Creating an online ebook about environmental issues and sharing it with other countries' students, commenting on their own creations. ****** Ongoing project. Giraux SannierGiraux Sannier high school. Marie-Hélène Fasquel.

2 - The teacher needs: to motivate all the students, especially the weak ones as well as the most timid ones, to promote confidence in the classroom, to promote students and their talents - The students need: to see their work and efforts recognized to work differently. Birth of the project

 Three complementary factors of motivation:  Using digital tools: collaboration / content creation / sharing)  The environment and sustainable development  let’s defend a cause.  Encouraging authentic international communication 3 Main objectives

 Creation and motivation through writing, reading, arts, science and ICT  Ambitious Tasks  Task-based learning  Differentiated learning 4 The main objectives

 Writing a 1 st e-book on the environment with the students’ photographs and articles  Analyzing other students’ articles  Creating logos  Producing Glogs  Exchanging Online (TwinSpace)  Writing and sharing new collaborative short-stories  Creating comics  Inventing poems  Imagining videos  Taking part in competitions (Ocean Challenge) 5 The 10 steps

 Starting with their own personal photographs, the students analyse them and devise articles to defend the environment,   student involvement  Using Collaborative tools (Titanpad, Google Drive)(Titanpad   their first ebook. their first ebook 6 1st step– Writing an ebook

 collaborating & sharing, Participating on “Padlet” herePadlethere 7 2 nd step– Analysing their friends’ articles

 Contest  Photofiltre7 / Paint Photofiltre7 Paint  The project was accepted earlier this year on eTwinning (platform for foreign teachers to collaborate on common projects)  TwinSpace = Collaborative Blog for foreign partners to share around a common project 8 3rd step – Creating logos

 Contest  awards and diplomas were distributed.  A party included the school’s headmaster  Was hosted. 9 Creating logos

10 Voting /Contest Voting for the best logos (Google Form) one example

11 4 th step–Glogs Online Interactive posters (Glogs).  the students had to Introduce themselves And tell their Partners about their High school. GlogsterGlogster Glog 1 Glog 2

 Collaboration on Twinspace.  international exchanges Christmas cards  12 5 th step -- Communication

13 6 th step – Writing short stories 13 Studying the specifics of short stories the students' padlet Studying Mr Jones, and 2 stories about the environment. Publishing a common short story ebook on Issuu. In class & online contests: The Paper Plane English Prize 2013 their ebook

14 7th step – Creating comics 14 Each group chooses one of the 2 classes’ short story Some websites they could use: Kerpoof Bitstrips Pixton Strip Generator Storybird They could also draw they comics of course!

15 8 th step– Inventing poems 15 Writing poems (« acrostic poems» using the website readwritethink.readwritethink Or not…  freedom – creation  published (ebooks)

 End-of-the-year concluding activity!  Creating an online video on utellstoryutellstory  = conclusion of a creative project ème étape – Créer des vidéos

 A new contest:  online class competition. Here are the 2 classes’ slides:  1st class 1st class  2 nd class 2 nd class 17 10th step – Ocean Challenge

 Pen io Pen io  our environment pen io website our environment pen io website  Diigo – Diigo  Symbaloo du projet Symbaloo du projet 18 Some of our collaborative tools

 Scoop it : ESL links for my students  students students 19 ESL links to keep studying at home…

Feel free to contact me! On Twitter : Flyer and slides on SlideshareSlideshare My files on Slideshare. 20 Contact

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