TESOL Spring Presentation. May 17, 2014.

1. e-books and digital creations about the
environment
Web 2.0 collaboration in an international
context
Giraux Sannier high school
2012-2013
TESOL Spring conference
May 17, 2014
Marie-Hélène Fasquel

2.  I have been teaching in Lycée Giraux Sannier, in
Saint Martin Boulogne (Pas de Calais) since 1999,
and will be teaching in Nantes next year
(International High School – literature)
 in ULCO (Master’s Degree – didactics & ICT
training) since 2008,
 I am an eTwinning ambassador
 A Microsoft Expert Educator
 I have written 2 ESL textbooks with
 Ellipses
 And am co-authoring two books (Hatier &
Ellipses).
2
Biography

3.  Anglais, Entraînement
et auto-évaluation,
Compréhension Ecrite,
Expression Ecrite,
Ellipses,
Paris, 2010.
Extract
Contents
3
References

4.  Bac en Vue,
Anglais, Spécial
Vocabulaire, Ellipses,
2011.
Extract
Contents.
4
References

5. 5
Teacher’s needs
• Engaging the students (weak/shy),
• Promoting self confidence,
• Bringing out the students’ various talents.
Students’ needs
• Having their work and efforts recognized,
• Studying in an innovative and creative way,
• feeling valued and engaged.
Birth of the project

6.  Combining 4 motivation factors
  ICT  through collaboration, content
creation & online publishing,
  The environnement topic  fighting for a
cause – real-world problem
  Opening onto the international
 authentic communication
  Draws/competitions and prizes – feeling
valued
6
Main objectives

7.  Writing a collaborative e-book –
newspaper/magazine articles (progressive tasks)
 Analysing other students’ articles
 Creating logos
 Making Glogs
 Exchanging online (Twinspace)
 Writing and sharing collaborative short stories
 Turning them into comic strips
 Taking part in class & online competitions (Ocean
Challenge, Paper Plane)
7
8 steps to nurture creativity

8.  Starting point -- personal photographs
of their close environment
 The photographs trigger comments and
reflections
 Collaborative tools (Titanpad , Google
Drive)
  their first e-book.
8
e-book

9.  Collaborating & sharing,
Activities on “Padlet” here
9
Peer assessment

10. Competitions  Students being rewarded
(diplomas & prizes)
10
Making Logos

11. 11
Voting
The students voted for the best logos
(Google Form).
an example

12. 12
Glogs
Online interactive posters (Glogs).
 Introducing oneself
and one’s school
Glogster
Students’ activities:
Glog 1
Glog 2

13. Exchanging and collaborating with
Turkish
and Italian
partners on
our Twinspace
13
Communicating

14. 14
Creative writing -- Short stories
14
• Studying the specificities of short stories
• Resources
• First flipped classroom resources
• Resources for this school year
• Mr Jones & 2 short stories about the
environment
• Short stories published online in e-book
format (issuu)
• The Paper Plane English Prize 2013
• e-book
• collaborative e-book

15. 15
Comic Strips
15
Selection of the short stories
A few comic strips websites:
Kerpoof
Bitstrips
Pixton
Strip Generator
or
Storybird
example

16.  Ocean challenge
 challenge kit
 first challenge
 second challenge
16
Ocean Challenge

17. Thanks to
 colleagues
 Students
 Foreign partners
 Topical issues
 Current cultural events - Release of Yann
Arthus Bertrand’s latest film « Planète
Océan » in Dec. lesson plan
 Ocean challenge
 Online short story competition17
Ever-evolving project

18.  Pen io : autonomy
 environment pen io
 Diigo –bookmarks
 Symbaloo
18
Collaborative
tools

19.  Scoop it : ESL links for my students
 http://www.scoop.it/t/esl-links-for-my-
students
19
Autonomy…

20.  The project was selected at the Tour de France du
Numérique, at the Lille CRDP.
 At the 6ème Forum des Enseignants Innovants.
 At the Journées de l’Innovation de l’UNESCO where it
received an innovation award (Partnership Prize)
It was also awarded the eTwinning European
Quality Label
Webinar: recording
webinar about the online tools
20
National competitions

21.  The project was selected by Microsoft Partners in
Learning:
 To compete at the Global Forum (March 2014 –
Barcelona).
 250 teachers were selected out of 23000
 applicants.
 7 teachers are representing France.
 10 projects were awarded prizes including this one.
21
International competition

22. The program Partners in Learning (PiL) allows
educators to
 Join a worldwide community of dedicated and
innovative teachers &
 Get free training (tutorials,webinars,
resources).
22
International community

23. • My profile
• Documents
• Feel free to contact me,to join the
community (I will invite you), to work
together or to ask further questions!
23
International community

24. Scoop.it! curation
2 ongoing projects:
 Gamification  learning while creating
games and playing them.
games curation
 The Flipped Classroom
flipped classroom curation
24
Content curation and new projects

25. Feel free to contact me!
mhfasquel@gmail.com
On Twitter : @mariehel2
Slideshare
My files on Slideshare.
blog
On Facebook, LinkedIn &
Google+, eTwinning: Marie Helene Fasquel
25
Contact -- References

26. 26
Thank you very much for your
attention!