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Michele Craw here, from Burnside high school. I am going gingerly into this project and I have told my students that, while I'll guide them with the German, they'll have to guide me with the technology. Are we ( ie: Am I ) too ambitious? I had never heard of Voki, only one out of 24 had! But when it comes to Informatik, we know they all learn fast. So, thank you first of all to Jo for coming to our class and enthusing students for this p roject. We are going to work on it once a week,. We sent them home last week having to find out about Voki and recording possibilities on their cell-phones. They could not believe they were going to be allowed to use them! I'm finding out what I can about Voki and have booked the netbooks this week so that we can further research this program's possibilities. I have asked out technician to "pop in" and guide us as well! So, we are making a start. The purpose of this project is to find out if using new technologies gives them greater confidence orally. The question is, how can we then measure this "scientificallY", not just by "feeling" ? We'll need to think of a questionnaire, perhaps a BEFORE/AFTER thing.

That's all for now, will report as we "progress".