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1. Ebooks and digital creations about the
environment
Web 2.0 collaboration in an international
context
Giraux Sannier high school
January 23, 2014.
Marie-Hélène Fasquel.

2. Biography
I have been teaching ESL in Lycée Giraux
Sannier, in France since 1999, accountancy
English since 2011,
in ULCO (Master’s Degree – didactics & ICT
training) since 2008,
I am an eTwinning ambassador
A Microsoft Expert Educator and a Global Forum
participant (Barcelona, March 2014)
have written 2 ESL books with Ellipses
& am co-authoring two books (Hatier /
Ellipses).
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3. References
Anglais, Entraînement
et auto-évaluation,
Compréhension Ecrite,
Expression Ecrite,
Ellipses,
Paris, 2010.
Extract
Contents
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4. References
Bac en Vue,
Anglais, Spécial
Vocabulaire, Ellipses,
2011.
Extract
Contents.
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5. Birth of the project
Teacher’s needs
• To Engage students (weak/shy),
• To Promote self confidence,
• To Bring out the students’ various talents.
Students’ needs
• To Have their work and efforts recognized,
• To Study in an innovative and creative way.
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6. Main objectives
To Combine 4 motivation factors
ICT  collaboration, content creation, online
publishing,
The environnement topic  fighting for a
cause
Opening onto the international
 authentic communication with
students from abroad
Draws/competitions and prizes (in class /
online)
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7. 8 steps to nurture creativity
Writing an e-book – newspaper/magazine
articles (starting point: students’ own photos)
Analysing other students’ articles
Creating logos
Making Glogs
Exchanging online (on Twinspace -- eTwinning)
Writing and sharing collaborative short stories
Turning them into comic strips
Taking part in class & online competitions (Ocean
Challenge/ Paper Planes short story competition)
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8. 1st step – e-book
Starting from personal photographs of
their close environment
triggering comments and reflections
While using Collaborative tools
(Titanpad , Google Drive)
 their first e-book.
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9. 2nd step – Analysis
 Collaborating & sharing
Activities on “Padlet” here
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10. 3rd step –
Logos
Competitions
Photofiltre 7 / Paint
Submitting the project on eTwinning 
Twinspace
Collaborative blog for all the foreign
partners
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11. Logos
Competitions  Students being rewarded
(diplomas & prizes)
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12. Votes
The students voted for the best logos (on Google
Form).
an example
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13. 4th step – Glogs
• Online interactive posters (Glogs).
 Introducing oneself
and one’s school
Glogster
Students’ activities:
Glog 1
Glog 2
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14. 5th step -- Communicating
Exchanging and collaborating with
Turkish
and Italian
partners on
our Twinspace
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15. 6th step – Short stories
• Studying the specificities of short stories
• Resources
• Mr Jones & 2 short stories about the
environment
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• Short stories published online in e-book
format (issuu)
• The Paper Plane English Prize 2013
• e-book
• collaborative e-book
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16. 7th step – Short stories
Selection of the short stories
A few comic strips websites:
Kerpoof
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Bitstrips
Pixton
Strip Generator
or
Storybird
example
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17. 8th step – Ocean Challenge
Ocean challenge
challenge kit
first challenge
second challenge
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18. Ever-evolving project
Thanks to:
colleagues
Students
Foreign partners
Topical issues
Current cultural events - Release of Yann
Arthus Bertrand’s latest film « Planète
Océan » in Dec. 2012 lesson plan
Ocean challenge
Online short story competition
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19. Collaborative
tools
Pen io : autonomy
environment pen io
Diigo –bookmarks
Symbaloo
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20. Autonomy…
Scoop it : ESL links for my students
http://www.scoop.it/t/esl-links-for-mystudents
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21. National competitions
The project was selected at the Tour de France du
Numérique, at the Lille CRDP.
At the 6ème Forum des Enseignants Innovants.
At the Journées de l’Innovation de l’UNESCO where it
received an innovation award (Partnership Prize)
It was also awarded the eTwinning European
Quality Label
Webinar: recording
webinar about the online tools
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22. International competition
The project was selected on Microsoft Partners
in Learning:
To compete at the Global Forum (March 2014 –
Barcelona).
250 teachers were selected out of 23000
applicants.
7 teachers are representing France.
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23. International community
The Partners in Learning program (PiL) allows
educators to
Join a worldwide community of dedicated and
innovative teachers &
Get free training
(tutorials,webinars, resources).
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24. International community
• My profile
• Documents
• Feel free to contact me,to join the community (I
will invite you), to work together or to ask
further questions!
• Please write your name & email address if you
want to join the community: link to the form
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25. Content curation and new projects
Scoop.it! curation
2 ongoing projects:
Gamification  learning while creating
games and playing them.
games curation
The Flipped Classroom
flipped classroom curation
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26. Contact -- References
Feel free to contact me!
mhfasquel@gmail.com
On Twitter : @mariehel2
Slideshare
My files on Slideshare.
blog
On Facebook, Linked.In &
Google+, eTwinning : Marie Helene Fasquel
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27. Thank you!
Thank you very much for your attention!
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