The teachres' first chat
Welcome to TitanPad! Hello! I'm Maria from the Athens team. Please choose a colour and write your name. Hi!I'm Loredana, from the Romanian team. Hello! I'm Popi from the Athens team. Hello! I am Stamatia from the Ioannina team. Hi everybody! I'm Cinzia from Italian team Ok. Let's meet on line tomorrow at 9.30 then. Hi. I'm Osman from Erzurum- Turkey Hello! I'm Eugenia Hello,Im Eleni from Athens. Good evening ! Iam Popi. We should wait for Cinzia and Maria There are still a few minutes to go till 21.30. Can you see someone without name too? With pink colour Nope! It is unnamed...first at the list... I am eleni .Ihave yellow colour but i have problem with this.
Hi everybody I'm Cinzia I see, you have chosen 2 colours, 1 with your name and 1 unnamed, but its ok... I'm with you. we can use the chat on the right there we can see who's who Yoou're right I think Eugenia is right. It would be easier for all to chat on this side. here we are Great! What do you think about our project? It's got tremendous potential my students and me, we think it's very interesting!!!! A successful etwinning program msut be cooperative and everybody (students and teachers) have to collaborato so as to have a perfect result. why don't we use the etwinning chat on our twinspace?or maybe we can't save the conversation there
Eugeniya, we can copy and paste later at the end using the right side.. at the site the page doesn't flow As a matter of fact, we are going to do it with the students shortly. Do you agree? I'm posting soon in twinspace some details about how it is going to be done. I think students want to chat with their partners Students are going to love it The problem is that it cannot be done on line with all school teams, that's why we suggest that two teams should chat each time. How do you find it? Students can chat by using this program... like an online chat or as a forum They realy want to we take turns chatting right?great idea. chat couples.... you should send me dates where your teams have time to chat online and i will program these chats by doodle..send me the dates by email. nicely put :) use doodle We are going to send dates and convient hours. Eugenia will post a doodle tool as she did it today for us. Osman, please don't be confused, take your time to see the colours involved. I'm Maria from the Athens team and have a look here, I'm writing in pink. Eugenia has the navy colour. Cinzia, the orange and so on...I see that Cinzia follows me. I
I can see that Maria.-Osman good idea (Cinzia) the problem is Osman and me we have the same colour (Cinzia). So, please, choose another but let us know soon. I'll write my name at the end (Cinzia). Is it easy for you Cinzia? yes I write my name so it' s easier (Cinzia) Great! Something that i remembered... Stamatia and Osman, can you finish the remaining activities by the end of this month?Eugenia We are on it Eugenia. The problem was I have three similar classes and the classes are too much crowded. I finally set the groups and now anly a little work left.-Osman Same problem with my classes.I have managed to get the group together and the teachers..finally and we have finished most of the tasks for this month and will be posting everything these days (Loredana) I'll finish on time, no worry..getting them all together was the hard part because of the schedule and also because for the past few weeks we haven;t had internet connection at school (we changed the provider), so we couldn't work at school at all..now I have internet access in 1-2 classes, but we'll solve the issue quite soon..finally(Loredana) Ok, Loredana, we are looking forward to seeing your work. All the activities so far were great Eugeniya. -Osman
Ok Osman^ Eugenia The chat-forum for the students will last for 10 days...during this prepare a logo for our project, i have already posted our team's logo-athens... Eugenia Loredana please, be quick, because you are not going to finish on time. And also complete the map. So the next activity on which we all are going to focus is to create a logo for our project  and then vote so as to select the most representative one. What do you think? I have a question for Eurgenia about the logo, my art colleague is working on that. Is it possible for students to draw and then to upload their works on your program? (Cinzia) Because lots of students don't know them at all (Cinzia) There are online sites to do that.-Osman Maybe we can scanthe work.Good poind dear Cinzia. I let my students do allthe works and try not to involve in the process for the student's part. that's why the works delayed so far.-Osman Some of them even don't have PCs at home.Osman  I think it can be done but it needs a load of work on your part. Why don't you try to create it by using web 2 tools from the first instance? Ok then, the students decide after all... i let them do the work too..we brainstorm for ideas and then they decide how to do the logo..i show them tools, they show me tools:) It's the idea that matters(Loredana)
Osman, Cinzia, it doesnt matter how you'll do it. If you sketch the logo then it would be nice to see the original drawing..i just chose to use taxedo and photoscape tools to create logo. At the end the students will vote for the best logoEugenia Perfect Eugenia . we could scan them and then they can vote the best (Cinzia) I'll try to learn how to use our tools and if I find stds who can manage I'll give them instructions so we'll have both versions (Cinzia) How much time do we have exactly for the logo?Osman OK I'll let my students know and make them prepare their own fisr; if they can't I'll prepare myself.OsmanSure. etwinning project is like this. we always share experiences. that's why I like this :)Osman ok The deadline is the 3rd of November (Maria). Ok, let us know in case you have any problems. Thats perfect... do you agree Osman?Eugenia Do you think you'll make it on time?Eugenia tomorrow I'll give the dead line to my colleague and I hope we'll be able to respect it (Cinzia) Eugenia, what did you mean when you said i should complete the map?I have to post our introduction of the school, town (and the quizzes), students(and their avatars).I don't know what map. I have made some photsynths of our school and I am working on adding the quizzes and making the films. Zipmaps, ok..I couldn't find anything about any map, but now I know what I am looking for.I will check my email then. Is it zeemaps??That I am familiar with, the tool i mean, i use it all the time.I;ll check my email for the link.Found the link, in my spam (Loredana)
ALright Great, then this work is going to be really easy for you. You don't need to do all this, just prepare a video sharing with us some information about your town. You will normally find this map in twinspace. You don't need to post quizzes on the map... Loredana, you'll do all these you said , also complete the map at zeepmaps, do you have the link, i think i sent it to you, i can send it again.Eugenia Are there any questions?Eugenia Is everything ok? yes. For the history lesson do we have to prepare life of a worldwide known person or a person famous in our country?OSman I thought we would all work on Einstein...at least my students and history teacher are working on that. How long should the lesson be?A few minutes, more?My students were asking if they could do about the real person behind the Dracula myth, since it originated in our country :) Someone we all study, right? (Loredana) Your students' idea sounds great but the thing is to find somebody who is famous worldwide, so that we can cooperate which is in fact the main idea behind the whole etwinning project. We think it's best to find a person that is famous worldwide. He could be a scientist as well. In my opinion, I'd prefer Elizabeth the first because she is from our history program time and I could work in my English lessons (Cinzia)
Osman, we are going to do a project about a famous person and work on that all teams together We will chose each one of us a famous person and then the students will vote for the person we work on!You got right Maria, the project must be cooparative.Eugenia Sounds good Einstein is a good choice. Cinzia, what do you think? Can you make it? Cinzia, we'll propose the persons, the students will decide which one we'll choose. For example you suggested Elizabeth the 1st, Einstain, Alexander the great.... ect at the end the students will vote.Eugenia My history colleague can introduce the person in our language if it is connected with the time they are students, otherwise if we choose Einstein or Alexander the students work alone and they found information (Cinzia) My history teacher will be guiding the students, he won;t be able to work in class because of the same problem. What they study at history right now will have almost nothing to do with Einstein or many other historical figures..but he can always talk about them in class, give the other students some ideas in advance :) (Loredana).They will learn how to research, synthesise information, evaluate and so on, work as a group and that is more important. That's right, Loredana. That applies to us all since our students don't study about Einnstein as well but it's a good opportunity to learn more about him. You mean; all of us will present the same person's life?-OsmanYes,wont it be boring? I don't think so since each team will work on different aspects of his life and work. ---Good
Maybe once we decide on a person, each school gets an aspect of his/her life..so at the end the final presentation is a combination of all ours. We can have a quiz at the beginning and one at the end...that way, we evaluate the lesson the students presented :)(Loredana)---Right Good idea. In addition, each team will prepare a quiz and test the knowledge that the other teams have acquired. Let me tell you about how its goin to work. Firstly, we will suggest persons Secondly, students will choose the 1 person Third, every team will work on one section/aspect of his/her life Fourth, with a cooperative tool such as prezi, all teams together will make 1 main project-presentation at the end all teams will prepare and play quizes in order to evaluate their knowledge on that particular person. I think that Eugenia and Maria have right for the ideas that suggested. How are we going to decide who works on which aspect of that person's life? (Loredana) We could discuss it on line? It's very interesting to work in this way. I'm just a bit worried about how my students could work. I don't have time at school till February so my students have to do it at home. I hope I can manage it (Cinzia) We will use collaborative tools such as answer garden and many other tools that i'll inform you about via email
Should we have a section dedicated to tutorials for various web tools for those that might need help. I am used to working with loads of them, but I think some teachers and students would find that useful (Loredana)OK, just tell me which tools....and have you used QR codes before in projects?I am thinking of hiding my students'identity behind a QR code that other students can scan ..the great thing is they can be printed and posted on the walls so we have our project work on hand We will see, if you can handle this, it would be nice to prepare a tutorial....I'll inform you soon via email! Eugeniya, only presentation or online tutorial ;or a video? Osman I don't know what Eugenia thinks but I believe that an online tutorial on web 2.0 tools is not an easy task since we are all very busy and it needs a lot of time. In any case, something like that will certainly be done in the course of the chemistry lesson. Agree Eugenia It's a matter of minutes for each tool...just a screen capture video with me explaining what i amd doing step by step for each tool...there are even great ones online, some I can share form some etwinning Learning events, others I can make Ok Alright! Tutorials are not important, just teach your students and only if its a great need, you'll make one. About the rest, Do you got any questions about our project? I think, we Will many :) but in turn... First let's finish this task-Osman
Iwill send you info through email and twinspace. Any idea what they'll work on for chemistry?My students don;t study chemistry for another 2 years but they are very smart and can learn fast.Great.Yes, a while back Ok, we are posting shortly details about our schedule for January and February. As far as I remember, I have sent you a brief outline of our activities till December... Ok Maria agreed. So now we work on logo and history (Cinzia) after will decide on the others up Right. Thats right dont rush, everything on time! Work please on the logo now and leave history for later on. I think we are done for now. Ok? Ok-OSMAN we can do this *any time we need. It was really nice to have this opportunity to share our views on line.
It's very nice to collaborate in this way. I like it so much . Thanks very much to everybody (Cinzia) Good night!!!!! It was a nice chat! Remember that being collaborative is the key! Good night! TGood night everybody-Osman This is the first time that I am participating in a etwinning program and I am glad because I have partners with a lot of capabilities! GOODÂ NIGHT.(Popi) Good night everyone.I will finish my students' video now and the map:)(Loredana) Good night from me too. Nice to meet you on line! Thanks a lot. (Maria) Good night It has been a real pleasure. See you soon!!!! (cinzia)