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English Language Teaching and Learning in a brave new online world 23.04.2020 at 18 CEST

Distant learning healthy environment Lucyna Nocoń-Kobiór, Zespół Szkół nr 1, Poland

Proper analysis of the distant learning environment 1. Educating yourself – as a life-long learning in a shock pill 2. Researching on students digital possibilities and abillities 3. Analysing the distant teaching and learning tools and their range of use 4. Considering pros and cons of each educational step, each assignment including students’ personal accessibilitty- physically and mentally

1. Life-long learning in a shock pill ● Signing to facebook , eTwinning etc teacher learning support groups ● Choosing right and adjustable video lessons tools ( Zoom, MS Teams, etc) ● Choosing right and adjustable classroom tools ( Google Classroom etc.) ● Choosing right and adjustable testing tools ( eg why not quizizz? etc.) ● Choosing personal parent/students useful communication tools ( eg Msngs)

2. Students digital ‘covid time’ possibilities and abillities ● Considering technical equipment limitations of students/families ● Supporting students with own technical instruction + tutorials

● Adjusting to their technical limitations

3. Distant teaching/ learning tools and their range ● Equipment accessibility ● Tool adjustment to age and level ● Balance of use of tools ● Easiness of tool use ● Proper instruction + tutorials

4. Pros and cons of assignments vs. students’ personal accessibility- physical and mental ● Mental possibilities

● Character types ● Students’ learning types ● Creativity ● Freedom of type and form

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Students are only humans- not robots Overload of assigments leads to nothing Only giving instruction /do this and that’ is not teaching Teacher must be now a guide, a leader, a psychologyst, a psychiatrists Everyone is different- especially now Never force students and only punish them Always give especially now, the second chance Be human and be humanitarian Dont be afraid of humour, fun, and crazy stuff

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Thank you for your attention lucy.noconkobior@gmail.com

Genially and Hypersay Ivana Ĺ tiglec, I.gimnazija Osijek, Croatia

GENIALLY (ASYNCHRONOUS ONLINE TEACHING) ● creating interactive, collaborative, easy-to-share learning experiences ● presentations, games, learning experiences, interactive images, infographics, video presentations… ● lots of free templates and resources

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HYPERSAY(SYNCHRONOUS ONLINE TEACHING) Hypersay allows you to: - engage your students - give them a voice to speak to you through the Question Wall (no interruptions) - keep everyone on the same page with synchronised paging. If you cannot be in the same room, Hypersay allows you to deliver powerful presentations to a digitally connected audience.

- free plan- max. 20 participants

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#VirtualVolta Patrizia Roma, ITTS A. Volta, Italy

How my school practices during the COVID19 time

Definition of common strategies and guidelines

Moodle platform for elearning

The electronic register

‌and creativity

Together is better

Sharing materials and resources with colleagues of the English Department‌

‌.and eTwinners of course!

Be interactive! visual contact

screencast your lessons

Apps, apps, apps!

Nearpod

Liveworksheets

Actively Learn

Learningapps

Quizlet

Kahoot

Playposit

Classtools.net

Creative tasks and formative assessment video speaking test

infographic

‌.and rubrics

Everything will be alright

andrĂ tutto bene

100% digital thematic week: PBL in times of emergency Eva Toth, BMSZC Vocational School, Hungary

Project description ● Duration: 30 lessons ● Preparation: 6 months ● Involvement of the labour market (CNW Ltd.) and specialists dealing with the disabled ● Goal: creation of websites for disabled groups within the topic of sustainable development ● 30 students = 6x5 groups ● Age group: 15-20+ ● 6 mentor students ● Conducted via MS Teams and our digital toolcase in Symbaloo

Agile software development ● Constant contact with the customer ● Written and oral communication ● Official emails

English language involvement â—? Websites to be translated in English â—? Posters in English

eTwinning partnerschool involved

End-products ● Company name, logo ● Official documents related to company foundation ● SWOT analysis ● Stop-motion videos ● 3D objects ● Posters ● Interviews with people about the current situation e.g. a grandmother and a future-researcher

Taste of it…..

Thank you for your attention, I am waiting for your questions! toth.eva@petrik.hu

The easier, the better Iolanda Moya Serra, La Benaula school, Catalonia (Spain)

Goals of the webinar ●

You are not the only one!

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Some of my best apps friends

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The easier, the better

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eSafety

NO, YOU ARE NOT THE ONLY ONE You have to repeat the tasks over and over again  You can't reach all your students (you cannot contact all of them)  You have the feeling that all the other teachers are doing great things and they feel happy and unexhausted.  Only a few of your students login into Twinspace 

BEST APPS FRIENDS and THE EASIER, THE BETTER 

OUT of eTwinning:

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www.liveworksheets.com

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IN eTwinning:

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www.padlet.com

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Chat/forum

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More tools (open these days):

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www.koalatext.com

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www.twinkl.com

e-Safety

THANKS!

English Language Teaching and Learning in a brave new online world 23.04.2020 at 18 CEST

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Daniela Bunea Colegiul National Gheorghe Lazar Sibiu, Romania

Our learners’ educational needs

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COVID-19 Pandemic ●

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Discoveringavaccine – September2020?

Slowingdownthe spreadof infection > physical distancing Learnersand teachersare unable to meetphysicallyin the schools -> howdo students learn?

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Educational opportunities

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support fromparents remote support from school resilience,motivation and skills to learn independently & online -> disruption in educational opportunity 4 9

Goal: to ease the educational impact of the pandemic

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Set realistic expectations Find practical solutions Help your students keep learning 5 1

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Lockdown/quarantine:2.6 billion people, one third of the world’s population Symptomsof psychological stress Reasons: Riskofinfection Fearof becomingsick Dread of losing loved ones Prospectsof financialhardships 5 2

Awareness Model 1. DENIAL

2. GRIEF & PAIN

3. ANGER & BLAME

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5. TAKING RESPONSIBILITY

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Hawkins & Ryde’s Model, 2020 - adapted

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ASYNCHRONOUS & SYNCHRONOUS ONLINE TEACHING ●

teaching remotely does not mean reinventing the wheel our basic teaching skills and knowledge are still what drives our students’ learning “WE CAN MAKE IT HAPPEN!”

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Goals of the webinar

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Goals of the webinar https://learningwithshaun.weebly.com/ ● To discuss educational materials you have developed in the scope of ESLand CLIL ● To find the most user friendly web tools ● Todiscuss the role of eTwinning and the twinspace platform ● Todiscuss critical thinking against disinformation in your e-classes

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Goals of the webinar ● To discuss educational materials you have developed in the scope of ESLand CLIL ● To find the most user friendly web tools ● Todiscuss the role of eTwinning and the twinspace platform ● Todiscuss critical thinking against disinformation in your e-classes

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https://issuu.com/danielabunea/docs/question_tags 59

Goals of the webinar ● To discuss educational materials you have developed in the scope of ESLand CLIL ● To find the most user friendly web tools ● Todiscuss the role of eTwinning and the twinspace platform ● Todiscuss critical thinking against disinformation in your e-classes

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Goals of the webinar ● To discuss educational materials you have developed in the scope of ESLand CLIL ● To find the most user friendly web tools ● Todiscuss the role of eTwinning and the twinspace platform ● Todiscuss critical thinking against disinformation in your e-classes

https://susanisaacandtherobots.weebly.com/

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Organise your digitallibrary Planeffectively Setand manage expectations Createroutines Bepatient and understanding Giveclearinstructions Assignlessthan you think you should Hold virtualofficehours

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Payattention atyour background Usethe hold-and-show technique Keeppaper and pen handy Makeyour lessons interactive Disableprivatechat Havestudents showand tell Useyour own photos Haveaplan B 63

Allow yourself to feel‌

Staycalm 2. Createadailyroutine for yourself 3. Eathealthy food 4. Getenoughsleep 5. Exercise 6. Keepworkin oneplace 7. Reduceaccessto rollingnews 8. Limitscreentime 9. Joingroups of teachersonline 10. Keepin touch with people 11. Takebreaks 1.

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From the past…AGOODMEMORY From the present… SOMETHING ENJOYINGNOW From the future… SOMETHING LOOKING FORWARD TO

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● Most“ofusarelooking atthe stars…”

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Oscar Wilde

Daniela Bunea Colegiul National Gheorghe Lazar Sibiu, Romania

Distance Education in Turkey Gülçin ÇAVUŞOĞLU Burdur Mehmet Yıldızlı Primary School

What is Eba? ● In Turkey, the schools are closed more than one month like many other countries. ● We use an online platform. It is called EBA. ● It is the short form of « Education Information Technology Net»

● In this platform, there are many sources for primary,secondary and high school students. ● Teachers give usernames and passwords for the students ● Teachers choose the content according to their lesson plan and students study them as homework. ●

â—? Our students study the subject for English as in the Picture.They use basic skills for English.

â—? Teachers can send online exams for the subject and check the results for each student.

The performances

â—? There are many advantages of Eba. â—? Some of them are that teachers can prepare their own sources,exams,online lessons.

Videos,pictures,audio files etc.

â—? There is also an online library for students to make researches.

â—? We use Eba Tv for students to follow their lessons on weekdays.

â—? We use social media to give extra works for the students.For example,the first grade students made clocks at home and sent them using whatsup.

â—? The teachers prepare online events for e-Twinning everyday. We have at least one event everyday. We learn about new approaches and web tools in e-Twinning. Some teachers tell about their projects.

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National Education Directorates have their own teams to develop contents in their provinces.

â—? All of these show us that teachers who prepare projects in e-Twinning have a lot of experience and this help them to overcome with the obstacles in this pandemi world.

â—? Teachers use zoom to have online lesseons withe their students in my school.

Thanks a lot…..

eTwinning eTeaching Brigitte Collomb, Collège du Fium’Orbu, France

Hello dear eTwinners, English teacher in a French Collège, I work for eTwinning France as an ambassador and trainer and as an Erasmus+ developpeur, I am involved in a KA229. I have been working for the Corsican CARDIE, Academic unit for research, development, innovation, experimentation since 2012. My current project “Empowering English Classes” is dedicated to elaborate a new ESL and CLIL teaching method.

General context in France Before the lockdown: • most French schools already used a Digital Learning Management system • (mainly to manage the basic daily school work) • Some teachers used it for hybrid teaching to: • Create lesson plans (docs, videos, audio, embed tools, quizzes) for the students to work on at school and at home.

• As for me, the space dedicated to create the lessons is practical but it is maybe too linear with poor possibility of interaction between the students.

Since the lockdown on March 17th : all the French teachers have been asked to use the digital platform for home schooling. Some teachers have had a lot of additional work because they had no lesson plans prepared. I felt lucky to have this platform for my classes who are not on eTwinning for home schooling and communication.

eTwinning & TwinSpaces eTwinning is part of my teaching practices so the students and I wanted to continue working on our projects as normally as possible but unfortunately, some partners couldn’t and three of my projects are coming to an end. That’s why I’ve chosen our Erasmus project to teach the whole process on the TwinSpace. (Friendly and fun contrary to the school platform, even if we cannot have a visio with the students we can use the Forums, Chat….)

It’s a KA229 entitled S.O.C.I.A.L. & M.E.D.I.A. Partners: Christiane Eichel, Germany, Isabel Martinez, Spain and Eftihia Chroni, Greece.

• our main objectives are to teach students how to become balanced citizens and digital citizens, able to cope with the media; they are also active journalists who write magazines and promote them.

• The first mobility activities as well as journalism workshops and lessons about article writing taught them a lot about journalism and we were supposed to continue this lesson as regards vocabulary, grammar and other aspects of the job and the media.

• We also needed to teach them about critical thinking to work on the improvement of our first magazine.

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This Erasmus project is also for me a kind of experimental field concerning part of my CARDIE project : « Empowering English Classes » The goal of this project is to suggest new teaching practices through 5 different frameworks.

A CLIL methodology, in which the students are both experiencing the traditional curriculum leading mainly to individual construction and development of their individual culture, and they are experiencing citizen social activity and are encouraged to develop collective culture skills.

In the Erasmus, they are working on the “information and media literacy” framework for the moment.

I didn’t want our TwinSpace to be too heavy and I wanted a tool which wouldn’t be linear because learning is not always linear.

I picked Genial.ly which can be embedded even without modifying the URL on a TwinSpace page!

To create a whole lesson plan reachable even from a link on the TwinSpace, like a hidden door to a entire interactive teaching space; providing all the ingredients and more…

● As a conclusion, the Covid-19 lockdown has urged me develop other

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practices and explore new tools. It has pushed me to imagine a transferable, responsive and easily modifiable process saving students time, paper and ink. Stay home policy!

The TwinSpace is an ideal place to keep students motivated to learn.

This crisis takes me back to my first innovative project which was my website as a eLearning platform. (2010) I have bought a new software to make it responsive and ready to embed my Genial.ly teaching spaces so that all my students can enjoy them even when our eTwinning project are over and why not during the summer holidays to work at their on pace on their personal path.

We have a Wiki TwinSpace for the Erasmus which will be another experimental public space if needed during this Covid19 lockdown.

Thanks.

Twinspaces as Learning platform Heidi Giese, Anne-Frank-Schule, Germany

Heidi Giese Hello, I‘m a teacher of French (FLE), English (EFL) and Social Science in a Secondary school in the middle of Germany. Since 2012 I am an eTwinning ambassador (Germany) and an eTwinning coordinator at my school. Our eTwinning projects were awarded twice the Nationa eTwinning Prize (2012 and 2016). Last year we received the European Prize and I was really happy to meet all of my wonderful partners in Cannes f2f at the official Prize ceremony!!

My family is a little Europe, too: my husband comes from Salerno, Italy where we lived for 7 years and our 2 daughters are italogermans.

I‘m also a lifelong learner and I love my job!

Example of school practices of Anne-Frank-Schule during the COVID19 time ● ● ● ●

Anne-Frank-Schule Eschwege / 580 students, 65 teachers eTwinning School since 2018 Situated in rural area Since 2011 eTwinning projects

● In Germany: every Land (16) has own ministry of education, decides about curricula, school closures …

First steps after closure â—? Twinspaces for every age group (5th to 10th grade) â—? Tutorials for teachers and students / Tool: adobe spark video

First steps Padlet ● tutorials for teachers and students ● links of useful ICT tools (with tutorials) ● Blog articles about distance teaching ● Twitter news (#twitterlehrerzimmer)

Twinspace â—? Organizing the Twinspace (1.Page, 2.Twinboard, 3.Quiz, 4.Survey, 5. Forum)

Weekly schedule Survey: how did I do my tasks?

Forum: any questions?

Twinboard (solutions)

Twinspace ● Organizing all tasks in a weekly schedule (different subjects, one per day / workflow and meaningful tasks) Example English/French: 1. new vocabulary: quizlet.com 2. Check: quizizz.com (formative assessment) 3. new text - audio: vocaroo.com 4. exercises – solutions in Twinboard or padlet 5. Final product (learningapps, poster with adobe spark page, comic,…)

Twinspace 1. New vocabulary Quizlet

Twinspace 2. Formative assessment with quizizz (vocabulary or grammar, content of a book..)

As a direct link or with a code

Twinspace 3. Audio file with vocaroo

Twinspace 4. Exercises and solutions

Twinspace 4. Exercises and solutions

Twinspace â—? Collaborative tasks with mentimeter.com

Twinspace â—? Workflow with thinglink.com

Twinspace â—? Easter Challenge

Videoconferences â—? Always same day // same time per group // Time for questions, explanations

Jitsi.org

Tools and links ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ●

https://spark.adobe.com/make/video-maker/ https://padlet.com/ https://quizlet.com https://vocaroo.com https://thinglink.com/ https://quizizz.com/ https://learningapps.org/ https://liveworksheets.com/ https://mentimeter.com/ https://jitsi.org/

Efforts for distance learning Rania Bekiri, 2nd Primary School of Paralia, Greece

Caught by surprise! ● Western Greece: schools closed suddenly without any warning on the 6th March! ● No experience in online platforms for distance learning! ● The 2 official platforms were not used much by teachers and students. ● Time was needed to coordinate the online lessons ○

students had to register and get codes

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teachers had to create online classes

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School platforms had to be updated

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Priority was given to the oldest pupils of Senior High Schools

Organising, working, trying… ● Thousands of teachers created online classes. ● Instructions were given for consolidation work mainly ● Synchronous & Asynchronous lessons ● Online eTwinning seminars were held to teach the platforms ● Online eTwinning seminars had been teaching tools for the last 3 years ● Lots of tutorials were published

Results? ●

Most pupils responded and welcomed the communication with their teachers & classmates.

Pupils stayed in touch with school work

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Teachers acquired new skills!!!

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The school network was updated

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Many pupils had no equipment and access to the online classes

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Many teachers will also need more training

What works better? ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ●

Simple tasks Many pictures Messages to inform them (contact) A chat room for pupils’ informal communication A Forum to add comments about their work (formal communication) A weekly programme - they need a schedule like when they’re at school A live meeting so that they get better instructions / guidelines.

A combination of synchronous and asynchronous lessons

What works better? ● ●

Practice in class so that pupils are more aware of online tools and platforms Digital books practice in class – better studying at home!

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eTwinning pupils are better trained with online tools! ○

learningapps (online games)

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kahoot challenge

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Meetingwords / Google docs

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Tricider

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Postermywall (online posters)

What does the future hold? ●

Be better prepared?

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Better training for all!! ○

Teachers

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Practice in class so that pupils are more aware of online tools and platforms

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eTwinning projects!!!