Working around the clock: London- Brazil Intercultural Online Collaboratiion

This project describes a moment or experience between two countries, Brazil and the UK sharing their skills and art through the use of social media. This sounds like an easy, collaborative project but it was difficult to implement, mainly due to reasons like timezones, communal setups, deadlines and language barriers. Initially, both sides of the collaboration were too shy and reciprocating topics were difficult. We sent the works we produced in the first term which were films, illustrations and depended on the students in Brazil to choose the topic of their interests that they could elaborate and use as a basis to create a film. After this process, being in touch was becoming hard because of the deadlines that the students in Brazil were trying to complete the project by. To make things easier we began to send small introductions of ourselves through an Application known as slack. All the communication taken place had been recorded to make a short video on the collaboratio

Project Timeline September 2018 project planning between Dr Alexandra Antonopoulou - UAL and Dr Gabriel Menotti -UFES December 2018: Dr Gabriel Menotti -UFES visits UAL and meet s give lecture to the UAL Cert.H E students November 2018 - April 2019:  Cert.H E students build archive with mater ial April 2019: Dr Alexandra Antonopoulou - UAL visits , gives lectures and introduce s the projects in UFES students April 2019 - June 2019: F inal material production and online collaborati on June 2019 : Exhibition The outcomes of the collaboration involve 1.     An archive of material produced by UAL Certificate Higher Education students https://docs.google.com/document/d/1D5kQamNNU-w8g4f9uQ6SlRCMpVQNv495gVLoaAOc9R0/edit?usp=sharing 2. Final films produced by the UFES students 3. Archive of group conversations, recorded lecturers and student and staff evaluation reports and interviews from students and staff  https://docs.google.com/document/d/164

The project is an online - blended learning collaborati on between the Certificate Higher Education students and undergraduate students from the Federal University of Espirito Santo - Department of Social Communication- Brazil. The project involves online student-led collaborative decision making , shared l ectures and experiences.   PROCESS The Certificate Higher Education shared a selection of material produced during our block one Units with the Espirito Santo students; the Espirito Santo students will use these as part of their film editing unit. Students interact online, present to each other, discuss ideas and evaluate learning. OUTCOMES The outcomes of the collaboration involve 1. An archive of ma terial produced by UAL Certificate Higher Education students 2. Final films produced b y the UFES students 3 . an archive of group conversations, recorded lecturers and student and staff evaluation reports from students and staff  4 . a selection of r