We are the Bully Project

A conclusione del progetto le due scuole le docenti hanno organizzato un incontro via skype che è stato molto apprezzato dagli studenti i quali hanno lavorato insieme agli studenti americani in modo proficuo e costruttivo anche se a distanza. La loro motivazione al continuo miglioramento delle loro competenza linguistiche è notevolmente cresciuta e per alcuni di loro anche la competenza digitale ha assunto un ruolo sempre più importante. Allego qui di seguito la mail che ho ricevuto dalla collega americana a conclusione del progetto. Monica, We also want to extend a special thanks to you for making our Skype session happen! We really appreciate that your students were willing to stay after school as long as they did to talk with us. We really enjoyed our Skype! The students chatted after the session and were still talking about your students' English and how well they spoke and how friendly they were. They enjoyed learning more about them than really talking about the project, which was really cute! Several of girls decided they were going to go to college in Bergamo. We got a kick out of that! They were quite smitten with your boys. ;) We brainstormed our care package items after the Skype and will be putting that together next week. Thursday, our second day that we see our students, is our ice skating fundraiser, so we will be on our field trip to raise money for The Bully Project national campaign. I will be sure to take and post pictures of the event. It should be fun. We raised $55 today selling donuts during our Skype! We worked on our public service announcements today and added those to our presentations and then will add our artwork on the 8th, so we will post final presentations December 8, much later than I had originally anticipated (unfortunately) with all of our extra days out of the building due to breaks, teacher days, and snow! I will be sure to email you and let you know once those are up so that your students can view them. I posted your students' work after making copies (of the ones shared with me) so that our students could go in and view them before today's Skype. They are SO well done!!! Please communicate how incredibly impressed we were with their work! The Wordclouds are such a great idea--I love it! If your students have time, it'd be great if they could post them to our blog, because our students can't access the Wikispace without going through my account. Our address is: Springs Studio for Academic Excellence 6113 Constitution Avenue Colorado Springs, CO 80915 What's yours to make sure we have it right? I'll chat with you soon, Monica, and keep you posted as we wrap up this project! I want to reiterate again how enjoyable today's session was! It really was the highlight of our day, and I especially loved being able to see you! I am so grateful that you reached out to me through ePals! Without your creativity, diligence, and commitment, this could not have happened, so a sincere "thank you" to you, Monica! =)

Il progetto che si è realizzato tra ottobre 2015 e dicembre 2015 ha impegnato tutti gli studenti della classe per un'ora a settimana a cui si è aggiunta un'ora di lavoro domestico per la preparazione delle presentazioni di gruppo, per un totale di  25 ore circa. Agli studenti è molto piaciuto scrivere utlizzando Padlet e realizzare le presentazioni utilizzando Google presentations.