2015 IIME REPORTCountrySchoolPartner[ Indonesia ][ SMA Diponegoro 1 Jakarta ] Teacher [ Hesty Wulandari ] Grade (10 & 11) Students (10)[ (JP) Okayama Ichinomiya Senior High School ] Teacher [ Hiroko Mesaki ]# Subjects, Activities and Times of the lessons
Subject
Conception of the lesson
EnglishHoursCulture5IT

Use of Video Conference, Sharing videos, online forum

8

Art

Draw a mural and reflection of the whole work

4

# Theme and Message of the mural
Local culture and the Indonesian tourism symbol—we introduce the local culture(Ondel-Ondel Jakarta) and the symbol of Indonesian tourism (Mount. Jayawijaya andThemeMonas) and the Mount Fujiyama from Japan and also the Cherry Blooming (the bloomingof Sakura flowers)
We did research about the local culture and Indonesian tourism symbol and also the things
about the Cherry blossom and Mount Fujiyama, We did learn about Mount Fujiyama andMessage
that the Sakura’s blooming has the special time to be bloomed.

# Effects and the Problems
Effects your students have gained
The students experienced a lot of things, because they haveto know their own culture and should give some explanations
about them to the students in Japan; they did research very
deep and well. Also, they learned new things about Japan itself
especially the Cherry blossom festivals and Mount Fujiyama.
They introduced one another too when they did videoconference. Overall, the students enjoyed this great project.

Points for further improvement
Perhaps for further improvement, the students can have thegroup access perhaps via Line or other social media so thatthey can much have the intense friendship relationship sothey will come up with the new ideas too for this project. This
is not our first international project but this is the firstinternational project with period of time and some amount ofstudents. Wish to have another same project in the future.

# How has your impression toward your partner country and/or the world changed?
Change in student’s impression
Change in teacher’s impression
Students start to care about the world around them.
Students learn to understand people from other country.
Students learn about the new culture, habits and festivals not
only in their country but aware to learn about other country’s
culture and festivals.

The teaching experience is different compared with thein-class teaching. Students gained the opportunity to express
their ideas whether in class or outclass. The role for theteacher is to guide and facilitate them, not to teach them; so,
we both can share ideas and experience.

# Flow of the Activity
ContentMonthIntroduction

SepResearch

Oct

Composition

Nov

Painting

What you didIntroduction

Nov-JanAppreciation
Reflection

Feb

Research and interactive
learning on the common
topic.

Exchanging ideas about
the painting and what weare going to paint.
Painting one half from theJapan partner school
Painting another half byIndonesian students

The mural was sent backto Japan and in Japan, themural was being hung in
the Okayama Ichinomiya
High School Hallway

Your students attitude/reflection
The students at first were really confused
and they were reluctant to do the video
sharing on introduction. However, after
they had the explanation from the teacher,they were really happy to shoot on thevideo and made it over and over.
The students were really happy because
they can go outside the school to do theresearch about the local culture materials
that they would like to share. They did
The students were excited and gave a lotof ideas to be drawn.
The students were waiting the muralcoming from Japan impatiently and werereally excited about it.
The students were painting the half of themural and they were really excited until
they forgot to take the picture with thecompleted mural, .
Students were so happy to see the mural
was being shown in Japan and they wereso proud that their mural which was theirresult of research about local culture waswell known in Japan. Subject

EnglishIT

EnglishEnglishArt

EnglishArt

EnglishArt# 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 owncultures

A

5

Understanding theother’s cultures

B

4

B

3

A

5

Communication ability in the class was running so well however,the students’communications with partners were not reallymuch built up but only in a standard rate.
They all are IT minded, I guess. They really had fun.

B

3

Creating friendship but not get into depth friendship just knowing
one to another.

B4

The collaboration was running so well.

Attitude in learning

A

5

Expression ability

B

4

Appreciation ability

B

3Communication ability
in the class/with partners

IT skills
Creating friendshipin the class/with partners

Collaborationin the class/with partners

How your students have reached it
They really understood how appreciate their own culture andbecame aware about their own culture and also they talked verymuch about their new knowledge related to their own culture.
We learned from the video conference and did a research on theInternet. They students felt so much fun and learned more.

The students were really excited about the new things. They
were also positive and active towards this project.
They developed themselves from time to time until they got theclear concept about this project.
They did a great job in painting.