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Through
my window is a simple and engaging e-mail activity
designed to allow students to communicate about their world through words
and images. It is also a great way to contact other schools.
Students, in groups, describe what they see, hear and
smell through a window in their classroom. The description could be in
English or another language. The description of the view should be as
accurate as possible using vivid and precise language. The paragraph is
then e-mailed to the Through my windows
coordinator who will "post" it on this web
site.
Students from other schools can access and interpret the
appearance of the described view. Students create a visual representation
(drawing, printing, painting, collage or computer generated image) of the
unseen view that complements the written description. Students then send
the visual representation to the authoring school as either a digital image
attached to an e-mail or by regular post.
Using either a digital or still camera, the writers at
the authoring school can capture the actual scene so that the students in
the other schools may see how close they came with their visual
representation.
There are no rigid time frames for the activity. Schools
can join whenever they complete a description or find one that they wish to
create visually. However, descriptions will be cleared from the site at the
end of each school year.
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