This week was one of especially good weeks for me. Power point is one of my favorite "toys" in the classroom. I tried several time to be "creative" in using PPP , but in most cases I use it as presentation tool that sounds and look attractive to me, but just in some cases I gave chance to the students to play with it. This week , I've learn that interactive PPP is very powerful tool that could change my classroom into very active learning field. I created one interactive PPP and found out that creating such a interactive tool is extremely challenging and time consuming process, but also it is very useful and rewarding when you see satisfied faces of your students at the end of the class.
Another important fact happened this week. As it was suggested , I started my final project with my students. What is even more important, is that this is going to be an international project. My friends and project partners Karim(Morocco) and Alex (Portugal) agreed that this is a chance to engage our students at international level and let them out of their classrooms, make them cooperate and collaborate. A week ago , Karim posted an invitation to the project on blog writing he's going to do, as his final project, at the end of the course. Alex also posted her link , with her idea on final project and , finally I was there with my final project on WQ. We're developing a few of several possible ideas at the moment, so in the weeks to come, we'll define it and, hopefully come to the final result by the end of week 9.
I also presented (my final) project to my students. First of all, I introduced them the idea of the project four days before the official start. A asked them to visit WQ , think about the project and ask me any possible question that might look confusing them. There was just few of questions concerning things I mention , but they didn't read carefully. Our next meeting students were split into the groups (AN OLD KRALJEVO ; MODERN KRALJEVO ; FUN IN KRALJEVO ; AN ART IN KRALJEVO ; SPORT IN KRALJEVO ; FUTURE OF KRALJEVO). On my surprise, nobody protested or didn't feel well in the group, on the contrary, most of them were very happy to be in their groups. I presented our WQ and carefully explained that this project is going to be at an international level, so they have to be very careful in what are they speaking , filming and presenting.
We agreed, for next week, to have something more specific like scenarios or first drafts or very first frames of their clips .... to be continued .....
Another important fact happened this week. As it was suggested , I started my final project with my students. What is even more important, is that this is going to be an international project. My friends and project partners Karim(Morocco) and Alex (Portugal) agreed that this is a chance to engage our students at international level and let them out of their classrooms, make them cooperate and collaborate. A week ago , Karim posted an invitation to the project on blog writing he's going to do, as his final project, at the end of the course. Alex also posted her link , with her idea on final project and , finally I was there with my final project on WQ. We're developing a few of several possible ideas at the moment, so in the weeks to come, we'll define it and, hopefully come to the final result by the end of week 9.
I also presented (my final) project to my students. First of all, I introduced them the idea of the project four days before the official start. A asked them to visit WQ , think about the project and ask me any possible question that might look confusing them. There was just few of questions concerning things I mention , but they didn't read carefully. Our next meeting students were split into the groups (AN OLD KRALJEVO ; MODERN KRALJEVO ; FUN IN KRALJEVO ; AN ART IN KRALJEVO ; SPORT IN KRALJEVO ; FUTURE OF KRALJEVO). On my surprise, nobody protested or didn't feel well in the group, on the contrary, most of them were very happy to be in their groups. I presented our WQ and carefully explained that this project is going to be at an international level, so they have to be very careful in what are they speaking , filming and presenting.
We agreed, for next week, to have something more specific like scenarios or first drafts or very first frames of their clips .... to be continued .....
Dear Zeljko,
ReplyDeleteYou're amazing. Your PPt is fabulous. Congratulations, amazing - no words to describe it and just like Amira, I feel so bad when I think about my own creations...ok, different!
To be continued are our course activities, our international / collaborative project and our school lessons. Keep going and don't forget our next virtual meeting ;)
Best greetings from Portugal,
Alex