Using the WEB for A World-Wide Experiment on TV Watching |
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Magdalena Wittwer
Jean-Paul Cattin
German as a second language
CO
PI 808
Eighth grade "Scientific" class: 22 French-speaking students (7
girls and 15 boys) form the Carouge district in Geneva.
Cycle d'orientation = Lower Secondary School, 3-year school leading up to the end of compulsory schooling. The eighth grade is two years before the end of this cycle.
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First let's mention that we have had other experiments in CMC use in the classroom that are mentioned in the SUCCES STORIES published by the CIP (Geneva, Switzerland). With this new activity, I plan to stimulate communication abilities in GSL (German as second language) where young French-speaking work with German-speaking students through a meaningful project with intercultural issues. I wish also to help young people to raise their expectations and their awareness for German-speaking TV, a Swiss national language.
Using as basis the study book "SOWIESO" (second volume, lesson 5, Langenscheidt publisher) we study the chapter on "Television".
We plan to do the following activities and use email and WEB pages to
implement them:
- to enquire about who watches what;
- to observe which programs are felt interesting and where they are watched
and for how long;
- to describe how watching TV is managed in the family setting, etc.
A questionnaire will be set up by the students to address these various issues.
Otherwise we shall :
- collect stories about TV (real or invented);
- watch together a chosen TV program and criticise it together;
- stay open to new ideas and possibilities !
January 1997 to June 1997
Word processing and email
Access to a computer lab in the school with 13 computers
Spring of 1997
Class CO
PI 808
Collège de Pinchat
ch. Ch-Poluzzi 51
CH-1227 Carouge
Switzerland
Tel..: +41 22 300 06 33
Fax : +41 22 300 35 09
Wittwer-A-M@bal.ge-dip.etat-ge.ch
wittwerm@uni2a.unige.ch
By end of March 1997, we shall have set up a WEB page describing:
- the CVs of the student involved;
- a presentation of the class and the school environment.
Otherwise, a series of activities towards a better mastery of the word processor and email are planned in the context of this TV Watching Project.
M. J.P. Cattin will be our Webmaster.
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