e-books and digital creations about the environment

Web 2.0 collaboration in an international context

Giraux Sannier high school2012-2013

TESOL Spring conference May 17, 2014

Marie-Hélène Fasquel

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I have been teaching in Lycée Giraux Sannier, in Saint Martin Boulogne (Pas de Calais) since 1999, and will be teaching in Nantes next year (International High School – literature)

in ULCO (Master’s Degree – didactics & ICT training) since 2008,

I am an eTwinning ambassador A Microsoft Expert Educator I have written 2 ESL textbooks with Ellipses And am co-authoring two books (Hatier &

Ellipses).

Biography

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Anglais, Entraînement et auto-évaluation, Compréhension Ecrite, Expression Ecrite, Ellipses, Paris, 2010.ExtractContents

References

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Bac en Vue, Anglais, Spécial Vocabulaire, Ellipses, 2011.ExtractContents.

References

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Teacher’s needs• Engaging the students (weak/shy),• Promoting self confidence,• Bringing out the students’ various

talents.Students’ needs• Having their work and efforts

recognized,• Studying in an innovative and

creative way,• feeling valued and engaged.

Birth of the project

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Combining 4 motivation factors ICT through collaboration,

content creation & online publishing, The environnement topic fighting

for a cause – real-world problem Opening onto the international authentic communication Draws/competitions and prizes –

feeling valued

Main objectives

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Writing a collaborative e-book – newspaper/magazine articles (progressive tasks)

Analysing other students’ articles Creating logos Making Glogs Exchanging online (Twinspace) Writing and sharing collaborative short

stories Turning them into comic strips Taking part in class & online competitions

(Ocean Challenge, Paper Plane)

8 steps to nurture creativity

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Starting point -- personal photographs of their close environment

The photographs trigger comments and reflections

Collaborative tools (Titanpad , Google Drive)

their first e-book. 

e-book

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Collaborating & sharing,Activities on “Padlet” here

Peer assessment

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Competitions Students being rewarded (diplomas & prizes)

Making Logos

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Voting

The students voted for the best logos (Google Form).

an example

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Glogs

Online interactive posters (Glogs). Introducing oneself and one’s schoolGlogsterStudents’ activities: Glog 1Glog 2

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Exchanging and collaborating with Turkish and Italian partners on our Twinspace

  

Communicating

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Creative writing -- Short stories

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• Studying the specificities of short stories

• Resources• First flipped classroom resources• Resources for this school year• Mr Jones & 2 short stories about

the environment• Short stories published online in

e-book format (issuu)• The Paper Plane English Prize 2013• e-book • collaborative e-book

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Comic Strips

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Selection of the short storiesA few comic strips websites:Kerpoof Bitstrips Pixton Strip GeneratororStorybirdexample

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Ocean challenge challenge kit first challenge second challenge

Ocean Challenge

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Thanks to colleagues Students Foreign partners Topical issues Current cultural events - Release of

Yann Arthus Bertrand’s latest film « Planète Océan » in Dec. lesson plan

Ocean challenge Online short story competition

Ever-evolving project

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Pen io : autonomy environment pen io Diigo –bookmarks Symbaloo

Collaborativetools

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Scoop it : ESL links for my students

http://www.scoop.it/t/esl-links-for-my-students

Autonomy…

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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: recordingwebinar about the online tools

National competitions

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The project was selected by 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. 10 projects were awarded prizes including this

one.

International competition

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The program Partners in Learning (PiL) allows educators to Join a worldwide community of

dedicated and innovative teachers & Get free training

(tutorials,webinars, resources).

International community

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• My profile• Documents• Feel free to contact me,to join the

community (I will invite you), to work together or to ask further questions!

International community

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Scoop.it! curation2 ongoing projects: Gamification learning while

creating games and playing them.

games curation The Flipped Classroomflipped classroom curation

Content curation and new projects

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Feel free to contact me!

mhfasquel@gmail.comOn Twitter : @mariehel2 Slideshare My files on Slideshare.blogOn Facebook, LinkedIn & Google+, eTwinning: Marie Helene Fasquel

Contact -- References

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Thank you very much for your attention!