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.

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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 :