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VOCATIONAL

Canva is a web tool that allows users who have little knowledge of image editing to create various types of images. It is possible to start from a blank worksheet or you can choose to use a predefined layout, you can upload your own images or choose from those present in Canva.

No installation

As a web-based design platform, you don't need to download or install anything in order to work with Canva. All projects are saved in the cloud and therefore always accessible. Only with mobile devices, the app must be downloaded from the App Store or Google Play. The simple use and the large number of templates makes it an amazing tool. You don't need to have graphic skills, just choose and edit to create interesting and highly rated infographics.

Why use Canva at school

Canva is an excellent tool for teaching, because it allows you to create, in a simple and intuitive way, creative lessons with captivating contents that will increase the level of attention of students. Surely a colorful presentation, with the teacher avatar explaining the various steps or with explanatory videos will be much more interesting than a normal Powerpoint. Search puzzles, quizzes, coding activities, activities aimed at promoting the learning of foreign languages can be created. Students can get involved and create comics or drawings related to digital storytelling. Furthermore, Canva is a suitable tool to support study for students with Special Educational Needs and Specific Learning Disorders.

Canva for Education What are the benefits?

Teachers can access Canva for Education for free and it will be possible to access many premium tools such as images, fonts, graphics, animations and templates, as well as allow a dedicated space for their class in which to invite students and teachers to share their own work. Using Canva has several benefits for students

- Creativity and visual expression: Canva offers students the opportunity to explore and develop their creativity through the creation of designs, presentations, posters, flyers, book covers and other projects that require the practical application of the acquired knowledge. This can encourage individual expression and allow pupils to present information in a visually appealing way.

- Critical thinking and problem solving: Using Canva requires kids to make creative decisions and solve problems regarding the placement of graphics, the choice of colors and images. This can stimulate critical thinking and the ability to solve problems effectively.

- Collaboration and sharing: Canva allows students to collaborate virtually by working on projects together with their classmates improving their communication and collaboration skills.

How to log in your students

To access, you must register by connecting to https://www.canva.com/ and use an e-mail address with a domain associated with the school or certified by Google. You will need to verify your teaching credentials in order to access Canva for Education

The first thing to do is to create a new class after logging into your account. Once you have entered the platform, just click on "Create new class".

You will have three alternatives for inviting students to your class:

➢ students can be imported using Google Classroom;

➢ students can be invited using a link accessible by clicking on the "Get invitation link" button;

➢ students' email addresses can be added manually.

What can be created with Canva

Presentations, documents, e-books, business cards, gift cards, flyers, brochures, invitations, postcards, Facebook posts, Facebook covers, Instagram Stories, Logo Infographics, stories and posts for major social networks, postcards, business cards greetings, logos, website layouts, posters, bookmarks, photo collages, YouTube previews and much more.

Everything is grouped into categories. Drag and drop makes it easy. From the tab, in which they are collected, just drag the chosen product into the frame of your project. Even private images, personal ones, can be uploaded and edited.

If you want to use text, then the tool is also interesting. Among the many options, you can write on photos by inserting headings, subtitles or more full-bodied texts, compose texts through a layout that includes titles with specific fonts and characters.

Last but not least: music, video and background.

Studying doesn't have to be boring

Studying using Canva is not boring, monotonous, and lacking in creativity. With Canva, every student can bring their notes to life, improve their learning level and have fun! Plan projects with mind maps or collaborate with peers no matter where they are. He can present live (in person or virtually) or record himself talking about his presentation and share it. Canva is engaging, promotes social learning, unlocks students' potential and increases pedagogical impact.

2. DESCRIPTION AND MAIN FEATURES OF THE DIGITAL TOOL

StoryMap JS is a free web service that allows you to create stories in a very elementary way through interactive maps. It is useful for telling stories starting from places (Travel, trips, lives of famous people, stories that are the basis of places and movements). The operation is very simple: you load a map (image, geographical or historical or economic map), link the points of interest on the map by opening a tab where you can insert text and multimedia resources of various types. The final result can be saved online or on google drive.

No installation

Being a web-based design platform, you don't need to download or install anything in order to work StoryMapJS does not require a real registration as it uses your Google account. To access, you must by connecting to https://storymap.knightlab.com/

To access, just click on the central button

You are immediately prompted to log in using your Google credentials (@gmail address and password). The window that appears will be the one with the list of your previously created storymaps or directly the one with the request to create a new one. In the first case, after giving a name to your nascent storymap, you need to click on “Create”; in the second on "New" and then proceed to the creation of the job.

Why use StorymapJS at school

An example of using StoryMapJS is the one created in collaborative mode in the classroom. The children collect information and resources in a specially prepared worksheet. Then all collected data is entered into StoryMapJS using a classy Google account.

A tool like StoryMap JS can be well integrated into teaching activities and with various purposes. It can be a safe way of working collectively and / or collaborative in the classroom, it can be useful to collect information, data and resources individually. The teacher is a designer, a tutor, a facilitator and a director ... the creators are the kids.

What can be created with StoryMapJS

It is an excellent storytelling tool (to tell stories, events, real or fantasy journeys ...)

If you have a story that presents the narrative characteristics of the "story", it can be easily represented through StoryMapJS. The main characteristics that this content must possess are:

✓ it must develop through a series of phases / moments that can be identified and placed in different places in the space,

✓ it must be possible through text, images, films, etc. accompany and illustrate the story ✓ you must have a web application or software to report on a map the various stages of the story and the multimedia contents necessary to tell it.

Using StoryMap Js allows students to reflect in a structured way on a story, a story, real news, etc. The fact that they will have to insert in a logical way (temporal order / path / etc.) the constituent elements of the same, means that they have to mentally place the different events. This means having a good understanding of history itself.

Using StoryMapJs, pupils also have the possibility to insert multimedia elements. This means retrieving suitable contents from the network (search, selection, identification, etc.), but it could also mean building them from scratch and then uploading them online and finally inserting them into the map.

In conclusion, the didactic applications can be many The teacher can both personally create their own storymaps (to support their lessons), and create them together with their students, or by delegating the creation to the students individually or in groups.

3. DESCRIPTION AND MAIN FEATURES OF THE DIGITAL TOOL

Kahoot is a free game based learning tool that makes learning fun. It is an extremely useful educational technology tool that requires minimum technical expertise for creating quizzes, surveys and discussions. It can be used for learners of all ages and for all subjects. Currently this platform offers 41 languages to create exciting and engaging learning experiences. You can create a fun learning game in minutes which are called ‘kahoots’. You can make a series of multiple choice questions or try new game mode – Jumble. The format and number of questions are entirely up to users. Add videos, images and diagrams to your questions to amplify engagement.

TARGET PEOPLE: All student groups FOR WHAT PURPOSES:

• Introduce new topics

• Assess prior knowledge, introduce new concepts or preview content.

• Review content

• Identify topics that need follow up and help students practice for their tests.

• Reach students who aren't at school

• Host games live via videoconferencing or send self-paced games to connect with students at home and any other location as part of distance learning.

• Teach an interactive lesson

• Import or create slides and combine them with various question types in one seamless interactive lesson.

• Reinforce knowledge

• Recap on topics and replay kahoots to improve knowledge retention.

• Break the ice and reward

• Play a kahoot to kick off a class or use it as a fun way to wrap things up.

HOW TO USE IT:

Kahoots are best played in a group setting, for example, a classroom. Players answer the questions on their own devices, while games are displayed on a shared screen to unite the lesson. It creates a ‘campfire moment’ encouraging players to look up and celebrate together. Besides creating your own kahoots, you can search among millions of existing games. Social learning promotes discussion and pedagogical impact, whether players are in the same room or on the other side of the globe. After a game, encourage players to create and share their own kahoots to deepen understanding, mastery and purpose, as well as engage in peer-led discussions. When a learner becomes a leader, that’s a true magic moment!

As everyone knows, practice makes perfect! With the challenge feature and mobile app, you can assign kahoots as homework. Students play kahoots on their phones for revision and reinforcement, training their classroom superpowers anytime. In homework challenges, questions and answers will appear on their phone screens. Choose a kahoot, assign it as a challenge and share the link or PIN with your students. Make homework awesome!

PROS AND CONS:

PROS: It’s flexible In a few minutes, you can create a learning game for all ages, any topic. Kahoot is even played in gym classes!

It’s simple. Kahoot works on any device with an internet connection. For players, no account or login is required to join a game. It’s diverse. Starting a conversation or reinforcing knowledge, introducing new to pics or encouraging teamwork, and more – there’s so many different ways to Kahoot! It’s engaging Kahoot fosters social learning, unlocks learners’ potential and deepens pedagogical impact. It’s global You can connect and play in real time with other players in 180+ countries. It’s free Creating learning games and playing Kahoot in your classroom is free.

CONS:

Less appropriate in formal setting. Less useful for in-depth discussions

ABOUT THE TOOL: A way to gamify language learning

Overall, Kahoot allows me to easily plan and prep meaningful lessons that are gamified so that students will engage more. I can add images and edit them so easily, duplicate them, and also pull from community resources as well. My students love live and asynchronous Kahoots, and it helps them build their confidence in learning and language ability as English Learners.

Kahoot is a great assessment tool

The students are more engaged and have fun using Kahoot. Kahoot has allowed me to have an interesting and creative way to make more engaging assessments and lessons. Best learning tool. I absolutely love Kahoot because it is a highly interactive platform that allows for learning to be fun. It keeps students interested in learning and also allows for the teachers to be able to create reviews in an easy and effective way.

Great classroom interactivity booster

While Kahoot! may be one of those things that instructors might get tired of quickly, students almost always seem to enjoy using it and there has been at least one academic study that confirms students never seem to get tired of the competition aspect of Kahoot! It almost always gets positive reviews in my classes, and so I will continue to rely on it.

The highlight of every class

While students feel like they are playing a game and compete with each other, Kahoot! brings great benefits for teachers as well. They can see which topics their students have already grasped and which topics they still struggle with. Since it is anonymous, it provides much better feedback than direct conversation. It’s great fun for everyone and the highlight of every class.

HOW TO ACCESS / DOWNLOAD THE TOOL:

Go to www.kahoot.com Press on the large purple “GET MY FREE ACCOUNT” button. Fill in your role (teacher), your school or university, create a username, supply your email and select a password.

Erasmus+ project 2020-1-PT01-KA229078578

4. DESCRIPTION AND MAIN FEATURES OF THE DIGITAL TOOL

DESCRIPTION AND MAIN FEATURES OF THE DIGITAL TOOL:

Blogger is one of the first free publishing websites. You can use it to create a personal blog or website, amongst other things. It was originally launched in 1999 by a company called Pyra Labs. In 2003, Google bought Blogger and went on to become one of the most popular blogging sites on the web. It’s helped millions of people to start blogs, earn money and launch their careers.

TARGET PEOPLE:

A blog is a website where a blogger/company (owner/author of the blog) shares their own, personal, business information, and knowledge for their own reasons. A big reason is that blog is used to promote business and build long-term bonding with new and existing customers.

Similarly, a teacher can use a blog to share their experiences and knowledge with the world. Anyone from individuals, professionals, business owners and companies can run a blog. It’s not something that only IT people do; it can be done by anyone who has something to share with the world.

FOR WHAT PURPOSES:

Uses of a blog in business website: A blog on business websites helps to aware, educate existed, and potential customers about new products, services, and solutions.