2012 IIME REPORTCountry [ Taiwan ]School [National Fenghsin Senior High] Teacher [Ms. Jocelyn Chang] grade (10th) student number (27)
JP School [Sherry’s English School ] Teacher [ Ms. Atsuko Shiwaku ]# Subjects, Activities and Times of the lessons
Subject
Conception of the lesson
Study about the culture, customs and beauty about our own country and ourEnglish
partner’s country.
Use the online forum and try video conferences.
IT
fine art

Draw a mural.

Times852# Theme and Message of the mural
Theme

Asian Beauty

We are proud to draw the image of an aborigine girl dressed in the traditional costume. She is
the best image of Taiwan Beauty. Besides, our national flower, plum blossoms, is also whatcomes into our minds when we think about Beauty. Because Taiwan is surrounded by the sea,
Messagethe sea waves and the flying fish could not be excluded. With all these added up, here is ourmural.
Attach photos of your students painting and a competed mural.

# Effects and the Problems
Effects your students have gained
Points for further improvement
Students began to cooperate when they face diverse Students could interact with their partners more. They
opinions in the class. They also learn to appreciate the seldom use the forum. Students nowadys like to use
culture in Japan and the drawing skills of our partners.
Twitter or Facebook. If they could have each others’
accounts, maybe they’ll be able to interact more often.
# 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
We informed the local media of our exchange and wewere in the local paper. The mural was hung in thehallway of the library for all the students to appreciate.

Reaction/reputation from aroundMy students were very excited about the paper and theirparents called to thank everyone who was involved in theproject the minute they realized the whole event was in
the newspaper.

# Flow of the Activity
ContentMonth

What you did
We posted our self-introdution
in the forum and gave replies toour partners’ introduction.

Your students attitude/reflection
Students were happy to join the project andto practice using English to communicatewith others.

We discussed what we weregoing to paint.

Students were confused how to express
Asian Beauty so they did some research andexchaged their opinions.

EnglishITNov.

We posted some of the drafts inthe forum for our partners to see
and checked if we could come tosome conclusion about themural.
We also saw ourpartners’ ideas in the forum.

Students had a hard time coming to anagreement of what we were going to paint.
They enjoyed watching our partners’ ideas
and their drafts.

EnglishITFeb.

The whole class bagan to draw
the mural within two hours andlater some of the studentsfinished it.

When it comes to painting, my students go
crazy. They loved the process of painting
and enjoyed it very much. They were proudof the mural.

Fine ArtFeb.

We displayed our mural in thehallway of the library. We
shared it with all the studentsof our school.
We alsoreleased the news in thenewspaper.

Students were overwhelmed with joy when
they learned the mural was in the newspaper.
They were quite happy to join this project.

Introduction

Research

Composition

Painting

Appreciation

Sep.

Oct.

# Aim of the Lessons and Result
AimRank
understanding
our own cultures
Understanding2
the other culturescommunication ability
1interactively / in English

IT skills

in the class / with partners

Expression ability
in painting

Appreciation ability
reading the painting

5 ○43 2 15 ○43 2 1EnglishHow your students have reached it
They learned from other teachers, on the Internet, theinformation they shared in class.
They learned from the Internet and some information
shared by their partners in the forum.
They used English more willingly because this was not a test.

They had the video conference but their ability to use theforum still needed improvement.

5 ○43 2 1

their friends in Japan and they were quite touched to receive
presents from their friends.

in the class / with partners

positive attitude in learning

3 2 1

EnglishIT

They felt happy when they got the Twitter accounts from

3Collaboration
Keeping motivation high5 ○45 4 ○
3 2 1

forum / video conference

Creating friendship

MarkSubject

45 ○
4

3 2 1

Students learned how to express their ideas and the skills
to compromise when things got too complicated.

5 ○43 2 1

Most of the students were quite highly-motivated when
they received responses from their partners.
My students were art-class students, so they had good skills

55 4 3 2 1 when it comes to painting. The art teacher also helped to○adjust some details of the mural.

We displayed the mural in the hallway of the library and5 4 3 2 1○
received the applause.