – opening videoconference, expected
length one hour, coordinators and headperson speeches.
2. week: Selecting project topics, arranging cross-school teams,
first assignments (prepare information about team members), expected 4
teams with 3-6 members
3. week: Learning how to work with Powerpoint, using Netmeeting
to share application, prepared assignment will be converted into Powerpoint
4. week: Evaluation of presentation by other teams, teachers
meeting
5. week: Consulting project topics in videoconference – closed
for public
6. week: Preparing final presentation
7. week: Final presentation I – open to public
8. week: Final presentation II – open to public
9. week: Evaluating projects both students and teachers
10. week: Closing videoconference – headperson speeches
Presentation of used ICT at Poskole 99, and on other conferences, if possible
Offering help to other schools, which would like to use ICT in foreign
language lessons (both Czech and English)
CPAW, Computer Pals Across
the World
cpaw@mail.ucf.edu
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