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Since my students are not allowed to carry phones at school or tablets using outdoor learning with mobile devices has to be done after class...we have done something like that for an etwinning project last year.We geared up with our gadgets and went filming in town, making a virtual tour for our partners, presenting our favourite spots.Considering it was the middle of winter, I thought my students were really brave.They loved editing the films on their phones and then sending them to me via bluetooth so we could include them in a Zeemap (just the audio which we stripped, because of safety reasons).The videos were posted on the twinspace:)

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View map Y.E.S. -Where I live created with ZeeMaps

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Another idea for outdoor activity with smartphones - geocashing

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The geocashes quest as free activity in 4th grade.

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Outdoor learning - whenever possible. We learned about our city by walking through the old town and getting to know the city squares and institutions. Everything we've learned was repeated in the classroom using Google Earth presentation. (switch on 3D buildings on your Google Earth while watching!) Our pupils don`t have tablets, some of them have mobiles so they took photos during our city visit and sent the photos to me via Edmodo, some of them made ppt, the others made Glogster and I put all materials on our school web.

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With students of a third class (16 years old), in May 2011, we have been teaching outdoors using the Ipad. The applications that we used to keep in touch and collaborate with a partner class in a city far have been  Skype for video conferencing and Bambuser for live streaming. As can be seen from filming the students were thrilled and have learned so much in a quiet and relaxing. The major drawback was the loss of connection at certain times, since we were near a river in the countryside. The activities were part of an educational project on the environment.

Live streaming from the river: http://bambuser.com/v/1684870

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Videoconferenza didattica dal fiume Savio

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Le guardie ecologiche di Cesena accompagnano gli studenti del Versari in un percorso ecologico sul fiume Savio, condiviso con gli studenti di Castel del Piano in videoconferenza.

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For outdoor learning we already make use of smartphones and tablets, but there are still many possibilities to explore, especially interactivity through mobile devices is very interesting.

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We celebrated the day of space out of our school in Stara Zagora city observatory, studying about space, the sun and planets. Also visit one of our famous churches talking about relligion. In the city mall we watched "Hunger games"- really a film with much AR as effects ;) and of course we had great time together. After all we made this glogster to tell our story to our project partners :)

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Our Astronauts Day - April the 12th: astronauts day | Glogster EDU - Interactive multimedia posters

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See the Glog! Our Astronauts Day - April the 12th: astronauts day | Glogster EDU - Interactive multimedia posters

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As a physics teacher, I rarely had the chance to have outdoor activities with my students. The picture below is taken last year when we had an eTwinning project. ThThis LE suggested me the idea that outdoor activities can be not only in the presence of the teacher, which is almost impossible in our case, but may be workloads for groups of students. What we must to do in this case is to guide them to use mobile devices and apps equired.

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Use a sports tracker to draw pictures. Track your walk and try to form a picture from your tripline. You can draw shapes of your walk.

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We do several outdoor learning activities during the year, but don't use that many devices or apps...let's say not yet.

The last week of each school year is dedicated to several outdoor activities like geocaching, open-air museum, visiting a biogs plant and wind power station, which includes a nice hike, and several other excursions.

Each year we take grade 9 students to England; this year we linked that to another excursion at home. Later students combined the facts gathered in both tours and prepared presentations. In June we were in South England and also visited Osborne House, Queen Victoria's summer residence, on the Isle of Wight, in July we went to Schloss Callenberg near Coburg, 30km from where we live. Queen Victoria's mother and Prince Albert's father were born there, and from there the family started to 'conquer' several royal families.

The photo you see here was taken during a meeting for an eTwinning project. A colleague, who is very active in geocaching, helped prepare a special tour through town, leading Polish and German students to several places related to history. The little brochure presents the essential information, coordinates, etc. and also leaves room for adding the facts students had to find out.

After this learning event I see some nore activities we could link to that, like mapping or creating timelines.

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I like outdoor learning, even though it can be more demanding to plan and execute all by yourself and have 25+ students with you. However, students seem to like it, they connect more what they learn to the real world and their imagination is more open. Simple problem solving skills can be trained, students become independent, but also learn to work in pairs or in small groups. Of course, some of the drawbacks are maintaining discipline and having everyone do what they are supposed to do, but that can be easily overcome by setting out the rules and a detailed workplan. In my lessons outdoor students used their mobile devices to take photos of the nature and their surroundings. We documented everything in our eTwinning project called "The View through Our Window" which can be found on this link: http://theviewfromourwindow.blogspot.com/

We observed the nature throughout the year and took photos from a single spot in our school and had various activities connected to that project. Here is the final video that sums up that project:

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The View from Our Window is an eTwinning project where the students observed the changes in the nature, weather, animal and plant life as well as the people's activities in each month. Each month we took a photo from the same spot in our school and this is the final movie of all the months from October 2011 to June 2012.

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As a participant of the "Sharing landscapes" Comenius course which was held on Lesbos in 2013 I experienced outdoor learning myself.

One of the course activities was undertaken in the Natural History Museum in Sigri. Our task was to find interesting facts about the exibits and share them with the other members of the group. We used iPads to code the information and each QR code was printed. Next stage of the activity was presentation. It took place in the Petrified Forest (UNESCO World Heritage Site), managed by the NHM. Each member of the group read aloud one text using an iPad and the QR code reader. The group discussed it with the author.

This activity can be easily applied at the school level. It provides opportunities to learn about a specific topic. Students are engaged in finding interesting facts, reflecting on them, presenting them to the group, commenting, disscussing. And they use ICT at the same time

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It is hard for me to use all those tools working with my students as I teach them how to find a job after they finish their education. Anyway, I find it very useful to help them how to find places they have to go to for a job interview. I will intensively work with them on using Maps. I hope I will have chance to share the results with you one day. Thank you for sharing this knowledge!

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I use outdoor activities with my students..and I use mobile phones to take pictures and then we work in classroom..using some apps to make movies ....In this activity the students study the local heritage...

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Last holiday we with a group of teachers from different parts of our country and our families took a part in a location based game situated in a large garden in Veltrusy (a town near Prague). We followed instructions given by a virtual gardener and learnt about history of the place, about nature and finally we got a treasure - a chest - and when we used a special app with AR we saw the treasure - very rare beetle living in the garden. It was wonderful experience for all of us.

Currently, we are trying to raise money for making something similar in a park near our school.

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Tablets is an excellent tool

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This year I went on the street to investigate strangers about the most valuable thinks in theirs life. My students made this short video. They were very excited about the ideea of an outdoor activity.

http://youtu.be/OaL8s0UEGZQ

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For some years that I do outdoor activities with my students with the use of mobile phones. We use mobile devices to record tracks using the GPS and the Apps to record these paths. With the knowledge of new AR Apps I will now include these apps in such activities. GPS Venture is Apps to record tracks - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ventureGPSFree&hl=en
I share a file of a track around Batalha

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For one of our projects, we used Munzee and placed codes around the city that

other students had to find.

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Pinterest is a visual discovery tool that you can use to find ideas for all your projects and interests.