ERASMUS+ KEY ACTION 1
TEACHER TRAINING COURSES IN SPLIT, CROATIA
Using Technology in the Classroom
December 4th – 10th
2021
Teslina 16a, 21000
Split, Croatia
SATURDAY 4/12/2021
Presenting participating schools
and organisations
The session started with a presentation of the course organisation and some recommendations about our
stay in Croatia.
After that, each participant showed a presentation about their school, the city they live and about
themselves.
Finally, we finish sharing a typical Croatian meal.
SUNDAY 5/12/2021
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learningapps.org: Free web page to use activities or create them.
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QR Codes (QR code monkey
app): Hide qr codes in the classroom (station
learning). Students must find de qr code, scan it, solve
the problem and fill in the worksheet.
Then, come to the teacher for correction and find the next station (qr code).
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www.plickers.com: Web page similar to kahoot but students
don’t need the mobile
phone, just a paper with a printed
code. You can use a gif, audio,
image, …
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Get plickers cards:
To download the codes.
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Create the class
and add the students.
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Assign the codes
to the students.
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Create the questions.
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The teacher control the test, answers, scores, etc with the mobile phone (plickers app).
What makes a good teacher great (Dario Čaljkušić)
Games without
computers:
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Password: One student close the eyes, the teacher
write a word in the blackboard. The class
give clues (just one word) to the student to guess the word.
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Dictionary
dissection: Write in the black board one word unknown for the
students and ask them to write a description. Share the definitions and, finally, show them
the answer.
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Categories: Write different noun categories (Country, capital, food, brand,
colour,
job, animal for example) and tell the students one letter. They try to find one word for each category
beginning with the letter given.
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Twenty objects:
Put 20 different objects
in a table, show them a few seconds to the
students and cover them. Ask the students
to remember as much objects
as they can.
• Active floor: Projector and carpet to play moving.
MONDAY 6/12/2021
Fun with new technologies (Ana Mladina Puljak)
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Goosechase app: To prepare challenges (missions) to the students. They need the
mobile phone to play the missions. They send the teacher
a text, a video or a photo with the
answer. You need to register. Prepare the missions with the computer and play with the mobile phone.
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JeopardyLabs:
Build a table with different categories in the columns and the
questions in the rows in order of difficulty.
Digital tools for digital
natives (Marijana Vrdoljak)
The teacher shows us a presentation about digital
natives/immigrants, e-learning, … and then
we discuss about that topic.
Flipped classroom (Marijana Vrdoljak) (Nearpod code: X9IUC)
In this session we discuss about flipped classroom (School work at home and home work at school): methodology, models, advantages and disadvantages. Review of a lesson plan using flipped classroom methodology.
TUESDAY 7/12/2021
Educational Tools for any Learner
(Marijana Vrdoljak)
In this session
we are learning how to use online tool Nearpod. It is free and it’s connected to Google, youtube,
drive, dropbox, office365, etc. You can create presentations with lots of resources
(images, videos, record yourself,…). Also, you can create games and activities.
We talk about other tools like Canva (for presentations) or Adobe Spark (for posters).
Social Media in the Classroom (Marijana
Vrdoljak) (Nearpod code:
JPCQ4)
We start the lesson answering a quiz made with quizizz.com. Then the teacher shows us a presentation about social networks. She talk about Edmodo, a social network for teachers and teaching. You need permission from parents to use it. We saw examples of using social networks in the class.
6 Fun Social
Media Projects for the Online
Classroom: https://livetilesglobal.com/6-fun- social-media-projects-assign-classroom/
Sharing best classroom practices (Ana Mladina Puljak)
In this session
we share different kind of activities we do with our students. The most interesting tools presented are:
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Baamboozle
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Blooket
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Mentimeter
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Padlet
• Wordwall
WEDNESDAY 8/12/2021
Free day.
THURSDAY 9/12/2021
Video making - Project based learning (Ana Mladina Puljak)
We are going to use Vita app to create a video about Split to show
our colleagues in school. We are going to work in groups
of 3 people. At the end, we show our productions to the other
colleagues in the course.
Being a 21st century teacher – Lecture and workshop
We review the last 100 years about
improvements in technology, changes in classrooms, etc.
The challenges teachers face nowadays are, mainly, using new
technologies, keeping students motivated
and to adapt to the different student
levels in class.
We have kids who come to
school and never
learn how to focus.
We need to develop in students the 4C’s soft-skills (Communication,
critical thinking and problem solving,
collaboration, creativity and innovation). They can be developed, but not measurable.
FRIDAY 10/12/2021
Relax and get creative:
Mindfulness makes happy students (Dario
Čaljkušić)
The teacher shows
us different activities that we can do with our students
to keep them awake and focus on lessons.
Mindfulness is a scientific technique to calm down teachers and students stress.
It reduces early
school leaving.
Course revision, evaluation and Certificates (Ana Mladina Puljak)
