E-guide for teachers

Not only did students benefit from the project, the teachers did either. We learned a lot since for some time we had to quit all the traditional methods and learn how to deal with the virtual reality. We managed to do it and, moreover, we decided to share our finding with other teachers. Gathering all our findings, observations and experiences gained during virtual meetings we decided to develop our own guide over tried-out solutions and IC tools which were applied for different activities. It is not a ICT guide sensu stricte. Some tips for using tools are included, but it is supposed to inspire rather than be a manual.

The objectives of publishing this guide:

  • encouraging the wide spread of ideas
  • sharing good practices
  • disseminating information about some tools to the community 
  • encouraging virtual collaboration
  • disseminating results produced throughout the duration of the project
  • extending the frontiers of creativity and imagination
  • inspiring those who want to organize virtual or blended mobilities but don’t know how to start it.

Here you may download the guide:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1dzpiy_KE4MkAvOijTa9ILhsxSdfYdYEJ/view?usp=sharing

Reading for just 6 minutes can reduce stress levels by up to 68%

Throughout the almost whole school year, once a week, students from the 6th grade had ESL lessons, during which they read passages from books in English. We read extracts from the most popular books for children, like Harry Potter, Whimpy Kid, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, etc. Students read the texts, listened to the recordings and did a lot of lexical and creative activities, like drawing comics, building Lego constructions, playing games, developing stories, solving puzzles, writing poems or making models.

The objectives of the activities:

  • improving literacy, developing language competences
  • increasing general knowledge about the world
  • promoting reading as a stress relieving activity
  • modelling behaviour
  •  increasing creativity and imagination
  • building a sense of empathy
  • improving concentration
  • enhancing reading enjoyment

All the resources used during these activities were gathered in one padlet collection:

https://padlet.com/tambelli_sylwia/mo9efju9nkusotrl