Week 1 Live Session

 

 

Building Cyber Experiences to Engage Learners

 

 

 

If you attended the session, put your comments here.

 

Here is the link to the RECORDING.

 

 

Slides

 

CHAT – week 1 – LIVE session 1 15 January 2019 – Jose Antonio

 

Marijana Smolčec: To easily communicate and share materilas with our students, to use them as blended learning

 

Marianne Grandjean: to share ressources easily

 

Ekaterina Ignatova: To store materials for everyone to have access to

 

Nancy in Italy: To better involve students with a more modern, interactive experience

 

Marianne Grandjean: to allow our students to follow different learning paths

 

Katerina Arnaut: Can you type your question Jose?

 

Tatiana Novikova: make lessons full with tech. experience and more vivide

 

Svetlana Mamayeva: To enrich our communication, to make it easier

 

Marijana Smolčec: Why do we need cyberpsace?

 

Larisa Ishchenko: to engage students

 

Efrossini: because digital literacy is a 21-C skill,too

 

Světlana Obenausová: For posting interactive exercises. :-)

 

Jose Antonio: Why do we need?

 

Liudmyla Tsarova from Ukrain: to develop our skills and skills of  the students in communication in English

 

Stela Pavetić: To share different documents and materials with our students, to make them more active, to increase their motivation by using activities which they are familiar with

 

Jose Antonio: Why do we need cyberspaces?

 

Yelena Kovalchuk: To organise everything, so as to find all you need easily

 

Svetlana Mamayeva: to promote selfeducation

 

Daiana Martinez: to cater for different learner’s styles and needs

 

Stela Pavetić: To enable students to communicate and collaborate in real time

 

Katerina Arnaut: To get connected, to gain knowledge, to find interesting materials, for professional development

 

Liudmyla Tsarova from Ukrain: to share ideas and experience with international teachers

 

Sanja Božinović: It is ok.

 

Marijana Smolčec: https://my.pbworks.com/  is one of the most popular

 

Marijana Smolčec: This is the one out ICT4ELT team is using

 

Marijana Smolčec: our*

 

Anzhelika: blogs are very convenient.  we use blogs

 

Marijana Smolčec: Yes, I love blogger, but recebtly I have started to use Wordpress :) you have to choose the blog site that fits you

 

Marijana Smolčec: Google Sites ahve changed

 

Marijana Smolčec: I think they are much easier  to use now

 

Světlana Obenausová: Google Sites are great and they enable collaboration as well. I use them a lot for presenting well-organised content.

 

Anzhelika: pbworks.com is great for project  work. we created with students one about our region. but in class we used wikispaces.com,  unfortunately  it said goodbye to everybody

 

Marijana Smolčec: Yes, wikispace is not free any more

 

Marijana Smolčec: there are many sites and tools that have been cancelled since I have started using ICT

 

Světlana Obenausová: Yes, I used to use wikispaces a lot. When they shut down, I started using Google websites.

 

Marijana Smolčec: The whole point is to of learning to use ICT tools is to easily adapt and get ready for changes

 

Marijana Smolčec: :))

 

Světlana Obenausová: Yes, we need to be flexible.

 

Marijana Smolčec: I like Google Classroom, but am still not using it with my students. I have started using Microsoft teams, but I think will start using Moodle Loomen as we can get is as an institution

 

Marijana Smolčec: That's great about Google, you have everything in one place once you log in with one of your account s:)

 

Sanja Božinović: Good choice, Marijana. because all teachers and students in Croatia can use Office 365 for free and so we can all use Microsoft Teams and OneNote for free and they are both great tools for the classroom and for professional development.

 

Marijana Smolčec: Yes, that's right Sanja, so why not using them :)

 

Stela Pavetić: I am using Yammer with my students... I have tried using Edmodo, but I like Yammer better although it is not that organised as Google classroom. A friend of mine recommended Teams, maybe I will try that

 

Marijana Smolčec: Excellent Sanja

 

Marijana Smolčec: I also got used to Yammer since we became eSkola :)

 

Marijana Smolčec: Excellent Stela, sorry, I am following few tabs at the same time :D

 

Stela Pavetić: :-)

 

Stela Pavetić: I also use the website of my school to share links to online exercises, video or audio files or documents and online games with my students

 

Marijana Smolčec: Perfect!

 

Stela Pavetić: My students like that very much, but they cannot collaborate and communicate there, that is why we started using Yammer

 

Marijana Smolčec: I have been using FB secret groups for years, now only Messenger and recently Teams, it all depends on the students. but we will choose what is the best for our classroom

 

Marijana Smolčec: If Yammer works for you, go for it! :)

 

Stela Pavetić: We were advised not to use FB groups, so that is why I had to choose something similar

 

Stela Pavetić: For now, it does, but I am looking for something more organized

 

Nancy in Italy: What is an unsplash photo?

 

Marijana Smolčec: FB groups are not ok, for young learners, but I teach secondary students, but since we have Office 365 and Yammer is an excellent social networks for all student levels and adults:)

 

Efrossini: Are all add-ons free?

 

Anzhelika: what browser  is better to yuse,  I couldn't!'the join by using Google Chrome

 

Efrossini: I found some that were not free

 

Marijana Smolčec: Could be Effrosini

 

Marijana Smolčec: Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Opera

 

Marijana Smolčec: Microsoft Edge :)

 

Tatiana Novikova: I'd like to know more, plean on ususing the techniques in flipped learning. Could you share with us  the example from your practice?

 

Světlana Obenausová: Yes, PhotoPeach works only with Internet Explorer.

 

Efrossini: I used to have problems with Chrome, and Mozilla Firefox worked better, but now it is the opposite in my experience .

 

Anzhelika: I mean it

 

Liudmyla Tsarova from Ukrain: How do you motivate your students to work in the cyber space? At what time do you do it? At class time according the schedule or after classes?

 

Sneza: I joined this session via Mozilla, Chrome was useless

 

Marijana Smolčec: Yes Effrosini

 

Efrossini: @Svetlana, yse, some tools work only with Explorer now.

 

Efrossini: yes*

 

Liudmyla Tsarova from Ukrain: I am using Opera

 

Efrossini: Can it be that location can affect how well a browser works?

 

Stela Pavetić: Liudmyla, I use that during class, when we practise grammar and vocabulary or when I want my students to collaborate on a document. I also give assignments for working at home - those are usually quizzes and games, so they actually like doing that.

 

Katerina Arnaut: How many students do you have in a class, Jose?

 

Marijana Smolčec: That is what I was talking about Sneza

 

Marijana Smolčec: It was the same for me on another laptop

 

Světlana Obenausová: In relation to what Jose Antonio said about how students see the content in different gadgets - In Google Websites the writer can see exactly how people see the page in their phones, their tablets or their PCs, there are three views presented.

 

Liudmyla Tsarova from Ukrain: Thank you

 

Tatiana Novikova: thank you, Jose

 

Yelena Kovalchuk: Does your every student have a blog? Is it time-consuming to read all the blogs and comment on them?

 

Anzhelika: if students write compositions and download , is it gogood to ask them to correct each others mistakes, in comments,  for example.

 

Efrossini: @Yelena, you can also have a class blog if you think following every student's blog is too much for you

 

Katerina Arnaut: How many students do you have in a class, Jose?