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The wild animal project is the result of collaboration between two primary schools. The pupils are between 8 and 10 years old. Pupils began their collaboration by introducing themselves to each other in groups, using Moodle forums. Curricular work started with the construction of a scary story where one school created the outline of a story and the other school then developed the ideas into a fully developed narrative, with character names chosen from the pupils in both schools. The teachers were sufficiently confident about the value of the joint work that they moved from story telling to a project which involved information gathering about wild animals. One of the teachers explained their work programme as follows: For the wild animal project, at the moment the groups are researching two animals and working on the same wiki pages. Generally, when adding information to the wikis (since we are working on the same pages) one school writes in black and the other in blue but we sometimes forget!! Each group used a different background colour for their wikis and also tried to remember to use different font colour for the input of each school. The wikis were of a very high standard and a fine example of collaboration between groups, as illustrated. The wild animal project |