2. Agenda
Our team & our project
Funding & applying for aTLLP
Gamifying Learning
Creating custom games to enhance your
French Immersion program
3. Our Project:
Building a French Carousel to replace our
borrowed online carousel from Conseil
Catholique du Nouvel-Ontario
4. Why create apps?
Gap filling between what we have
currently available from outdated
carousels (circ.2008) apps which don’t
align with revised curriculum documents.
Reinforce practices in language
acquisition of second language learning.
Build a custom "French Immersion"
avenue so that students can consolidate
learning at home
Small group instruction or self-guided
play based learning in centers or at
home.
OurProjectGoals
5. Who will this project benefitwhen completed?
French Immersion students
Teachers who teach in French
Immersion classrooms
Teacher learning process – How to
create the apps designed to add
and reinforce language
acquisition
OurProjectGoals
6. What is aTLLP?
Teacher Learning and Leadership
Program is an annual project-based
professional learning opportunity
Government funding received for
the program
creating custom web applications for
use in our French elementary
classrooms.
Funding
7. TLLPApplication process
November-
Application due by end of November to the Board
January
Notice of Board approval and submission to Ministry of
Education
March
Ministry contacts you to revise and streamline your
application
April-May
Approval/rejection of funding for your TLLP
Funding
10. What is 'gamification of
learning'?
The gamification of learning is an educational
approach to motivate students to learn by using
video game design and game elements
in learning environments.The goal is to
maximize enjoyment and engagement through
capturing the interest of learners and inspiring
them to continue learning.
11. Keeping Kids in FLOW
When game developers design their games,
they know that people play their games
specifically to be challenged.
“If the level of challenge remains appropriate to
the level of ability, and if this challenge rises as
the ability level rises, the person will stay in the
center region and experience … “flow.”
Once students reach a level of frustration, they
are unlikely to desire to re-engage in a given
task, even if the task is altered to be more
achievable.
21. Filmmaker
150 Points
To earn this badge, you will create a video that is completely French. It can be a song, a lesson, a fictional story or
another idea of your choice.
You must follow these steps and have each step approved :
1.Propose an idea.You should know what type of video you want to make and what French ideas or vocabulary it
will focus on. It is a good idea to write down your proposal.You will conference with Ms. Armstrong about your
video before you continue.
2.Rough draft.Write down all the language you need for your video – a script. Proofread your work carefully and
get feedback from your peers. Sketch your idea for what your video will look like – a storyboard.You
will conference with Ms. Armstrongbefore you continue.
3.Second draft. Using any feedback you received in step two, refine your idea and make any necessary
changes.Conference with Ms.Armstrong before you continue.
4.Film and edit your video. Now that your plans are ready, create your video! If needed, conference with Ms.
Armstrong to help solve any problems you come across while creating.
5.Show your finished video to your class. If you like, we can also upload it toYouTube.
6.Reflect.Think about the process and the product.What did you do well?What challenges did you have?What did
you learn?What would you do differently next time? Submit your reflection below to earn your badge.
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24. Uses in the classroom:
Providing personalized/differentiated
instruction
Varied instructional methods (centers,
whole group, individual, small group)
Promoting independence
Engaging students AND parents
Michelle and Lloyd (Why?)
Show the link to the Carousel and how it works, what it looks like
Lloyd - 5 minutes
How we learn language
Spaced practice (repetition of unit/curriculum in isolation)
How we learn language
Spiraling curriculum – blend current unit/content with past content already learned.
Hillary, Lloyd, Michelle 10 minutes
It will benefit students in the French Immersion program in each division.
When we first started, the goal was to create apps in the primary students, but we have teachers on the team that are in junior and intermediate grades and they felt when creating apps, it was easier to create them based on what they were currently teaching.
Therefore, they have created and continue to create for grade 7 science and grade 4/5
Teachers in French Immersion benefit because they will have access to these apps to use in the classroom with students
Teacher learning; we are learning how to use specific app building program to create these apps to then be publish online for use in our board carousel
Lloyd and Michelle: 10 minutes. What is a TLLP?
How did we learn about this program?
How?
Process – Oct-Nov you apply with a proposal of your idea and layout for your needs to the board
The board then chooses two proposals to submit to the ministry of Education
Which you get noticed of the funding approval by the board in Janurary ‘ish” and from the ministry by the end of March-April
Once you have been approved both by the board and the Ministry, your project begins when the board gets your funding.
Lloyd mainly and Michelle - What is a TLLP?
How did we learn about this program?
How?
Process – Oct-Nov you apply with a proposal of your idea and layout for your needs to the board
The board then chooses two proposals to submit to the ministry of Education
Which you get noticed of the funding approval by the board in Janurary ‘ish” and from the ministry by the end of March-April
Once you have been approved both by the board and the Ministry, your project begins when the board gets your funding.