Nina Bradica, OŠ Metlika
This year I tried motivating my students in the after-school programme for learning a foreign language. I wanted to accomplish this by using ICT (information and communication technology), in order to show them a different method for foreign language learning. The third-graders already know the computer and its basic uses. Together we discovered how to use a computer for foreign language learning. They were excited about the programme Story Jumper because they were able to create their very own book and use pre-offered scenes for a background or use theirs. They took photos and inserted their pictures into the programme. They scanned their art products and used them in a “story”. Before they started the actual work, they researched the field of language. Through Croatian, English, French and Slovene, the children collected materials in groups and monitored their activity in the after-school programme. During the process, they used bilingual dictionaries, which are available online. The e-book, which they kept as a certain souvenir of the work they had done in the after-school programme, was not the only result of their creative process. The idea of them temporarily becoming teachers and the rest of us their students was also important. In groups, the children presented the materials they had collected.
