2015 IIME REPORTCountry [ INDONESIA]
School [ SMAN 10 Malang ] Teacher [Novika Fajarini, Aji Utomo] Grade (10,11) Students (30)Partner [ (JP) Tomiya SHS ] Teacher [ Mio Yashima ]# Subjects, Activities and Times of the lessons
Subject
Conception of the lesson
Japanese
Language andIntroducing the Japan culture and language to grade 10 students
CultureArt
EnglishArtTimes
4

Discuss the mural concept and draw the mural

6

Use the online forum and email as communication tools

2

Appreciation and reflection

2# Theme and Message of the mural
ThemeMessageIndonesia and Japan Culture
We want to learn about each other culture, so instead of drawing our own culture, we aredecided to draw about our partner culture. By doing this, each school will learn more
about other culture.

# Effects and the Problems
Effects your students have gainedFirstly, this project was planned for extracurricular
activities and only for those students who join art
club. However, the students were so interested forjoining this project so we included this project insome of our subject so that more students getting
involved.
During the project, students learned about Indonesia
and Japan culture. Since we have Japanese class as
one of school subjects, students could relate theinformation inside and outside the classroom. This
helped students to understand better.

Points for further improvement
This is our first experience to have collaborative
project through mural project. Both student andteacher were curious to begin the project. Thechallenge was to find the correct concept to draw
the mural because our part was drawing Japaneseculture. But then students could handle it.

# How has your impression toward your partner country and/or the world changed?
Change in student’s impression
Change in teacher’s impression
Students learn how to communicate and make a new The subject especially art and culture much morefriend with other and by the means of technology and interesting for students if taught using collaborativeinternet, the friendship can go beyond borders.
method and it gave ideas to develop it in othersubject.

# Flow of the Activity
ContentMonthIntroduction

Research

Composition

Painting

Appreciation
Reflection

Aug
Sept

Oct
NovDecJanFebMar

What you did
Started our communicationwithpartner
school,sending greeting cards
through forum
Cultural research in orderto get idea of muralconcept

Your students attitude/reflection
Students were excited to have newfriends from Japan.

Communicate with school
partner about the concept.
Each of us sent our own
culture to share with.

Students composed a draft of muralconcept and proposed it partner. They
were happy and could not wait to start
painting the mural.

Our school partner started
drawing the mural and wewere agreed to paint otherculture, Indonesia school
will draw about Japaneseculture and Japan school
willdraw
Indonesian
culture, based on draft andconcept that we had
shared before.

Once we had an update from ourpartner about the mural progress, thestudents were so excited and they
curious how our Japan school partner
draw Malang culture, because ourstudents sent them the picture ofArema, a local football club in Malang.
And when the mural was arrived at ourschool, we were so happy to see there
was Arema in the painting.

We had finished draw themural by the end of Feb
and student exhibit it infront of other school
member during school
assembly. And we sent itback to Japan on early
March and received atJapan on 16 March.

Students learned how to appreciate
the others work. They also learned thatfrom the mural project we could learn
more than just painting.

Students were excited to find any
information about Indonesia andMalang culture to share with partner. In
the other hand, they were also
searched information about Japan
cultureSubject
Englishand Art
Art andJapanese
Language

Art andEnglishArtArt

# 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

AimResult

Understanding our owncultures

A5

How your students have reached it
Students did some research about Indonesia and Japaneseculture from online and offline resources

Understanding theother’s cultures

A

5

From the research result and painting draft made by Japan
school, students understand about Japan culture

Communication ability

B

4

C3

A

5

A

5

Attitude in learningA

5Expression ability

B

4

Appreciation abilityA

5in the class/with partners

IT skills
Creating friendshipin the class/with partners

Collaborationin the class/with partners

Students could communicate well with the teachers andstudents from Japan school. They communicate through onlineforum. Would be great if this can be continue through email oreven social media.
We did not use much IT skills in this project. We only used email
and online forum. Would be an advantage if we can use videoconference or skype.
This was the best part of this project. Students could makefriends and share their idea.
Students showed a wonderful collaboration during the project,from drafting, making concept until finishing.
Students learned from this project that different did not always
bad. From different culture we could share wonderfulexperiences.
Students could express their feeling and share their ideas.
Whole school member, not only students who involved in thisproject, learn through this project on how to appreciate thedifferences