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Cette tâche permet aux télécollaborateurs de découvrir puis de produire une lettre d' amour.

Diese Aufgabe erlaubt es den telekollaborativen Partnern ihre
Arbeit, falls sie eine haben, und ihre beruflichen Projekte in Form von Interviews zu präsentieren.

Diese Aufgabe erlaubt es den telekollaborativen Partner/innen Informationen und Sichtweisen zu Eingangsriten an den Universitäten auszutauschen.

A video sharing activity which gives cultural background to celebrations during winter.

A forum is created and students are asked to share their favourite christmas songs. They can use links

Having completed the news reviews task,a self selecting group of students are invited to an online round table discussion on subjects of their choice.

They should vote for the subjects that w

This task provides telecollaborators with the opportunity to produce a travel brochure for the partner countries.

Students in each class present themselves and aspects of their home cultures to their (future) partners through " cultural autobiographies" in various visual and textual formats. These autobiograp

Diese Präsentationsaufgabe erlaubt es den telekollaborativen Partnern von ihrem Alltag zu sprechen, indem sie ein Video oder eine kommentierte Diashow erstellen.

This is a photo sharing task which encourages students to share an image which best captures a moment in their life that is of significance to them.

In a globalized world with the great amount of useful ICT that internet provides, all aspects of daily life as well as all the disciplines have changed drastically. Here can be included the educati

This well-known task for online intercultural exchange uses comes from the Cultura exchange project.

This task involves the juxtaposing of questionnaire results from the two diffe

Cette tâche permet aux partenaires de découvrir un lieu de sortie à travers l' enregistrement puis la description d' une «
ambiance
» sonore. Cette tâche fait partie du scénario «
Ca

Teacher trainees design technology-based tasks in interational groups to help learners develop multiliteracy. The groups use weebly - a tool for website design - to design and then present their ta

This is a photo sharing task which encourages students to reflect upon things they do in order to relax or reward themselves.

This task allows the telecollaborative partners to organize a film festival, in a simulated way, putting the two cultures into the limelight.

This online profile creation task is the opening task once our students arrive in the shared online area, EWC. It is a useful initial language activity as students have to draft and upload the info

This task is part of a larger task sequence aimed at exploring cross-disciplinary subjects of social sciences, language and intercultural awareness.

Information Gathering:

In this task partipants create wiki pages about their home culture, confront them in talk sessions with their exchange partners and modify in response to the issues raised during the discussion.

This is the last activity which is part of a larger task sequence that involves creative writing and focuses on literacy skills. The task sequence, based on creating

Students investigate pre-selected websites in light of Halliday' s social semiotic framework, taking into account three major features of context:

• FIELD - what is happening
• TENO

On arrival in an online environment shared between partner institutions, students are asked to create their online profile in order to attract interest from others. They should select an appropriat

Cette tâche permet aux télécollaborateurs d' échanger des informations sur les moyens de transport de leur ville.

Diese Aufgabe bietet den Studierenden die Möglichkeit, eine Reisebroschüre für die Partnerländer herzustellen.

In this task, students
produce a short audio-visual presentation to introduce themselves to their peers. In order to do so, they use the free software tool

Dies ist eine Aufgabe, in der Studierende ihre Fotos außerhalb des Unterrichts miteinander teilen und sie sich gegenseitig vorstellen. Die Studierenden sollen im gemeinsamen Forum ein Foto online s

Cette tâche permet aux télécollaborateurs d' organiser, de façon simulée, un festival de cinéma mettant en valeur les deux cultures.

Diese Aufgabe beinhaltet eine Informationsphase über das Thema, Diskussion und das Drehen eines kurzen Films

This task allows the telecollaborative partners to exchange information about the means of transportation in their cities.

Diese Aufgabe bietet den Studierenden die Möglichkeit, ihre Erfahrungen und Vorlieben zum Kino des eigenen sowie des Partnerlandes auszutauschen, in dem ein Auszug eines Dialoges aus einem Film des

Cette tâche permet aux partenaires de réaliser une présentation (type Powerpoint) des lieux de sortie de leur ville. Cette tâche fait partie du scénario «
Cartes postales sonores
» .

In this game each student has to say three things about themselves: two of these shouild be true one should be a lie.

Partners then guess which is the lie by asking questions and making

Cette tâche permet aux télécollaborateurs d' échanger leurs goûts sur le cinéma par la production d' un résumé/synopsis objectif et d' un avis personnel.

Online French Guided Writing project between a British university and a French university between 2012 and 2013 using freely available tools from Google. The group learning French are an Intermedia

Working in collaborative teams students design a task involving the use of any of the tools they already know. The focus is on creating an activity which will allow their future students to engage

This iactivity is part of a larger task sequence that involves creative writing and focuses on literacy skills. The task sequence, based on creating '

This task is to get the telecollaborators interested in the stereotypes that form part of every culture. It offers the chance to exchange their points of view and to draw intercultural comparisons

Cette tâche permet aux télécollaborateurs de présenter un monument de leur pays dans un diaporama commenté.

Cette tâche permet aux télécollaborateurs crée des affiches sur les animations organisées au sein des campus des deux pays.

This task allows the telecollaborative partners to understand and summarize a commercial of the partner' s country.

Es handelt sich um eine Schreibaufgabe mit mehreren Phasen. Lehrende teilen ihre Studierenden in Gruppen auf diese werden beauftragt durch Recherchen herauszufinden, wie Studierende wahrgenommen w

This task is part of a larger task sequence aimed at exploring cross-disciplinary subjects of social sciences, language and intercultural awareness.

Students are given different t

Technologies: Blogs for writing autobiographical statements and for posting biographies, text chat or skype or video conferencing tools for interviewing the person who is the subje

This icebreaker task allows the telecollaborative partners to present their housing situation through the realization of a video or a commented slideshow.

Students should find out about the similarities and differences when visiting Heidelberg (Germany) and Logroño (Spain). Make suggestions for a day and night out on the town of your partners.

I would like to collaborate with the practioners and teachers in the field of Chinese< > English translation and interpreting.

We can discuss on various issues including the translation t

Diese Aufgabe ermöglicht es den Partnern eine (Powerpoint) Präsentation über Ausgehmöglichkeiten in ihrer Stadt auszuarbeiten. Diese Aufgabe ist Teil des Szenarios " Klang-Postkarten" .

Cette tâche permet aux partenaires de découvrir un lieu de sortie à travers la production d' une carte postale sonore commentée. Cette tâche fait partie du scénario «
Cartes postales sonores

Diese Eisbrecher-Aufgabe erlaubt es den telekollaborativen Partner/innen ihre Wohnsituation mit Hilfe eines Videos oder einer Diashow darzustellen.

In this task the students are expected to introduce themselves and present their teaching background, technology-in-teaching experience as well as state their expectations about the participation i

This task allows the telecollaborative partners to discover and afterwards create a love letter.

Die Aufgabe erlaubt es den telekollaborativen Partner/innen Informationen über Verkehrsmittel ihrer Städte auszutauschen.

Cette tâche permet aux télécollaborateurs d' échanger leurs avis sur des restaurants de leur région en produisant une critique gastronomique.

Esta secuencia de actividades se puede utilizar como una tarea preliminar para la organización de grupos de colaboración. Se trata de conseguir ' una lluvia de ideas' que se consensuan entre los p

In der gemeinsamen Onlineumgebung der Parterinstitutionen angekommen, werden die Studierenden gebeten, ein eigenes Profil zu erstellen, um das Interesse der Partner/innen zu wecken. Sie sollten ein

This task organization can be used as a preliminary organizational task for whenever collaborative groups need to brainstorm together and then narrow down their decisions.

It is e

This task allows the partners to find out about possible places to go by creating a commented sound postcard. This task is part of the " sound postcard" scenario.

Working in groups, students create blogs (using blogger or another free, easy-to-use tool) which present themselves and aspects of their local culture. Students from the different partner universit

Students can collaborate to create a story asynchronously by passing the story back and forth across several sessions. Each student begins a story, and then sends it to the partner for continuation

When you start a break-the-ice conversation, you aim at getting as much general information as possible
about the person
you speak to. You ask a lot of questions and you receive answers. Yo

This task allows for the partners to find out about a place to go for leisure by first recording and then describing a soundscape. This task is part of the " audio postcard" scenario.

The eExchange Giessen-Hong Kong has ESP students who are preparing for a year-long study-cum-work stay in the German-speaking parts of Europe work with students of a German as a Foreign Language (G

Cette tâche offre aux télécollaborateurs l' occasion de produire une brochure de voyage vers le pays des partenaires.

Diese Aufgabe erlaubt es den Partner/innen eine Ausgehmöglichkeit durch die Herstellung einer kommentierten Klang-Postkarte zu entdecken. Diese Aufgabe ist Teil des Szenarios " Klang-Postkarten" .<

A blended writing course in which the final draft of each essay is the result of f-2-f and online collaboration.

This task outlines collaborative writing over a period of several sessions. It aims to help students learn the importance of writing drafts, revising drafts, providing peer feedback as well as prac

This task would explore various ways of debating on different subjects (both synchronous and asynchronous, written or oral debates).

It can be played as a team-game (oxford-style debate) and

This task is about stereotypes, and makes use of the online resource ' Mapping stereotypes' by the artist Yanko T

Students are assigned partner-students in the different partner universities and are required to interview them on an ethnographic theme- e.g. " Politeness rules in our partner countries" ,

Groups of students in two different institutions collaborate together to produce a short story which continues from an opening line given to them by the tutor. Using google docs, the students contr

In this task students are asked to design a webpage as part of their foreign language course.

This icebreaker task allows the telecollaborative partners to present their housing situation through the realization of a video or a commented slideshow.

Cette tâche brise-glace permet aux télécollaborateurs de présenter leur logement à travers la réalisation d' une vidéo ou d' un diaporama commenté

This is a simple information exchange for beginner level learners. Because the exchange includes ample visual aides (pictures), the cognitive demand is easier for the language learner and anxiety a

This task allows the telecollaborative partners to present their work, if they have one, and their professional projects in form of interviews.

Cette tâche permet aux télécollaborateurs de s' intéresser à un sujet d' actualité, l' écologie, à l' échelle de leurs villes. Cette tâche leur donne l' occasion d' échanger des points de vue et de

Die Studierenden tauschen ihre Standpunkte bezüglich des Semesterbeginns an den Universitäten der beiden Länder durch einen Blogeintrag aus

This task helps the telecollaborators to get interested in the ways of going out and the leisure activites of their partners. It offers the opportunity of exchanging different points of view and dr

Cette tâche permet aux télécollaborateurs de s' intéresser aux stéréotypes qui entourent chaque culture. Elle leur donne l' occasion d' échanger leurs points de vue et de faire des comparaisons int

´ Diese Aufgabe erlaubt es den telekollaborativen Partnern sich mit einem aktuellen Thema, dem Umweltschutz, am Beispiel ihrer Städte zu beschäftigen. Diese Aufgabe gibt ihnen die Möglichkeit,

This task allows the partners to prepare a (powerpoint) presentation about places to go out at night in their hometown. This task is part of the " audio postcard" scenario.

Diese Aufgabe erlaubt es den telekollaborativen Partner/innen ihre
Arbeit, falls sie eine haben, und ihre beruflichen Projekte in Form von Interviews zu präsentieren.

In this icebreaker task students working in international teams create a group identity at the outset of a project by creating a multimodal presentation using a presentation tool.

This task allows the telecollaborative partners to present their work, if they have one, and their professional projects in form of interviews.

This task allows the telecollaborative partners to take interest in a current subject, ecology, using the example of their cities. This task has them exchange points of view and make intercultural

Diese Aufgabe erlaubt es den telekollaborativen Partner/innen, ein fiktives Filmfestival zu organisieren, das die beiden Kulturen in Szene setzt.

Diese Eisbrecher-Aufgabe erlaubt es den telekollaborativen Partnern ihre Wohnsituation mit Hilfe eines Videos oder einer Diashow darzustellen.

Cette tâche permet aux télécollaborateurs d' échanger leurs connaissances et leurs goûts sur le cinéma de leur pays et de celui des partenaires à travers la production d' un extrait de dialogue d'

Esta secuencia de actividades se puede utilizar como una tarea preliminar para la organización de grupos de colaboración. Se trata de conseguir ' una lluvia de ideas' que se consensuan entre los p

This task allows telecollaborative partners to develop and exchange typical recipes of their countries.

Diese Aufgabe erlaubt den Studierenden, sich für das Ausgehen und die Freizeitbeschäftigungen der Partner/innen zu interessieren. Sie bietet die Möglichkeit, unterschiedliche Ansichten auszutausche

Studenci specjalności nauczycielskiej pracują w grupach interkulturowych. Ich zadaniem jest stworzenie takiego zadania dydaktycznego online, które pozwoli uczniom
pracującycm w projekcie inter

This task has been designed around the concept of e-literacy skills that is the skills needed for efficient use of online tools. The students work in international groups, choose one of the pre-sel

Working in groups of students from the different participating universities, students are asked to prepare a presentation based on a theme of their choice. They collaborate online to make the power

This task gives students the opportunity to exchange their experiences and preferences with the cinema of their own and their partners' country by producing an extract from a movie' s dialogue fro

This is an activity to help collaborating partners get to know each other before beginning the other activities in the planned exchange. It involves some preliminary preparation of materials by the

This task allows the telecollaborative partners to exchange information and points of view on the initiation rituals in the universities.

Students read books and watch films from the cultures involved in the project (parallel texts), which deal with similar topics, such as growing up, ethnicity or conflicts between the generations. P

Based on the Cultura surveys. Adapted from Furstenberg and Levet 2001, we set up 3 types of anonymous survey in google forms to be completed in the mother tongue of the students. They were encourag

Diese Aufgabe erlaubt es den telekollaborativen Partnern sich mit einem aktuellen Thema, dem Umweltschutz, am Beispiel ihrer Städte zu beschäftigen. Diese Aufgabe gibt ihnen die Möglichkeit, ihre S

Esta tarea consta de dos fases. En la primera fase intercambiaréis información personal, cultural y social en grupo para poder elaborar un retrato robot de los otros compañeros de interacción. En l

Diese Aufgabe erlaubt es den telekollaborativen Partnern sich für eine soziale Gruppe, die der Jugendlichen, zu interessieren, indem sie diese zum Gegenstand von interkulturellen Vergleichen machen

This telecollaborative project focuses on current and recent business news that is of European or global interest. The aim is to engage a number of HEI' s from areas of Europe to virtually discu

Diese Aufgabe eröffnet den Studierenden die Möglichkeit, sich mit Stereotypen, die Teil jeder Kultur sind, auseinanderzusetzen. Sie bietet die Möglichkeit Standpunkte auszutauschen und interkulture

Cette tâche porte sur les règles dans une collocation (ou cité U,... ) et comprend le tournage d' un petit film.

Les télécollaborateurs échangent leurs points de vue sur les rentrées universitaires des deux pays à travers la production d' un billet de blog

This presentation task allows the telecollaborative partners to speak about their daily lives by producing a video or a commented slideshow.

Cette tâche permet aux télécollaborateurs de parler d' art, et plus particulièrement d' architecture en s' appuyant sur des visites virtuelles

Diese Aufgabe versetzt die Studierenden in die Lage, einen Werbespot des Partnerlandes zu verstehen und zusammenzufassen.

Studenci w każdej z grup przedstawiają siebie i wybrane aspekty swojej kultury za pomocą multimedialnych " autobiografii
kulturowych" . Prezentacje tworzone są w
język

This task allows the telecollaborative partners to take interest in a current subject, ecology, using the example of their cities. This task has them exchange points of view and make intercultural

This activity is aimed at getting students to become familiar with the work of Geert Hofstede and his cultural dimensions but also view them with a critical eye. Students compare the scores for the

A photo sharing task done outside of class. Students have to post an image to the shared forum that exemplifies an aspect of their routine. They should also write a caption.
They can if they p

Diese Aufgabe erlaubt es den telekollaborativen Partner/innen in einer kommentierten Diashow ein Gebäude in ihren Ländern zu präsentieren.

Cette tâche permet aux télécollaborateurs de s' intéresser aux sorties, aux loisirs de leurs partenaires. Elle leur donne l' occasion d' échanger des points de vue et de faire des comparaisons inte

Cette tâche permet aux télécollaborateurs de comprendre et de résumer une publicité du pays des partenaires.

A forum task to capture our hopes and desres for the New Year.

This is part of our second task sequence for 2014-2015.

Diese Aufgabe ermöglicht es den Partner/innen eine Ausgehmöglichkeit zu entdecken, indem sie eine Geräuschkulisse zunächst aufnehmen und dann beschreiben. Diese Aufgabe ist Teil des Szenarios " Kla

Cette tâche permet aux télécollaborateurs d' échanger des informations et des points de vue sur les rites d' initiation dans les universités.

You have to have at least 4 sessions of approx. 40 minutes where

Cette tâche permet aux télécollaborateurs de concevoir et d' échanger des recettes de cuisine typiques de leur pays.

Diese Aufgabe erlaubt es den Studierenden Kochrezepte, die typisch für ihr Land sind, zu konzipieren und auszutauschen.

It is a telecollaborative activity that integrates a web-based multimedia case study (an actual classroom problem) and online discussion among geographically distant pre-service teachers.

Students select an ad for a job or an internship in France, they write their CV and a cover letter. They upload all this material in a google folder. They are partnered with a French student (Unive

Teacher trainees design an intercultural activity that allows their learners to learn more about their partners in a telecollaborative project.

A writing task with several phases. Tutors divide their students into groups, they are tasked with researching and collecting information about how students are perceived and writing a short blog p

Cette tâche de présentation permet aux télécollaborateurs de parler de leur quotidien en réalisant une vidéo ou un diaporama commenté.

In this task two groups of FL learners - from two different countries - work on a content project in a blended manner.

The telecollaborative partners exchange their points of view on the start of university courses in the two countries by creating a blog entry.

Diese Aufgabe erlaubt es den telekollaborativen Partnern einen Liebesbrief zu entdecken und dann
selbst einen zu verfassen.

In this task two groups of language learners* read half a given story and tell their part to each other during a bilingual chat

*L1 of group 1 is the L2 learned by group 2 and vice versa

In this task teacher trainees from
local institutions create technology-based tasks for their partnering groups for evaluation and implementation.

An exchange was set up between students at Coventry University and students in Mexico City.

It was agreed that students would discuss themes and topics they were interested in and

Cette tâche permet aux partenaires de réaliser un diaporama photo commenté sur un site important pour eux.

This tasks ask students to use the interaction of the collaboration as data for a small scale sociolinguistics study, which they will then write up in the form of a popular science paper.

This task allows the telecollaborative partners to draw on peer to peer internactions on themes and topics that are current or recent global news in the areas of geography, Natural disasters, Energ

Cette tâche permet aux télécollaborateurs de présenter leur emploi, s' ils en ont un, et leurs projets professionnels sous forme d' interviews.

This task has been designed around the concept of e-literacy skills that is the skills needed for efficient use of online tools. The students work in international groups, choose one of the pre-sel

This task allows the telecollaborative partners to draw their attention to a social group, young people, by making it a subject of intercultural comparisons. The product is a text which seeks to of

Created using a moodle forum in a shared course area. Our virtual classroom area was open to students of all abilities studying French/English in UK and France.

Having tasked each student/gro

A task instruction for the theme VOYAGE (travel) from among the 14 themes of the eTandem Chinese-French course is provided here.
It is in 3 versions: traditional Chinese, French and simplified

This task aims to have students explore and reflect on stereotypes. The task begins with students listening to Chimamanda Adichie' s very popular TED talk, students are then asked to write their

Cette tâche permet aux télécollaborateurs de s' intéresser à un groupe social, la jeunesse, en faisant de ce groupe un sujet de comparaisons interculturelles. La production est un texte cherchant à

This task allows the telecollaborative partners to present a building of their country in a documented slide show.

This is the first activity which is part of a larger task sequence that involves creative writing and focuses on literacy skills. The task sequence, based on creating '

Groups of students in two different institutions collaborate together to produce a short story which continues from an opening line given to them by the tutor. Using google docs, the students contr

Diese Aufgabe erlaubt es den telekollaborativen Partnern, ein fiktives Filmfestival zu organisieren, das die beiden Kulturen in Szene setzt.

This task is part of a larger task sequence aimed at exploring cross-disciplinary subjects of social sciences, language and intercultural awareness.

In this activity, students are

In this task students post short introductory messages to a Moodle forum. They introduce themselves to their partners by presenting their teaching background, their technology-in-teaching experienc

Individual or group blogs are created and posts shared with partners and beyond to stimulate discussion.

The task is to be led by students own interests and can be mediated through more

Cette tâche permet aux télécollaborateurs d' échanger et de décrire des images à l' oral