PBL Week 2

PBL AND THE IMPORTANCE OF TOOLS AND COLLABORATION AMONG TEACHERS AND LEARNERS

The beginning of the module was based on these inspiring  words

                   Developing effective collaboration for PBL

COMING TOGETHER IS A BEGINNING,

KEEPING TOGETHER IS PROGRESS,

WORKING TOGETHER IS SUCCESS

Henry Ford

This post is going to be on line late as  I have been working hard in the last two weeks. I am busy with the final year exams and still working on another MOOC, which is really demanding. But  I couldn't forget to write about the great information  I have learnt so far.

THINKING ABOUT COLLABORATION- A EUROPEAN PROJECT

PBL is  also  collaboration among students, classes and teachers working in different parts of the world.

We were introduced  E-twinning which is a European project where classes work online, this is the beginning of more  engaging activities too.

Links and  interesting documents can be found online:

 https://www.etwinning.net/it/pub/index.htm

 E-twinning website

More information about  it and its impact on learners - just see what in the UK they think about it:

 https://www.britishcouncil.org/etwinning

Teachers sharing ideas about the project:

The voices of the students :

More interesting information can be found on social networks :

https://twitter.com/eTwinningUK

https://www.facebook.com/ETwinningeurope/

E-Twinning  EMILIA-ROMAGNA :  https://www.facebook.com/etwinninger/



https://21centuryedtech.wordpress.com/2015/04/15/integrating-technology-with-project-based-learning-four-indicators-to-blend-the-learning/


THINKING  ABOUT THE TOOLS

An interesting part of the MOOC was  about  the tools which we can use in order to work online and collaborate when we can do projects. The outside world is brought into the classroom and students can really become more engaged while they are learning together but in a different way.
I searched online and I could see a lot of interesting tools which were presented  in videos and in blogs. Internet is for me a great  library on line where I can learn a lot and teachers share their tools, projects and more.
Here are some which I think are really worth using:


GOOGLE DOCS  AND TITAN PAD FOR COLLABORATION

A great teacher and blogger shared a list of useful tools which seem to be working for her:

http://www.slideshare.net/coolcatteacher/50-ways-to-use-technology-in-the-classroom

50+ Ways to Use Technology in the Classroom from Vicki Davis



And finally our padlet where we shared the tools which we like or have used:

What we have shared

Created with Padlet

I would like to share this LIVEBINDER which I feel has a good collection and has been created by an expert working for  SIMPLEK12- an organization of teachers who aim at implementing learning by using technology:
https://www.livebinders.com/play/play?id=825320

Collaboration Tools

In the third module we also focussed on some tools but I will describe them in my next post.