Connecting Classrooms – Fostering Creativity#rpTHE

Στις 27 Σεπτεμβρίου, 2017 από τον/την Sophia Kouzouli, Education Advisor

I had the honour to make a presentation about the integration of web tools in our teaching practices: Digital Tools: Connecting Classrooms – Fostering Creativity at the RE:PUBLICA 2017 RECONNECTING EUROPE at Thessaloniki . It is undoudtedly the Most Inspiring Festival for the Digital Society.

The presenation was held at the Breakout Area, 11.09.2017 →19:15 – 19:45 in the Research & Education session. http://archiv-eu17.re-publica.com/de/session/digital-tools-connecting-classrooms-fostering-creativity

You can also visit http://archiv-eu17.re-publica.com/de/member/13275 to know more about re:publica

#rpTHE

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eTwinning: connecting classrooms

Στις 2 Αυγούστου, 2017 από τον/την Sophia Kouzouli, Education Advisor

My paper  « eTwinning: connecting classrooms and fostering creativity.» is included in the 7th newsletter of the eTwinning Visibility Group ISSN 2247-6881 – ISSN L 2247-6881, which was published on August 2nd, 2017.

https://joom.ag/4MeL

The newsletter promotes the objectives and activities of eTwinning, provides a platform for writers in the eTwinning community and beyond, offers an open forum for eTwinning teachers to share their opinions, encourages professional development, keep them up-to-date, helps build feelings of collegiality and sustains professional motivation.

Daniela Bunea, thank you for connecting teachers and helping us share teaching practices!!

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“Story Feast” fostering creativity

Στις 2 Ιουλίου, 2017 από τον/την Sophia Kouzouli, Education Advisor

“Story Feast”

https://twinspace.etwinning.net/25390, the 5th graders of 1st Primary School of Pyrgos in collaboration with the students of a Czech and a Polish school did this project from Dec to June 2017.

Solving Riddles

Students of all schools, in pairs or in groups of three, decided on the book or film whose plot they would like to use for their riddles. They wrote a very short summary without revealing the name of the story but using keywords to help their partners from the other schools find the answer. They used voki to make their riddles. They selected an avatar, customized it, wrote their summary, added a background, published it and then shared their story. Their peers watched the presentations, listened to the avatar and then wrote their answers on twinspace. Students were so attracted to it that they even made their own Vokis at home!

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Playing Online Games

Students of the partner schools made their own online games to play with their peers. The focus of the games was to help them practice vocabulary and grammar while cooperating and having fun. They solved a crossword and played hangman, who wants to be a millionaire and a matching game, all of which were created with LearningApps.org. Students also played two Kahoot games, on vocabulary and the use of present simple and present continuous.

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Reflecting and evaluating

Students reflected on their work and answered a questionnaire which was created with the online application EasyPolls at http://www.easypolls.net/poll.html?p=5926d2a1e4b027b19716427e. In this way both teachers and students became more aware of the collaborative process of the project, the products and their preferences.

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Κατηγορίες: Art, eTwinning, Europe, TEACHERS4EUROPE | Γράψτε σχόλιο

Vitamin Magic

Στις 30 Ιουνίου, 2017 από τον/την Sophia Kouzouli, Education Advisor

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Vitamin M(agic)”, https://twinspace.etwinning.net/25904, was carried out by the 4th graders, D1 and D2 class,  in collaboration with students from Portugal, Turkey, Romania, France, Lithuania and Iceland.

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Have students found the potion for Vitamin Magic, the vitamin of creativity?

 

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Have a look at our project to find out!

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Κατηγορίες: Art, Education, eTwinning, Europe | Ετικέτες: | Γράψτε σχόλιο

re:connecting EUROPE

Στις 6 Ιουνίου, 2017 από τον/την Sophia Kouzouli, Education Advisor

re:connecting EUROPE Space at this years’ re:publica in Berlin, from 8 to 10 May 2017 was an extraordinary experience.

re:publica is one of the largest and most exciting conferences about digital culture in the world. Since its foundation in 2007, it has grown from a cozy blogger meeting into a wide-ranging “society conference”.

Representatives of digital culture share their knowledge and decision-making tools, and discuss the future of the information society. Here they can mingle with activists, scientists, hackers, entrepreneurs, NGOs, journalists, social media and marketing experts, and many others. This fosters innovation and creates synergies between net politics, online marketing, network technology, digital society, and (pop) culture.

The 2017 edition in Berlin was far more exciting. More than 9.000 participants, 1030 international speakers from 65 countries who made up the 500 hour-long program. This is the highest number of visitors so far, making 2017 another record-setting year for re:publica. Young and old alike were represented on re:publica‘s 20 stages.

Amazing interactions between wonderfully interesting people, talking about tolerance, diversity, freedom, empathy, education and science in our digital society

 

 

 

 

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re:publica 17, Visions for #rpEUROPE

Στις 3 Μαΐου, 2017 από τον/την Sophia Kouzouli, Education Advisor

So happy to be able to  attend a truly amazing event that will take place next week in Berlin!

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I tweeted my vision of a digital Europe using the #rpEUROPE hashtag on April 19th, 2017:

“Digital Europe can help us meet the challenges of life #rpEUROPE“— Sophia (@sophiakouz) and I am one of the two Greek people who won the  #rpEUROPE prize draw and  can participate in this great event thanks to their kind offer to give away tickets, including flight expenses.

I am very enthusiastic  about it and really want to take part in the most inspiring festival in the digital society!

https://re-publica.com/en/17/news/your-visions-rpeurope-winners

Looking forward to being part of it!

Κατηγορίες: Education, Europe, Internet, Χωρίς κατηγορία | Ετικέτες: | Γράψτε σχόλιο

Learning in a Museum

Στις 20 Μαρτίου, 2017 από τον/την Sophia Kouzouli, Education Advisor
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In the beginning of March  the L.E. Learning in a Museum took place, from the 1st till the 13th March 2017; it was organized by Daniela Bunea.

The focus of the learning event was to explore the educational value and potential of museums nowadays, and several strategies about how to transform the young visitors’ enthusiasm into connected, engaging, integrated activities that lead to growth.

During the learning event we interacted with a great number of teachers, exchanged our opinions and collaborated to do certain tasks.

We did a variety of great activities!

We explored museums as agents of social change. We made Smore flyers to set the stage. Visiting a museum can be both educational and fun as long as we make sure that we encourage our pupils to enjoy this learning experience! This is my flyer:  https://www.smore.com/efy0g

We used Coggle, which is a collaborative mind-mapping tool to show how we can make the most of the interactive museums, https://coggle.it/diagram/WMKpkFq4AgAB1fdX/c825385e502c7ff65b0bde0a2853c423b4b89387c169814848d1b2f5fd222e3b

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Using traditional exhibits of museums , we explored ways to engage students’ interest.

 

 

 

 

 

On linoit we expressed our experience in taking part in a museum takeover day! Talking about field trips to museums we used easypolls to vote for the Top 10 reasons to take a field trip to a museum. We created a virtual gallery in Artsteps.

We did a lot of other exciting activities too, yet the final activity was truly amazing! We worked in pairs or groups to do it.

I cooperated with Emilia Alexe, an amazing eTwinner! We devised a museum-based transnational collaborative learning activity to be done connected to a museum and designed a website for it. We named it The Childhood Museum Explorers. You can see it at: https://spark.adobe.com/#design/page/2f756467-f842-4c6c-adb8-2e200aeb937b

It was both fun and educational!Learning in a museum was a highly engaging Learning Event!

Special thanks to Daniela for designing these interactive learning activities and all the colleagues for their enthusiasm and cooperation.

 

 

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Learning event 2017: Learning in a Museum

Στις 20 Μαρτίου, 2017 από τον/την Sophia Kouzouli, Education Advisor

177  teachers took part in the L.E. Learning in a museum which took place from the 1st till the 13th March 2017 and which was organized by Daniela Bunea.

The focus of the learning event was to explore the educational value and potential of museums nowadays, and several strategies about how to transform the young visitors’ enthusiasm into connected, engaging, integrated activities that lead to growth.

During the learning event we interacted wit the teachers, exchanged our opinions and collaborated to do certain tasks.

We did a variety of great activities!

We explored museums as agents of social change. We made Smore flyers to set the stage. Visiting a museum can be both educational and fun as long as we make sure that we encourage our pupils to enjoy this learning experience! This is my flyer:  https://www.smore.com/efy0g

We used Coggle, which is a collaborative mind-mapping tool to show how we can make the most of the interactive museums, https://coggle.it/diagram/WMKpkFq4AgAB1fdX/c825385e502c7ff65b0bde0a2853c423b4b89387c169814848d1b2f5fd222e3b

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Using traditional exhibits of museums , we explored ways to engage students’ interest.

 

 

 

 

 

On linoit we expressed our experience in taking part in a museum takeover day! Talking about field trips to museums we used easypolls to vote for the Top 10 reasons to take a field trip to a museum. We created a virtual gallery in Artsteps.

We did a lot of other exciting activities too, yet the final activity was truly amazing! We worked in pairs or groups to do it.

I cooperated with Emilia Alexe, an amazing eTwinner! We devised a museum-based transnational collaborative learning activity to be done connected to a museum and designed a website for it. We named it The Childhood Museum Explorers. You can see it at: https://spark.adobe.com/#design/page/2f756467-f842-4c6c-adb8-2e200aeb937b

It was both fun and educational!Learning in a museum was a highly engaging Learning Event!

Special thanks to Daniela for designing these interactive learning activities and all the colleagues for their enthusiasm and cooperation.

 

 

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Cultural Diversity in Your Classroom

Στις 15 Μαρτίου, 2017 από τον/την Sophia Kouzouli, Education Advisor

Cultural Diversity in Your Classroom, on  School Education Gateway , started on February the 20th and finished on March 12th, 2017. This Teacher Academy course series on cultural diversity and newly arrived migrants builds substantially on the work Alicia and Erika did for the eTwinning Learning Event “The Integration of Refugees in Daily School Life” that ran in June 2016 on the eTwinning network.

On Wednesday, 1st March, at  17:00h CET – we participated in the webinar:“Who am I? Who are you? Who are we? The language profile: a door opener to intercultural discussions”. In this webinar we got to know some practical examples that make pupils or students think, talk and discuss about the languages they speak, their own identity, their „class identity“ and find out, that it is important to get to know each other better, to listen, to find out what we have in common, to appreciate what is important to the other , to learn from each other and  that it is not necessary to understand everything or to copy other’s behaviour.

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#diversitymoocs

This is the link to my Learning Designer: https://v.gd/teBGPb

for my lesson:  You are part of us!

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Forest Friends

Στις 11 Μαρτίου, 2017 από τον/την Sophia Kouzouli, Education Advisor

This year the 2nd graders are taking part in an environmental project about the forest.

They are also working on an eTwinning project called  “Forest Friends” with an Italian school.

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On March 6th, Monday between 6 and 7  in the afternoon there was their radio show on European School Radio. You can read the post on the blog of the European School Radio: HERE

You can listen to our radio show here: http://europeanschoolradio.eu/podcast/index/2

Κατηγορίες: Ecology, Education, eTwinning, European School Radio, Internet | Ετικέτες: , , , , , | Γράψτε σχόλιο