Voices of the World

Today Sharon allowed us to become involved in her 'Voices of the World' project, by contributing an activity for the members to complete, on one of the forthcoming months. Voices of the World' is a Wikispace in which teachers and their classes from around the world, can joing in one online community. We had a brain storm during our first input as to what we associate by the word 'community'. Sharon listened to each of our views and allowed us to anonymously write down our thoughts, then took each of our phrases and developed our thinking of them. For example, I thought of a community as a place where people work together in harmony, however, as Sharon explained, just because people are working together in a community, does not mean they are all getting along. She also further developed our thinking by explaining that a community does not just have to be a physical place, a project such as 'Voices of the World' joins its contributors in an online community, in which they can share their ideas.

Working alongside Keira (http://reflectiveblog-ict.blogspot.com/) and Caroline (http://ict-elective-blog.blogspot.com/) once again -I'll be sick of these two by the end! (Just kidding girls...) - we looked into the activities undertaken on 'Voices of the World', and began to think up ideas of our own. As this will be used by others throughout the world, where the participant's first language may not be English, we decided to keep our task pretty simple.

'Voices of the World' May Task

• Children in the class will draw/create pictures to go alongside the sports mentioned.
• Note: No children are to be in the pictures.
• These pictures should then be placed on a Powerpoint.
• Using a sound recording program, such as Audacity, the class can then record themselves saying each of the words aloud, in their first langauge.
• The teacher can then merge these using a simple program such as 'myplick'.
  
  
  Our Favourite Sports
  
  
  
  
  This is our group's task for May's Voices of the World task.
  
  We thought this task would be a great learning tool for children to hear other children talking in their own languages, and could learn the words for these sports ourselves in class.

P.S. I also made a rather good cake for this input...