Task 3: Introduction "Hallo, Hello,
¡Hola!"
EU Project 'Television News on Europe"
October - December 2000
Introduction
Concrete Tasks
Questions for lessons
Last school year we produced a video introduction with the three schools involved in our project. This was, however a task that ran parallel to the School News. With task 3 we are making the introductions our main subject.
The task is intended as an introductory one. We won't produce a programme like we did with the two previous tasks (although there may be a final edit at the end). Rather, we will exchange and evaluate individual sequences with each other. The main content is therefore determined by the subject "Introductions", although each class can interpret this in its own way.
New Elements
In task 3 we want to include two new elements. Firstly we want to use the internet in addition to videos as a medium of introduction. The pupils can present themselves on internet pages, or via email or create a project diary. Secondly, we want to develop the area of language. In the first project year we concentrated on each of the mother languages and used English as a common language. There are however three deaf pupils in the new partner class from England, and we want therefore to do an introduction in sign language.
Goals of the new task
What happens when we communicate using only these media instead of meeting face to face? In our new handbook (which will be out in November 2000) Alfonso Gutiérrez explains the difference between direct and mediated communication. We want to consider these thoughts in the third task.
But we don't want to simply present ourselves using video and internet but also examine what happens, when we use these mediated methods of communication. How is it, when you present yourself on a video cassette, when we see pictures of one another but never meet the people? What impressions do the words or the gestures create? If we want to use the media as a bridge between cultures then we need to progress in this area of our project. It is important to consider the individual elements of communication (eyes, words, images - see handbook).
In the following you will find a plan of the third task and a list of questions to be used in lessons.
Have fun trying it out!
Exchange through Videocassettes
To observe a development of the task itself it is useful to exchange several cassettes (always only copies - don't send the original cassettes).
· Presentation of each pupil using his/her own language (still shots form this will also be printed and exchanged)
· Presentation of each pupil using sign language (information sheets from Martin Holmes)
· Additional material (more about the pupil, the school) in the mother language, English or sign language
Exchange via Internet
The internet exchange can be continuous:
· Introduction of each pupil on the school or the project web site
· Communication between pupils via email (in English)
· Creation of a project diary in the mother language (this would be translated later)
· Internet conference (if this becomes technically possible for us)
Below are questions that can be used in 'Media education'.
Video and Communication
- How is it, when I introduce myself using a video camera?
- What comes across well, what is missing?
- How could I have done the recording differently/better?
- How would I like to present myself?
- What impressions do the pupils in the partner schools get of me:
- through eye contact? (see handbook)
- through images (see handbook)
- through words? (see handbook)
- What will they not learn about me?
- What comes across about the pupils from the partner schools?
- What impression do I get of the individual pupils?
- How do I imagine the pupils be?
- How would that be, if I could meet that pupil?
- How is it, when we see other people in TV?
- What comes across well, what is missing?
- How would that be, if we met that person face to face?
Internet and Communication
- How is that compared to a video exchange?
- How does my video presentation come across, compared to my internet presentation?
Language and Communication
- How is that for me, when I communicate using sign language?
- How is that when I use my own/a foreign language?
- How difficult is it to understand the pupils from the partner schools?
