Our eZoomBook

workshop: a

blended-learning

approach

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“Nearly half of 17-year-olds say they read for pleasure no more than one

or two times a year — if that.” Common

Sense Media

http://middleearthnj.wordpress.com/2012/04/09/encourage-teens-to-read/

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Why aren't teens getting any pleasure

out of reading?

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Serious

readers

Serious readers are willing to invest intellectually and creatively in a work in order to be changed and learn something …

about themselves,

about the world and

about their place in the world

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Chris De Marco and Chris Evain,

TEDx Ecole Centrale Nantes, posted in 2014

“eZoomBook” objective to promote

“serious reading” on printed books

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“BRIO”students:

equal opportunity program

“BRIO” is the acronym for BRIO “fais un Bond pour la

Réussite par l’Initiative et l’Ouverture”: “succeed through

taking initiative and achieving openness and it aims at

encouraging diversity and ambition”

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Blended-learning

Face-to-face classroom work is

combined with computer-mediated

activities

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Features a range of functionalities enabling users to

create enriched documents, select quotes,

write up summary lines and produce a

multiple-scale document called eZoomBooks,

an “elegant” facebook-like organization for

the forming of groups,

a user-friendly publishing and distribution

system,

a range of collaborative tools (for the sharing

of documents)

multiple connections to given databases

(private and public resources)

multiple libraries of crowd-sourced

eZoomBooks

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Feedback Questionnaire

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0,0% 20,0% 40,0% 60,0% 80,0% 100,0%

Reading the book in English

Working on the vocabulary

Selecting and discussing the quotes

Putting together the eZoomBook quotes andsummary

Making a podcast

8 minute presentation of the chapter

Concerning the articulation of the workshop, which

activities did you find interesting? (tick 0 to 3 answers)

1st Choice: Reading the book in English

2nd Choice: Vocab and podcast

3rd Choice: all the others

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Research blog:

ezoombookresearch.com/blog/

Platform:

ezoombook.com

Thank you!

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