Hello, everyone. Come in, sit down and take one of these leaflets.
Tell me, have you evjoyed your week in New York?
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Oh, yes. It's been absolutely brilliant.
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We've been sightseeing and taking photos.
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And judging by all those bags, you've been shopping, too! Well,
you've been here for a week and I know you've made lots of new
friends.
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Yes,we have.
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Next week you'll be back home in your own countries but I know
you're going to stay in touch with each other because I'm giving
you a job to do. You're going to create a website - a website
where young people all over the world will be able to talk
together and learn about each other's lives.
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Wow! That sounds amazing!
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You'll find more details in the leaflet that I've just given to
you.
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I haven't seen one yet. Where are they?
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There has never been a website like this before. It's a very
exciting project...
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Conversation 2
What do you think of these topics then?
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Well, they're all really interesting.
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They're very broad, there's loads of work you can do on all of
them.
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I hope we get science. We can look at new developments in
medicine.
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Or space travel.
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Or robots. I did a project on robots last year.
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Education's interesting. I bet schools in Kenya and Thailand are
very different from our schools.
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I wonder if other students wear uniforms like we do.
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Or if they have to do as much homework.
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What do you fancy, Holly?
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My favourite is the arts, I love dancing and music, and the
theatre.
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Traditional music and traditional dancing in other countries,
that's interesting.
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I've never been to the theatre.
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You're joking!
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No, it's true. I'm not really into all that artistic stuff.
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How about the environment?
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That's a really fascinating topic.
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Absolutely renewable energy.
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You mean wind farms and things like that?
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Saving the rainforests.
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Protecting endangered species.
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I'd love to get that topic.
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That's easily the best for me too.
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Well, Professor Brown is going to decide who does what.
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Yes. So, we'll just have to wait and see.
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And keep our fingers crossed.
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Reading
The WWW project
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Science - Art - Education - Environment
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Introducing the project...
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You're going to create a young people's website with a worldwide
perspective.
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Your task is to present your thoughts and ideas about the four
subject areas, their role in your lives, now and in the future.
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You can include texts, photos, video,sound pictures, interviews,
monologues - whatever you choose.
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When the website goes live, young people around the world will be
able to access the material, respond to it and add it.
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The website will grow from what you start.
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Pairs of teams will create each subject area.
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You'll be assigned your area and your partner team in our first
session.
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You can ask other teams for their views and information to help yu
develop your area and other teams will ask you to send information
to them.
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This leaflet gives you advice about good working practices that
you should try to use during the project.
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Team leaders - important people!
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You have already shown that you can work as a team.
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When you were doing your town project,it was easy to meet up and
co-ordinate your work.
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Now there will be eight of you working together and you could be
on different sides of ther world.
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Team leaders must play an essential role in project co-ordination.
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Only team leaders should request information from another team.
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Requests from different team members for similar information could
cause confusion and extra work.
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Make sure you copy your leader into emails that you send so that
he or she knows what is going on.
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It's a good idea to hold regular review meetings and team leaders
should organise these.
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Working with your partner team
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You'll have just one day in New York for discussion and planning -
so make the most of it.
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Plan thoroughly. Don't be afraid to change your plan later if it's
not working out but do discuss it and do be aware of deadlines.
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At a certain point, it will be too late to make changes and you
will have to stick with what you've got.
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Make sure you discuss the best ways of keeping in contact so you
can go on developing your ideas for your part of the website.
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If you hold a video or phone conference, try to be there as a
group so you all share in ideas and problem-solving.
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Time zones
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Remember that you all live in different parts of the world and in
different time zones.
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Here's a chart that you can use to find out what time it is for
the other teams.
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Use an appropriate form of contact at the right time - don't phone
another team when it's the middle of their night.
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What a nuisance! He's not answering.
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Help is at hand
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Your project supervisor will monitor your progress and give you
help and advice if you encounter difficulties or fall behind.
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Technical support is available from Georgi and the other design
and maintenance staff of the project website.
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Remember to back everything up. You can't have too many copies of
something, but you can have too few...
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You have been making copies of everything, haven't you...?
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Handy hints box
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Do share information with your team - this is a group project.
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Don't go off doing your own thing - it's all about teamwork.
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Do try to respond to requests from other teams promptly. If you
can't, contact them and fix a deadline that you can really make.
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Don't make changes to plans without talking to your partner team
first.
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Do speak to your project supervisor if find the workload too much
- we're all here to help.
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Don't panic - there's solution to every problem.
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Do enjoy it - make friends, make discoveries, have fun!
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Good luck! You have several months to complete the work and then
it will take several weeks to set up the website.
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When the website is launched, all the material you have created
will be accessible all around the world!
