eTwinning Learning Events 2010

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The pupils of the 5th class C from "Liviu Rebreanu" School, Mioveni Town, Romania are glad to celebrate eTwinning 5th anniversary with their school partners from all the European countries involved in their projects on different topics.


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Activities - 22nd of April

This is your last day in this Learning Lab, so no more time-consuming tasks. This is the time to think back and reflect on your own learning and evaluate this Learning lab.

1. Check that you've accomplished all your tasks.

2. Write in the reflections and evaluation FORUM (optional):

* which activity was the most interesting
* which tools seem most useful for your projects
* any other comments on this Learning event

3. Fill in the evaluation questionnaire. It'll help me and the other tutors of the Learning events to developing these events so that they better suit different teachers' needs.

4. Give your vote and reply to the survey of two questions.

5. Try the web 2.0 tools for fun. Your students will love them: learn and enjoy!

Last Instructions

To get your final certificate you will have to accomplish the assigned tasks and activities. Use the checklist below to check you've finished everything.
Checklist

1. You have written your introduction in the Forum.
2. You have rated and commented the video on the welcome page and given your vote in some of the polls.
3. You have formed a group of 2-3 participants in eTwinning Group Wiki (Wikispaces).
4. You have created your own bookmark page in Delicious or Diigo and linked it to your blog.
5. You have created your own Blog for this Learning event. You have written there a short post about this Learning event and added a picture.
6. You have created a Google calendar and linked it to your blog.
7. You have created a project plan in Google docs collaboratively with your group and published it or a link to it in your Blog.
8. You have added a link to your YouTube video or SlideShare presentation or Flickr/Picasa photos in your Blog. You've embedded one presentation or video in your blog as well.
9. You have created a mindmap (together with your group) about Web 2.0, eTwinning and collaboration.
10. You have filled in the evaluation questionnaire.
Wow, a lot of work!

If you have finished 8 of the above mentioned 10 tasks, you've earned your certifica

Tips for web tutors

The teacher's role is crucial before the actual learning process has started. It's the partner teachers' shared responsibility to schedule the learning process, choose and provide appropriate tools, set the goals and plan the procedure. After that the focus should be on the learners.

* Teacher is a guide on the path students are walking. She/he let's the students walk independently, encourages and supports, helps in crisis, but keeps distance.
* At the beginning the teachers' responsibility is bigger, but towards the end, the students should take responsibility of their own learning and of the process/project.
* When the students face problems, they should first try to solve them themselves and be involved in the problem solving process from the beginning.
* One of the most common mistakes is that the teacher/tutor talks too much and/or imposes her/his own ideas very strongly.
* In learning the process is much more important than the end product.
* Mistakes are an essential part of a learning process and often a very effective way to learn. They're nothing to be afraid of.
* When given the goal and support and appropriate tools, students usually come up with amazingly creative solutions.
* Project learning is always as much learning to learn as learning the actual subject matter.

Here we are, at the finish line

This Learning Event was structured to resemble a short and intense project with all its critical phases.
You've been collaborating, not only while making the project plans and the mindmaps, but all through this Learning Event from introductions (getting connected) to creating groups and commenting each others' blogs, bookmarks and presentations.

I think this community of learners has been fantastic. You've supported and encouraged each other and the more experienced colleagues have helped and given advice to the newbies.

Besides learning about the tools, we've all learned a lot about how to collaborate, how to work together and how to create and manage a learning project.

Those, who have fallen a bit behind, will still have one week to finish their activities. I, for sure, am going to spend a lot of time going through your blogs, bookmarks, project plans and mindmaps to learn and get ideas for new projects and Learning Events.

Web 2.0 tools for fun

Animoto - for making animated photo presentations and shows

Voki - for creating your own speaking avatar

Glogster - for making interactive posters

Sketchfu - for drawing together and sharing

Makebeliefscomix - for making your own comics

Jigsawplanet - for making your own puzzles

Wordle - for making word clouds

Smilebox - for making scrapbooks and eCards

Bitstrips - for creating comics

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Activities - 21st of April

First check the links and watch the videos and presentations to learn about the presented Web 2.0 tools. I'm not going to ask you to create a Ning learning community or create a Moodle learning environment, but that would be possible as all these tools are freely available on the web. If you wish, you can go and check one of my eTwinning/Comenius courses in moodle. Login with username: tinateacher and password: Tina'sv1s1t. The name of the project is Life across Europe. You can find the link to the students' learning environment in My courses module on the left after you've logged in. Or, you can scroll down the page and find it in Comenius/eTwinning category.

YOUR COLLABORATIVE ACTIVITY:

Write your thoughts and ideas about collaborative learning in a mindmap. Write together with your group:

1. Go to Bubbl.us and start creating a new mindmap. Save your mindmap and create an account at the same time. Invite your group members to create the mindmap together with you by clicking the Friends button on the top right hand corner.

2. Put Web 2.0 – collaboration – eTwinning as your centre concepts. As shown in the picture on the right.

3. Start adding bubbles. This is a brainstorming tool, so associate freely!

4. Use different colours for different group members or use different colours for different types of word families.

5. You could add bubbles on the following topics: goals, challenges, advantages, benefits, support, difficulties, preconditions etc.

6. When the mindmap is ready, click the Menu button at the bottom right hand corner to get embedding code. Embed your mindmap to your blog. (Copy the code, click new entry on your blog, click html/code/<>, paste the code, save.) If your mind map is very big, you can also Print screen, make a picture of your mindmap and attach the picture in your blog.

7. Or even better: upload your mindmap in the document library below (or above, as it seems to jump there against my will and intention).

Collaborative Learning on the Web

To enable collaborative learning on the web these preconditions are entailed:

* the pedagogical goal and content is clear to all participants (teachers and students) - planning
* the participants have learnt to know each other and there's a trust between the partners (teachers and students) - sharing
* there's a safe environment on the web, where direct communication and collaboration can take place

How to collaborate

It's good to remember that in an international project the participants very often communicate using a foreign language. The tasks should not require too demanding level of communication. Here are some examples of how to work together.

Learning conversations: Probably the most important way of collaborative learning and construction of knowledge. The teacher or a student writes a short introduction on a given topic or theme. The students discuss the topic sharing information, asking questions and/or solving problems. Part of this would also be commenting and giving feedback. The learning process is visible to everybody. It entails ability to communicate in foreign language (between partners).

Creating presentations collaboratively: Partners can divide work so that one partner produces a photo story, paintings, a comic strip or a video, and the other produces texts or subtitles or a report or a narration. Students can form small groups with partners from different countries and work together producing articles or presentations.

Making comparisons: Partners coming from different countries and different parts of Europe can work collaboratively by comparing different aspects of their lives. They can create Wikis consisting of pages with tables comparing weather, natural phenomena, school days and holidays, local festivals, food and eating, daily habits, history, arts, architecture etc.

Creating problems, puzzles or quizzes: Students can create quizzes dealing with history, culture, politics, flora and fauna of their own country for each other. Asking good questions or presenting a problem in an interesting way is often a lot more demanding than finding the answers.

Virtual tour: Groups of students from different countries travel together virtually. Each member of the group suggests a place to visit. They divide work: one studies interesting sights, one finds informations about hotels, camping sites etc, one studies local culture and festivals etc. Then the group members share the information they have collected.
Tools for collaborative learning:

* Creating networks and communities with groups and forums: Ning
* Wikis for working together and creating shared documents: Wikispaces
* Working together and sharing documents: Google groups
* Mindmapping: bubbl.Us; Mindomo; Freemind; Mindmeister
* Web meetings: Elluminate; Flashmeeting
* Web magazines: Magazinefactory
* Virtual learning environments (VLE): Moodle, Udutu; eTwinning Twinspace (freely available when you have found a partner and started a project). Virtual learning environments provide you with a set of tools that can be used for collaborative learning. Those usually comprise all the above mentioned tools + some more like polls and questionnaires, exams, learning journals, groups, glossaries, photo galleries etc.

Activities - 19th - 20th of April

Create an account in at least one of these Web 2.0 applications: Slideshare or YouTube. You can see the links above and watch the videos and presentations on the right for instructions. Remember that when you follow the instructions from YouTube video, you can click Pause, do the things instructed and then go on.

1. Make a short powerpoint- or pdf-presentation with 3-4 slides presenting the eTwinning project you planned with your group.
2. Upload the presentation on SlideShare just to test the tool.

OR

3. Make a short 30 sec. video. Present yourself and your eTwinning project idea. Basically, it can just be to say hello.
4. Upload the video to YouTube. You can use your digital camera or webcam to make the video.
5. Embed your video or your slideshow on your blog. (When you have uploaded the video/slideshow, copy the embedding code, click new entry on your blog, click html/code/<>, paste the code, save.)
6. Remember to go and check your group's blogs for the presentations and videos. And leave a comment. That's always fun.

EXTRA

1. If you don't yet have an account in Flickr or Picasa, register in one of them, upload photos and create an album called eTwinning Learning Lab. It can only have a couple of photos.
2. Publish the link to your Picasa or Flickr album on your blog.

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