EDL: Interactive Presentations

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If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.

Nelson Mandela

Description

Students in groups, for the feedback perposes, and after a line of sub-activities (watcing Europarliament tv, read facts about EU policy and strategy for the protection of the languages richness, etc.) create their own interactive PPT presentations and play them in the classroom.

This is a group/collaborative activity on creative writing/thinking.

This activity is a compination of Inquiry-based learning and Game-based learning activity aims at developing linguistic/verbal and spatial intelligences but can developed and some of the other types of intelligence, such as:

Interpersonal intelligence: good with communication.
Intrapersonal intelligence: good with analyzing things.

Targets

For students to:

Learn and reflect on the variety of languages that exist in Greece, in Europe and throughout the world.
Be Informed about EU policies on multilingualism and the protection of spoken and official languages..
Be witnesses of these policies watching a live meeting of the European Parliament.
To express themselves creatively through exploration of the European countries and their culture via images.
To work together and use the new knowledge, creating collaborative interactive presentations with the use of powerpoint, in order to acquire new skills.
To to use Ms Songsmith in one more activity.

For teacher to:

To bring together students with the linguistic richness of European countries.
To motivate students to learn foreign languages.
To bring students into contact with the culture of other European countries.
To help students develop a sense of European citizenship.
To bring a fresh approach to everyday teaching reality.
To motivate students to develop their own original material the with the use of the tools that have been taught.
To have a feedback about the whole project and give pupils the opportunity to evaluate the it.
Through the activity to evaluate pupils' understanding of the importance of preservation of Europe's language richness.

European Day of Language.

E.D.L.

Playing "Europe"

Activity 5

Interactive Presentations

Duration 5 hours

2 hours for the presentation of the facts about the search greetings in various of the European Union countries and the official languages in the EU,the strategy of the EU for the protection of the languages richness and to watch a European Parliament tv broadcasting via internet. 1 hour for questions preparation, 1 hour for the powerpoint presentation creation and 1 hour for pupils to play with the interactive presentations.

Development pathway

Step 1: Connection to European Day of Languages website for a fast feedback

Step 2: Connection to European Commission website and visit of all the relative to languages policy pages

Step 3: Connection to Europe Parliament website and watching one of their meetings pointing the suriousness of the translating service and the importance of its role.

Step 4: Presentation of the book "United in Diversity" with the help of projector.

Step 5: Presentation of the mouse mischief and its features.

Step 6: Asking pupils to work in groups and using any and as much as they want of the resources were presented to create their own interactive presentations using the powerpoint.

Step 7: Pupils play with other groups presentations in a competion about the European Day of Languages

Step 8: Brainstrorming about other uses of the Ms Mouse Mischief and feedback about the activity.

Evaluation

Students

Self evaluation : Self commitment, personal effort and self evaluation of their own work..
Team evaluation: Level of collaboration, initiatives taking, assignment of roles in group.
Peer evaluation: Evaluation of their classmates' work.

Teacher

A rubric to measure:

The richness of the interactive presentations.
The creative and imaginative questions develpment.
The variaty of the used data.
The level of commitment at the activity.

If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.

Nelson Mandela

Description

Students in groups, for the feedback perposes, and after a line of sub-activities (watcing Europarliament tv, read facts about EU policy and strategy for the protection of the languages richness, etc.) create their own interactive PPT presentations and play them in the classroom.

This is a group/collaborative activity on creative writing/thinking.

This activity is a compination of Inquiry-based learning and Game-based learning activity aims at developing linguistic/verbal and spatial intelligences but can developed and some of the other types of intelligence, such as:

Targets

For students to:

Learn and reflect on the variety of languages ​​that exist in Greece, in Europe and throughout the world.

Be Informed about EU policies on multilingualism and the protection of spoken and official languages..

Be witnesses of these policies watching a live meeting of the European Parliament.

To express themselves creatively through exploration of the European countries and their culture via images.

To work together and use the new knowledge, creating collaborative interactive presentations with the use of powerpoint, in order to acquire new skills.

To to use Ms Songsmith in one more activity.

For teacher to:

To bring together students with the linguistic richness of European countries.

To motivate students to learn foreign languages.

To bring students into contact with the culture of other European countries.

To help students develop a sense of European citizenship.

To bring a fresh approach to everyday teaching reality.

To motivate students to develop their own original material the with the use of the tools that have been taught.

To have a feedback about the whole project and give pupils the opportunity to evaluate the it.

Through the activity to evaluate pupils' understanding of the importance of preservation of Europe's language richness.

European Day of Language.

E.D.L.

Playing "Europe"

Activity 5

Interactive Presentations

Duration 5 hours

Development pathway

Step 1: Connection to European Day of Languages website for a fast feedback

Step 2: Connection to European Commission website and visit of all the relative to languages policy pages

Step 3: Connection to Europe Parliament website and watching one of their meetings pointing the suriousness of the translating service and the importance of its role.

Step 4: Presentation of the book "United in Diversity" with the help of projector.

Step 5: Presentation of the mouse mischief and its features.

Step 6: Asking pupils to work in groups and using any and as much as they want of the resources were presented to create their own interactive presentations using the powerpoint.

Step 7: Pupils play with other groups presentations in a competion about the European Day of Languages

Step 8: Brainstrorming about other uses of the Ms Mouse Mischief and feedback about the activity.

Evaluation

Students

​Teacher

Tools and programs

Ms PowerPoint with the Mouse Mischief plug-on installed, 5 mouse( wireless or a usb hub) a PC and a projector (or a smartboard if there is any) .

In addition

For the facts about the EU policy and strategy:

1) The official EU site

2) The European Day of Languages site

to watch the European Parliament live broadcasting:

Europal tv

the book:

United in diversity

and its key

Key of United in diversity

Cr​eative C​lass

Learn and reflect on the variety of languages that exist in Greece, in Europe and throughout the world.

Teacher

Creative Class