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      <title>MOOC: &quot;Bridging Distance and In-School Learning – Blended Learning in Practice&quot; | Teacher Academy Course by Emiliana Rufo</title>
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      <description>Learning Diary by Emiliana Rufo | 29th March -  5th May 2021</description>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div><strong>Objectives</strong>:</div><ul><li>Understand the purpose, process and benefits of blended learning</li><li>Discover how the different models of blended learning can support your learning objectives</li><li>Explore tools and strategies for implementing blended learning in your teaching and learning processes</li><li>Plan for the implementation of a blended learning scenario with your students</li></ul>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2021-04-12 14:43:53 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Module 1: Explore Blended Learning</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<ul><li>Reflect on your current distance teaching practices, or those you employed during the period of school closures, and consider how you can learn from them</li><li>Understand what blended learning is and why it is important as an instructional method</li><li>Reflect on the changing nature of teaching and learning and the need to create student-centred classrooms</li><li>Discover some key teacher competences required for a successful implementation of blended learning</li></ul><div><br></div>]]></description>
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         <title>Ice-breaking activity</title>
         <author>emiliana_rufo</author>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div><em>I teach English as a Foreign Language in a Secondary School in Rome. I've been teaching English for 18 years. I'm specialized in developing ICT in the classroom. I like learning new things, I think life-long learning is the aim of a good teacher. I like trying new methods to make my lessons interactive and I believe this digital period forces us to keep up with technological progress and I want to be at the forefront. I am eTwinning Ambassador. I am Teacher Trainer for eTwinning Regione Lazio. I am Genially Ambassador and Adobe Creative Educator. I'm so proud. I love my subject, my job and my students. My web site: https://emilianarufo.wordpress.com/</em></div>]]></description>
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         <title>What is Blended Learning?</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>I usually use Blended-Learning for my Professional Development courses and I think it is a a good way of learning new things at your own pace. I would like to implement BL with my students so they can try to become responsible about their own learning...</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2021-04-12 14:48:40 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Reflecting on teaching in the time of COVID-19</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>In the period of Quarantine I have tried to do my best for my students by using anything I know and I have studied about new methodologies and approaches, innovation technology, apps and softwares.</div><div>I haven't found any difficulties in creating lessons for my students because I am a Flipped Teacher and I have most of my lessons already organized in my <strong>personal website: <br>https://emilianarufo.wordpress.com/</strong> and my <strong>respository of materials</strong>:<br>https://www.pearltrees.com/emilianarufo<br>It wasn't the same situation of being at school and having collaborative activities with students but I had the chance to develop my and my students' digital skills.<br><br></div><div>I met my students and colleagues on <strong>Google Meet</strong> and this was a way to keep in touch with reality.<br><br></div><div>I stayed in front of a computer screen most of the time, <strong>creating</strong>, <strong>writing</strong>, <strong>videorecording</strong>, <strong>HOPING</strong> that it would be good and sufficient for my students to learn at home.</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2021-04-12 14:51:58 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Common misconceptions about blended learning</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>I think Blended learning is one of the best ways to start making your personal idea of Learning for the future. Students may become more responsible about what to study and how to study at their own pace. It is also a matter of responsibility and choice. The idea that your are doing something for your own learning.<br>https://www.tricider.com/brainstorming/2jIZx9jX27Z</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2021-04-12 15:01:37 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>What competences are required by teachers for blended learning?</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>Teachers must change their way of seeing teaching and Learning. They have to use several different approaches in which the student is the real main character of his/her own learning. So teachers have to be creative, flexible, innovators and multi-tasking.<br>https://www.tricider.com/brainstorming/2neNuAlNRfR</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2021-04-12 15:05:33 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Teacher competences for blended learning</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>I think I am a person who can adapt to everything. I haven't problems with technical or digital skills but I think I have to improve communications and relationships in a digital space.</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2021-04-12 15:09:51 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Feedback on the Rubric</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>I think the rubric is a very useful tool to assess a task or an activity by using several criteria which are clear to learners before, during and at the end of the learning process.</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2021-04-12 15:14:37 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>My post in the Forum about BL</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>I think the period of quarantine caused by the pandemic was a period of <strong>skills</strong> enhancing and developing.<br><br></div><div>Teachers and students faced <strong>challenges</strong> they will remember in the future but at the same time they missed what before was given for granted: <strong>School</strong>!<br><br></div><div>School as a place of Learning, School as a place of relationships, School as a place of growing, School as a place of sharing and collaboration.<br><br></div><div>I think we can talk about a kind of <strong>revolution</strong>: the ones who never worried about new technology and innovative methodologies had to approach them.<br><br></div><div>The ones who thought e-learning was the new frontier have to admit we could not stay without meeting each other face-to-face.<br><br></div><div>We had the chance to <strong>revise our habits</strong> and reflect on what kind of <strong>Teaching/Learning</strong> we want to create <strong>in the future</strong>...<br><br></div><div><br></div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2021-04-12 15:21:52 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Module 2: Designing and Planning for Blended Learning</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div><strong>In this module, you will:<br></strong><br></div><ul><li>Acquire knowledge of the different models of blended learning</li><li>Discover which model best fits your learners’ or educational institution’s needs</li><li>Experiment with creating your own blended learning model</li></ul>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2021-04-12 15:24:05 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Strengths &amp; weaknesses of in-school and online distance learning environments (LE)</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>1. Face-to-face activities and collaborative learning practice are essential in&nbsp; in-schools LE<br>2. Lack of technological tools can be a weakness at school.<br>3. You can use a lot of educational tools to create lessons and students can study at their own pace the materials provided by the teacher in Blended learning.<br>4. The lack of efficient digital devices and students are not all the same, interaction for some of them is essential. Conversations, intonations are important too. Sometimes students can feel not supported by the teachers and alone with an amount of things to learn.</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2021-04-12 15:25:14 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Considering your learners</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div><strong>Important</strong>: <br><strong>understand your audience</strong>. You must consider students’ learning maturity, their technological skills, their readiness for blended learning with its demands for independent learning, as well as their home environments, which will impact any learning at a distance.&nbsp;<br><br><br></div><h1><strong>My students and blended learning</strong></h1><div>It was really hard at the beginning of the quarantine, I had to provide them guides, tutorials, videos just to understand how to approach distance learning. BUT I have to say that today my students are used to study with technological supports and tools, they need one of my online interactive presentations or videos to deepen the topics and they ask me to create something engaging. That's why I have started to use Gamification and escape rooms to provide them something more to use outside the classroom. I still think that Covid Pandemic helped us to make a step forward in the future for better or worse.<br>Here is one of my Escape Rooms:&nbsp;<br>https://view.genial.ly/601d5cefa0f2bc0d0ac1f7d0</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2021-04-12 15:39:39 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Four models of Blended learning</title>
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         <title>Barriers to implementing blended learning</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>I have no problems in implementing Blended Learning in my classrooms, but it will be very difficult in my school because teachers are still tied to traditional teaching approach, they do not want to use technology if not forced and they do not want to improve their professional development, so they do not search for in presence or online new courses....</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2021-04-12 15:50:02 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Benefits and challenges of the flipped classroom model</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>I used this approach only in the past for a certain period of time and I have to say students started to be more responsible about learning and motivated, engaged in the learning process.<br>Using only the flipped classroom approach can be really difficult because you cannot FLIP all your lessons.... one of the most important reasons is that some of the students do not watch videos at home... So I decided to assign videos at home and to watch them at school too before doing collaborative tasks and activities!</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2021-04-12 15:53:52 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Flipped classroom - case study</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>I think this approach is really useful but as it was said at the beginning of the module "you must understand your audience".&nbsp;<br>Using only the flipped classroom approach can be really difficult because you cannot FLIP all your lessons.... one of the most important reasons is that some of the students do not watch videos at home... So I decided to assign videos at home and to watch them at school too before doing collaborative tasks and activities but this won't save much time!<br>The learning environment is important too.&nbsp;</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2021-04-12 16:02:03 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Individual rotation model</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>In this model, students rotate between different stations and learning opportunities in a personalised way. Students do not necessarily rotate to every station, but only those most relevant to them. Each student has an <strong>individualised playlist of skills to develop and activities to complete.</strong> The teacher (or even an algorithm) sets the individual students’ schedules. <br><strong><em>Image source</em></strong><em>: www.all-languages.org.uk</em></div>]]></description>
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         <title>Benefits and challenges of the individual rotation model</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>This approach can be useful for older students I think.<br>A lot of work for teachers to prepare activities and materials...</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2021-04-12 16:05:10 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Flex model</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>In the <strong>flex model</strong>, content and instruction are delivered mainly online, as in the flipped classroom model, with a teacher providing support on site on an “<strong>as-needed basis through activities such as small-group instruction, group projects, and individual tutoring</strong>” (Watson et. al., 2014, p.12)<br><strong><em>Image source</em></strong><em>: www.blog.commlabindia.com</em></div>]]></description>
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         <title>Benefits and challenges of the flex model</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>This approach can be useful for older students I think. I don't think I could use it for my 10-13 students.<br>I don't think the headmaster and parents can see well the idea that teacher is only a facilitator and most of the work is done at home, online and in a collaborative way... students will get lost in all these collaborative activities...</div>]]></description>
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         <title>Self-blend or à la carte model</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>In the <strong>self-blend model</strong>, students supplement their typical school classes with an <strong>additional online course chosen by themselves or recommended by the teacher</strong> according to the students’ interests or needs. In the self-blend model, the teacher needs to consider how to integrate the online course that the student took into their own teaching processes at school.<br><strong><em>Image source</em></strong><em>: www.blog.commlabindia.com</em></div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2021-04-12 16:13:02 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Benefits and challenges of the self-blend model</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>I don't know...<br>My students study at school different subjects (at least 10) with different teachers... they have homework everyday for at least 5 subjects... then they have to attend in addiction an online course...<br>Who creates the course? the teachers?<br>It is better for University students...</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2021-04-12 16:16:35 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Blended learning in my case</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>I will for sure use Flipped classroom adapted to my audience, students in lower secondary school, aged 10-13.</div>]]></description>
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         <title>Module 3: Implementing Blended Learning</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<ul><li>Find out more about individual and collaborative activities</li><li>Explore synchronous and asynchronous activities</li><li>Become familiar with new technologies that can be used for effective implementation of blended learning</li><li>Acquire knowledge on how to assess learners in blended learning environments</li></ul><div><br></div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2021-04-15 14:57:46 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Students&#39; Motivation</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>Blended learning requires that students develop their <strong>self-directed learning skills</strong> and, if implemented correctly, it also offers them opportunities to do so: once the direction is indicated by the teacher with the help of an external structure like a learning management system (LMS), the learners may <strong>organise the resources in the system autonomously, take on new learning roles</strong> different from those in a traditional face-to-face classroom, and eventually <strong>develop autonomous perceptions and behaviours</strong> as an outcome of their engagement in this blended learning environment.</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2021-04-16 16:11:06 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Developing the independent learning skills of the students</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>I think Collaborative activities help students to become autonomous in his learning because at the first he/she can count on his/her peers help, this let his self-confidence&nbsp; grow to become motivated in giving his/her best.</div>]]></description>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>When blending learning between distance and on-site settings, we carefully need to consider if students are working<strong> by themselves, in groups, or with the whole rest of the class</strong>. Depending on the setting, individual and collaborative activities will have quite different dynamics and call for different considerations and tools.</div>]]></description>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div><strong>Name</strong></div><div>How do we feel? A journey through emotions.</div><div><strong>Topic</strong></div><div>English as a Foreign Language<br><strong>Age</strong> 12<br><br></div><div><strong>Description</strong></div><div>Make students talking about their emotions. To collaborate they will use Google Drive, Padlet and online apps. <br><br><strong>First Activity</strong>:<br>Recognizing emotions<br>At home: Reflection on their emotional experiences and behaviors to become aware of emotions. Students will observe and record in a scheme experiences and emotions (time, place, triggering cause, the physical changes, the reaction) for three days before the lesson.<br><br><strong>Second Activity</strong>:<br>Watching videos and talking about emotions</div><div>At school or online: The teacher proposes to students some parts of the film "Inside Out" by Pete Docter. Students have to pay attention to the emotions felt during the movie and choose the character among: Joy, Sadness, Fear, Disgust and Anger.<br>Students will report main actors' behaviour who affected them and give reasons.<br>As Framework: teacher and students will create a conceptual map with the characters of the film (consisting of an emotion) by using the app Mindomo.<br><br><strong>Third Activity</strong>:<br>Finding poems, articles, songs about emotions</div><div>The students will be divided in groups by choosing an emotion which represent them. Joy, Anger, Sadness, Fear, Disgust. Teacher will support, advise students. They will search on the internet materials to explain the emotion.<br>They will discuss how do they feel and why they have chosen that emotion. Then they decide what digital artifact they want to create to show the emotion. Teacher will go around the class and listen to discussion and take notes of behaviour, organization and collaboration.<br><br><strong>Fourth activity</strong>:<br>Presentation, Self-Assessment and Assessment</div><div>Groups will present their digital products to the class. Students will give opinions to the products by using SWOT Analysis. Teacher will assess their presentation and collaboration through a Rubric.</div><div><br></div>]]></description>
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         <title>Synchronous and asynchronous activities </title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div><strong>Synchronous learning</strong> takes place in real time. It can happen both in person and at a distance. Learners can meet in person at the same place, like at school, or use an online communication tool to engage with their instructor, content and peers. Most commonly this would be done via a video conferencing tool like Zoom or Teams, but it can also happen in an online chat space, where everyone agrees to meet at a specific time and on a specific date.<br><br></div><div><strong>Asynchronous learning</strong>, on the other hand, is about learning that does not happen in real time. Students interact with their instructor, content and peers at their own pace and in their own time, from anywhere in the world. Most asynchronous learning environments provide teaching materials at a distance; learners read/view the materials and then participate in non-immediate online interactions.<br><br></div>]]></description>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>An example of Synchronous activity&nbsp; could be a shared padlet, jamboard or any collaborative tool, a wordcloud, in which students can add simultaneously their opinions, ideas, knowledge about a certain topic. This could happen in class by using devices or online during a videolesson.<br>An example of Asynchronous activity&nbsp; could be a forum in an eTwinning project in which students can add their opinions, ideas, knowledge about a certain topic and read other opinions at school or at home when they want.</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2021-04-16 16:38:08 UTC</pubDate>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>In my activity there will be both Synchronous and asynchronous activities, but Synchronous activities are important for collaborative learning.</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2021-04-16 16:38:42 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Tools for Blended Learning</title>
         <author>emiliana_rufo</author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/emiliana_rufo/distancelearning2021/wish/1426257214</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<div>I use a lot of online tools for teaching and Learning. Here is a Map I have created with the tools I have used, I use and I will use in the future activities...<br>https://www.mindomo.com/it/mindmap/apps-and-sites-for-education-86afe2fc5c5b481e8151adca83e36a84</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2021-04-16 16:41:54 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Self-, peer- and teacher-led assessments in blended learning environments</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>Self-assessment s important to reflect on one's own skills and competences and try to improve next time...<br>Peer assessment can be useful but sometimes teenagers have some problems in expressing their own opinions...<br>I think it is important to let students know which are the objectives of the activities so they can work better and they know what competences are developing. Rubrics must be shared at the beginning of the activities, for example.</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2021-04-16 16:47:38 UTC</pubDate>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>Hello! I am Emiliana, I teach English as a Foreign language in a Lower Secondary School in the centre of Italy, in a village near Rome.<br><br></div><div>The Learning Design I have created is a lesson about Emotions.<br><br></div><div>The aim is making students talking about their emotions, to collaborate and create digital products by using online apps.&nbsp;<br>The activity is meant to be completed at school - in presence - or during home schooling, online in video lessons, in this case there will be blended lessons.&nbsp;<br><br></div><div>Here is the link to my Learning Design:<br><br></div><div><a href="https://v.gd/WGu8OF">https://v.gd/WGu8OF<br></a><br></div><div>You can find it at the end of my learning Diary of the course at this link:<br><br></div><div><a href="https://padlet.com/emiliana_rufo/distancelearning2021">https://padlet.com/emiliana_rufo/distancelearning2021<br></a><br></div><div>Here is the link to the presentation I will share with my students to complete the Learning Activities:<br><br></div><div><a href="https://view.genial.ly/601af15a2c49930d3852d228">https://view.genial.ly/601af15a2c49930d3852d228<br></a><br></div><div><strong>A Journey Through Emotions</strong><br><br></div>]]></description>
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         <title>Module 4: Blended Learning in Practice</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<ul><li>Develop a blended learning scenario</li><li>Share experiences and inspiring ideas with your colleagues</li><li>Learn from peers</li></ul><div><br></div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2021-04-19 15:03:38 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Developing a blended learning scenario and peer assessment</title>
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         <link>https://padlet.com/emiliana_rufo/distancelearning2021/wish/1433511428</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<div>Main points of my Learning Scenario:<br>Age of students<br>Aims of the learning scenario<br>Outcomes of the activities<br>21st Century Skills<br>Tools to use to present topics&nbsp;<br>Materials to create for the lessons<br>Tools students have to use to create digital products<br>Devices and technology gadgets<br>Assessment/Self-Assessment Rubrics<br>Peer assessment strategies</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2021-04-19 15:04:43 UTC</pubDate>
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         <description><![CDATA[<ol><li>activities planned for <strong>before </strong>in-school learning</li><li>activities planned for <strong>in-school learning</strong></li><li>activities planned for <strong>after </strong>in-school learning</li></ol><div><br></div>]]></description>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>Students will reflect on their emotions before doing the activities at school by keeping notes of their feelings on a paper for a week...<br>Then they will have a video to watch to take notes about main characters' feelings and reactions...<br>Students will have a presentation of the activities and will revise some vocabulary to write and talk about their emotions, then they will work in groups to create a digital product to show their teachers and mates. They will assess the digital products by discussing and by using a Self-assessment rubric.<br>They will reflect on the discussion about emotions and can discuss the topic with other teachers during other lessons.</div>]]></description>
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         <description><![CDATA[<h1><strong>Getting ready for peer assessment</strong></h1><div>Peer assessment is a good practice to develop because you can understand some missing points of your projects or have an affirmation of the activities you meant to create and enhance for your students&nbsp; are well thought and are good examples of teaching and learning practice. It could be an encouragement to do better next time.</div>]]></description>
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