Collaboration

Hi, you can change colour clicking on the button with T above. Tatiana 1 What tools would you like to use in your project or teaching practice? What kind of learning activities would you prefer in your project? What themes and topics would you choose for collaborative work? What are the difficulties in carrying out collaborative learning activities? What are the teacher's and student's roles? Do they differ from traditional classroom learning
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Members colour: **Terje, Iwona, **  **Nena** Tatiana, **Suzy,** Nilda __**What tools would you like to use in your project or teaching practice**__?

**Picasa),** ||  || Picassa || flikr... || Flicker ||   ||   || moodle || ** moodle ** (like Hot Potatoes ||   ||   ||   || (eg. GoAnimate ); ||  ||   ||   || (eg ToonDoo); || Toondoo ||  ||   || voice (VoiceThread, Audacity, Voki ||   ||   ||   ||
 * ** google doc ** || ** Google Doc, ** ||  ||   || google docs || ** google docs ** ||   ||
 * **photo tools (Flicker,**
 * **photo tools (Flicker,**
 * ** blogger ** || ** blogs ** || blogs ||  || blogspot || ** blog ** ||   ||
 * || ** Wikis, ** ||  || wikis || wikispaces, ||   ||   ||
 * || to create ** eMagazine ** ||  || Magazine Factory ||   ||   ||   ||
 * ** WordPress ** || ** Moodle platform ** ||  || Moodle || wordpress
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 * PPT ||  || PPT || PPT || ppt || ppt ||   ||
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 * ||  || Hot potatoes || ;making quizzes/interactive exercises
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 * ||  ||   || mindmapping || inspiration ||   ||   ||
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 * ||  ||   || SlideShare, || slideshare || ** slideshare ** ||   ||
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 * ** e-book ** ||  ||   ||   ||   || youtube ||   ||
 * ** Some new ** || **supporting collaboration** ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||

** collaborative and cooperative learning, group works ** ** sending emails or letters, preparing PowerPoint and Prezi presentations, writing blogs or multilingual books, using Audacity for podcasting. ** I like to work on my own and then share the results. Group works, pair works, hands on activities, communicative activities I'd like my students 1st to write short texts on a givent topic, prepare a list of useful phrases/structures for the topic, prepare an audio presentation of it and finally to stage sth like a videoconferencing, so that they could use the lg they've learnt. I also want kids to use Forum for the description of what's happening to them etc
 * __What kind of learning activities would you prefer in your project__? **

**It depends -age of students- elementary -topics around us: our homeplace, school, friends, home etc.** **this year with 3 projects: about our toys,****surrounding, national fairytails** ** I am a primary teacher -topics simple and close to children about themselves, families, village, school. interests hobbies. fairy tales, folk tales. very similar to Terje' **  Topics that are interesting for my students and me (I am a teacher and librarian): fairy tales, hobbies, teens problems...   of interest to my ss: hobbies, life, books, films, computers, holidays, sport, music For young -animals, robots, space, toys etc. For older -pollution, technological devices, some special topics about being a teenager, Internet and communication
 * __What themes and topics would you choose for collaborative work?__**
 * Personal Information; festivities, daily routines, hobbies and cultural issues. aged 10-12 **

** a lot of extra work, not only for teachers, but also for pupils. the difficults of the collaboration ** ** additional work and pupils may feel overwhelmed and tired so a teacher should constantly motivate them and appreciate their effort. However, the most difficult is starting a project, finding partners ,write a project plan and do not loose contact with our partners ** For me again: the  lack of knowledge and experience, access to Internet, Some students may not participate in the activities as they don't want to or they don't have enough skill to do it. The deadlines of the activities are very important. Groups can miss the deadlines Lots of things may go wrong: division into groups, dissatisfaction with their partners, misunderstanding, diffusion of responsibility, unfair division of work, falling behind the schedule You should be very alert in order SS not offend their partners whether on purpose or unaware of that ** need some ICT expert on my side and the right equipment ** __**What are the teacher's and student's roles? Do they differ from traditional classroom learning**__. ** teacher is a guide who shows his/her pupils how to find useful information. Pupils should be flexible and prepared to the changingvery quickly reality. Nowadays, traditional classroom learning involves the use of ICT. ** Students will be in the centre of learning and the teacher will be a guide for the students. Collaborative learning supports the student-centered lesson so students will be on the stage whereas the teacher is back of the stage controlling the students. Teacher doesn't instruct and makes SS practice/learn material but rather facilitate/directs students to learn sth by doing and helping each other. Students, ideally, become more autonomous active learners, taking responsibility for the learning process
 * __ What are the difficulties in carrying out collaborative learning activities? __**
 * The teachers must now be aware of the digital information that proliferates in the internet and guide their students using it in the best way **