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www.socrative.com
www.etwinning.net
khoot.com
www.epals.com
www.scrumy.com
www.teamup.com
www.padlet.com
www.learningdesigner.org
www.shoology.com

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Are you a teacher isolated from your peers by classroom walls

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Are you a teacher isolated from your peers by classroom walls

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1) Dream - brainstorm
2) Explore - collect info
3) Map - Structure their thoughts
4) Make - develop or create
5) Ask - talk and have feedback
6) Remake - replan or revisit
7) Show - publish or present

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-Are they working together? (that could mean pair work, group work, work with other schools an expert in the field)

-Do they have shared responsibility? (do they have the same goal? That different from outcome)

-Do they make substantive decisions? (If the decision of the power point background colour matter it could be because the audience could have visual impairment)

-Is their work interdependent?

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The teacher must reconceive his role. He must become an organizer of people into communities for a specific purpose-learning.

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I was asked  to describe it. So, here it comes:
An activity that has required a lot of collaboration from students: We were learning recipes. So we were going to have a role-play for the whole school in an “English Morning” day. All the class was involved in creating the recipe: a fruit salad. They decided on the ingredients, quantities and what utensils they would use. They created sentences narrating the recipe while some students would perform what they were doing. Once one of the narrators said what ingredient we would use, the whole class had to ask about the quantity, using “how much” or “how many” questions. The whole class had interaction respecting students who were shier and did not want to perform in front of the other classes.

It was a “closing” activity where students had previously studied the topics and would put them into practise.

A low level of collaboration activity was when we were beginning the lesson about recipes when students had short vocabulary about fruits, vegetables or actions when cooking. We were reading the book, checking for words that they knew, checking pronunciation and whether anyone in class could help with the vocab.

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Describing a Collaborative Activity - week 01

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Describing a Collaborative Activity - week 01

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It was a two student-class activity where conversation should be its main goal.

*This activity was not created by me. It was suggested by the one of the ESL courses I work for. I have then tried to adapt it.

I firstly asked students what they knew about Katy Parry x Taylor Swift. One of them knew that there was something going on with them in one of the songs Taylor Swift sang.

Following the book I asked them if they knew what the expressions "beef" and "Bish" meant and instead of telling them their meaning I asked them to use their online tools to find it out, together - collaborative work.

Then, I showed them the proposed video where in a carpool Katy Perry talks about this beef and (as proposed by the book) asked them to give a retrospective based on what they knew and had just seen on the video. OK, lesson done.

While they were doing these tasks I created a padlet and asked them to give their opinion on this case and once one of them had given their opinion the other state if she agreed or not and say why. I believe it, after watching the video conference, it was more like a cooperative work and there wasn´t much of a motivation because they haven´t done it so far. But... will message them asking them to do it. I shared this activity with them on facebook.

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"If we share an apple we will each have only half apple. If we share ideas, we will both have two ideas."

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Cooperative learning deals with different goals in a group.
Collaborative learning deals with one goal for the whole group

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Back in time I´ve worked in London as a Classroom Assistant. That gave me a great experience in the European way of teaching. Taking this Collaborative Learning course takes me back to a time when I learned so much! It´s been great to be able to revive all this again! I just love the European teaching!

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For some reason I couldn´t edit day 3 so, here it comes!
Click on the link and check my designer!

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First time I tried to use Padlet in one of my classes! It worked good, but stds haven´t added much yet!!

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I´ve tried hard to cope with the lack of time! I´ve done my Designer Learning and what I really liked, to be honest, was the pizza chart showing how much time of the class they would be actually producing!

I was trying to bring a link to this Designer but it seems there was an error on saving and I can not export. How sad! Okay, but I can print the screen!
So, here it comes!

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If you are not familiar with this tool check it here!!
(I, myself, am still getting used to it!

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So, here I am! I have just found out about this quite interesting course and I´ve just learned loads of things about sharing technology I had no idea of!!

Hope I can help anyone interested with my own learning experience!