Project Description and schedule

This telecollaboration project puts French students from the UWI CLL (Trinidad and Tobago) and English students from the Lumière Lyon 2 University Language Centre (France) in contact with each other

1st stage (Monday 21st February 2011- Sunday 20th March 2011)

In the beginning, you will be required to suggest themes for discussion. These can be subjects which encourage debates (For example: Facebook: pro or con, etc.), cultural themes (example: Trinidad and Tobago, culinary specialities of Trinidad and Tobago, the Francophonie, etc.) current affairs, politics… All topics are welcome as long as they do not constitute a hateful or discriminatory message. It is not obligatory to suggest a theme. However, once a theme is proposed, your participation will be mandatory; you must then publish messages in relation to these themes (personal opinion, personal experience, information, citations, images, etc.) in your native language. You must read the English and French messages posted by the participants and interact. This first stage will allow French students from Trinidad and Tobago to work on French written comprehension and English students from France to work on English written comprehension concerning specific themes that interest them. From this first stage, an academic relationship could be established between a student from France and a student from Trinidad and Tobago. These can be formed via email, Facebook, Skype, etc.

2nd stage (Monday 21st March 2011- Sunday 27th March 2011)

In this stage, you will be required to form work groups. The groups must contain one or two students from each country (that is to say between 2-4 persons in total). All groups must be binational. Before creating these groups, it is advisable to get to know the participants’ interests. Don’t hesitate to take initiative in forming the group: in any case, someone has to take the first step.

3rd stage (Monday 28th March 2011 – Wednesday 27th April 2011)

Finally, during the final stage, once the group is formed and the theme is chosen, each group will organise itself to produce a synthesis of everything that was said in the forum, and enrich this synthesis with documents (photos, videos, audio files, texts, links). It is necessary to conduct some research or create documents based on the theme. This synthesis may resemble a press article, an encyclopedia entry, a useful document (e.g. a guide). It must be written up in the language you are learning.