2016 IIME REPORTCountry/Region [ Russia ]School[ Secondary school # 19 ] Teacher [ Dina Averyanova ] Grade ( 6-7th ) Member ( 21 )JP school [ Mukaiawagasaki Elementary School ] Teacher [ Yuta Tatami ]# Subjects, Activities and Times of the lessons
Subject
Conception of the lesson
Drawing cards, pictures on our local topics, nature, learning the basis of design,Art
creating muralTranslating the information, learning some Japanese words and phrases, gaining
Languagepractice in communicating with foreigners
Making video, communicating on the forum, making video conference, searching
ITthe necessary information in the Internet

Hours121010# Theme and Message of the mural
Theme

Our Dream about future occupations

Message

We wanted to show our Cultural Heritage and the importance of its learning andpreserving.

United thoughts toshare with the world# Effects and the Problems
Effects your students have gained
The students experienced the culture of the place
they live in and of Japan. Some students took part for
the first time in video conference and it was a great
pleasure and interest for them. Some students havean opportunity to draw the mural and think over thepicture, its characters and surrounding. It was very
exciting and amazing for all of us. We were also gladto get and to send parcels with gifts. I guess it was
one of the most interesting parts of the project.

Points for further improvement
It was our first time to join this project. We havesome difficulties with the topic of our mural anddidn’t have any thoughts how to express our ideason the mural for a long time. To say the truth, I (as ateacher) was not good enough at organizing the work
according to the schedule sometimes. I also thinkthat next time we should exchange the e-mails andletters oftener and write more letters according tosome plan. I mean, the topic of the letters should be
discussed between the teachers in advance. Mystudents and I like the video conference with ourpartners very much but we’d like to have several
meetings. And may be to discuss some different
topics, to play some games, like Mystery Skype.

# How has your impression toward your partner’s country/region and the world changed?
Changes in the students
Changes in the teachers
The students can talk to children in another I was a little bit afraid to talk in English and for me it(different) country. It was a new experience for them. was also a great experience. I like it very much andSome students felt great interest to such work (I during this school year my students and I have taken
mean they liked and felt interest to search for some part in many different on-line meetings with foreign
information, to get interest in another country and students and teachers. The video conference which
their culture (not only Japan). They felt the was held in this project was the beginning and helped
importance of it.
Some students felt the to overcome my fears. I would like to participate inimportance of learning foreign languages.
your project next year because I felt the importanceof doing it with my students, I felt the growing of myown interest to my work, to my students, to mylessons.

# Flow of the Activity
ContentMonthMEET
Selfintroduction

SHARE
Research onthe theme

UNITE
United message/

Mural design

CREATE
Mural painting

Septe
mberOctob
er-No
vemberDece
mberJanua
ry

Febru
ary

What you did
Your students attitude/reflection
Know more about the The students got interested in the future
project and our partners. work in this project and were eager toCreate some introduction create the introduction.
for our partners.
We discussed the future
videoconference
andprepared for it. We held our
first video conference.

It was very promising and interesting. We
have got a computer from our sponsors
for this project!!!

We were working at ourfuture mural, its topic. We
made a contest at school forthe best pictures and ideas
for the mural. There wereenough pictures and weeven made an exhibition ofthese pictures at school.

Some of the students were ratherinterested in these activities.

We paint the Mural. It was agreat fun! We painted it not
only at school but at themuseum where the students
had an excursion and could
paint the mural I the hallwhere all the exhibitions arelocated.

The students liked it very much. And we
all had the sense of achievement and thethoughts that next time we could do it
better!

Subject
EnglishArt

EnglishArtAPPRECIATE
Reflection/
Appreciation

Febru
ary

We hang the painting at thepost Office (in the Hall). It
was exhibited there forseveral days. All people thatwent to the Post Office
could take pictures near out
Mural. The TV made somenews about it and the article
for the newspaper waswritten.

# Aim of the Lessons and Result
Aim: Rank A to C in order you put emphasis on (A: very much/ B: much / C: not so much)
Result: Rank 5 to 1 (5: very effective / 4: effective / 3: so- so / 2: not so effective / 1: not effective at all)

Expected Effect

Aim

ResultUnderstanding our own
cultures

A3

Understanding theother’s cultures

B3

Communication ability
in the class/with partners

IT skills
Creating friendshipin the class/with partners

Collaborationin the class/with partners

Attitude in learning
Expression ability
in words, in pictures

B3C

3C

3

B

3C

3B

3A

5

Appreciation ability
Appreciate the mural and thewhole collaborative learning

How your students have reached it
The students read books, search on the Internet
The students read books (we read together) and search for theinformation in the Internet
The students talk to Japanese students during the Conference
but they were shy and sometimes their skills in speaking andlistening were not good enough to understand the partners andtheir teacher, also the same problem was with Japanese
students I guess)
The know how to do the video conference and to use Skype forit. But not all of them. Also, they know how to make films. But
unfortunately we did not use presentations and other programs.
We get acquainted with each other
Unfortunately, we didn’t work as a team with our partners. Iguess it was our (teachers) fault.
The students were rather active especially in some parts of theproject. But I also think it was my fault when there were not soactive.
They are getting better to communicate to foreign students
They saw the result of their work and that this work wasappreciated by other students and adults.