#twima8 - The World is My Audience!

Have you ever been part of an international project? Now, I can say the I have. In this post I'm going to talk about #Twima8 an educational collaborative project worldwide! Twima8 is a project in which teachers and students from all over the world collaborate sharing their story. We all have a story in our lives: a moment that has makes us the way we are, an experience, a memory ... And, sometimes, listening to the stories of others can open our minds, give us ideas or even makes us feel happy or sad... That's why Twima8 seems like a fantastic idea to me. It's a way to share our stories through technology with very different people, with a different culture. 

 
  

This project is carried out with the online tool Flipgrid. Flipgrid is a platform where students share ideas and learn together. This is done through videos. Students record themselves and  upload it to the platform which is very intuitive and easy to use. In order to use it, the teacher has to create a grid for her classroom or community and add a topic to spark the discussion. The students can respond with short videos and all the students can see the videos and engage. The teacher can moderate videos, provide custom feedback, set privacy rules... Also in the webpage you can find a student guide and a teacher guide for all the doubts you might have, wich is very handy!. I had never worked with this platform but I find it very useful because you can do school announcements, discussions, daily reflections... You can work with your students in multiple ways! I really liked the idea of ​​creating an international collaborative project and I think it would be a good idea to work on our classrooms too because our students can listen to stories about people just like them but from other countries, from another culture.

Here you have the story I've shared in #twima8. I hope you like it.



I hope you enjoy this post and that you are now motivated to use Flipgrid in your class  and to join Twima8 project and spread the word on Twitter with #Twima8 like I did.

Hi, I've just share my experience living abroad in #twima8 and I want to encourage you to share your story too! https://t.co/Qe6VPgY2WD #ictclil_urjc

— Patricia Portela (@patriciaportg) 28 de abril de 2018

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