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Project Plan. Final activity.

After all the information given and the feedback got from some colleagues, I'll try to describe a project plan, starting from the previous draft and improving it. Title: Cooking in the Lab Number of participants: 2 Age of students: 12-14 Length: a quarter (3 months), agreed among the partners Language: English School subjects: Chemistry, Maths, Foreign Language (English), ICT. Objectives: Improve English skills Learn about concepts as matter, volume, mass, density, solutions. Learn how to measure them, their units and material needed. Collaboration Use ICT tools Project description: Students of each school work in groups of 3-4. Total number of students of each class, between 15-20. Each group choose or create a recipe. Choose a way (written, video, animation...) to share this recipe with one group from the other country/school. The second group has to follow the instructions in order to reproduce the recipe, write their observations, questions... an...
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A collaborative activity

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First of all, I have updated my draft with the feedback of my colleagues. I know that this way of presentation is not the best, I would like to change it, but for now I don't have enough time, as most of my colleagues, since we are starting the end of our school year. https://cacoo.com/diagrams/xAIZHX5bAWY4xd8r And now, I would like to explain to you one of the collaborative activities that I would like to include in my project. In this case, I would describe the final activity. It will consist in an ebook where the students collect all the recipes generated in the previous part of the project. How it will work? The previous part of the project has been realised with groups of students from the same school, in order to choose one typical recipe from their country and share to the others students. The final activity will be developed by groups of students formed by mixed students from the different schools, for example, if there are 2 schools implicated, the group will b...
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My project draft

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I have been thinking for a long time how I could combine some content of the Chemistry curricula with a collaborative project. In this course, and with all its resources, I have had an idea. I'll show you it in the next diagram: I know that more details are needed, but I would like to know it you think it could work. I'm sure that I will improve it with all your suggestions. Hope you like it!!
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Interesting tools to prepare a project draft

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When you start planning and sketching out a collaborative project. Four Steps for Jumpstarting Global-Collaboration Projects , four easy steps if you feel unsure about implementing collaboration in your classroom. Global Virtual Classroom , a collection of free, online educational activities and resources. Teacher's Guide to International Collaboration on the Internet , materials prepared by the U.S. Department of Education. Edutopia , a website and community to encourage educational innovation, published by the George Lucas Educational Foundation. Voicethread 4 Education , collaborative projects and activities using Voicethread Kidlink , resources and international projects inside the Kidlink network. Quality Criteria in eTwinning , a guide to what a collaborative project should be aiming at. Content of the project draft
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Innovative experiences

Checking the projects and resources in the MOOC list.ly , I have found some interesting projects that fits my needs: 1. Science Project - ITEC . In this projects, students prepare their own material to teach and learn scientific concepts, and this material is shared to others students. This could be a good idea to engage students. 2. NANOYOU (Nano for Youth). This project tries to bring nanotechnology closer to youth. It offers severals resources that can help to teach some scientific concepts and, at the same time, it can show the students the challenges of this new discipline. 3. Science Kids. Here you can find some interesting games, experiments, videos... of different scientific fields that allow you to engage young students. Some of the material is perfect to perform at home. It would be perfect to find a way to combine all this, but I find it difficult when you have to follow a close curriculum that doesn't let you much "free" time to test new things. On ...
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Analysing my teaching

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  self-analysis of your teaching practice  to detect some key items that you would like to improve or where you would like to experiment.
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Starting Open eTwinning INTEF 2017

It just started yesterday, but I already can say that this MOOC seems to be really interesting and useful. For a long time I have heard about eTwinning, its projects and collaborations, how it can help to engage students and open their minds to other cultures. But I haven't had the chance to involve my self till now. For the time being, I have learnt about some ICT tools as www.powtoon.com and www.pixton.com . Here I leave you my presentation made by powtoon. Last but not least, I have seen that I'm not the only one with no experience in eTwinning, there are other mates in the same situation, and the most important thing that we have in common is that we are really keen on learning and helping each other.
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