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ICT in Learning Workshop / 2nd Short-‐term Student Exchange
Desenzano del Garda, Italy 5 -‐ 9 October 2015
ICT in Learning Workshop was organized by Hacettepe University. This workshop is aimed that students using ICT to learn the three tasks of Hercules. A gamified approach was used for this purpose. Learner had a game board which includes workshop’s steps. Learners collected awards and virtual gold that performs at every step.
Each product published on Facebook group which name is SFTLOH-‐ICT in Learning. All the students and teachers had chance to see the students’ product.
The following activities were carried out:
o Group study was conducted about three labours. Groups analyzed all of the labours by using worksheets. Storyboards were drawn in each labour individualy.
o Toondoo Comic Creator workspace was introduced. Toondoo was used to create Hercules cartoon. Some examples of student’s product:
o Pixlr was introduced for creating poster. Pixlr is a photo editing tool. For using this tool layer, effects, image cropping tools, color adjustment functions were taught. Then each learner designed a poster about 4th labour. Students used their own Hercules which they produced in ToonDoo.
o Powtoon was introduced for creating an animation. For using this tool use of characters, motion effects, scene transitions were taught. Then each learner created an animation about 5th labour.
The links are:
o https://www.powtoon.com/online-‐presentation/dj6S2vs1SHT/ o https://www.powtoon.com/online-‐presentation/eEvUNIH7stW/
o https://www.powtoon.com/online-‐presentation/diKiunBMsB6/ o https://www.powtoon.com/online-‐presentation/d2Qts5M4TyB/ o https://www.powtoon.com/online-‐presentation/bj7DqF16N3V/ o https://www.powtoon.com/online-‐presentation/dqeI8b9Zbt0/ o https://www.powtoon.com/online-‐presentation/fVFXKwRTP7u/untitled3/#/
Scratch code blocks are described. First, the students practiced with small exercises. Then the game which theme 8th labor (Prepared by our team) was explained the logic of the game's algorithm. Then each learner created an animation or game by using Scratch.
The links are:
o https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/80878584/ o https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/80879630/ o https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/80880286/ o https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/80881338/ o https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/80886010/ o https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/80878104/ o https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/80877378/
Aforementioned products and syllabus of the workshop are attached.