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FIESTA INDO-ITALIANA

2009
• Essential question or problem that this project addresses:- Man has been a universal traveler since time immemorial. Travelling makes man more accustomed to the society and different multi-cultural habitat and customs. Getting into close proximity with different cultures, traditions and languages has been an integral part of travelling. Getting an insight to the history, folk art forms, festivals and the people of both countries India and Italy in an adventurous multi-ethnic journey. • Curriculum standards Students will exchange information by virtually visiting the most important places of their countries and will share the festivities celebrated in their respective countries. They will also provide logistic details for a comfortable travel in their respective countries. They will precisely give all details of travel, stay and hospitality available in their native place. They shall also provide a itinerary of couple of tours in their local areas. Religious Tours to Wildlife safaris will be chalked out. The students shall directly conduct interviews with Officials of the Local Tourism Department, Regional Passport Office & other Governmental, NGO’s and Travel & Tour Managers to bring out details in respect to the logistics support. • Expected outcomes Students and the world community will enrich their knowledge, will love and appreciate the different cultures and will learn to respect multi-cultural diversities and come closer to adapting new values of life. • Required resources The team members will make this project through the use of some useful authentic resources from Official Websites for collecting logistic data through the use of Internet; go through reference books in the school /community library, outings, interviews, and encyclopedia. • How will this project help the class, school, community or world? To focus on understanding the diversified Multi-cultural identities, create scope to adopt new folk traditions, cultural and social environment through the project.

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DEEPITAKENDRIYA VIDYALAYA MALIGAON, Assam, India

ANUREKHAKENDRIYA VIDYALAYA MALIGAON, Assam, India

SUMITAKENDRIYA VIDYALAYA MALIGAON, Assam, India

Alessiapalombara sabina, Palombara Sabina, Italy

Corneliapalombara sabina, Palombara Sabina, Italy

Age Range

15 & under

Coaches

Ornella Palazzopalombara sabina, Palombara Sabina, Italy

ANUTOSH DEBKENDRIYA VIDYALAYA MALIGAON, Assam, India

Category

Geography & Travel > Travel

Audience

All ages

Language

English

Team Collaboration

The team had students from two different countries and social background.

The Italian team comprising of Alessia M and Cornelia P from

Palombara Sabina, Italy concentrated on the Italian view of addressing the topic.

The Indian team comprising of Sumita S, Anurekha D and Deepita R from Kendriya Vidyalaya NFR Maligaon, worked on the Indian aspect for addressing the topic.

From the day one the teams divided their areas to work on the project.

The project was broken into fragments by assigning pages for a particular activity. The first few pages was kept for the Italian team and the remaining few were assigned for the Indian students. However the last few pages saw a mixture of ideas incorporated in a particular page beyond geographical borders.

Working on the narrative aspect was shared by all the members.

Creating videos and selecting images were also taken care by the entire team.

We were fortunate to get some original images from our coaches which were used to highlight our narration. Thanks to our coaches.

As our time zones were different we worked during the day and also interacted with our friends at Palombara through messages and emails for deciding on the next steps.

Team Diversity

The socio-cultural differences between the Indian and Italian teams have completed and enriched the knowledge of some geographic and historic aspects of the two countries, India and Italy, stimulating curiosity and adding to the members students of the two teams a real motivating factor to study with more passion and pleasure.

The Multi-cultural differences has added a flavor of ecstasy in the thought process of the students. Conceptualization at the ground level often played a big role in collection of materials.

The two Italian students, Alessia and Cornelia guided by the Italian coach Mrs Palazzo,have been really enthusiastic to work in this project. Cornelia is from Romania, but she is living and studying here in Palombara for about 6 years.She likes painting and studying a lot, she speaks Romanian, English, Italian and French. Alessia is a very good student, she likes studying too.At school she is always punctual with her homework.The two Italian students have organized a visit to Palombara carrying their digital cameras, taking photos of the most important places.Alessia worked mainly on the festivities and the sagra of cherries in Palombara, while Cornelia made videos, ppt and did photos and survey of the most important places in Italy.We organized a meeting at the travel agency Asiarca, carrying handycamera and cameras to record their interview.

The Indian Team with Anurekha D, Sumita S and Deepita R shared the work amongst themselves. While Anurekha did most of the visual content with images and movie, Sumita nd Deepita worked extensivly on the content. They collected materials from available web resources and the school library. The trio also designed surveys and quiz to generate awareness of their land and people. The use of surveymonkey and hot potatoes was also noticed. The team handled video camera and digital imaging to collect images and video.