learnenglish+ handbook

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1. BREAK THE ICE
Before we start working together, let's break the ice and get to
know one another.
1. Complete your personal profile
Choose a photo or create an avatar, and tell your partners who you are - you
can write 100 words only, make the most of it: be creative and original! :-)
Tools to create avatars: http://doppelme.com/ (save the final image as gif),
http://www.buildyourwildself.com/
2. Give a context: present your cities / schools / classes
Make it interesting and fun using the tools suggested below. Upload the
material you created onto forum 1a (to upload a photo collage into the forum,
upload it into the folder "Break the ice" in the "Materials" section of
Twinspace first). Then comment on and react to your partners'
presentations in the forum and compare your city / school / class to theirs.
- present your class - a photo, a short video, a little voice recording, what
your timetable looks like, what you study, etc.
- present your school - a photo collage of your favourite places, of your
classrooms, a short video tour, etc.
- present your area - a map, a photo collage of the places where you hang
around, a quiz about your city or country, etc.
Tools you can use: for audio messages: voki, blabberize, videos, voice QR /
for quizzes: learningapps / for photo collages:
http://www.pizap.com/photo-collage-templates.php
3. Winter Holiday Season Cards exchange
Prepare a card to share greetings with your partners for the end of
the year and the start of a new year. Make it creative and colourful.
Address as: Dear Friend and sign off giving your name.

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On the right part include your wishes (ideas here), a short presentation about
yourself and a few things about your country's and family's end of year
customs and what you like about this time of year.
On the left part, below, in a RED circle, write ONE word to answer the
question "What does this time of the year mean to you?"
After you receive the cards sent to you:
Post the word you received on this answergarden
Then, on the padlet upload photos of the card you received and thank the
person who sent it to you. Then use forum 1b to write what impressed you the
most about the card you got and the end of year customs of the country where
it came from.
The cards have to be delivered to the teachers by December 5th, 2014
Enjoy!!!
4. Now let's create our collaborative festive poem
1. Find the words HERE: http://answergarden.ch/view/125802
2. Pick up the ones you want to use and visit
TitanPad:https://titanpad.com/qBjmRzzMF6
3. Continue the poem, when you finish your lines enter your name in brackets
4. Respect what the others have written and don't delete them, use
appropriate language, you can write more than once if you want.
Deadline: 15 January

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2. INTRODUCING THE ISSUE
In January, let's get started with an introductory module to get into
the mood of the project and analyse the issue at hand: let's reflect
together on the teaching / learning process. This will be useful for
your challenge later: create the best mini-MOOC! :-)
Your tasks:
1. Join in the debate on tricider:
- add your arguments and vote for the best arguments
- add the questions you think are worth discussing
http://www.tricider.com/brainstorming/2pw7JgUK0fB
2. (optional): share your experience in the forum:
what is your best school memory? The worst one? What is the most
difficult thing you've ever had to learn in your life (at school or
not)? Who has taught you the most important things? etc.
Have your say, tell your stories!

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3. CREATE
After analysing the issue, it's time for your challenge: create an
"ideal learning environment" in the form of a mini-MOOC for other
students. You will be working in teams and creating material /
designing mini-lessons for your peers. Be inspiring tutors! :-)
We should have 9 international teams (one team = 3 national
groups working together).
Step 1: choose the area you want to work on (6 areas for 9 teams, so
some teams will work on the same area - but on different topics!)
Step 2: go to your team's page and:
a) say hello on your team's the forum thread - this is the place to
communicate.
b) on the google doc of your team, brainstorm with your team-
mates to choose a specific topic within the area chosen.
Step 3: collaborate! Each team has a page with a google doc to work
together, a forum to communicate, and the other tools they need.

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4. COMPOSE
This is the next stage of our project. Here we are going to compose,
evaluate and present all our activities together in a well organised
way, so as to be able to find them easily and use them in the future
1. Add your activity in this graphic organiser
2. Tell your team partners about your first impressions: what do you think of their contributions to
your area of expertise? Write a few words in forum 4
3. High Five
Choose 3 activities and tell us your opinion HERE.
Please be positive and helpful in your evaluation!
5 = I perfectly understand it and I like it. It is well thought out and one can learn a lot.
4= I can carry it out and it is comprehensible. One can learn quite a lot.
3= I can use it but I need some help
2= I am not sure what it means. I need a lot of help.
1= I am lost.
Try to make changes if you find that your activity needs to be more clear.
The results of the survey are ready. Check them out HERE
4. How can we present our materials? YOUR OPINION COUNTS!!
Fill in this tricider discussion making suggestions about how to present our materials so that other
students can use it to learn english (eg in the form of an ebook, a web page etc..what to write as a
prologue etc)

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5. ASSESS
Time to assess your participation in this project (after the learning formative
assessment)
What did you ThinK?
How did you Feel?
What did you Learn?
5.1. Good bye messages
(A PADLET wall with farewell messages)
5.2. Project assessment:
LET'S CREATE A SHORT international VIDEO (photos & footage) having the
students say what...
I learned...
I will remember...
I was pleased that...
An interesting part was...
Someone helped me with...
I wonder if...
I was surprised when...
STEP 1: we fill in the worksheet with our views and opinions about the project
STEP 2: we write the QUESTIONS on a white piece of paper
STEP3 : we record the sts giving answers to each question (eg 3-4 sts per
question)
STEP4: we collect all the videos and create a COMMON video with ALL the
students

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