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I have also been using Socrative much more in class and it does work well with tablets not only for warm ups but also for assessing the students' work.

It's a free website that helps you track down the students'progress by automatically generating excel sheets with their answers.

Some answers can be automatically processed or later.

Worth checking out.

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Review student understanding at the class, individual student, or question-level.

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Right after the course,

I have tried to rethink a
lot of the material used in class and to come up with more efficient
learning scenarios.

I have been systematically using
tablets  over the past few weeks and have seen the
progress in the students' writing and speaking abilities.

We are currently
working on a few projects which all involves the wise use of
technology.

My younger students
have gone through the 3 stages of dreaming, exploring and are now in
the process of making. This is about bringing a textbook to life.

I hope to keep this
up and am feeling all the more enthusiastic than the students show a
lot of commitment in their work.

Here is what we'll be working on this morning and the posts will be included in their exam portfolio.

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I'm grateful for having learnt about Showbie and how it could help use tablets more effectively.

This goal of a paperless classroom has always seemed appealing to me.

It seems rather easy to use and to implement.

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Showbie - the Paperless Classroom App for Teachers

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Showbie is a free educational app for teachers and students that makes creating and completing assignments, providing assessments, and storing grades easy.

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My Lesson plan created on Learning designer.

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My Lesson plan created on Learning designer.

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This is about Shakespeare revisited by the students in literature for younger students or an international audience via Skype.

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Module 4. What tools for flipping the classroom with tablets?

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Module 4. What tools for flipping the classroom with tablets?

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I have used aurasma for a field trip at the museum in order to let them discover about a painting on Rubens on a treasure hunt. I nevertheless didn't have the time to take the experiment further. In fact, I thought that a public museum would have a working WIFI connection!

It would be great if we could map our district for an augmented tour or simply in our schools for the newcomers. This is something I have been thinking about for quite some time now. My favourite app for brainstorming, assessing and playing at the same time is undoubtedly Kahoot: https://kahoot.it/#/ not only does it allow the students to show how much they have learned, but also how well they can interact in pairs or in groups. This really contributes to team building and to collaborating. At the end of the session, the data can be downloaded as an excel file with your students'names. You'll have to ask them to use their real names though. Quite surprinsingly, when I review in my head the apps and services I mostly use I can not help but think of https://slides.com/ that allow participants to follow the presentation on their connected devices. http://slides.com/silverteacher/deck-29#/

They can also be shared privately with a paswword embedded or sent via email. A great asset for personalised learning as well.

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Module 4. Major Obstacles for flipping the classroom.

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Module 4. Major Obstacles for flipping the classroom.

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The major obstacles: suitable and high quality content fit for every class.
Enough time and material to shoot them or share them. Articulating the learning objectives and the presentations with the students's needs. Making sure that no student is left behind. Not assuming that the students can manage on their own. Implementing team work and convincing colleagues to hop on board. The more, the merrier. :) Keeping up with the pace and having a clear vision of every step of the learning process. Staying optimistic and energetic along the way.

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I have been working on the idea of flipping the classroom for a while nowand have made a few isolated tries.

The latest is on literature and especially on the challenging chapter 1 of 1984.

I have posted 3 videos on the students' learning environments and asked them to watch them at home and take notes.

They will be the basis for personalized learning activities when we resume school in a few days.

This is a great site for uploading pdf documents and commenting on them.

I don't think I could shoot videos of myself explaining a passage and this is a great way to give each student a chance to follow the "course" at his/her own pace.

Here is the link to the padlet on 1984 that gives an account of what they have understood on 6 articles.

They all deal with how close our society is to the one depicted in 1984:

http://padlet.com/silverteacher/1984
They are going to be using those in a portfolio for their literature exam.

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Module 4. What other ways can you think of how tablets can be used to personalise the learning experience of your students? 

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Module 4. What other ways can you think of how tablets can be used to personalise the learning experience of your students? 

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To keep in touch with students I use https://www.remind.com/ which not only allows me to give them reminders but also to encourage them. I can send reminders to the whole group or to some members only. We then all get the feeling of belonging to a learning community.

Then I use Edmodo and it helps us build longlasting relationships with our American correspondents:

https://www.edmodo.com/post/405236515

I am planning on using the platform http://www.challengeu.com/

next year. Learning posted as a challenge which is a form of gamification.

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ChallengeU | Plateforme en ligne - Formation aux adultes

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Retourne au secondaire à distance Formation aux adultes 100 % en ligne Inscris-toi, c'est gratuit Tournée avec Adamo et Steve Bégin En savoir plus Tel que vu Ton retour au secondaire commence avec ChallengeU Sache que ChallengeU n'est pas une école, mais une plateforme éducative utilisée par les commissions scolaires pour t'offrir la chance de ...

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Module 4. Reflect on how you gather information about the learning styles of your students. How do you know what types of learners there are? What are good strategies to identify this? Is it enough to simply ask the students as is done in the video above? Are the students, are we, always fully aware of how we learn best? 

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Module 4. Reflect on how you gather information about the learning styles of your students. How do you know what types of learners there are? What are good strategies to identify this? Is it enough to simply ask the students as is done in the video above? Are the students, are we, always fully aware of how we learn best? 

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In France, we tend to point out and to focus on learning disorders like dyslexia for example.

I try to use speaking productions using a mp3 recorder whenever a student suffers from such writing and reading difficulties.

At the beginning of the year, I ask students to fill in a Google Form where they can share their learning preferences and difficulties.

I then get to know them along the learning activities in class.

Sometimes students don't even know what may compromise their learning.

In a video project, all the skills are to be used such as writing, reading, sharing and producing and I can easily point what needs to be reviewed.

A more detailed report can be accessed via the listening/watching activities on Edpuzzle.

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Easily create beautiful interactive video lessons for your students you can integrate right into your LMS. Track students' progress with hassle-free analytics as you flip your classroom!

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Looks like the best tool for assessing students from all over the world. 

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Looks like the best tool for assessing students from all over the world. 

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https://www.peardeck.com/

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Pear Deck is on a mission to help teachers create powerful learning moments for every student, every day - using the tools you already know and love.

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Module 3. 3. What strategies have you used to assess group work? What are the main challenges for you when it comes to assessing group work?

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Module 3. 3. What strategies have you used to assess group work? What are the main challenges for you when it comes to assessing group work?

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It's the most challenging.

I've used Google forms to assess students' work.

It's always hard to not only assess the final product but also the

students' progress.

On possible tool to vote and comment live.

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It's how you include everyone
in your meetings

Slido gives you everything you need to engage your participants, capture their views and make everyone feel connected - whether you're running a team call, training or an all-company meeting.

Intuitive and easy

The attendees can join without any logins or downloads, and the setup for hosts takes only minutes.

5+ polling options

With Slido's 5 types of polls, Q&A, quizzes and surveys, you can engage your participants in a variety of ways.

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Slido is the ultimate Q&A and polling platform for live and virtual meetings and events. It offers interactive Q&A, live polls and insights about your audience.

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Module 3. 2. How do you keep your students focused and on track during collaborative projects? How do you ensure all students contribute to the task?

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Module 3. 2. How do you keep your students focused and on track during collaborative projects? How do you ensure all students contribute to the task?

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They all have to post something whether on a padlet for instance or on the school intranet. They must also acquire some skills or knowledge along the way.

Peer assessment is really useful for keeping the students on track.

Also placing a mp3 recorder ensures that the students will keep on speaking English and focusing on their worK

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Module 3. 1. How do you form groups of students for group work and why do you take this approach? Based on your experience what strategies of forming groups work and which do not work? Why?

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Module 3. 1. How do you form groups of students for group work and why do you take this approach? Based on your experience what strategies of forming groups work and which do not work? Why?

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The surprise factor: change the seating arrangement of your class and wait for your students to be puzzled and then on board with your new idea.

Group work is about creativity and showing that you care since you have put a lot into building up new groups.

It's also about shifting: from being at the front of the class to being with your students.

It's about knowing your students well and assigning them a new role.

Giving them responsibility will boost their creativity.

The don'ts:

not planning ahead, letting the students choose their friends, no timing and not a precise task to be achieved.

Next time I'll use Teamup for a change.

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A student's presentation using Padlet on South Africa. /22042015

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A student's presentation using Padlet on South Africa. /22042015

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Here is the link to a presentation on Nearpod about Nelson Mandela.

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Here is the link to a presentation on Nearpod about Nelson Mandela.

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With this wonderful app recommended by fellow teacher on this course @Annelies Segers I have been able to engage the students on a live and dynamic presentation

Whether it is self paced or teacher controlled, this tool is a way to adapt yourself to your students' different learning abilities.

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No mobile devices in your classroom? No worries! You can enjoy Nearpod from any web browser :) Create, engage, and assess your students in every lesson!

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Today's work with NearPod on South Africa and more precisely on Nelson Mandela. 22/04/2015.

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Today's work with NearPod on South Africa and more precisely on Nelson Mandela. 22/04/2015.

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Working with a tablet doesn't mean you have to forget about writing. The idea is that is it even enhances written activities.

First of all upload a document on the school intranet ( in France it's called ENT, something like Digital Learning environment)

Create hyperlinks on the words that may be hard to understand.

Ask the students to fill in a form with the translated words.

Then, word on the lexical field of freedom and create a Wordle.

Then they have to post their findings onto the padlet.

http://padlet.com/silverteacher/soweto

Then Tomorrow, I'll engage the students into an interactive activity using Nearpod.

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Create apps and even games with the students as a year long project that might be useful to others.

Or create a book that could be edited collaboratively.

Maybe wih such a service:

http://www.inklestudios.com/inklewriter/

Maybe with the approbation of a professional writer.

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Write as you play

The inklewriter lets you write as you play, branching the story with choices, and then linking those branches back together again. It keeps track of which paths you've finished, and which still need to be written.

There's no set-up, no programming, no drawing diagrams - so there's nothing between you and the empty page. Oh, and it's free to use. And once written, you can share your stories with whomever you like.

Your stories, to share

Every writer needs a readership, and with inklewriter you can share your story with the world, because every story is given its own unique web-page that you can share however you want.

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The inklewriter lets you write as you play, branching the story with choices, and then linking those branches back together again. It keeps track of which paths you've finished, and which still need to be written. There's no set-up, no programming, no drawing diagrams - so there's nothing between you and the empty page.

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I've learnt a lot reading other people's diaries and how they use apps in their day to day life.

As for the best app to use in class, I'm not sure I can give out a single name.

In fact, I don't think a single app can magically fit any teaching situation.

It's as if we were always serving our favourite dessert. Variety guarantees appetite.

1. My favorite apps Pearltrees for collecting links and works as a portfolio and mixlr for a radio.

Pearltrees comes in really handy for collecting information for students and works as a reference tool.

2. Mixlr is a small app that allows you to broadcast a programme in an instant. I'm not saying it's easy, but it's doable.

3. For playing definitely Kahoot. Not only does it allow you to warm students up, but also to evaluate their learning when they start making their own Kahoots (revision of the basic essential functions, upload a file, link a video, ask a correct question, watch your grammar and your vocabulary, coopyrights issues...). And the most valuable aspects, being able to connect as many as 100 students at the same time that gives the teachers the opportunity to play together beyond the classroom

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ESL teacher interested in everything ict. Lille, France. Photos secrets. Amélie Silvert. Formation numérique. Articles Intéressants. VIDEOS A EXPLOITER. HEROES

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First of all, I must confess that I'm getting used to working like that.

I've learned that there are 7 stages in the learning process and that they actually had names.

It's easier to come up with a learning plan afterwards.

I've launched a new project on South Africa and am waiting to see how the students are going to manage the various sources of information and create content using Meograph, Padlet, Quizizz.

The quizizz will be for the show again phase.

I've also noticed that some students are reluctant when it comes to working on tablets and would rather use PCs.

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1.3 What classroom challenges do I already face or do I anticipate facing when using tablets?

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1.3 What classroom challenges do I already face or do I anticipate facing when using tablets?

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Get the students to respect timing and be ready to interact at a certain point.

My students are really respectful but I did reminded them of the school netiquette.

Be responsible for what you post and for the websites you access.

I have already noticed that I tend to help my students more and that I give them more and more freedom in their learning process. I let the students teach others and take over the language classroom.

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1.2 What whole-school challenges do I already face or do I anticipate facing when using tablets?

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1.2 What whole-school challenges do I already face or do I anticipate facing when using tablets?

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I'm faced with a very practical problem: mobile learning really means transporting them and they are very heavy.

Then there is also the charging issue: so many chargers and I do'nt want the students to have low batteries while working.

It requires a lot of energy and commitment to get students to work. It really goes beyond the "open your copybook" sentence.

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Check out some of the resources used in class.

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ESL, EFL interesting stuff. ESL Pêle Mêle.

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Websites and ideas for rich esl lesson plan

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A blog for the students and for showcasing their work.

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South Africa, Soweto Riots.

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Students' articles.

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Yesterday, I tested using 12 tablets at the same time. On the menu, a padlet where they can find all the necessary information and a worksheet to complete. They also had to revise their vocabulary thanks to Quizlet and had a test at the end of the session.

To share my presentations, I've used http://preso.tv/ which allows you to present pdf and ppt files remotely on tablets. In a large classroom, not only can students follow the lesson more easily, but there is also a live messaging system. It's not student driven since they can't learn at their own pace, but this system makes sure that everybody gets a clear picture

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A video showing our tablets in class and how students only use English and post their summaries using their tablets.

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A video showing our tablets in class and how students only use English and post their summaries using their tablets.

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Yesterday's class with Seniors.

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A beautiful and sunny weather at 7 am.

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4 minute walk from our school, le musée des Beaux Arts in Lille.

I have tried augmented reality there.

When pointing your mobile device with the Aurasma app, the painting comes to life. You can listen to an audio, read information about Pieter Paul Rubens and about the story of the painting.

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Download the app to experience augmented reality.

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Lille, the city where I leave  and teach.

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Lille, the city where I leave  and teach.

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Lille, Nord-Pas de Calais, France - 8th January, 2013

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Lille is the largest city of the French Flanders in northern France. It is the principal city of the Lille Métropole, the fourth-largest metropolitan area in the country behind those of Paris, Lyon and Marseille. Lille is situated on the Deûle River, near France's border with Belgium.

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Definitely.

Explore the local museum.

Find out more about their text books using Aurasma and QR Codes.

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Passionate about teaching English and ICT.

ESL teacher in France.

I teach English in an european section and also literature with Seniors.

Trying to use tablets as if we had always worked with them. A breath of fresh air, millions of possibilities. You feel dizzy just thinking about the window that you have just opened.

Glad to be learning about tablets in the classroom.

You can get in touch at profsilvert@gmail.com or via Twitter @Teachersilvert

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That you need to think things through.

That I can take my students along the learning process and that I can let them choose what they want to learn. I'll give them an objective and watch them make choices and find their through the millons ways of learning.

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Make students happy.

Help them learn, collaborate and share.

Make them look forward to the next lesson.

Change a lesson plan into an event.

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Liberty.

Follow the inspiration along a well planned sequence.

Allow the students to breathe and to access the information they need, when they need it.

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Definitely. As long as it serves my purpose and I get the studens to focus on their tasks.

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Use Flockdraw to represent the bedroom where Winston Smith lives in 1984.

Share and collaborate.

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Interact in English about a text you had to read at home. Post a summary.

Do some interactive exercises to get ready for the exam.

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What does a tablet kind of lesson look like?

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What does a tablet kind of lesson look like?

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2 assignements.

1: post a comment on the homework you had to do at home on the school Intranet.

2: watch 2 videos, report to the class.

3. collaborate and share. Explain your findings to the rest of the class.

4. give some feedback on today's meet.

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I teach all kinds of different learners?

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I teach all kinds of different learners?

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How can my teaching fit my students' learning ablilities?

Am I ready to help them?

What should I learn from them?

Do they have tricks, shortcuts, great websites that they could share?

Should we share a "best app list" written by the students that would be part of the learning diary?

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Peer learning.

Interaction. commenting, reacting, posting.

reading, writing and thinking.

There must be a way to shift what we have learned at school through technology and connected devices.

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L'après-dînée à Ornans by Gustave Courbet
Genre scene - 19th century
Gustave Courbet is a French painter. He is mainly known for his realistic paints which offended his contemporaries.
"L'après-dînée à Ornans" is a painting by Gustave Courbet. It was painted in 1849.

It represents four men who are sitting on chairs around a table. The man most on the right is playing violin, the one on the left is holding a glass and looks asleep, on his right, an other man is contemplating the violinist, his face laying on his hand. And the man in the white coat is lighting a pipe. A dog is under is chair. The violinist is actually a friend of Gustave Courbet who is the man in the white coat. The man that holds a glass is Courbet's father and the last man is the owner of the house. Courbet made this simply scene of him, his friends and his father an historical scene.
I don't really like this painting because I find it fade and not really special. It is not colorful, the colours are sad and dark. But it is well painted and almost looks like a photography.

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L'après-dînée à Ornans by Gustave Courbet

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Should I change the way I teach?

Definitely.

Engage students in a different way and make them responsible for their own learning.

me To the students:

"Our goal is this one. I'm going to show you how to get there. Then you'll have to figure out yourself. Show me how you got there?"

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1.1 What is your main reason for using or wanting to use tablets in your classroom?

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1.1 What is your main reason for using or wanting to use tablets in your classroom?

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We've just received 65 tablets in our school.

Younger students are supposed to be using these mobile devices.

I have started using them on a larger scale. What I mean by large scale is 10 tablets for 24 students used in real time. We have correspondents in America and we are working on a number of different projects which make it necessary for students to interact online. By posting final tasks, working in teams and collaborating, they get a good idea of what 21st century learning look like.

We have been using Edmodo for quite some time to manage most of our corresponding tasks.