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Well, here is my journey.

I started as a French Foreign Language teacher in a middle school in Morocco, in 1995. I was 19 years old and very brand new to a great profession! I teached in rural areas where there was no GSM network, no electricity... (in fact, a lot of things were not there...but I was! hhhh)

At 2002, I stopped my teacher career and shifted to another career : vocational conselling for students. I worked for 2 years providing information to students about their future options. That was a first occasion for me to set up a website for students (I stopped update on 2006 :-( ...). At 2003, I had my French Litterature Licence degree from university.

At the end of 2006, I joined the ministry of education main offices in the capital, exactly as a member of Direction du programme GENIE (National ICT for education strategy). I was in charge of many areas, from equipment to digital content and teachers training. Meanwhile, I had my Master Degree from Strasbourg's University in France. That was a great exciting e-learning experience!

By december 2010, I stopped working for MoE (I was on a leave of absence, for 3 years, cause I needed to change and to learn new things). I was enrolled in september 2011 by SMART Technologies (Canada) as an Education Consultant in Morocco and Francophone Africa. That was a really valuable experience where I learned a lot, I met great people and travelled in some european and african countries.

From January 2014, I was back to my former position in MoE, where I am working actually on many new experimentations in education field (IWB, Serious Gaming and of course... Tablets!)

I decided to participate in tihs course to learn about Use Of Tablets in Classroom, as I am in charge of a pilot project here, in Morocco!

To say the truth : I learned a lot from this course and I will use all of this knowledge in my work!

Cheers from Morocco!

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Let's see what's happening next! Good lick everybody!

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I use Autodesk Sketchbook app on a Samsung Galaxy 10.1 2014 Edition. Smooth experience that help me to make alive many ideas related to use of ICT for Education.

If you are interested in other work, you can check my Google Blog!

http://bdtice.blogspot.com

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Yes, as always, a 100% score. I m happy with this assessment checking what I learned thanks to this course!

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MODULE 4 : 4.8.1. Using the Learning Designer!

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MODULE 4 : 4.8.1. Using the Learning Designer!

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As I told before, I m not teaching right now!

So, I decided to ask a maths teacher to help me with a lesson plan. She uses SMART Notebook Software in her school, and she showed me how she works with her students.

She used an approach that she already seen from a british teacher experience. So credits go to that bright guy that I don't know! THANKS!

Using the Learning Designer, I tried to imagine the same scenario using tablets. Let's see what do you think of that!!!

Lesson link : http://v.gd/2ftCf0

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MODULE 4 : 4.6 Apps & Tools for personalizing/flipping classroom

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MODULE 4 : 4.6 Apps & Tools for personalizing/flipping classroom

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I have not been teaching with a free flipping classroom method, but I would like to say that apps mentionned before are very great and seem very appropriate.
Aurasma was very cool due to its augmented reality features.

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MODULE 4 : 4.5 Flipping Classroom with Tablets

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MODULE 4 : 4.5 Flipping Classroom with Tablets

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Time management & access to tablets and internet outside school : those are the key challenges I think we can face, especially here in Morocco.
How to make sur every student will watch videos before coming to classroom?

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MODULE 4 : 4.4 Introduction to Flipped Classroom

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MODULE 4 : 4.4 Introduction to Flipped Classroom

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In Morocco, teachers are still sticking to traditional methods inside classroom, due to a general education policy. However, people at the MoE are very aware of innovation and shifting to new models. Driving change is not to easy and it will need time to come with ne approaches.
Actually, no flipped classroom are here yet! But, the added value is very obvious.
Quoting the second video :
... Instead of sitting and listening, students can spend classtime applying knowledge in practical way. And teachers are free to spend their time working with students and giving them individual support and attention.
I think that these sentences summarise everything about flipping classrooms!

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MODULE 4 : 4.2 Personalising learning with tablets

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MODULE 4 : 4.2 Personalising learning with tablets

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Really, interesting videos.
It is very obvious that tablets are good tools for personalized learning. 3 good values to stress here :
- learning pace
- confidence
- Independance
I think we can talk about personalized learning when pupils benefit from that 3 values! No doubt.
As I need to tell everytime : in Morocco, we are just exploring what teachers can do with their students using tablets. I will sure be very inspired form all contributions here. Many thanks!

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As always, starting with Katja telling about how Module 3 was and what's coming in the 4th one.

Liked Astrid's online trombinoscope! I will add my photo later (looking for a very special one to share!)

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MODULE 4 : Personalized & Flipped learning

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MODULE 4 : Personalized & Flipped learning

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So what's there? What are thes concepts? Any examples? How to make a lesson plan for such a scenario? And What about childres with special need?

Exploring the module!

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Struggled very hard las days! I was not able to keep the same workflow on the course. Very busy and, as a bonus (yeah!), I have no internet connection at home since I am moving to another house! Now, I am on 3G and ... let's see what we can do!
Cominnnnnnng..!

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Yessss...

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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?

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

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

Answers are already included above!

1. Random pairs are good opportunity, I think.

2. Linking students learning outcomes with their real environment

3. Peer assessments is a good approach in my opinion

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Module 3 : 3.5 Apps for Collaborative Lea

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Module 3 : 3.5 Apps for Collaborative Lea

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Here are my propositions :

Google Apps (in general)

Padlet (recently, thanks to this course!)

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As I promised... here are other comics I made before and put on my 

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As I promised... here are other comics I made before and put on my 

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You can see other stuff on :

http://bdtice.blogspot.com

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My own conception of Flipped Classroom..!

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My own conception of Flipped Classroom..!

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Yes, indeed...

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Due to my workflow and time, I am not able to attend those valuable webinar, but thaks for recordings! I will be viewing it after.

Back to assessment and collaboration, I thing peer assessment is the good approach to adopt since the main concern is collaborating. I prefer formative tasks starting from small groups projects (intermediate output) to collective project for all students (final class output). I used to have this kind of assessment when I was learning for my Master degree on a collaborative platform : we were small groups (3 or 4 people) and worked on some projects and at the end the whole Master group worked on one final project : that was very interesting.

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Module 3 : 3.3 School-to-school collaboration with tablets

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Module 3 : 3.3 School-to-school collaboration with tablets

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I think there is no need to demonstrate why twinning schools is a good scenario (especially e-Twinning actually!). Two main things would be real motivators for a school to look for twinning with another one :

- Curiosity to know other people from other countries and discover what they do for learning ;

- Competitivity to show that our culture and history and others aspects matter for us as pupils.

That's it...

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Module 3 : 3.2 Students collaboratin with tablets

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Module 3 : 3.2 Students collaboratin with tablets

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Again, I need to say that I'm not teaching right now and that we are just attempting to test tablets in classroom in a pilot project frame.

Anyway, that doesn't stop me from thinking about the answer for this videos questions! Ok...

As we can see on the video, groups of 4 students are moving around with on tablet each time. This king of nomadism made by a kind of data quest through city, outside school is very efective, I guess.

Putting pupils right inside their real environment and linkind learning outcomes with their real concerns is the good way to keep them focused. I would do the same : pupils don't need to consider school as a standalone space different from its real and actual environment.

Thanks for this video.

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Groups are indeed the good opportunity to teach to our pupils collaborative skills. I agree with the idea stating that a teacher would better start groups from pairs.

To compose groups, I think that teacher can (waiting to define pupils profiles and learning styles) compose random pairs (using a name picker for example, it's always funny to do that with pupils inside classroom!).

The second video (with kids) is very important in terms of pupils feedback :

- we can work together and decide what to do ;

- we can make mindmaps ;

- we can show ideas to others ;

- we can discuss in group ;

... and we can plan to work everywhere in schools : tablets are very mobile!

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Hi everybody viewing my padlet!

Back to course again... I am very affected and glad to see my cartoon shared and to be mentionned in Katja's video! Really... I will share more drawing related to use of ICT in classroom in general, and for tablets and IWBs in particular. Stay Tuned.

Now I am ready for module 3

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Moooove to next one...

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I think that using tablets at school is very interesting and exciting experience

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One of the main concerns for a teacher, I think, is ghatering relevant and legal photos from Internet.

Copyright on pictures is an issue sometimes, so here is a proposal for an activity in classroom, for all the year!

Building an authentic databank for photosand videos as well taken by pupils using their own devices (smartphones, tablets, cameras, ...). Most of picture would be for daily objects

science and physics phenomenons, animals and insects, buildings, etc. No people are taken in photos (to avoid image copyright and personal integrity issues). The teacher with the pupils

would choose an online media sharing service and adopt it, then share it with other schools.

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I loved the "random hand" ...
Well, as I told, I am not teaching for now, but managing a pilot project where teachers will create their own contents with their pupils using Windows 8 Intel Education Tablets (Intel Corp is one of our MoE foreign partnenrs).
I plan to share with teachers tools mentioned here. eBooks and videos seems to be (for me) good form of new contents here.
Here is an exemple of courses I supervised teachers before to make on Interactive WhiteBoard in some primay and secondary schools, early 2011. Whilst our actual pilot project, I plan to use some of SMART Notebook's files on tablets.
http://www.portailtice.ma/sites/default/files/RN/P/P5P6/P5P6-M/TBI/TBI-12/TBI-12.notebook
File is uploaded on national ICT4E portal in Morocco.

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Hi there. I was quite busy these days! But I am still willing to attend the whole course! Back to school...

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Dream : where pupils can brainstorm and think free

Explore : collect data

Map : structure ideas and concepts

Make : develop content, do activities

Ask (That was not explained in the video, but we can guess!

Re-make : replan upon feedbacks

Show : publish and present

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Why content creation is an interesting pedagogical scenario?

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Why content creation is an interesting pedagogical scenario?

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That's a good question! I keep hearing people talking about content creation but when it is time to make things concrete, there is hesitation..!

We need then to explain crearly what "Content Creation" is.

I think that everybody now, due to proliferation of personal devices (especially smartphones and Tablets), is a content creator. A simple status published on a social network is actually a piece of content. We have to asist our pupils to be also good content creators inside classrooms. How?

We need a learning scenario! And according to my actual context (in my country), we need courageous scenarios (Back to convincing teachers and parents!!!)

For me, an interesting pedagogical scenario would definitely be that one which help pupils discover their real own potential, in terms of skills.
As I told before, I am not teaching now. But, I plan to work closely with some teachers (whitin the pilot) on pedagogical scenarios that help concretize 1:1 approach and skills leveraging.

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1. Identify at least one idea for content you could produce together with your students that has a wider purpose and meaning than just the classroom activity

2. Create some content with a tablet (can be your personal tablet) to useas an example when doing a content creation project in your class

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I appreciated a lot the review for learning diaries (even if she didn't mention mine hahaha...)

I learned that many peers have chosen other tools for their diaries : Dipity, Glogster (for kids with special needs...) and even Google Docs!

Well, the tool doesn't really matter, the diary does...

The main whole-school challenge which was the most highlighted by most of this course participants is : convincing parents and teachers.

Katja talked also abour peer support especially in terms of worries about level in English. I really enjoy being here because it helps me to practice my English! As an Arabic mother tongue language speaker and a foreign French language speaker also, I think I do good

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Okey, let's go...

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Yes... Let's move to the next level

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http://www.bbc.com/news/education-30216408

http://creative.eun.org/resources/-/blogs/l-impact-de-l-ipad-sur-l-apprentissage-des-eleves?_33_redirect=%2Fresources

http://iejee.com/files/1/articles/article_5511d308a5981/IEJEE_5511d308a5981_last_article_5516c5b5d2533.pdf

http://creative.eun.org/observation

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This is a drawing I made for 2013 Back To Schools!

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

As I told you, when I was introducing myself here and on Facebook Group, I am not teaching! I am here to learn all interesting thing about bringing Tablets inside classroom. I am a member of a direction un charge of national ICT for Education policy in Morocco, since 2007. Now, we are wondering if Tablets are good opportunity for our school's actual context. We need to measure all aspects of integrating Tablets in classrooms. This pilot's output is essentially meaning data for our decision makers. I will be sharing more info.

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

I think, according to our reality, buget for equiping every school on a 1:1 basis and wifi connectivity would be main challenges to face.

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

Teachers training about change driving in new pedagogical approaches would be a main challenge inside a classroom.

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I have never been using Edmodo. It seems to be a quite good virtual environment with really simple and basic features (notes, assignments, quizz, polls) with possibility to attach files and recieve notification about group activity.
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Well, introducing Tablets inside classroom is definitely a new and special thing in our context.

There will be of course some excitement at the begining and we need to take advantage of that : that is surely motivation for pupils. The challenge will be, in my opinion, focusing on the Tablet as a learning tool, instead of a regular everyday leisure tool! There will be some work to do (at teachers level) to define this new tool "image" inside classroom.

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That was a really interesting videos form Diana Bannister.

I think that we have 2 challenges here, in Morocco :
- Wireless connectivity for all schools (some are covered and some are not yet) ;
- Professional Developpement that need more engagement form both teachers and decision makers.

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M1 : What students Think about use of Tablets in classroom?

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M1 : What students Think about use of Tablets in classroom?

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Here are some answers from children on the video :

- we can play games ;

- we can do search ;

- we can change the desktop ;

- we can learn new languages (foreign ones) ;

- we can acquire noew skills ;

- we can play...but also study!

... and THANKS to Wifi : we are always connected and have access to "fresh" news!

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What would I tell parents about implementig Tablets in their children classrooms?

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What would I tell parents about implementig Tablets in their children classrooms?

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I am not teaching. I am in charge of a pilot project about Tablets in schools. As an ICT4E direction in the Minstry Of Education, we need to know what kind of pedagogical use tablets can bring inside classrooms, what kind of approach to adopt, which scenario for implementig Tablets... For now, we are not talking budget, we are rather focusing on real Return On Investement, on the pedagogical side.
So, talking to parents, I would say :
Tablets are other ICT tools that exists already outside schools. Let's see what those tools can bring inside school, in trems of added value.

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M1 : What Teachers Think about use of Tablets in classroom?

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M1 : What Teachers Think about use of Tablets in classroom?

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Interesting testimonials from teachers :

- Personalized learning ;

- Apps for content creation (example of Evernote as a copybook) ;

- Flexible teaching ;

- Visualization ;

- Support for students creativity ;

- Inclusive teaching ;

- Collaboration.

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Well, I am just starting this exciting course and I hope I will end it on-time!

Good luck everybody...

I am a member of a direction un charge of national ICT for Education policy in Morocco, since 2007. Now, we are wondering if Tablets are good opportunity for our school's actual context. We need to measure all aspects of integrating Tablets in classrooms. This pilot's output is essentially meaning data for our decision makers. I will be sharing more info.
See you soon!