Making Movies

Today we were making short movies using the Dvolver-site. The Dvolver-site is easy to use and the “movie making process” is very well guided. With Dvolver you can create short animations (2-6 lines lasting about a minute or so) and there are characters and scenes to choose, so all you really have to do is write the lines for the … Continue reading →

Numbers

Hello dear friends, Catrin says there might be a host for 10 Lithuanian students and they have 6 students willing to travel. I think it is a good idea to involve ninth graders, Catrin. Gaida says they have 15 students willing to travel. We have 13 willing to travel. Somehow we have to find a balance with these numbers. … Continue reading →

Updates

Hello my dear friends! So wonderful to see your students posting in the student blog! Our lessons are now on Thursdays and today we were working on the ABCbooks. Some of our students have sent your students invitations to add Latvian translations to their words. We still need email addresses to the Swedish students to … Continue reading →

Two important details!

1. We need to get email addresses for the Latvian and Swedish students in order to invite them into our ABC books and our blog. When you post with the teacher’s username, the students cannot comment individually on our posts. 2. You are allowed to use only your own photos! If you use a photo from … Continue reading →

Travel Arrangements

Dear Friends, We need to have a Skype meeting. Please let me know a suitable time. I will be around for example next Monday and Wednesday afternoon. We have the same time with Latvia, and Sweden is one hour behind us. Please write an email message to me with your time suggestions in Finnish time and … Continue reading →

List of Activities

Here is a list of activities to be done by ALL the students (Finnish, Latvian and Swedish) of Can I Help You Project: 1. Pick a word from a hat. Take a photo to illustrate your word and post it in your blog. Write something about your photo to accompany the image. 2. Pick a place in … Continue reading →

This year’s first lessons

Happy new year to Latvia and Sweden! We started school today in Porvoo and also had this year’s first lessons with our Can I Help You -group. Our local newspaper Vartti has a page for schools and wishes every school to send some photos and texts the students have taken and written. One of our … Continue reading →

Dear friends,

We are looking forward to a very nice and hopeful New year. with our students we were having very nice Xmas celebration, you can see the pictures in our homepage and of course talking about the next year plans. we start our new semester on January 7th. Acccidenatly, after a white xmas the snow is … Continue reading →