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The purpose of this site is to present some original and innovating lesson plan models to introduce computer technology into pedagogy. These models for teachers are given as 'skeletons' that will embed teachers' personal data (ideas, pictures...). The emphasis here is on interactivity, that is, using the Web for more than just reading pages on a screen or writing sentences disconnected from a teaching purpose which should be : organize ideas, learn better by mixing them in different ways, produce a written document or oral sentences validated by the teacher and evaluate these personal productions. For example, 'pop-up' windows are meant to enhance a memorizing activity while the practise of the ‘select/drag and drop’ technique saves time rearranging words into phrases before submitting an essay to an immediate evaluation. You will notice that each of the templates mentioned below requires some action on the part of the student as the information is often split up into pieces, shown in different areas on the screen. Explanations are given with links to examples for creators to see how these exercises function and how to adapt them to their project. For the students, open work spaces are reserved for taking notes and illustrating them. Most interactive exercises are presented as a model to be reproduced or adapted to a different context (a computer lab OR a collective classroom activity), in any language, using your own raw material. Raw carrots are meant for this!  In order to understand precisely how all this works, it is recommended to view an example of the template here below, then get the zip file from the Comenius server, expand it on your local hard disk and open the _Read1st.txt file that is present in each download. The models that include your data are meant to be used for non-commercial teaching purposes. The copyright of the intellectual property for the creation of the model must not be changed and an agreement by mail is required when first publishing a personalized template on an internet server or duplicating the templates. It is a sort of registration and you will then receive the latest advice to improve your production. Jean-Pierre Palasse   'Guessit': how to help students memorize a text (NEW, an August 2006 release) is very simple template for teachers in the classroom who wish to help students build up ideas from a text. The use of a video projector is highly recommended. The programme is just an interactive html web page, easy to adapt to your project. 'A mini slideshow to explore ideas' (NEW, an August 2006 release) to be viewed with the internet browser in a 1024/768 pixels screen. Students can freely explore this slideshow and sum up main ideas in a form collecting information data base that can be printed or saved as a specific worksheet file. View SlideShow for computer lab. 'A slideshow for the classroom' (NEW, a May 2006 release) is an easy-going template enabling students to collect various information from a local picture bank with a possible help of resource web sites or local text files (could be sounds or videos). Creating personal resources is not very complicated if you use Internet Explorer to view the files that can be updated immediately in the source code by the teacher. 'Multiple Choice with Arguments' (NEW) is a very simple template to intoduce various sentences for students to sort out and comment (if necessary). Main usage : revise some ideas on a lesson studied in class, select, keep or discard information with a possible help of resource web sites or local files. 'The Question Machine' (NEW) is a tool for students to build up correct questions from a puzzle of couples of words. If the question is what the computer expects the student to produce, the student may propose a free answer to the 'open question' that will be evaluated and marked by the programme. Documentation in the Read1st.txt file (after downloading the zipped tools and expanding them in a new folder). 'Right/Wrong/Justify' (UPDATED) is a template MEANT NOT ONLY to correct and EVALUATE ANSWERS that are ticked in a box, but to REQUIRE FROM THE STUDENT THE PRODUCTION OF A WRITTEN SENTENCE when his choice is not the good one. The system will also keep a memory of what the student has done, a worksheet that can be printed to get the written proof for an activity based on the 'try and learn more' concept. 'Create an interactive text' will show you how to introduce very simply codes in a plain text in order to create links on chosen words that will activate popup windows from a word bank. No tool is needed: just the program displayed in the source code with the right click of the mouse with the Internet Explorer. 'Fill-in-the-blank' (updated with a Save Worksheet option)is a vocabulary exercise set in an interactive context. The student is asked to complete the sentence in the web designed spaces. When most of the questions have been answered, he then clicks on the button "check my work" and and evaluation worksheet appears. If one answer is not correct, the student may try another proposal. The student is urged to introduce the right answers after memorizing the corrections, but his marking picks up penalties for not giving immediate 'good solutions'. Synonyms are accepted if that case is admitted by the creator. 'Phrase it' (UPDATED)is an automatic sentence builder linked with a photo album. The student will ask the computer to produce grammatically correct sentences and choose the most relevant ones to click and drop them in the designed spaces. In the end a student's worksheet will be built up, ready for printing or sending to a teacher by mail for evaluation. 'Click/Drag/Reorganize' (UPDATED in December 2005) is another interactive exercise based on the same principles of building up bits and pieces of texts into ideas. All these manipulations are recorded in a worksheet that can be printed as a written trace and illustrated. 'Click/Drag/MakeSense' (proposed in August 2007) is another interactive exercise based on the same principles of building up bits and pieces of texts into ideas. It is provided to accept longer texts related to a picture shown on part of the same screen. A large screen (at least 1024 pixels in width) is required. 'Click/Drag/MakeSense' (proposed in August 2007) is another interactive exercise based on the same principles of building up bits and pieces of texts into ideas. It is provided to accept longer texts related to a picture shown on part of the same screen. The goal is here to place text on exact parts of a picture (such as name an area). A large screen (at least 1024 pixels in width) is required. 'Arguments' (UPDATED) offers a workspace to develop different arguments on a topic. The students can choose several of them from a bank of arguments that will be examplified by them before an oral presentation to confront ideas and points of view. The electronic evaluated worksheet on open questions 'Help me do my exercise' (UPDATED) is an interactive exercise based on the principles of answering some twenty questions before the system can reuse the learner's answers in a new context (a worksheet that is built up with pictures included). All this works directly in the internet browser and requires no use of a word processor. The learner may have several chances to improve his knowledge and produce the best page he can manage to create and print. 'Bankimage for the classroom' is a simple layout to get immediate access to a picture bank related to a subject studied in the classroom and viewed with a video projector. The teacher manipulates the programme for the students.
'PREAO, a computer assisted lesson' is a model of interactive teaching activity to display information on a wide screen in the classroom viewed with a video projector. The teacher manipulates the programme for the students after preparing a few basic datas and enriching his presentation live for the students (view details in the _Read1st.txt file).
' Fill the gaps in THE CLASSROOM' (UPDATED) is a computer programme to facilitate the use of your texts and your pictures in a rich oral production activity in the classroom with your students. The use of a video projector is a must here. View an example dealing with the subject of 'advertising'.
' PHRASE IT MULTIMEDIA FOR THE CLASSROOM' should help teachers talk about a subject that has been pre-organised (pictures + sounds + random sentences) and is viewed and discussed in the classroom with a written report made live as the students react to this information. One student is in charge of this report for the rest of the class. If you only have ONE COMPUTER linked to a TV screen or a video projector in the classroom, that's sufficient to work with the program. Loud speakers will be needed if you add sound files. For each visual document ask a student to come to the computer and type in the notepad space what has been collectively agreed with while viewing the documents and listening to the sound files. At the end of an hour's lesson, a record must be made in the collective worksheet ready to be printed, stored or sent via networks as an html file.
Most programs need the downloading of a zipped file before use and will be viewed with the Internet Explorer browser allowing javascripts, modification of the source code and the possibility to show 'popup' windows.
The examples given below were created by French teachers preaparing worksheets for students learning English as a second language. |
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