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//**Project: 100 Words Competition / Lebanon and UK Partnership**//

100 Words Competition is a project for young people that opens their imagination, taps into their creativity and creates global connections. It gives priority to internationalising the curriculum and creates an institutional ethos that supports a global dimension. It also enable learners to better understand and negotiate their place in the world. In this project, pupils in Lebanon and the UK are encouraged to work collaboratively on a story of 100 words. This project will give pupils the chance to gather information about the culture of each country. It will be a great opportunity to share words and worlds in this competition. Pupils involved must be 15 to 18 years old. The story that both sides will be working on must integrate more than one subject area. Pupils from both countries must decide on a theme then come up with the story which must be exposed as a powerpoint presentation, play, or a movie maker.
 * __**Details:**__

When it comes to writing, many pupils intend to write whatever comes to their minds. They do not plan or proofread. Therefore, this targeted competition may give them a chance to put an outline, proofread and write for a purpose which is communicating with someone in another country and try to persuade him with an idea. That someone would be his audience. This project will enable pupils to:
 * __**Pedagogical Objectives:**__
 * 1) improve their language skills.
 * 2) communicate with native speakers.
 * 3) work with a partner or a team.
 * 4) demonstarte understanding of other cultures.
 * 5) develop their creative and critical thinking.
 * 6) enhance their ICT skills.
 * 7) develop their presentaion skills.
 * 8) raise their level of confidence.
 * 9) plan following the writing process.
 * 10) plan for a piece of work.

The competition takes place at the end of February, 2012.
 * __**Timing:**__

Managers and all coordinators of subject areas involved in the competition meet to discuss the following: - the criteria of the competition - the UK partner school to have a contact with - the means of communication with the competition coordinator at the partner school - the piloting class - the teachers who will be involved - the nomination of a leading teacher - the number of pupils who will take part (usually 5 pupils) - the coordinator who will be following up the competition with the leading teacher and the coordinator at the partner school - the resources, references and materials that can facilitate reaching the end of the roadmap - the themes available on the curriculum of the involved subject areas - the location where pupils and teachers can be planning and having a contact with partner pupils and teachers - the suggested websites (wikispaces, wallwisher, blogs, schoolwebsite, ...) where pupils and teachers from UK and Lebanon can upload their work, drop and share ideas - the deadline to submit the piece of work - the letter of committment that pupils and parents must sign to make sure no one retreats in the middle of the process - the tools of assessing the submitted project - the budget of the available for the competition - the awards that pupils and teachers may get
 * __**Process:**__
 * 1. Managers' Meeting with Coordinators:**

All coordinators and teachers of the class involved meet to discuss the following: - the points that were discussed in the coordinators' meeting - the leading teacher - the way of selecting the pupils who will be involved (through a test, an activity, an individual presentation of a play of 100 words, ...) - the deadline to submit the names of pupils - the deadline to submit the committment sheets from pupils
 * 2. Coordinators' Meeting with Teachers:**

All teachers and pupils of the class invloved meet to discuss the following: - the type of the competition - the objectives of the competition - the date in which pupils will be tested or will have to submit their projects - the school to have a contact with - the themes available in the curriculum that are interesting to pupils - the data that every pupil will gather - the website where pupils may save their collected data - the resources pupils can have access to in order to collect data about the selected themes - the deadline to submit the data of every theme - the date in which pupils will be ready to attend video conferences with UK pupils from the partner school to decide on a theme and to share ideas about how each side will prepare - the weekly meeting in which pupils and leading teacher may gather to plan and work on the script - the deadline to submit the script - the date in which pupils can have a video conference to discuss the scripts with partner pupils, to decide on a common one, and to agree on the type of presentation - the necessary material for the presentation - the deadline to present the play in front of a jury - the deadline to download the final result on the website - the date of a video conference to discuss the comments of
 * 3. Teachers' Meeting with Pupils:**

There must be a jury of managers, coordinators, teachers, parents and pupils of age 15 to 18 who will watch and assess the work. The impact that the presentation will have on the jury can help pupils know where the gaps are and modify the work before the deadline.
 * **Evaluation:**

Once the piece of work is downloaded, the partner pupils will have the chance to give their comments. Lebanese pupils will also have the chance to comment on the work of the UK pupils.
 * **Follow-up:**

The websites that managers and coordinators may suggest can be the school blog, website, wikispaces page, ...
 * **Links:**