D/D Describe and Draw

This project is not currently running and is in need of a volunteer to be the project manager.

Description Objectives        Phases / timeline      Resources

 DD – Application Form

Pleasejoin to the  FaceBook group for this project if you want to participate

Description
Write a description of yourself and a student in another country will make a drawing of you.
You have to do the same with your partner: read his/her description and draw a portrait for him/her. Below is one of many examples.
 “My hair is brown and long and wavy. I have no fringe at all I comb my hair backward and I wear a broad white ribbon, my eyelashes are long and dark brown. The eyebrows are brown. My eyes big and brown. The shape of my face is long and my cheeks are a little round. My mouth is red with rather thick lips. I am pale and I like to wear a black teashirt.”

Portrait drawn by Arianna (Italy). They have been both very skilled in describing and in drawing.

  

 

Age group
This project is for any age group. (It’s suitable for EFL students at the basic level.)

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Objectives
Join this project and let your students learn how to write an accurate description and how to draw a portrait following what their partners have written. It’s a project that promotes responsibility among students; commitment, and respect of the timeline. Frequent contacts are essential, because the classes are reciprocally dependent on one another. Read more in “Objectives” (extension)

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Phases
Dates are preliminary!

Phase 1 – JOIN TO THE PROJECT (registrations and school presentations)
(First edition: (To be determined)
(Second edition: (To be determined)

 

  1. When you receive the invitation, if you want to participate, please, fill in  the Google signup Form (link) in order to be registered in the project.
  2. Send to the project manager a list of your students’ names (with name, age and gender of them). [deadline, TBD]
  3. Start writing a presentation of your school and group (google document or email) and share with the project’s manager to be published by him. [deadline, TBD]
  4. The project’s manager will send you a list of registered schools matched in pairs, ready to start the following phase. All the matched schools will pair in the “Artwork” page: DD Google Doc page (link to be supplied).

The project manager pairs the groups.

Phase 2 – SHARE DESCRIPTIONS (descriptions being written at school and shared)
(First edition: (To be determined)
(Second edition:(To be determined)

Teachers introduce the project to the students and invite them to write their descriptions.

Descriptions are shared with the collaborating school. Collaborating teachers previously agree how they do it. We suggest these 3 ways to share descriptions:

Phase 3  SHARE and PUBLISH PORTRAITS (Students draw and share the portraits)
(First edition: deadline )
(Second edition: deadline)

Not all students are good at drawing, but they should commit to follow the directions in the description as much as possible.

Scan/photo the drawings (for Kidspace publications, size of your scan/photo must not be larger and higher than  500 pixels. Format must be: jpg or gif)

Send/share the images to be published (and publish the images for your students). You can send/share the images to the teacher of each pupil that wrote the description, in one of these methods:

The project manager can also post the portraits near the descriptions of your students.

The project manager keeps a log to see that all have got a drawing.

Phase 4: Fun time at home

(First edition: December )
(Second edition: June)
Students can get in touch with the other students.

Information channels
We will inform in our public D/D Project FB Group .

Ask to join our private D/D Project FB Group
You can find some useful tutorials in our FB group DD (check the Files)

Useful link:

  • ww.kidlink.net/index.php/project-center/dd-2021/dd-resources/
  • Exercise in classroom.
    Training description in your own classroom using your mother language
    One group sits on the floor in a ring with the back to the center.
    The second group forms an inner ring Sitting with an image of themselves visible on a mirror or a phone. The inner ring describes themselves. The outer ring makes a simple drawing. The outer ring may ask for clarifications.
  • DD en Català: “Jo em Descric i tu em Dibuixes“
  • Join the project group in Facebook to get in touch with the managers of the project and the teachers collaborating in the project.