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Lsl webinar collaborative tools11 28-13
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Collaborative
Tools
Webinar 11-28-13
Geroskipou A’ Primary School -
Cyprus
Webquests with Weebly
A webquest is an online inquiry based learning structure. All tasks are
designed and developed online.
What we do:
- We design webquests about topics from the curriculum.
- We apply cross-curricular approach (many subjects & many teachers
involved - whole school approach).
- We embed many ICT tools in our webquests.
- Allow room for students to design their own learning or for other students.
Geroskipou A’ Primary School -
Cyprus
Replicable steps we made- Found a topic that could be approached cross curricularly.
- The topic needed to be inspiring for many teachers in order to get involved :)
- Run seminars within the schools to train on the use of weebly (website design & development
online tool).
- Formed a team of teachers.
- Found the age level of the students. Divided the students into groups. Assigned roles.
- Divided the topic in different thematic categories.
- Each teacher designed the part of the webquest corresponding to one thematic category
he/she was in charge of.
- Students were the designers of some thematic categories.
- Launched the lesson with the students were the teacher was the facilitator and the students
worked in groups around the laptop.
Our
webqu
est!
Geroskipou A’ Primary School -
Cyprus
Tools we learned and used (sample)
www.weebly.com
www.voki.com
www.glogster.com (create multimodal
presentations)
www.zooburst.com (create digital 3D pop-up books)
www.flash-gear.com (online puzzle)
www.drive.google.com (upload and download files
and folders)
www.wordle.com and www.tagxedo.com (create
word clouds)
www.englishgreekdictionary.net (Greek / English
online dictionary)
Forum (read and write comments - powered by
www.weebly.com)
Online survey (powered by www.weebly.com)
www.charts.hohli.com (create bar charts and pie
charts)
www.piktochart.com (create a poster)
www.onemotion.com (paint)
www.blaberize.com (turn still images into animated
talking objects)
www.prezi.com (create impressive presentations)
Photostory (create video clips)
Windows movie maker, imovie
Hot Potatoes
www.drive.google.com (download and upload files and
folders - sharing)
Geroskipou A’ Primary School - Cyprus
Our biggest challenges- Find time for the teachers to prepare all these resources.
Devoting their free time.
- Find time for teacher training relevant to this project.
- Find time for the group of teachers working on this
project to meet at the school. Good excuse to arrange
afternoon meetings for coffee :)
- Technological equipment of the school: Limited numbers
of laptops etc.
Geroskipou A’ Primary School -
Cyprus
3 Key questions we ask- How can ICT promote collaborative learning?
- How can we innovatively apply technology enhanced collaborative learning with our students?
- How do students from their perspective perceive the efforts done for the LSL? What did they learn / like?
Video of this
project -
School visit
Klaipeda Simon Dach
progymnasiumCollaborative tools we are using
in our schoolE-Diary “Tamo” for all
classes
Edmodo for iPad classroom
Web 2.0 tools
Klaipeda Simon Dach
progymnasium
3 steps we are working on:
• We began by giving all of our teachers possibility to apply interactive whiteboards in learning
process
• We had organised training for all of the staff
• We paid for four of our teachers to have extra training and
to become lead trainers
Our biggest challenge islack of resources in our student basket for computer hardware,
software, and teachers CPD
3 key questions we are asking:• How to bring ICT closer to modern pedagogy
• How to personalise learning by using ICT in effective way
• How to use tablets in better way to improve learning results
Class outside the Classroom with
Edmodo
Features of Edmodo www.edmodo.com
´Collaboration: secure chat – student/student or student/teacher
´Group Discussion
´Instructional Materials (documents, videos, web links, etc.)
´Turn in Assignments
´Individual Classes with Secure Codes
´Post Grades
´Poll Students
´Create Quizzes and Show Results
LP2I - FranceSharing Methods - Clouds and QR-codes
3 steps we are working on:
• Teachers teamwork on collaborative
learning
• Creation of courses on collaborative tools
• Experiments in class, gathering evidence
LP2I - FranceSharing Methods - Clouds and QR-codes
3 key questions we are asking:
• How (and why) tablets in a cloud-based digital
environment can improve collaborative work : In
classroom ? In our projects ?
• What tool (platform/app/software) can facilitate
collaborations if need be ?
• Specific educational platform (e.g. Estream, Learning
Spaces, e-books...) or Real life tools ? (youtube,
Facebook,...) Our biggest challenge isHaving the whole teacher staff experimenting with tablets and sharing their experiments on our Living Cloud
project blog (first sharing scale in our LSL participation process).
LP2I - FranceSharing Methods - Clouds and QR-codes
• Looking for clouds…
Standard digital workspaces vs
Dropbox vs Google drive vs…
Video : Collaborative slideshow
using Dropbox
LP2I - FranceSharing Methods - Clouds and QR-codes
• Share instantly,
spread the discovery
Share an interesting webpage, quickly
invite to a google doc !
Video : Instant webpage sharing with QR-
codes
A web-based QR-code generator
A good QR-code tool for computers :
Quickmark (youtube video)
LP2I - FranceSupporting groupwork with Socrative
● A student
response
system
● Helps the students assign tasks
and objectives in project based
learning with the right questions
●
● Develops autonomy
Collaborative tools in
Kaunas ‘Varpelis’ Primary School
We use:
Web 2.0 for collaboration with pupils at
school level and with our partners
E-register for collaboration with
parents and giving information for them
Google docs and websites for sharing useful information among the colleagues
http://kolega-kolegai.jimdo.com/
Steps we are working on:
Our school has created two platforms:
’ Teacher to Teacher’ for teachers to share their experience
and best practise examples made with Web 2.0 and other tools.
http://kolega-kolegai.jimdo.com/
‘Friend to Friend’ will be for pupils to present their
best works created with Web 2.0 and other tools.
http://varpelis.jimdo.com/
Application of Active Vote System for classroom
and extracurricular activities.
Collaborative tools in
Kaunas ‘Varpelis’ Primary School
Our biggest challenge is
Finding the most suitable tools and using them
for collaboration with our partners of Whizz Kids
academy at the national level.
3 key questions we are asking:
How to use ICT appropriately for effective learning?
How can ICT help individualize learning?
How can ICT benefit our students?
Collaborative tools in
Kaunas ‘Varpelis’ Primary School
Class DojoClass Dojo is an online behaviour management system for teachers.
Collaboration among teachers, parents and students.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gl4Sslf4kko
Improve behaviour
Improve specific student behaviors and engagement
by awarding and recording real-time feedback.
Share data
Print or email beautiful behavior reports to easily engage
parents and staff.
Save time
Save time by recording behaviors and accomplishments
right in class, with just one click: NO extra data entry
required.
Why not Collaborate on Collaborative tools ?
;-)
A padlet wallpaper on collaborative tools :