Name of the Activity: Collaborative
Project
Evaluation:
It was observed by school authorities
that there is more to education and life experience than books. Looking to the
need of an hour, a dedication arose to bring the newest in innovative
curriculum and class offerings in addition to their academics. So a step was
taken to initiate Collaborative Project activity
exclusively for class VIII. The outcomes of these projects were - multi-cultural
understanding; foster teamwork, civic responsibility and team management. It was
a major move towards strengthening global awareness. It provided students with
an opportunity to work together and learn from each other without meeting each
other face-to-face.
The topics
were mutually decided by the project coordinators of both the countries,
allotted and mapped on one to one basis for exchanging the information online. After the exchange of information analysis of
the entire study was done which was compiled in the form of final handwritten
report and lastly made the power point presentation/skit and presented it
before their peers, judges and teachers.
All these
studies sufficed the proper building of child growth and nurture their hidden
talent and groom the personality.
The
students had gone through Interaction Based Projects, Post Card Exchange
activity and Survey Based Projects.
|
Percent involvement of Students in
various projects
|
|
Total No. of
Students
|
Interaction Based
Project (77%)
|
Survey Based Project
(Human Genetics) (100%)
|
Survey Based Project
(The Noon Day) (41%)
|
Post Card Exchange
Project (60%)
|
|
155
|
77.41
|
100
|
41.29
|
60
|
* The
students had put in their best efforts to make a creative hand written report.
* As
last year the idea of presenting the projects in a novel manner in the form of
skits was introduced, this idea was implemented on a wider scale this year.
Students worked enthusiastically and performed skits/plays with 100%
participation of all the students in a group on 25 projects. This enhanced
their team co-ordination and provided them the stage exposure on a small scale.
* The
evaluators appreciated the creative abilities demonstrated by the students
while performing the skits.
* These
projects will be beneficial for the students in their future as:
- These
provide students the opportunity to explore the world around them & share
their views. This makes learning
enjoyable & interesting.
- The
students exchange an extensive range of information & a lot of facts, which
otherwise is not possible in day to day curriculum.
- These
projects provide them a platform to enhance their computer proficiency and they
become techno-savvy, which is the demand of the today’s world.
Overall
it was a well-appreciated endeavor of the students.
Students performed very
effectively and efficiently in a group with a great team spirit. They showed
commendable coordination and confidence in delivering the presentation. The
skits/speeches/presentations of students showed their hard work and thorough
knowledge of the topic. Students were
quite enthusiastic to present their work and share their knowledge with their
peers. Most of the students were excited for their presentation and performed
very well but a few need to put some more efforts to give their best. The whole
project enhanced their attitude (dealing with the foreign partners),
communication (writing mails to their foreign partners and of course
presentation in front of evaluators) and thinking skills(online exchange of
information and its analysis).
During the whole process of
communication through epals community, the students at times found difficulties
in mailing their partners because of limited capacity (2MB) of the mail box and
also the webmail account gets blocked if the previous mails are not deleted
after a certain limit and thereafter the
mails are neither received nor send by the same mail account. The subsequent solution taken out was that the
students were asked to save their documents in a said folder and from here these
mails were sent by the coordinator to the foreign administrator and the similar
process was followed by the foreign collaborator.
In a way these projects helped in making world a global village,
well knit exchange of ideas and enhanced
their knowledge beyond textbooks. It provided students the opportunity to explore
the world around them & share their views
These projects broaden the
outlook of students and help them to develop research-based study.
