Upcoming webinar

1. GAMES
Let’s learn/teach with games
2013-2015
Comenius & eTwinning Project
Lycée Giraux Sannier
Marie-Hélène Fasquel
December 1, 2014 – LPM.

2. Biography
 Language and Literature teacher, Lycée
International Ile de Nantes, American OIB,
 Formerly ESL teacher at Lycée Giraux Sannier,
 ICT trainer,
 eTwinning ambassador,
 Microsoft Expert Educator (2014 and 2015,
International Innovation Prize in 2014, UNESCO
National Innovation Prize, 2013),
 Writer (Ellipses & Hatier, author &
co-author)
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3. Birth of the project
Meeting students’ needs
• Having their work and efforts recognized,
• Studying in an innovative and creative way
• Having fun and enjoying the course.
Meeting the teacher’s needs
• Engaging students (weak/shy/disengaged),
• Promoting self confidence, creativity,
imagination, resilience (disengaged st.),
• Bringing out the students’ various talents
(whatever they are: music, dancing,
drawing, writing, …)
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4. Main objectives
Combining 4 major motivation factors
  ICT  collaboration, content creation,
online publishing – sharing one’s work
  fun and engaging activities – not being
aware of the efforts made
  Opening onto the international
 authentic communication / engagement
  Draws/competitions, excellence certificates
and prizes
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5. The project’s objectives
 Motivation
nurturing creativity
(games and engaging activities),
 sharing online,
 Task-based approach,
 Improving one’s command of English,
 Communicating.
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6. 2 ongoing projects
 Online curation on Scoop.it!
 2 ongoing experimentations (2013-15)
 Gamification: learning while producing
games for one’s partners (Comenius
Project)
 Gamification curation
 flipped classroom curation
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7. An engaging approach
 Project-based approach
 To make games, you need to master the topic
 Students want to do well – everything is published online
 pride in their work/in the outcomes
 They share and help others learn
 The constant goal = engaging students, helping them
improve their command of English, learn about different
cultures, new technologies – 21st century skills
 Playing the partners’ games to learn
 Communicating directly in English, only common language
of the 7 different partner countries-- authenticity
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8. Gamification
Games are very useful to teach as…
• They are interactive,
• fun,
• The student has a problem 8
to solve,
• He/she can win and actually plays/works
without realizing it! (Perfect for disengaged
students )
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9. Games
A few examples:
 Who am I?
 e-book
 New technologies
 Link
 Padlet
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10. Online tools & websites
creating games
Spelling city
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Classtools
Quizlet
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11. Spelling City
Spelling city
Example: whodunnit?
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Example: the environment
Tutorial
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12. Classtools
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Classtools
Example

13. Quizlet
Quizlet
environment quiz
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14. Any questions?
Have you tried to gamify your classes?
 Let’s share other ideas to help our students
improve and engage!
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 Our pad
What about you?

15. Competitions
 diploma generator
 Best works
Certificate
Gift
Handed out by the school’s headmaster
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16. Engaging & meaningful
topics
 For instance: the fight for the
environment, a real issue and a real
goal (changing the world, first step…)
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17. Outcomes/Conclusion
For the students:
• Pleasure to study,
• More personal work
• MOTIVATION
For the teachers:
• Students tended to improve
• More ambition on their part (published works)
• Student-created content (new role)
Difficulties:
• A lot of energy and work is needed to set up a Comenius
project
• Differences in availability (international project, different
holiday dates, different types of lessons, different school
systems)
• Destabilization of some students at the beginning of the
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18. What about you?
 Any questions?
 Any feedback?
 Any other useful websites to gamify
our classrooms?
Our pad
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19. International community
The program Partners in Learning (PiL) allows
educators to
 Join a worldwide community of dedicated and
innovative teachers &
 Get free training (tutorials,webinars,
resources).
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20. International community
• My latest learning activity
• Documents
• Feel free to contact me, to join the community
(I will invite you), to work together or to ask
further questions!
• Write your information (name/email address)
on our Pad please?
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21. Contact -- References
Feel free to contact me!
mhfasquel@gmail.com
On Twitter: @mariehel2
Slideshare
My files on Slideshare.
blog
On Facebook, LinkedIn &
Google+, eTwinning: Marie-Hélène Fasquel
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22. References
 Anglais, Entraînement
et auto-évaluation,
Compréhension Ecrite,
Expression Ecrite,
Ellipses,
Paris, 2010.
Extract
Contents
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23. References
 Bac en Vue,
Anglais, Spécial
Vocabulaire, Ellipses,
2011.
Extract
Contents.
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24. References
 Contrôle continu
terminale, Anglais,
Ellipses,
September 2014,
Coordonné par Joël
Cascade.
Extract
Contents.
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25. Thank you very much for your
attention and participation!
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