Resources
Access all the essential resources and guidelines for implementing Virtual Exchange projects in your classroom.
Criteria for Good Virtual Exchange Projects
Criteria and definitions:
You can refer to these criteria and their definitions when looking at the Good Practice Examples below.
Good Practice Examples
International cats calendar:
Children in international groups created cat calendars. They posted their calendars online together with drawings, (true and imaginary) stories, facts, and songs about cats. The project started during COVID-19 when children spent a lot of time at home with their pets. They presented their pets to each other during online meetings in order to feel more connected with other children during lockdowns. The project won a quality award in Slovenia in 2022.
eTwinners as pros:
The project enables the learners to engage in inquiry-based learning about a variety of topics including technological inventions, engineering, books, computer animations, astrology and traditional games and recipes. They do so by exploring different professional roles such as chefs, journalists, historians, etc. Students are actively involved in choosing, designing and evaluating the topics and activities they carry out.
Reducing plastic pollution:
The project aims to foster children’s awareness of the problem of plastic pollution and help them find alternatives for plastic in their daily lives. With the help of videos that they sent to their partner class, the learners compare plastic pollution in their surroundings and ways of reducing and recycling plastic. Together with their partners they develop videos of how to help animals who suffer from plastic pollution.
Vegstigators:
The aim of the project is to involve children in the process of inquiry related to vegetables. Preschoolers are part of a group called “Vegstigators – vegetable investigators”, in which they work together to learn more about vegetables and become more aware of their importance. The project includes a variety of activities to do as a group or individually, both within their own country and internationally.
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Research on Virtual Exchange:
Research into practice: Virtual exchange in language teaching and learning — Melinda Dooly and Margarita Vinagre (2021), Published online by Cambridge University Press.
Analysis of Teacher Roles in Telecollaboration in the Context of a European Funded project (TILA Project) — Begoña Clavel-Arroitia, Barry Pennock-Speck (2015) , In book: English and American Studies in Spain: New Developments and Trends (pp.189-196) Publisher: Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad de Alcalá Editors: Lázaro Lafuente, Luis Alberto.