CEWIP at Realschule Lindlar

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CEWIP at Realschule Lindlar

• EVALUATION
• 2004 / 2005

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1. How did we work at RSL?

• Club of 14 pupils aged from 13 to 14 (grade 8)
• Veterans
• and novices

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How did we work in our club?

• We met once a week on WED from 1300 to 1500.
• We worked in our computer lab.
• NOT a compulsory, but a voluntary club for the
  students

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Students (and their teacher) at work

• Netmeetings

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• Sometimes it worked ... ?

• ... and sometimes it didnt. ?

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• Teachers netmeetings

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Recordings
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Intercultural projectTopic Carnival in Lindlar

• Searching for info

Making ppt presentations
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Looking for common idioms in German and English

• Searching for German body and food idioms.

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• Looking for common idioms in books (dictionaries)

• And filling them into tables.

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• Filling in our partners lists for German
• Do we have that idiom in German? How do we say
  that in German?

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Drawing pictures
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General evaluation

• Good points ?
• Time and stress management reduction of
  dictionary material
• Satisfactory students contacts (friendship)
• Intensive teachers contacts (friendship)
• More or less successful voice conferences
• Fruitful work on language awareness (figurative
  use of language)
• Intercultural project proved to be a welcome
  change

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• Weak points ?
• Motivation (among the Lindlar students)
• Activities recur and tend to get boring.
• Students are tired after having had six lessons
  in the morning.
• Dictionary 1 (website and CD-ROM) isnt ready
• gt lack of incentive
• Most of the CEWIP students dont like drawing.
• Difficulty of the topic
• A lot of idioms are nowadays unknown to our
  students!
• Problems of finding info on the origin of the
  common idioms
• Writing about carnival in English too hard /
  topics chosen by the teacher partly too
  complicated

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• Friendship / contact among the students
• Netmeetings question of who is who? still not
  clear / confusing
• Still stress for the teacher in charge
• too much work on the shoulders of one person
• Work at transnational level
• Incomplete idiom tables (SK missing)

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Possible solutions

• Motivation (among Lindlar students)
• Building a new team? younger students? Mixture of
  veterans and novices from all age groups?
• Trying to get our two dictionaries ready as soon
  as possible
• Drawing the proverbs in our Art lessons
• Friendship
• publication of students presentation right away
  who is who?
• e-mail contacts

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• Teachers stress
• involving colleagues by handing over work to them
  (e.g. in Art)