Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2014 Newsletter
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------You need wi-fi in your classroom - a router is a
fantastic option. My students used their own
devices, so parents of my students helped them to
personalize tablets. They also have each a google
account and a gmail account, because I asked
parents to create them for their children. We could
communicate and students could send me
everything we made during lesson.
First we established rules. Children helped me to
write them down, and this was very important both
for me and for my students. They treat rules as
their own choice and responsibility. It was easier for
me to expect that all rules are respected. Lessons
with tablets are so interesting and exciting that no
one broke any rule.
We install apps from Google Play and use only free
apps. There are many apps created for educational
purpose but also to relax and play.
It is great that tablets are not any mystery for my
students. They are familiar with mobile technology
and I also learnt from them. If someone found any
good app, he or she used to tell me about it. I could
check the app at home and think if I can use it
during lessons to obtain any pedagogical objectives
for the topic. We also used tablets while running
our eTwinning project “Eyes - Mirrors of the World”.
And it was great, because sometimes it was difficult
to organize lessons in the computer lab at school. I
could work on the project any time I wanted.
If you want to start working with tablets in the
classroom, you must remember that tablets are not
PC computers. It helped me a lot at the beginning. I
love tablets because they let me organize lessons
out of the classroom – in the park, in the forest…
we can take pictures, make movies, then we can
create posters and upload them on the web to learn
about the topic at home. 100% of the students are
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