Thursday, 6 December 2018
5.5 Reviews for my Project Plan
Review made By Berna ÖZKUL date 05-12-2018 23:27
https://learningportfoliooffiliz.blogspot.com/2018/12/module-55-collaborative-project-plan.html
- CommentsIn your project collaboration and innovation is important and that is what we have to do.In the activities part students build up a common activity and you also design a class activity..That's also good.ICT tools are also used effectively
Review made By maria silvia maltese date 05-12-2018 23:54
Review made By Наташа Миљановић date 06-12-2018 09:45
Wednesday, 5 December 2018
Module 5.5 Collaborative Project Plan
ENGLISH IS MY THING
SHORT SUMMARY
In today's world, one of the most common challenge is to teach and learn English. Students can not learn easily with classical methods. With teacher-centered and coursebook-centered methods,they remain silent and can't produce.ın this project,we will create Project-Based activities to teach four main skills- reading,listening,speaking,writing. We will use communicative,collaborative,creative methods in each activities and fullfill them with digital skills. We will use'Cultural Heritage' as a topic in our activities. This project will involve 15/16 year-old students from 5 different schools.GOALS
*To search,learn,create, try and share effective methods in teaching English
*To improve PBL in English classes
*To make students and teachers communicate,collaborate and create
*To raise the awareness about Cultural Heritage of own and other countries
*To improve the English level of students
*To improve PBL in English classes
*To make students and teachers communicate,collaborate and create
*To raise the awareness about Cultural Heritage of own and other countries
*To improve the English level of students
*To improve students' ICT skills
1. Introducing our schools
a.
Showing the schools on zeemap
b.
Preparing a Google Earth Narrated Tour to show the
environment of our schools( a tutorial will be shared on the page to teach how
to do it.)
c.
Preparing and sharing a short video to introduce
our schools
2. Choosing our Logo
a.
Setting a competition to select the best logo
for our Project
b.
Voting the logos by using an app such as padlet,
Google forms …etc.
3. Break the Ice
a.
Students will edit their profiles in Twinspace
b.
They will introduce themselves by using
different ways like videos,posters or presentations via various apps.
c.
They will all share works on padlet and vote
stars and comment on eachother.
4. What do you like most in English classes?
a.
A survey-about effective and fun activities in
English lessons- will be prepared by the teachers collaboratively on Google docs
b.
It will be done by 50 students from each school
c.
The results will be shared on twinspace
d.
International groups will be formed in twinspace
(in forum part) . They will discuss the results and prepare a poster to show
the results
5. Let’s Listen
a.
As teachers, we will decide on a topic related
to ‘Cultural Heritage’ and find a listening task about it.
b.
Do listening activities in a collaborative way(
We can set a Skype meeting or live meeting on twinspace and one of the teachers
read the text and others do the activities.)
c.
Then, students will be given a task to do in
international groups (discuss the topic in the listening task , tell what is it
like in their countries….)
d.
A mini survey will be given to see the
effectiveness of the first activities
6. Let’s Read
a.
Every country will send a reading text and
activities to eachother about the theme(It
will consist of a cultural challenge or
problem) Aloud reading will be videod and shared on Twinspace
b.
After the activities, international groups will
find a solution or suggestions to this problem
c.
A mini survey will be given to see the
effectiveness of the first activities
7. Let’s Write
a.
International groups will be given the beginning
of a story about Cultural Heritage. They will be asked to complete it in a
collaborative way.
b.
They will illustrate it by using an app like
story jumper…..
c.
Groups will change the stories and they will
write a poem for the story.
d.
A mini survey will be given to see the
effectiveness of the first activities
8. Let’s Speak
a.
The students will discuss about a topic given in
the forum then we will set a live chat to do a debate on the topic.
b.
Students will do interviews about this topic in
their school to improve speaking
c.
A mini survey will be given to see the
effectiveness of the first activities
9. Create your own Lesson
a.
Each group will prepare a lesson plan on the
topic they are given
b.
They will select one of the plans and implement
it in their classes/or any class at school or all together live.
c.
They will evaluate it via forum discussions.
Evaluation and Dissemination ( EXPECTED RESULTS)
-A final survey will be set to see the
effectiveness of all activities.
- The teachers will prepare a portfolio of lesson
plans together (and e-book)
- A poster will be prepared to show the effective
Project Based activities (according to the survey results)
- These e book and poster will be shared on
educational platforms
Tuesday, 27 November 2018
4.4 Designing an ICT Activity for my eTwinning Project
ADAM'S STORY
( Creative Writing Activity to improve English with fun)
Aims1. To improve writing skills in English
2. Creating a PB lesson plan
3. Fostering collaboration between students and teachers
4. Using ICT for collaboration
5. To know more about cultural heritage and respect eachother's culture
1. We will make international groups of 5-6 in Google Docs and share it in Twinspace.
2. We will give them the beginning of a story of Adam (The story is about a man who is travelling the world to find the most valuable cultural object.)
3. In "TRICIDER" tool, we will create a page for each group to disscuss their ideas to complete the story. The students will be given a deadline to decide on their ending.
4. In "Storyjumper" The groups will complete their stories. There will be rules for the groups for task sharing to make all contibute to the task.
5.After completing the stories, they will share the stories.As teachers, we will make them exchange the stories. Groups will write a poem for the story they are given. They will add it at the end of the story.
6. We will make them exchange the stories again and the groups will create a "Google Earth Narrated Tour" for the points Adam visited in the story to see the cultural heritage points.( we will publish a tutorial to teach them how to create a tour. It is so easy.)
6. Then, we will share the story links in Twinspace.
7. We will add this writing activity to our Lesson Plan Portfolio.
4.4 Golden Rules
Golden rules for successful eTwinning collaboration
In any good task or project, there must be rules to follow and fulfill to guarantee its success. Next, we list nine golden rules that will ensure the success of your eTwinning collaborative project.
- Get to know your partners: share with your partners all the necessary information, such as the number of students participating in the project, your students’ age and interests, your students’ level in foreign languages and their ICT skills.
- Create a detailed time schedule: set the starting dates for each task, mark the dates when one of the partner schools is on holidays, share it with your students, set deadlines and respect them.
- Preparatory planning leads to a successful eTwinning project: plan a meeting, introduce the project to the children and inform the parents, the colleagues and the headteacher about the specific project; add more teachers from your school to the project and form school teams; announce the beginning of the project on the school website; create Twinspace accounts for all the participants, and invite students to the Twinspace; organise mini-courses for your students on ICT tools to be used, and on how to use the Twinspace; create Twinspace tutorials for students or partners who are beginners in eTwinning (if necessary).
- Design your Twinspace carefully: create activity pages for each one of the planned tasks, add a short description for each one of the activities planned at the top of each activity page, agree with your partners about the most suitable tools for each one of the activities, and add them to your activity pages.
- Break the ice and get to know each other: have students interact as much as possible, ask them to update their Twinspace profiles by adding a short description of themselves, and a representative avatar. Ask them to leave comments on their partners’ walls, and to vote for the best Twinspace profiles. Plan chat sessions and skype meetings regularly. Find creative ways to have your students introduce themselves and their school or country.
- Team your students up in Transnational Groups: team students up in transnational groups, create a table with the newly formed transnational groups and add it to the Twinspace. Ask your students to work together and write a short description of their group members. Ask your students to also agree upon a name for their group and draw together a symbol or an emblem for each group.
- Plan as many collaborative activities as possible: try to plan activities that need your partners’ contribution to be completed. Use as many collaborative tools as possible (Google suite, DrawitLive, Glogster, etc.). Try to avoid creating folders for each country in Twinspace (successful collaborative activities are the ones in which you cannot tell which of the partners did what!).
- Assign responsibilities to your students: discover your students’ talents and skills and give them responsibilities. Team the students up in groups, according to their talents (the painting group, the photography group, the ICT group, etc.), and assign to some students the role of "student administrator" in Twinspace.
- Set Evaluation Criteria: try to evaluate the quality of your project along with your partners. Recognize Key Strengths, and identify areas that need improvement. Plan ongoing evaluation activities (share opinions, make proposals, comment on each other’s work).
These golden rules will make an eTwinning project a successful experience, since they promote collaboration between partners, PBL methodology and the change of role of the teacher and students. Remember that it is important to clearly indicate to the students what they have to do, how they must do it and when they have to do it, designing the phases of the activity very clearly. This will facilitate their autonomy and the development of skills. In these new processes, we must emphasize the fact that we have to facilitate and provide opportunities for the students to work as a team, both among them, in the classroom, and with their distant partners.
Module 4 Collaboration in eTwinning
4.2 Collaborative Working
Here is my last collaborative activity in my English Classes:
Here is my last collaborative activity in my English Classes:
I'm an English teacher. I have implemented a collaborative writing activity today. We had the beginning of a story in the coursebook. Our task was to complete the story in an imaginative way. I have divided students into groups of 5. (Team rules: Choose a writer, discuss and decide on an end together. While the sts. are writing the story, one-maybe a weak one- will think of a heading) Within a time limit, they finished their stories. Then, we exchanged the stories. They illustrated the the other group's story in a funny way. Later, we exchanged the papers again. And this time, they wote a poem(a stanza) about the story. It was a real fun. This way, all the groups collaborated on eachother's story. Maybe , we can do the same in eTwinning projects :)
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