1st f2f Class:

Students list means of transportation they utilize in their local city. Using the worksheet, they discuss in group of 4:

• features of different means
• Their preference and reasons

The teacher invites some students to share their opinions with the class, and writes useful expressions of distances, costs and time duration on the blackboard. He/she uses the expression sheet as a reference.

Using the pre-telecollaboration sheet, the class then brainstorm what they have already known and what they want to know about transportation in Shanghai/Barcelona. Then they work in their final-project groups to generate some most important aspects to know about transportation when planning a trip at Shanghai/Barcelona.

After class (if not implemented during in-class session), each final-project group are required to create at least 4 questions that they what to ask their telecollaboration partners regarding transportation there. By midnight on Thursday of this week, all final-project groups will post their questions in their own group folder on OneDrive to be assessed by the teacher.

Asynchronous Telecollaborative Task:

Students create new topics in Siftr and add the questions they generate above to the topic.

*To see a tutorial video of Siftr, please click here.

They participate in their telecollaboration partner’s topic by uploading photos of their local means of transportation and responding to questions that their partners post.

2nd f2f Class:

The instructor introduces StoryMapJS (https://storymap.knightlab.com/) to the class. Based on the telecollaborative interaction, students work in their final-project groups to compare different means of transportation in the target cities.

Every final-project group integrate photos they collected through telecollaboration and their comparison to create a map guide of transportation options using StoryMapJS.

Post-class Tasks:

All final-project groups need to post their map guide on their website of final outcome. They will create a comment board on the same page of the map guide as well. If necessary, the teacher will tutor them how to do so in the 2nd f2f class.

Every student needs to give feedback to 1) their telecollaboration partner’s guide 2)another assigned guide produced by their local peers. They are expected to use the peer assessment to make further improvement on there map guide.

At the end of this topic, all students will write in their individual folder their reflection diaries using the guiding questions developed by the teacher. Teacher will assess their reflection and make comments.

*For guiding questions and other details regarding the reflection diary, see Assessment page.