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Here I am at the end of this amazing and challenging adventure with TechnoClil!

I am very happy I managed to complete all the tasks as best as I could, despite the many difficulties. I am not supposed to carry out CLIL activities, since I am an English teacher, but I made my try here because I would like to "import" such practice in my school.

Every week and with every activity I discovered tons of stimulating readings, webtools and possibilities which will definitely improve my teaching beyond CLIL. My favourite webtools are Tagul (for reading/vocabulary) and Learning Designer... I will never be able to let them go! An activity of mine I am particularly satisfied for is the PowerPoint presentation of Week 5. Despite being fiull of flaws and maybe missing some aspects of the Clil lesson/path, I realised it in extreme psychological condition (scrutini were being made, and I was very tired), but I could in any case prepare a project which has (almost) everything I wanted to include.

If I could turn back time to Week 1, I think I would do exactly what I did and they way I did it, because this was the best I could do at that moment.

My feelings? They are partly expressed (week by week) in my infographic. The only one missing is gratitude for the opportunity I was given.

Thanks for letting me in! see you next year!

Here's the link!

https://magic.piktochart.com/output/20296938-new-piktochart

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https://moodle4teachers.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=29647#p71689

the post with link to my digital portfolio

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My Clil Lesson plan audionarrated and animated with PPT

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Week 5 Activity - Teaching Path Video and evaluation

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Week 5 Activity - Teaching Path Video and evaluation

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My grid on the Power Point I pprepared.
Topic of the Clil Lesson: The Industrial Revolution

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| Flipped Classroom - a new way to involve learnersby Valentina Confido - Thursday, 9 February 2017, 9:19 AM
| I am planning to experience this innovative way of teaching/learning,because I find it truly effective and involving..

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Received at last

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at last!

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ER: a great way to stimulate students

by Valentina Confido - Monday, 6 February 2017, 8:58 AM

I have no experience of Extensive reading in CLIL practice, and actually I have no experience of ER at all, but this week's activities have definitely given me the chance to get more acquainted with such practice, and I will for sure introduce it tio my students in the future!

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Validated at last!

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Week 4 Activity - Extensive Reading and CLIL connections

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Week 4 Activity - Extensive Reading and CLIL connections

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My grid on Extensive reading in CLIL lesson plan

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Valentina Confido_WEEK 4 Extensive Reading and CLIL connections

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Week 4 _profile Completion on Moodle Badge

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Week 4 _profile Completion on Moodle Badge

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Week 4 Forum Post on webtools and extensive reading

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Week 4 Forum Post on webtools and extensive reading

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Week 4 - My favourite webtool for reading/vocabulary

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Week 4 - My favourite webtool for reading/vocabulary

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Tagul is definitely amazing!
https://tagul.com/795icsacby4y/environment

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Badge received!

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Here's Assignment 2 for Week 3: commenting my LD lesson plan on the British Empire.

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VALENTINA CONFIDO_Lesson plan Learning Designer - week test 2

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Week 3 - January 24th 2017 - Peer assessment Grid

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Week 3 - January 24th 2017 - Peer assessment Grid

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The grid I have posted on the Peer review forum.
The LP I reviewed was made by Gaia Lombardi
http://v.gd/8glpD7

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VALENTINA CONFIDO_Peer review grid on Coding in English

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Week 3 - My Language Designer CLIL Lesson Plan

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Week 3 - My Language Designer CLIL Lesson Plan

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https://v.gd/ZDHB69

The British empire

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the potential of technology for CLIL_ Valentina Confido

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Week 2 - My entry in the Expert's voice Forum (Greg Kessler

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Week 2 - My entry in the Expert's voice Forum (Greg Kessler

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Week 2 by Valentina Confido - Saturday, 21 January 2017, 12:28 PM
| Week 2 has almost come to its end and we are all waiting for the test/assignment. I find week 2 has been quite challenging for all of us here (both for the technical problems and for the activities), but I discovered tons of new ideas for my teaching! I find webtools really useul but still I have a doubt sometimes about the effectiveness of having a tablet for every student. My students are always looking at a screen, and many of them use it to randomply surf the net instead of taking advantage of this innovative means...

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This is the dotstorming post (about my favourite webtool) I published on Tuesday Jan. 17th!

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I have no experience of CLIL, I have never even witnessed such situations in which CLIL is used. But my opinion is that - as everything in this world - there are a number of positive aspects which are balanced by some negative ones. Of course CLIL strengths include the possibility to teach/learn a FL in a more natural way than in "traditional" lessons, and the integration of different contents makes the students get used to being more flexible and "ready". Furthermore, CLIL contexts offer a wide variety of social and cultural dimensions in which learners can approach FL (even if this of course brings them into a harder cognitive effort). There are numberless ways in which teachers can vary and differentiate the activities to make them more suitable and effective for children (according to learning styles), so CLIL major point of strength id definitely its flexibility. On the other hand, we cannot ignore that in a Country like Italy - and especially in some areas like the South, where Italian is barely spoken in small towns or villages - bringing CLIL into the classroom becomes way more challenging, since the focus on FL has always been (and remains) a challenge itself, without the complication of teaching a non-language content. So if students lack proper competence in FL, CLIL risks to become useless or a bit elitist. Plus, students (and very often their families) are not motivated enough in this sense, and they see no point in such practice. In any case the most serious drawback in my opinion is that CLIL practice may lead to two possible outcomes:  either students concentrate on understanding the language and miss (a part of) the content, or students grasp the content and - when the time comes for them to actively become a part of the process - produce a language output, which is understandable, and makes sense from a content perspective, but which contains many flaws from a language perspective.

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TECHNO-CLIL FOR EVO 2017 – Valentina Confido

Moderators: Letizia Cinganotto & Daniela Cuccurullo

Reflecting on my favourite webtool

| Name and surname   | Valentina Confido
|  Country and city | Italy, Reggio Calabria
|  School level where I teach   | Lower Secondary school
|  Subject/s taught    | English
|  Webtool chosen: link and short description    | https://quizlet.com  It’s an easy-to-use free online tool, though which you can access several flashcards and allows you to create sets of words, share materials, create groups and do online interactive activities. It allows voice recording (to improve pronunciation and/or listening abilities) and the range of activities you can create is really interesting.
|  School level where it could be used   | Primary and lower secondary
|  Subject/subjects   | English
|  Skill/ skills the webtool may enhance   | Linguistic skills (reading/writing, spelling), logical abilities, listening skills and pronunciation
|  Students’ level of English    | A1 to B2 (depending on the teacher’s choice)
| Technical requirements (if any) | Internet connection, LIM or tablet/pc
|  My experiments with the webtool (if any): external links, pictures, screenshots etc. | Here is an example of a set of words (clothes) I created for my students (first class of lower secondary school). In the screenshot you can see some of the possibilities offered by Quizlet: connect the word to the relevant image and/or give your definition or choose from a list (definition or Italian translation).

|  Additional comments   | The sets of words can be studied in different modes: flashcards,  gravity (definitions scroll vertically down the screen in the shape of asteroids. The user must type the term that goes with the definition before it reaches the bottom of the screen), speller (the term is read aloud in a clear way and learners must write it correctly), matching (connect terms to the definition).

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Week 2 (17.01.2017) - My favourite webtool grid posted on the technoclil blog

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Week 2 (17.01.2017) - My favourite webtool grid posted on the technoclil blog

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http://technoclil.org/2017/01/17/my-favourite-webtool-quizlet/

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no clil experience for me by Valentina Confido - Tuesday, 17 January 2017, 10:48 AM
| I have never experienced CLIL (neither as a teacher, nor as a witnesss of someone else's work), and I am so curious! I can see a number of positive aspects, and at the same time I wonder about all the implications of such practice in the Italian school context...

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This new experience with Clil makes me curious and excited! very happy to be here! I am getting started a bit late but will do my best to keep the pace!

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This new experience with Clil makes me curious and excited! very happy to be here! I am getting started a bit late but will do my best to keep the pace!

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Week 1 - My Presentation on the Dotstorming Digital Wall - me in short

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Week 1 - My Presentation on the Dotstorming Digital Wall - me in short

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hi everyone! my name is Valentina Confido and I teach English in a lower secondary school. This is my first experience with Clil!