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 * Inspiration Diagram/Outline**

**Understanding of the Project:**

Carlitosway is a wiki designed for Year 9/10 students of Italian who want to develop their language skills through the support of ICT. The content was chosen because "Festivities" are events that happen in all countries, throughout the whole year, giving numerous opportunities for the students to utilise the language related to such topics. The students also have the opportunity to relate their own cultural experiences to the way festivities are perceived in Italy, thus expanding their knowledge of the target language and also cultural aspects. This will ensure that values are also addressed.

With reference to the Overarching Learning Outcomes set by the Curriculum Framework, there are links to the areas of Society and Environment, Religious Education, Design and Technology and Media.

**Justification of the Selected ICT tools**:

Three ICT tools were selected:
 * 1) The Learning Federation (one of its many interactive activities): This activity is used in the first session and it introduces the main topic to the students and acquaints them with the necessary vocabulary and main language points;
 * 2) Photo Story: Students will be shown a Photo Story created by the teacher and will be asked to create, in pairs, their own Photo Story projects, using the example as a model. The project will involve images as well as sound. This project will be presented to the rest of the class.
 * 3) Hot Potato: After the presentation of the Photo Story created by the students, the rest of the class will be asked three question. The students doing the presentation have to use the program Hot Potato to design a short quiz (three questions only) to be used for that purpose.

As far as the LAOs go, the first chosen tool links to outcome number 5 (system of the target language) because students apply prior knowledge to help them to make meaning and complete the proposed task. The second tool links to outcome 4 (cultural understandings), where students apply their sociolinguistic and sociocultural understanding in order to choose appropriate images that convey the meaning wanted, and outcome 3 (writing): students write sentences to convey their messages. The third tool also links to outcome number 3 (writing), for the same reason stated above, plus, the tool has a direct link to outcome number 5 (The system of the target language).

**Forward Planning Document**



**Statement**: This ICT Integration Project has been developed on the idea that the students learn //with// the ICT tools, rather than //from// them; as a consequence of this statement, all the activities using ICT are student-centred. Students are motivated to construct their own understanding and apply prior knowledge (i.e. personal experiences relating to the topic of festivities) in order to produce their photo album.


 * Rubric **