Practice 2

 

 

SELECTED PRACTICE

 

of the Teacher's competition on Language Learning and Social Media use in Formal Language Learning Context

 

1st Stage



Special School Caransebes Romania

 

 

Context of practice: Evening classes

 

Project Leader: Lucian Duma

 

Country: Romania

 

Learner's age: 12-19

 

Learning activities

We collaborated  on this wiki http://e-safety4etwinners.wikispaces.com/ and for a good collaboration we have also a PLN http://e-safety4etwinners.mixxt.eu/ and a facebook group where students involved in this project collaborate on-line. For a good collaboration we will use in the project Pligus https://www.pligus.com/room/edtech20 and skype. Next activities will be developed by the parteners :

 

November: Students introduction using voxopop group **http://tinyurl.com/e-Safety4eTwinnersvoxopopgroup** and also in november students will learn about e-Safety internet and new tehnologies from http://www.esafetykit.net/

For a good collaboration and easy and safely sharing for students involved in this project we will use a facebook group https://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_101057746637510&ap=1 We have also a flickr group for parteners in this project to know better http://www.flickr.com//groups/1281160@N23/pool/show/                                                                                                                          

December: Students celebrate Christmas: they make paintings, drawings, sing carols, videos and presentation.

January, February: Students will learn to use and to make safely glogster edu presentation http://edu.glogster.com/ the best edtool in education in XXI Century. We will use photos, videos and other presentations with students work and activities.                                                                                             

 

Mars: Animation 2.0 safely in education. Here students can chose a animation tool to make a presentation related to eSafety like this for example http://www.xtranormal.com/watch/7344919/ reading about eSafety http://www.saferinternet.org/ on-line safety 3.0, and rules in cyberspace http://www.cybercrime.gov/rules/rules.htm , http://kids.getnetwise.org/kidsites/

Students will use the tools from **http://www.aviaryeducation.com/** and they make a logo for this eTwinning project.

 

April: Students will learn how to use and collaborate safely on-line with parteners using google apps and tools : http://edu.googleapps.com/ Tag clouds safely in education : students will make tag clouds using tools like: wordle, tagxedo, tagul, word mosaic http://tinyurl.com/tagcloudsineducation

May: Students will learn to use safely glogster edu http://edu.glogster.com/

June: Conclusion. Every partener must make a Power Point Presentation related to e-Safety in education and this presentation will be uploaded on SlideShare, https://docs.google.com/, http://www.authorstream.com/ and after will be posted on our wiki and PLN. Also we will use http://www.wallwisher.com/ and we will make groups on http://linoit.com/home where students will post some words about their favorite resources related to e-Safety.                                            

 

Learning goals

Web 2.0 and social media can bring a new dimension and can reform education around the word because electronic communication helps teachers and students to learn from each other. These new technologies can stimulate discussion, open gateway through knowledge, promote creativity and innovation for effective learning. Teacher and also students should have an entitlement to safe internet access at all times.

Pulling Piaget and Papert, the use of participatory media tools in education is typically geared towards, creating a more student centered, adaptive environnement where learners can contribute to the course material, formulate and express their own insights and opinion, construct their own understanding of material by connecting concepts, to personal experience or current events, and learn from one another in collaborative environments. Web 2.0, social media and other digital and information technologies are powerful and interesting tools, which open up new opportunities for everyone and for this reason teachers and students must know how to use it nowadays in a safety mode.

 

Project materials

Project URLs: 

http://e-safety4etwinners.wikispaces.com/

http://e-safety4etwinners.mixxt.eu/

http://tinyurl.com/e-Safety4eTwinnersvoxopopgroup

https://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_101057746637510&ap=1

http://www.flickr.com//groups/1281160@N23/pool/show

http://www.xtranormal.com/watch/7344919/7-dont-rules-in-cyberspace

http://teacherluciandumaweb20.blogspot.com/2010/08/free-project-in-clouds-for-teachers.html