Looking Ahead to the Future: Grandma Stories in 2080

    We definitely still cherish our childhood memories of our grandparents telling stories. Most of us would not remember most of those stories. And I'm afraid that one day we lose that cultural heritage. Because it is important for the future generations to be rooted in their own culture and open to other nations, Grandma Stories in 2080 is a collaborative writing project that starts from the partner countries cultural heritage of tales grandparents or parents would tell their grandchildren/children. Furthermore, stories are powerful tools for education and to create change. Through storytelling, students reflect on serious issues such as environment, quality education, gender equality, peace, and justice while developing their language skills and creativity! The students taking part in the project co-write Grandma Stories to her grandchildren. As for the themes evoked in the stories, they are inspired from the UN Sustainable Development Goals for 2030.

 

    Grandma Stories in 2080 is an eTwinning collaborative story writing project. That includes 3 schools from Tunisia and  other schools from European countries. 

   

    As mentioned above this is a collaborative project that promotes cultural understanding through digital storytelling. The students from the different countries in the project collect stories narrated by their grandmathers in their native language and share them online in the form of podcasts and subtitled videos. The following padlet is a collection of the Tunisian stories translated to English by the Tunisian students.  

    Through listening to the diffrent stories, the students notice the structure of a narrative in order to write one. They also notice that there are similarities in fairy tales in different countries with more or less some change. The years of 2080's will be a time when the students taking part in the project would be grandparents. In this project, they write their own stories, the stories they would tell to their grandchildren, inspired from the #SDGs. What is particularly worth noting is that the project goes beyond merely sensitizing the students about global issues to  urging them to take action  to tackle real world problems and write a better version story of their future.

You can find here the final products of the project with a description of the collaborative process.

About the Epxert's Talk

     Mrs N. Zammouri was there for the event. The students were introduced to the goals, the purpose of the cause. The students were also sensitized to their role as an essential element of the chain. They interacted wih Mrs Zammouri and each other, shared how they could contribute by suggesting some solutions and ways they could contribute to see the goals well established. Other teachers, mentoring students in our school clubs,  joined us during the event. They were curious to know about the SDGs. They asked us how they could join the stream as educators. This event was also an opportunity to disseminate our project (Grandma Stories in 2080) in our school to teachers and other students.

Here are some pictures of the event: 

And here is a video about the event...

(sorry about the low quality of the video😉)

Friday's Expert Talk

Let's Take our Future in our Hands!

   Because our future and that of our planet matters, it's substantial that we all take part to create the future we want. That's why, Nabheni students working on different projects collaborated to create an event via Facebook to raise their schoolmates awareness about some global issues such as peace and justice, climate change, gender equality, quality education, etc.. They called the event " Prenons notre futur en mains!" which means in English Let's Take our Future in our Hands.  They invited Mrs Najet Zammouri, a Human Rights activist and member of the Tunisian Human Rights League. The expert talk will give the participants a thourough idea about the Sustainable Development Goals

   Today our planet more than ever relies on its 1.8 billion youth, the largest youth population in history, to take action. Through their campaign, Nabheni students intend to sensitize their schoolmates to the  importance of the SDGs and to raise their awareness to the fact that they are part of the solution by becoming advocates for the goals themselves or by taking small actions to support the SDGs in their community. Such actions would make a difference at a global scale if everyone contributes to the stream.

   Stay connected ... You'll hear from us soon! Meanwhile, check more resources about the goals  and how you may contribute as a teacher on THE WORLD'S LARGEST LESSON website. You may also want to take this free online course about the goals so that you become ready and equipped with tools to create your own activities on the topic. After finishing the course, you'll earn a digital badge and a certificate on the microsoft education platform. 

ABOUT NABHENI YOUNG ARAB VOICES

         YAV is a short for Young Arab Voices . It was launched on the 4th of November 2016 . It's members are students of Nabheni .

      Nabheni Young Arab Voices Club. Launched on 4th November 2016, the club aims at: 

- developing young students debating skills 

- developing students’ communication skills

- improveing students English Language skills

-developing students critical thinking skills 

     The club is part of a program for secondary schools created by the British Council, Anna Lindh Foundation, with the collaboration of the Tunisian Ministry of Education. So, if you want to be heard join Nabheni Young Arab Voices

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Onenote a Free Solution to Create e-Portfolios

    I have been hesitating which tool to choose to make my e-portfolio. I've tried different tools made for the purpose but I was not convinced, either because of a user interface not visually attractive, or by their complexity. And I tried OneNote, a microsoft desktop app also availabe  as an online app.





"EUREKA" That's it... That's the tool I was looking for to create the e-portfolio, as if it was tailored to my need. I wanted to make something simple but at the same time that looks beautiful and tidy. As I was short of time (I had to respect a deadline) I couldn't afford to learn how to use a new software. Easily customizable, with OneNote,   I could easily create my e-portfolio thanks to an intuitive user-friendly interface. I created sections, pages, and uploaded my content. I much appreciated the fact that the content is placed in canvas that are resizable and draggable to optimise the user experience. I shared my work to OneDrive. Of course, that's not everything about OneNote. Something that particularly caught my attention as a teacher is the fact that it is possible to collaborate with other people and the list of the tool assets is not exhaustive. I'll have the opportunity to expand on it in other occasions.

While writing this post I discovered that I could embed my Onenote Notebook through OneDrive. That way anyone who reads my blog post could  have access to my e-portfolio without signing in.

Collaborate Online via Voicethread

         

    Voicethread is an interactive collaboration and sharing tool that enables users to add images, documents, and videos, and to which other users can add voice, text, audio file, or videos, or video comments. The following is a speaking activity. Students leave their answers in comments. Student A asks his/her classmate about his/best friend by leaving a comment. Student B describes his/her friend in a comment. And, they swap roles.