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Course Date: 30th June - 6th July 2024  (7 days), SLOVAKIA 

Course Venue: A picturesque hotel in the heart of the High Tatras with the possibility of wellness

Meals and snacks: provided at the hotel's premises

Added value: fresh air, all-day trip to one of the peak, the price of Skalnaté pleso cableway as a reward for weekly work in the course and another surprise for everyone :-)

TARGET AUDIENCE:

• Directors, school managers, school staff
  
• Teachers - ring leaders, advisors, inspectors
• Teachers (pre-primary, primary, secondary, vocational, adult education, special needs)

THEMATIC AREAS OF THE COURSE:

• General education in practice, cooperation, information and communication technologies, tools and applications usable in teaching, in practice

LANGUAGE:

Slovak, Czech, English, training materials in Slovak (on request in English).

PREPARATION:

After approval by National Agencies, participants will become members of the Facebook page of the project, prepared by the lecturers of the course. By doing so, they will be able to learn before the course starts; Will be able to express their expectations of the course, which will allow the organizers to tailor the content to the participants' needs;

They will share their ideas about housing issues, etc. In addition, participants will be given a list of materials with the main topics of the course.

OBJECTIVES:

The main objective of the course is:

- to familiarize participants with the potential of different web tools that can be used in-

Curricular learning and project work;

- Present opportunities to use ICT in teaching so that participants can use the tools creatively in their day-to-day lessons;

- demonstrate how ICT mediates new forms of thinking and learning

- showcase how to prepare pupils for the richness of technology and the cultural diversity of modern society;

- develop and disseminate innovative pedagogical methods when using Internet tools;

- use a new way of acquiring and effectively applying knowledge

METHODOLOGY:

This course is based on a practical approach to learning that will enable participants

To acquire the necessary skills for practical implementation. This means that after obtaining basic information about the tools, participants will have the opportunity to try them out, to invent new ideas for their use and their use in the subjects they teach. Tools relate to the following topics:

Tools for creating presentations

Multimedia presentations online

Drawing, editing, graphics, photo galleries

Documents online

Thought maps, collaboration, presentation tools

Quizzes, crosswords, tests, puzzles

animations

Blogs, Portfolios, Wiki

AFTER SURVEYING THE COURSE:

After completing the course, participants will be able to share their suggestions, upload their own

Materials developed based on the knowledge and experience gained during the course. In addition, a discussion blog (via the Facebook page) will be part of the course website where participants will share their feedback and experience about the tools presented and their use.

PARTICIPANTS GET:

Certificate of attendance, including a description of the content of education and the number of hours; Europass mobility - on request

Course programe:

Sunday:

- introductory meeting

- getting acquainted with course details

- acquaintance of course participants, participants' experiences with the use of tools and applications in teaching

- the profile of the school's participants

Monday:

- Presentation tools (photos)

- basic tools for cooperation

(Animoto, ImageShack, Kizoa,

Mixbook, PhotoPeach, PictureTrail)

- tools for creating multimedia presentations online

(MyBrainshark, Prezi, SlideBoom)

In the late afternoon:

- Tatranská Lomnica, Smokovec (collection of materials for the final outcome of the course)

Tuesday:

- Drawing, editing, graphics, photo galleries

(Slimber, BeFunky, Loona Pix, PhotoFunia,)

- tools for collaboration and interaction to support teaching and project work

(Embedit.in, webquests in teaching)

In the afternoon:

Strbske Pleso (collecting materials for the final outcome of the course)

Wednesday:

- Animation creation tools

- (Revelation Natural Art, Windows Movie Maker, how to create gif - Picasion, Gickr)

- tablet applications

- tools for creating online books and posters (Glogster, Issu, Joomag)

- video and comics creation (Stop Motion,

- Hrebienok (collection of materials for the final outcome of the course)

Thursday:

- Google Disc and online document creation tools:

- documents and their sharing

- spreadsheets and their sharing

- on-line forms and their sharing

Online presentations and their sharing

In the afternoon:

- Rocky Ball (collecting materials for the final outcome of the course)

Friday:

- Quizzes, crossword puzzles, tests, puzzles

(Jigsaw Planet, Puzzle Maker, Quiz Revolution, Word Search Maker)

- simple tools - to increase students' creativity

- tools for creating idea maps, verbal clouds

(Bubbl.us, Wordle)

- Workshop - Participants use their newly acquired skills to create

Their final work, the output will be an ebook with photos, videos, quizzes

And presentations from the course and places visited in the Tatras

In the late afternoon:

- visit Aquacity Poprad

Saturday:

Blogs, portfolios, wiki

(Blogger, Wikispaces, Word Press)

- Workshop - Participants use their newly acquired skills to create of their final work. When creating an ebook, participants use the various tools, with which they became acquainted during the week

- Presentation of participants' final work

- granting certificates

For more information, please apply to this form, we would be glad to ansver all your doubts