ICT resources employed:

·        Search engines

·        FTP service

·        Directories

·        CD-ROMs

·        Email

·        Specific web resources

·        Application software to build the necessary files (texts, pictures, presentations, worksheets, hypertexts, sounds, web pages, etc.)

·        Forums

·        Internet tools

·        Chats

Outcomes:

·        Printed handouts to be used as study materials or as sources of information to be successively inserted in the students’ final products (hypertext, letter, webpage, written assignment, oral presentation, etc.)

·        Letters

·        Messages

·        Texts

·        Hypermedia

·        Web pages

·        Slide presentations

·        Oral reports

·        Debates

·        Articles

·        Posters

·        Written assignments (descriptions, narrative texts, argumentative texts)

·        Oral interviews

·        Videos

Language skills involved:

·        Skimming texts and online materials in order to evaluate them and choose the ones suitable for the pre-fixed purpose and the given task

·        Scanning in order to find specific needed information

·        Analytical reading in order to completely understand a text/page

·        Speaking, in brainstorming activities preceding the research in order to find the suitable key words and set a productive research,  in presenting the materials found, in discussing about the information found, in designing and carrying out a final product, in negotiating work with a partner inside the class or at a distance, and in presenting the final work

·        Writing, in taking notes, summarising and commenting the materials found, in producing letters, messages, assignments and the written parts of hypermedia

·        Listening during the class discussion and in comprehending the CD-ROM and Internet materials presented in sound format.

Cognitive skills involved:

·        Finding key words relative to a topic to be researched

·        Making mind maps

·        Discriminating the materials found according to one’s own goals

·        Taking notes

·        Finding the key points of a source of information

·        Summarising texts and/or whole sources of information

·        Comparing sources

·        Evaluating sources (origin, reliability, relevance, etc)

·        Planning one’s own work in order to accomplish a task and/or create a final product

·        Transferring the information found in the sources used and  personal ideas in an original communicative ‘product’ (hypertext, letter, web page, written assignment, oral presentation, etc) with specific characteristics

Relational skills involved:

·        Collaborating with teachers

·        Collaborating with classmates

·        Collaborating with distant partners

·        Negotiating and mediating with partners in order to produce a common final work

·        Respecting deadlines