So happy I got my badge. Thank you Open Etwinning for this opportunity.
https://insignias.educalab.es/en/assertion/20002fa68115344b33e0b2b027bf7d8a2527eeaa
Friday 26 May 2017
Sunday 21 May 2017
Tuesday 16 May 2017
Week 4 Challenge: A collaborative activity
Needless to mention that the project will start with ice -breaking activities via video conferences and padlet/ videos of the students and partners to get to know each other.
As for Week 4 challenge, I've chosen the first part of my project which is Brainstorming.
Project title: Be The Change
Subtitle: Students school problems (Learning difficulties , bullying , school life with its ups and downs)Needless to mention that the project will start with ice -breaking activities via video conferences and padlet/ videos of the students and partners to get to know each other.
As for Week 4 challenge, I've chosen the first part of my project which is Brainstorming.
Stages and Tools
Stage 1: Tool 1: Padlet
Teachers will start this huge project with a very simple question: Do you like school? Why? why not?
Students will post their answers on a Padlet created for this purpose. At that level all the participants will have their own say about their schools.
Teachers should be here to read and check the students' answers and comment also.
On twinspace and on the project journal: teachers should highlight the fact that to be able to find out the students problems, they should focus on the students whose answers were about the reasons why they hate schools.
Teachers then check the language the students use to express their ideas. These ideas, indeed, will be the starting point of the second stage.
Stage2/ Tool 2: Video conference / Any presentation tool (Genially/ emaze)
Teachers sort out the students' answers with negative attitudes towards school .
Teachers will use twinpace ,the chat box, the project journal to decide how to divide the collected answers among the students: each partner will give his/her students the other partner's students answers for more interaction.
To discuss what they found out: A video conference would be the best option to discuss the final findings.
Here teachers will focus again on the receptive/ productive skills while listening to them interacting with the partners.
Stage 3/ Tool 3: Coggle.it
That is the final stage of part 1 of the project: Problems to be solved
Teachers start the Coggle.it doc for them . Students then will visit the doc and add the different problems they were able to find out from their project mates answers.
The positive answers will be left at the end of the project to give an optimistic ending to the whole work.
Wednesday 10 May 2017
Friday 5 May 2017
Week 2 for me
Week 2
was dynamic and rich with insight and knowledge
sharing. I enjoyed analysing my teaching needs and discovering that I’m sharing
some with other fellow teachers in other parts of the words. That’s a strong
proof of our connection.
Sharing and posting the different tools and
projects was very interesting . Most importantly the content (tools and
projects) is very useful to build confidence for a novice etwinner like me.
And the journey didn’t stop there. Showing learning
evidence was a kind of a follow up activity to make sure that we’ve learnt
something.
Again another
week that is taking the experience to another level of enjoyment and
excitement.
Thank you Open Etwinning Community.
Sharing
experiences
How
important is planning !
The
idea of becoming a member of this global community is very tempting and
exciting. Getting my students connected beyond boundaries has always been one
of my teaching objectives.
For that reason when I recently joined
the etwinning community I was overwhelmed by the idea that I’ve finally done
it. I kept saying to myself that was the
time to get started”.
So,
without giving myself the appropriate time to familiarize with the different aspects of etwinning
and be equipped, I threw myself into an
Etwinning_ Plus project that I’ve suggested. What has encouraged me is that I’ve
quickly found a partner (1 partner because
I didn’t know how to deal with more than that) and got the approval of the community. I was
sure that I was doing the things the way they should be done which was wrong.
Indeed,
I was missing a lot and I found myself unable to find the time to get trained and then practice what I learned to make the project a success . For a project to be a success one
has to plan, organize, set objectives for every single step of it and work in
collaboration with partners to fulfil them.
Sad to say that because of that luck of
organization, training, patience from my side, the project had to stop halfway.
Now, I feel sorry for my students who devoted their time and energy to do
interesting activities. I’m trying my best to share them with other etwinners. Maybe this way my studnets would feel and know how proud of them I am. Add the that, my
partner and I were unable to come up with collaborative activities though
we exchanged interesting ones but we never put them into practice.
I’m sharing my experience to
highlight the importance of collaborating with partner(s) and planning before,
while and after projects.
Monday 1 May 2017
Learning Evidence
Learning Evidence
The interaction
that took place on Listly and Open Etwinning between all the etwinners, sharing
and exchanging ideas about the different tools to be used and projects to get invoved in, has been of great help and has brought high
level of inspiration to improve our teaching practices.
After analyzing the different areas that I need to
consider to make my teaching better I started scrolling up and down trying to pick the ones
that might be more suitable and more effective for my own needs.
Ways to deal with large and mixed
abilities classes
This would
be really effective to help me track the students progress ,deal with their
weaknesses as the class time doesn’t allow
me to do so.
Ways to make my lesson more
dynamic
To help the students become creative and get more engaged and responsible for their learning, the list was really amazing:
apart
from all the other tools to create animated videos like
and
magazines
Ways to make "the learders of tomorrow"
would be a great way to do so.
Exchanging
, Collaborating, Sharing and Inspiring that’s the core of Etwinning.
Saturday 29 April 2017
My
teaching practice
Areas
to improve and useful projects
What is special about our
job is that while teaching you never stop learning. This desire for learning is
always fueled by a desire to improve, give the best of us , update
our teaching techniques so that we can satisfy
our students' needs.
Feedback and reflecting
on our classrooms practices, being open to changes and being ready to embrace
new ideas are key qualities for us , teachers , to keep developing for the sake
of a better teaching/learning experience.
For me, there many things
that I would like to try in my class and I live with the constant feeling
of "Anissa, you can do better" which keeps pushing me forward.
Large and
mixed-ability classes.
How to deal with large classe?
For me it's important to be able to keep order and offer the joy of
learning for a large class. I do admit that's not easy. It's hard, challenging,
exhausting but,still, have to find a way out and try my best to succeed in keeping
their attention and enhusiasm throughout the lesson. Things get even
harder when students have different needs . Indeed large classes
implies multi-level / mixed-abilities classes. I know that I'm in
constant need of inspiring ideas, guidance and help to be able to come up
with suitable activities for such a teaching context. Here are
some of the kinks that have been of great help so far
That's my feeling when I'm in class. I feel that I have
that responsibility as I'm teaching young learners. It's a matter of paramount
importance to work on boosting their self-image, self-esteem and
self-confidence. At that age they may feel lost , they may even lose faith in
school and education in general, they may go through different psychological
and physiscal changes that might affect their personality and shake their
beliefs . So it's up to us to instill all those good values . I think that we
should help them work on themeslves to help them become able to pass on those
values and be ready for the future (to live in society, at work...)
Projects links:
http://www.globalgoals.org
I've recently discovered it
and hope to be part of it.
My etwinning project:
entiltled:
Our Words To The Word/ Nos Messages pour le monde
Identidying learning difficulties
Identidying learning difficulties
Making the lessons more dynamic.
Animated classes boosts
students' motivation .Websites such as Powtoon which has helped me create my
own videos for the students is one of the tools that is offering a possiblity
to make the lessons more dynamic and more interesting and engaging.
I'd also like to be well equipped as teacher to
identify those students who have learning difficulties easily so
that I won't waste my time nor theirs so that support, help and
understanding would be offered on the spot. Training is highly
recommended and need here
I'm sure that the
journey on this MOOC will help a lot working on these areas regarding my
teaching practices
Wednesday 26 April 2017
Week 1 For Me
Etwinning MOOC 2nd Edition
Week 1 for me
The World at One Place
Challenges and worries
The biggest challenge for me was the creation of the portfolio. But I've ended up by finding the answers to all those questions that I've been trying to solve for so long. I'm really proud of myself now that I have my own blog .
Twitter and tweeting was another one. Yolanda Egea ended up by liking the same tweets several times. I kept sending the same links because I wasn't sure I was doing it properly.
Support and help to build confidence
Now , confident as I feel (thanks to the MOOC team and participants) I feel ready and confident to carry on.
Sunday 23 April 2017
eTwinning in 140
Etwinning is an experience that it is a pity to miss and a blessing to
live.
It gives to the teaching learning experience
another dimension. Teaching and learning never stops and is never kept into the
classroom. The teaching and
learning is happening all the time everywhere.
It gives to the teaching learning experience
another dimension. Teaching and learning never stops and is never kept into the
classroom. The teaching and
learning is happening all the time everywhere.
It also gives a sense to all the efforts that both teachers and
students are putting into their tasks to be heard and known via their creative
ideas, personal voices and individual touches. An experience that
both are living ,enjoying and gaining recognition out of it locally and
globally.
It’s
also an opportunity for both partners, i.e educators and their students,
to go beyond their used- to- be-thought abilities and discover others that
they’ve never known they have.
Etwinning is offering the floor for everyone to try and grow
globally.
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