sayfa 7, an interactive worksheet by 11APROJE
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personalized learning

project based learning

outdoor learning for the NETWORKED TEACHER MOOC

Outdoor classroom day
exploring the world in your classroom
Taking Learning Outside: Outdoor Classroom Activities
 Forest School
 https://limweekly.org/
 digital footprint
digital footprint 2

EUROPEAN SCHOOL NET ACADEMY -"THE NETWORKED TEACHER"

Personal Learning Network

PLNs are an essential part of lifelong learning for teachers. A PLN consists of the people you informally learn from and share ideas with, as well as the resources, tools, and materials that support your learning.

In the 21st century, an EFL teacher’s PLN usually includes both face-to-face and virtual professional connections. Face-to-face PLN members might be people you know in your own teaching institution or from local, national, and international TEFL professional organizations.  Meanwhile, your PLN’s virtual components are not limited by time and geography.  You can access parts of your virtual network at anytime from anywhere using a variety of internet-based media and social networking tools.  These virtual tools allow you to instantly connect with teachers from around the world and to access information you need to enhance your teaching.

It is important to remember the “P” in “PLN.” Unlike formal, structured professional development contexts like graded university courses, you decide which people and data sources to include in your PLN, as well as which tools to use to interact with your connections.  These decisions are shaped by your professional goals, the time you can dedicate to learning and sharing, and, occasionally, your access to and familiarity with different types of technology. Therefore, your network will evolve as your professional development aims change, and as new tools and resources become available.

How to develop your PLN options?

1. Develop face to face connections.

While time is a scare resource for teachers and the ideas below do require some effort to coordinate, the relationships you develop while collaborating with local contacts are priceless.  Since the connections are local, these PLN members will be aware of the unique issues and challenges for teachers in your area.

2. Build your PLN through Professional Support Networks and Associations. 

Professional support networks for EFL educators often include teachers from several schools or organizations in a community, region, or country. They are all designed to help EFL teachers exchange ideas, share information, and mentor each other.

Here are some ideas to build your PLN: sharing your expertise and experiences by presenting at a conference or workshop, writing an article or a teaching tip for an organizational newsletter, participating in online or face-to-face discussion groups, volunteering at professional events, taking on a leadership role in an organization.

3. Develop your virtual PLN

It is important for EFL teachers to think about how virtual resources and online connections can support their lifelong learning efforts. Today’s number of virtual learning opportunities and resources is growing rapidly.

What are the benefits of a Virtual PLN?

• connecting anytime, anywhere, with anyone, using the web can help you overcome networking barriers related to time, place, and social distance;
• opportunities to reflect: online discussion forums, blogs, and courses can encourage you to reflect on and comment on your teaching practice;
• finding information or support:  as a consumer of information in your network, your virtual PLN can help you solve classroom challenges, learn about new methodologies and teaching techniques, locate resources, and find mentors who might not be available locally;
• sharing your expertise and ideas: as a producer of information in your virtual network you can help others by talking about your experiences, classroom lessons learned, and research findings.  You can also mentor others;
• modeling how to be a master learner:  building an online presence and learning how to work with e-tools shows your colleagues and students that you are intellectually curious and willing to invest time in your own professional learning;
• developing your professional reputation and identity:  establishing an online presence and participating in virtual discussions and e-courses helps others in our field get to know you. Depending on the media you use (blogs, social media tools, collecting e-certificates from online courses, etc.), you create a visible record of your commitment to professional development and lifelong learning, information that may be of interest to colleagues and prospective employers.

modul 5 project plan

5.1 quality in e twinning projects
5.2 e twinning live
5.3 twinspace 
5.4 e twinning rubric

 

Name of the Project  : My e twinning friend

Age : 12-16

Duration : 9 months

Abstract: The project will encourage students to get to know each other and become friends by familiarizing them with European culture

Goals:

-enhance their communication skills and ICT skills.

-learn to use web 2.0 tools

-enhance their knowledge of European culture

-enhance their writing skills

Work Process

25^th of September –Webinar for teachers to take their ideas and suggestions

1^st of October -form transnational groups

14^th of October -create a logo using logomakr , canva and choose the logo that will represent the project

28^th  of October -to introduce yourself using voki  or motion portrait. (your name , age, likes and dislikes, family, hobbies, favourites)

11^th of November-post 2 answers for each student’s presentation using the forum

18^th of November -to prepare a video about your family and the place you live and post them on twinspace

25^th of November-prepare a questionnaire and ask questions related to their family life (google form) and create a slogan and shoot a video related to the International day of persons with disabilities to create awareness together.

29^th November –combine all the videos and share it on twinspace

16^th of December -prepare an online kahoot for all the students to play together in forms of their groups .The  questions will be related to their life,family.

18^th of December  -organize a web meeting for teachers to evaluate the project and take suggestions related to the activities.

19 th  of December –prepare Christmas cards for the partner students and send them to their school (no more activities because it’s Christmas time and the exam week and the midterm break  )

3^rd of February  -take photos of school, create a photo album and prepare a poster

24^th of February -share your ideas about the posters

2^nd of March  -prepare a questionnaire for the cross-national groups to answer related to their school and studying. Here again kahoot or plickers can be used.

9^th of March -prepare a poster comparing and contrasting your school with a partner school. (each team will use different tools like sway, thinglink, canva,powerpoint,adobe spark to make their presentaitions)

23^rd of March-organize a web meeting  for pupils and reflect on the work they have done so far

6^th of April -prepare a presentation on a padlet related to their favourite books, films, and an idol person)

20^th of April -prepare a presentation about an important person in their country or culture (each ss will prepare one and they will make an e book) and at the same time since it is April 23 international Children’s Day are approaching ,they can prepare videos by wearing special costumes for their friend to celebrate)

27 ^th of April -Prepare a poll for students to evaluate their work on google forms, mentimeter, surveymonkey

4^th of May –They can create a presentation comparing and contrasting their culture and country with their peers.(they are free to use any tools here or maybe partner teachers can suggest tools in the mid evaluation webinar)

Outcomes

At the end of the project students will have a joint video, posters (they will be combined ,too )presentation about schools ,culture and country.

Evaluation :

2 webinars for teachers, 1 for students , 2 kahoot and 1 poll for students.Apart from these They will assess their work using the tools on twinspace by commenting or discussing

Expected results

-After the project students will be able to get to know the partner peers.

-They will be aware of the differences in daily life and their school life.

-They will learn the important figures in opposite cultures.

-They will be able to develop their speaking and writing skills.

-They will learn to use different Web 2.0 tools and they wil be able to improve their ICT skills.

-They will learn to work collaboratively

ICT ACTIVITY

The activity is for my project my e twinning friend.Students will be divided into internationally mixed groups of 3 or 5 (according to the partners involved in the project.)
Before teams come together with their partners, each student from a different country should determine what they would like to know about their peers related to their family life and school life.
Coordinator teacher will organize a forum discussion for students to discuss the questions that can be asked in the questionnaire.
Then students will use titanpad to bring all the questions together.One partner student can write the questions.
Afterwards, each student  in the team will shoot a video in which they will answer the questions in the questionnaire.When they finish this task ,they will send the videos to the second partner student to share it on twinspace.Their other friends who are not in the same team will evaluate each video by commenting on it on twinspace.
The final task is for the third partner student.The task is to bring all the videos together and they will present the video for the other teams to watch.If it is necessary, the student can edit some parts when he/ she is combining the video.
At the end of the activity, each team will have one video which has 3 students' work as a team.