Ms.Musumeci by caterina musumeci

Caterina Musumeci. Sicily, catania

musumecicaterin — 2015-04-14 15:53:53 UTC

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.

musumecicaterin — 2015-04-14 15:53:53 UTC

Caterina Musumeci, Catania,Sicily

musumecicaterin — 2015-04-14 15:53:53 UTC

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.

Caterina Musumeci, Catania, Sicily

musumecicaterin — 2015-04-14 15:54:15 UTC

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".

musumecicaterin — 2015-04-14 16:08:03 UTC

musumecicaterin — 2015-04-14 16:09:40 UTC

Caterina Musumeci,Catania,Sicily

musumecicaterin — 2015-04-15 16:34:01 UTC

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.

Caterina Musumeci, Catania, Sicily

musumecicaterin — 2015-04-19 17:26:30 UTC

here below there is my Edmodo page with the class groups with all the video lessons, ppt posted by my students

Caterina Musumeci, Catania, Sicily

musumecicaterin — 2015-04-19 17:45:37 UTC

these are some of my "flipped students"

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

musumecicaterin — 2015-04-22 17:10:13 UTC

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

Caterina Musumeci

musumecicaterin — 2015-04-22 19:39:47 UTC

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

Caterina Musumeci

musumecicaterin — 2015-04-22 20:05:33 UTC

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

Caterina Musumeci, Catania, sicily

musumecicaterin — 2015-04-22 20:14:39 UTC

and now a very important theme.

Caterina Musumeci, Catania, Sicil

musumecicaterin — 2015-04-23 20:28:11 UTC

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.

Caterina Musumeci,Catania,Sicily

musumecicaterin — 2015-04-23 20:34:14 UTC

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

Caterina Musumeci, Catania, sicily

musumecicaterin — 2015-04-27 16:06:11 UTC

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

Caterina Musumeci, Catania, Sicily

musumecicaterin — 2015-04-28 20:26:27 UTC

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

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?

musumecicaterin — 2015-04-29 14:54:06 UTC

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 .

Caterina Musumeci, Catania, Sicily module 3. Using tablets for collaborative learning

musumecicaterin — 2015-04-29 15:16:45 UTC

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

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

musumecicaterin — 2015-04-29 17:04:40 UTC

-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

Caterina Musumeci, Catani, Sicily Module 3 What strategies have you used to assess group work? What are the main challenges for you when it comes to assessing group work?

musumecicaterin — 2015-04-29 17:54:44 UTC

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.

Caterina Musumeci,Catania,Sicily

musumecicaterin — 2015-04-30 11:09:58 UTC

This video has been made thanks to the cooperation wthin a group of 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. ...😉

Caterina Musumeci, Catania, sicily Module 4 Using tablets for personalising learning & flipping the classroom 4.2 Personalising learning with tablets

musumecicaterin — 2015-05-04 16:55:12 UTC

Just two weeks ago, I personalised my students ' learning experience of literature . They had to face the study of William Shakespeare. At the beginning of the school year, during our teachers' meeting for planning our didactics and extra - curricular activities, I decided to let my students see a Shakespearean comedy "A midsummer night's dream"at the theatre.
I use EDMODO and before the performance, I gave them to watch a video about the plot and another as an introduction to great playwright.
the following lesson was focussed on:
1- creating groups
2 - giving each group a task: topic and subtopics;
3 - a due date - publication on Edmodo
3 - in each group I gave them the oppurtunity to choose themselves "who makes what" according to their attitudes and skills , so to define each student's role in the group;
4. Apps to be used - ask phase discussed between the students and the teacher - Storybird for the narration, pinnaclesys to make a video about Shakespeare as a poet,
the Globe Theatre produced using Videomaker and Dropbox to be shared with the others.
5 - the process of making
6 - finalising their work before publication on Edmodo.

Whatsapp and gmail.com have been used constantly to keep in touch,to exchange their ideas, to deliver their works,Edmodo has been a useful and worthy app for the final assessment.

It was the first time in my career as a teacher I have never said a WORD to explain a difficult lesson like this one.

STUDENTS THEMSELVES CREATED THEIR OWN LESSONS ON SHAKESPEARE USING THEIR TABLETS

Caterina Musumeci. Catania, Sicily Module4.6 Apps for personalized learning and flipping the classroom

musumecicaterin — 2015-05-05 16:35:31 UTC

The Apps I usually use for my flipped classroom:
EDMODO or MOODLE
TED ED
EVERNOTE
GOOGLE DOCS
DROPBOX

Caterina Musumeci, Catania, sicily Module4.5 Flipping the classroom with tablets

musumecicaterin — 2015-05-05 16:47:09 UTC

The great challnges for me as a teacher are:
Prepare the lesson: creating my screencast , or looking for videos, presentations, etc. it takes a a long time to prepare it, but once done, I could save them in my blog or in Dropbox for future lessons , previously having adapted them to the students' level.
Assessment/evalutation : it is a great challenge to assess students' works, it needs a preparation before it: the group and the role of each student being part in it, giving them the tasks, evaluating the whole group as work result taking care of the different tasks I gave them

Caterina Musumeci, Catania, sicily

musumecicaterin — 2015-05-06 15:21:28 UTC

here it is my lesson plan

Caterina Musumeci, Catania, sicily

musumecicaterin — 2015-05-09 17:12:56 UTC

Shakespeare as my students like to study

Caterina Musumeci, Catania, sicily

musumecicaterin — 2015-05-09 17:18:46 UTC

this work has been made by my dearest "special" student .

Caterina Musumeci, Catania,sicily

musumecicaterin — 2015-05-09 17:22:42 UTC

That's a collaborative study about THE GLOBE