Linking your classroom to the world.
Rafi.ki is a secure online learning community that lets your pupils talk to schools all over the world.
Rafi.ki features:
- In the atlas area, pupils can safely publish information about themselves
- Lesson ideas can be shared in the resources area
- In the school yard, pupils can chat to each other across the planet and make contributions to an online newspaper
- The projects section stores curriculum-driven projects from particular countries which teachers in other countries are free to use and adapt
- In the communicate section, pupils and teachers can talk to each other across the world through email, video-conferencing, and instant messaging
- The staff room is an area where teachers can share resources and best practice, supporting and advising each other
The two areas I explored were the communicative section and the resource area. This website will be very useful for me. Particularly for the Global Perspectives Subject that I teach. This subject requires students to correspond with other schools to work together and gain different view points in projects. The resource area has lots of material that I would use and I would like to upload materials for others. It would also be helpful for me to contact teachers from around the world who teach the same subjects as me and perhaps collaborate. It will also be very helpful in my ESL classes for pupils to get a pen friend so they can write letters and practice written English. I think there will be more incentive for pupils to try harder and take more pride in their work if it can be uploaded and shared with other schools who are free to comment or criticise.
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