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STUDY VISIT 2013ICT, e-learning and internet for creating a social network where students and teachers can meet

Ľuboslava VaškováGymnázium Jána Adama Raymana

Prešov

ContentOpen class presentationPresentation of eu projectsIdeas from participants of the study visitCLIL method

Open classThe new e-learning platform

www.openclass.com

HOW DOES IT WORK?The e-learning platform Open Class, is a

networking learning environment that works on two levels:

it gives the teacher the possibility to integrate educational classroom activity with learning activities that exploit the educational potential of new technologies;

it offers students the opportunity to conduct studies in a more exciting and interesting way, even collaborating directly on the network.

THE BENEFITSTEACHERS

Introduce strategies for individualized learning.

Enhance and enrich the pathways created during lectures.

Carry out group activities, through didactic-oriented networking

sheets.

Use an advanced method of learning assessment.

THE BENEFITSSTUDENTS

Achievement in class group activities: participate in an active way during

learning assessment.

Revise or consolidate certain goals.

Meet and interact with classmates in networking activities.

Interact in a more functional way with the teacher.

WHY OPEN CLASS?Teaching takes place in an environment that reproduces

the real classroom through the network.

The teacher can create, quickly and easily, a virtual classrom and register their students, sending them nickname and password generated by the system.

Teachers can create, with parallel or vertical classes, inter-class groups and at the same time, they can create or join a Learning Circle or an inter-class formed with classes that may belong either to their scholl or to other schools, even geographically distant, therefore creating an educational project.

TOOLS„Programming area“, in which the teacher

can create schemas and documents (programming, report) using predefined papers. The documents can be made at an individual level or a collegial one, as class team.

Personal archives, personal drawer.Class library or school library.Gallery.Notice-board, agenda, faq, chat, forum.Internal messaging system.

THE EDUCATIONAL ITINERARYThe Educational itinerary: is the file containing class

activities.It is a planned unit which can produce the form that

best matches the needs and educational objectives of the teacher.

Within this file, the teacher has the opportunity to build a training schedule with its fundamental aspects: objectives, study activities, test and evaluation.

Content can be built from scratch by the teacher (with the appropriate integrated multimedia software) or can be constructed from existing activities already on file.

STUDY ACTIVITIESIndividual study activities, carried out

individually by each student. Teachers can use didactic sheets for this activity; they can be:

read-on cards with maps, grids, tables, etc.gap fills, guided exercises in which students

develop interactive sections;tests, and self assessment tests, structured or

not;self assessment questionnaires.

STUDY ACTIVITIESTo carry out group activities, Open Class offers

above all a shared digital whiteboard, on which the members of the group can develop shared files; it enables to create an effective mode of collaboration and cooperation.

For the planning and implementation of the activity, the teacher has a broad set of teaching cards:information sheets;interactive cards;creative cards;cards- orienting teamwork;

ASSESSMENTTHE TEACHER CAN DESIGN AND IMPLEMENT:

Structured assessment tests with automatic correction with a wide range of items: true/false questions, single or multiple choice, ordering, classification, serialization, etc.

Semi-structured tests;Open tests, such as short essays and compositions.

After the completion of tests, the system gives the teacher a summary and detailed analysis on the performance of the test, as a class group as well as each individual student.

GROUPS – LEARNING CIRCLEA special feature allows the teachers to establish

different types of student groups such as: level groups, recovery groups, enhancement, etc.

The creation of groups, of course, gives the teacherr the ability to assign and reverse a specific group or specific study activities, to be used collectively or individually.

Teacher can create, with parralel or vertical classes, inter-class groups to better finalize and/or differentiate their teaching action.

Each teacher can create or join a Learning Circle, or an inter-class formed with classes that may belong either to their school or to other schools, even geografically distant, creating so an educational project.

Source: the presentation was presented at Pegaso – Universitá Telematica in Naples

(24.10.2013)

Links to some interesting projects presented by the host organization in Italy

http://www.magic-flights-projects.eu/  http://www.comenius-games.eu/  http://www.moodlando.it/ - example of

Moodle platform http://www.earth-awe-comenius.eu/  http://www.comenius-way.eu/

CLIL http://www.clil-projects.eu/

Videos to heighten attention and facilitate learning and CLIL teaching.

In particular,  the videos will help both the non-English teachers who do not feel comfortable with their own language skills and the English teachers who are not educated in subject matters different from English.

In any case videos may be a great visual help in communicating  contents that are rather difficult to understand if only textually described.

Subtitles will also help comprehension. The speaker in the videos is usually a cartoon and this makes the Learning Object very agreeable to students.

Each specific topic is explained not only through videos but also supported by other online activities  like multiple-choice quizzes, crossword puzzles and games.

Lingo educationA program to help students with

understanding words and context in English text they read.

It also comes with flashcards and exercises that they have in Hungary.

It is free to sign up as an individual until the end of 2013.

One can contact Judith in case of interestjudit.magyar@uni-corvinus.hu

https://teacher.lingoeducation.com/class/details/70

Dropbox www.dropbox.com Dropbox is a free service that lets you bring

your photos, docs, and videos anywhere and share them easily. Never email yourself a file again!

SuggestionsCreate a platform for PK ANJ (English

language department at GJAR)Use dropbox for sharing materials between

teachersUse the platform to create a social network

where teachers and students can meet

Thank you for your attention!