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 PFL IV - Projeto Sua Cidade e Seu País As part of learning Portuguese as a foreign language, students often create products that provide an insight into the culture that they bring to Graded.  There is therefore an untapped richness  of resources that relate to the idea of "intercultural competence" indicated in our mission statem ent. I believe that access to such products  can help our community better understand the different cultural experiences at Graded.                     PFL II - Projeto Roupas do Mundo Take a look at some of these projects below: Projeto Cidade Seul: Uma cidade dos nosso sonhos Cartagena: Colômbia Canadá Projeto Roupas Tradicionais Roupas Tradicionais India & Africa do Sul Coréia França, Estados Unidos e Brasil Argentina, Estados Unidos e Brasil

After publishing online newspapers, the PFL V class has now made available to the wider audience an online magazine with fictional news articles. The magazine is called "A Tela" which means "screen" in English, as a way to represent the different news you may see on TV or computer screens. The magazine has three separate sections:  Recent Events, Science & Technology, Culture & Travel. Anyone can read the articles and make comments by accessing the publication at the Issuu site shown below. The class worked collaboratively to develop the design style of the magazine and some students created the cover. A Google Presentation file was used to house all the articles under the same design, so each student was responsible for copying a master slide and adding his o her own content. A PDF version of this Google Presentation was then uploaded into Issuu, making the online magazine very easy to do. You can access the magazine below. A snapshot of students'commen...

In BSS 10, Kaue asked students to create a city design considering the 4 necessities of human beings: habitat, work, body-spirit leisure and circulation. The design was based on parameters from the French-Swiss urbanist Le Corbusier.  Initially, the groups created a draft on paper then they were able to choose among different options to generate a 3D city maquette. Google SketchUp was offered as a particularly powerful option as it allows moving around a 3D city and looking at it at different angles. Other options chosen by groups were a physical maquette and Photoshop, for example. The image above shows a city model on Google SketuchUp. The different colors indicate specific types of buildings as seen at a copy of a SketchUp legend at the end of this post. Below, you can see an animation of a 3D city created with Google SketchUP. In the animation you can better appreciate the city design. The project covered the following ICT Standard: Creativity and Innov...