2011 IIME REPORTCountry: Russia
School [ #1129/ Educational Center 1471] Teacher [ Anna Kostikova ] (grade: 5-8/students number: 16)
JP School [ Kanazawa Seiryo University] Teacher [ Kazuhisa Shimizu ]# Subjects, Activities and Times of the lessons
Subject
Conception of the lessonsocialStudy about traditions and culture of partner’s country.
ITFine artTimes
7

Use the on-line forum and try video conferences (VC)

5

Draw a mural

8# Theme and Message of the mural
Harmony in the WorldTheme
How well we know national culture and traditions of our partners.

MessageAttach photos of your painting and a competed mural.

# Effects and the Problems
Effects your students have gained
The goal was to learn more about Japan and Japaneseculture and to show the similarity of different cultures.

-Points for further improvement
Difficulties in communication in English. Also wewould like to get the mural before New Year’sDay, because February is too late. We have
many holidays in spring and the students must
prepare for exams.

# Have you made your activity open in your school or in your local area? How was their reaction or reputation?

PR you did inside/out of your school
Our local television was informed about our project. TV
group visited our school and made a report about ourexchange.

Reaction/reputation from aroundWe are praised for participating in such interesting
project. Students were very proud of their international
activity.

# Flow of the Activity
ContentMonthIntroduction

Oct

Nov
DecResearch

What you did
Using individual profiles onwebsites.

Your students attitude/reflection
They were happy to know about their newfriends. Enthusiastic

SubjectSocialIT

By using internet, reading
encyclopedias,
askingateacher.

We didn’t know the theme of the mural for aSocialITlong time that’s why we began our research
work a bit later. But that time we draw somedrafts to the future mural, trying to find themost interesting aspects of Japanese traditions
and culture.

JanFebComposition

We did VC when we exchange
our ideas about the design ofthe mural.

Children had very interesting ideas. The
attitude to the VC was very positive.

SocialITWe draw the mural out of theThough our pupils are very busy they enjoy
painting. The little ones were a bit afraid of
painting on their own, but the elder students
helped them. In the end they could work
independently.

Fine artclass time. Sometimes it wasPainting

Marchhard to find free time. We
separated into groups. Everygroup had a leader who helps tocreate the unique design.

Appreciation

Apr

We want to display our mural in
the hall and share it with all thestudents of our school.

The students are very proud. Thank you foropportunity to participate in this project. It isgreat to be part of something like that.

# Aim of the Lessons and Result
Rank (1 to 9 in order you put stress on)

Mark (5:very effective / 4:effective / 3:so so / 2:not so effective / 1:not effective at all)

AimRankMark

understanding our owncultures

954 3 2 1○

understanding othercultures

154 3 2 1○

They researched on the internet, asked a teacher, readencyclopedia and reference books.

55 4 ○
3 2 1

They used English in writing letters, messages on theforum and during VC.

65 4 ○
325

35 4

communication ability
interactively, in English

IT skills
online forum and VC

Creating friendshipin the class/with partners

Collaborationin the class/with partners

Keeping motivation highpositive attitude in learning

Expression ability
in painting

Appreciation ability
reading the painting

2 1

How your students have reached it
In a natural way

They did VC, send messages on the forum and by e-mail.
They took pictures and send them to our partners.

4 3 2 1○

Our partner’s photo at mural, VC, exchanging of theparcels helped us in creating friendship.

32 1○

They were separated into groups in researching andpainting.

454 3 2 1○

For the 5th grade pupils it was the 1st mural, that’s why
they were especially highly motivated.

754 3 2 1○

Elder students who had some experience of painting
the mural in the past helped the younger ones.

854 3 2 1○

When we complete our mural we will show it to all our pupils in
the hall and we try to make a video of our mutual work.

Please submit to jam@artmile.jp . Thank you for your cooperation.