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My school leader has decided to implement teachers' technological skills as well as the didactic approach to the lesson. it means that she has created a technical staff to support those teachers , like me, who want to start a new path in teaching. In particular, I have started using tablets at school only with 2 classes, 1st and 3rd year. Finally, tablets are the useful device to apply a new didactic approach I am using, the "flipped teaching & cooperative learning".

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Liceo Scientifico Statale "E. Boggio Lera"

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Tablets are the innovative instruments which allow students and teacher's to work in a collaborative way. First of all, they can be divided into groups of 4/5 students who will work using the apps given by the teacher or they found useful to create to fulfill the task. Moreover, the teacher becomes a "mentor", a "coach"helping them during the lesson. In addition to this, he/she can help those students who need more care in understanding the lesson. In this way, teaching can be inclusive where some learners would be neglected in the traditional method. Finally, the adoption of Edmodo allows the teacher to introduce the lesson which is studied at home by the students who can feel their teacher's presence when she makes her own video lessons.

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here below there is my Edmodo page with the class groups with all the video lessons, ppt posted by my students
https://www.edmodo.com/home#/

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these are some of my "flipped students"

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Ccaterina Musumeci, Catania, What kind of content you can produce with your class?
      
        
          
          
        
      
    
      
        
          
          
        
      
    

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this is my first video lesson i made to explain my students the features of the medieval ballad. i first let them listen to a modern ballad " blowing in the wind" by Bob Dylan to catch their attention. Then I used a ppt presentation to summarize the stylistic characteristics of this old genre. finally , I added a video of a famous medieval ballad "Geordie" sung by a famous italian songwriter , Fabrizio De Andrè. They loved it! both the video their teacher created and the songs.
I recorded my video lesson using sreecast-o-matic

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This is a video taken from the British council website. The objective of this project is to let my students make videos or presentations about the typical street food in Sicily

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Carmen looks at the different food that people in Britain enjoy eating and talks about how food in Britain comes from all over the world.

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These are the students' first products of the project "street food in Sicily". they used their tablets to make it

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and now a very important theme.

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This is a video lesson about Shakespeare's use of words. An original way of making my students study the genius of this great writer

From Ed.Ted.

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William Shakespeare, long revered as the top dog of the English language, celebrates his birthday today. TED-Ed celebrates the Bard's big day by highlighting some of his best language - from his beautiful, romantic metaphors to his pointed, scathing insults.

Beyond giving the world dozens of English language masterpieces and inventing countless words (including the word countless), Shakespeare certainly had a way with the romantic turn of phrase. In this TED-Ed Lesson, Anthony John Peters explains why Shakespeare's coy use of metaphor was so effective - and may just help you get a date today.

Shakespeare also excelled at delivering some serious smack talk. April Gudenrath explores a few of Shakespeare's most clever insults in this TED-Ed Lesson.

Want more on Shakespeare?
Check out this lesson on the development of English drama to see what theater was like before Shakespeare came on the scene. >>

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Celebrate Shakespeare's birthday with some of his best insults and pickup lines

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William Shakespeare, long revered as the top dog of the English language, celebrates his birthday today. TED-Ed celebrates the Bard's big day by highlighting some of his best language - from his beautiful, romantic metaphors to his pointed, scathing insults.

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I asked my 3rd year students to watch this video where it is explained Why Shakespeare used the iambic pentameter. ..

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Why Shakespeare loved iambic pentameter - David T. Freeman and Gregory Taylor

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Shakespeare sometimes gets a bad rap in high schools for his complex plots and antiquated language. But a quick peek into the rhythm of his words reveals a poet deeply rooted in the way people spoke in his time - and still speak today. Why do Shakespeare's words have such staying power?

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and this our delicious cold dessert we use to eat in summer..and not only..

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I haven't used this app yet, but it seems to be very interesting to create games about all school subjects,history, science,etc . It's mobile friendly, and what's more it's free

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Based at Wisconsin Institute for Discovery at the University of Wisconsin - Madison, we are a truly interdisciplinary team of educational researchers, software engineers, artists, and storytellers, exploring the intersection of current learning science and media design, specializing in mobile media, video games, and simulation.

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Caterina Musumeci, Catania,Sicily Module 3.5 Apps for collaborative learning

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Caterina Musumeci, Catania,Sicily Module 3.5 Apps for collaborative learning

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-Padlet
-Poplet
-Team up
-Office online
-Google doc
- Etwinning -Twinspace
- Blogspot
-Prezi
-Slideshare
-Edmodo
-Moodle
-Google Drive
-Socrative
-Evernote
-Google sites
-Pinterest
-Fidenia
-Epub editor

-Aris

- pinnaclesys.com

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This video has been made by my 3rd year students. They used Pinnacle

www.pinnaclesys.com,an app to create it with music adding their selfies ,too. Although the imperfections in the script, the result is.....You'll post your comments. ...😉

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I have already taken part into a Comenius project "Promote your Euroregion",as the Coordinator for my school, in school year 2010-2012. Although we didn't use any tablets at school, each students in the partners countries - finland, Basque countries, Italy - catania and rovigo -, used their school computers to realize their works. We created a facebook group c where they could share ideas , post comments, etc. In addition to this, we made a blog for further comments , but above all , to add all the experiences and works elaborated by the students . Below the final result of our project. It was an awesome experience for all , teachers and students, enthusiasm kept us bound together til the end of our project

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		Caterina Musumeci, Catani, Sicily Module 3 What strategies have you used to assess group work? What are the main 
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		Caterina Musumeci, Catani, Sicily Module 3 What strategies have you used to assess group work? What are the main 
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A strategy to assess group work may be to give students a time limit as the end of their activity. As an example , on Edmodo I 've given tasks they have to work on , but they received a "due date" to deliver their group works. For sure, I've followed their process of elaboration, and, furthermore, I gave them precise roles to each student during the 1st phase of the Learning Scenario.

here , my students have used "storybird " to introduce Shakespeare and "A midsummer night's dream" they have previously seen at the theatre.

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William Shakespeare and ''A Midsummer night's dream''. by agatadibuono on Storybird

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Read, write, discover, and share the books you'll always remember.

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Hi, I teach at E. Boggio Lera, a High School in Catania. This is my first time I am using tablets in teaching and I think it amazingly great. Students are very excited of searching a new way of learning and, as for me, a new way of teaching. I strongly hope to enhance students'skills thanks to the use of new technologies. Tablets are a great device to discover new worlds for both teacher's and students.

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I am into " digital class 2.0" in 2 classes . Moreover . in some classes there are LIMs, which are used by some colleagues. As for me, I have welcomed this project because I followed a course to "flip" my teaching and now after some months using this teaching method , I couldn't come back to the traditional and face-to-face method.

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Caterina Musumeci, Catania, Sicily Module 3
		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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Caterina Musumeci, Catania, Sicily Module 3
		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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I mean that I usually decide who has to stay with to form an eterogenous group where there may be brilliant students helping their mates: how searching in the Net, deciding what is the best source to use, the best apps to use for the task given by the teacher. last but not least , the final aim of cooperative learning is "learning trough experience", that is the student learns by doing , experiencing his own knowledge .