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    B3a and C3a classes, 11th Junior High School of Ilion, Greece

    ILION Parental Permission_☯.pdf

     

     || SEPTEMBER  || OCTOBER ||  NOVEMBER  || DECEMBER ||  JANUARY || FEBRUARY || MARCH || APRIL || MAY || 

    SEPTEMBER

    12/09/2020

    1st teachers meeting

    Our school 

    https://videos.mysimpleshow.com/vxUe5yDuJC

    OCTOBER

    15/10/2020

    • Parental permissions
    • Registration of  12 students at twinspace (B3a)
    • First tour in twinspace and students interaction with Journal's posts.
     
     
    17/10/2020
     

     

     
    20/10/2020
     
     
     
     
     
    22/10/2020
     

    B3a class

    • watching the 2  videos for project's introduction
    • QUIZ1 OK-->YIN CLASS!
    • Accepting with GREAT pleasure the French Challenge! Wonderful creation dear partners!!! SUPER!

     

     
     
    26/10/2020
     
     
     
    29/10/2020
     
     
     
    NOVEMBER 
    03-11-2020

    C3a Students' presentations (work in the shared google slide and in forum threads)

     

    Thursday, 5-11-2020
    Tuesday, 10-11-2020
    First lesson in webex for C3a-arrangements for the way of working
    Teams and testing work in forums

     

    Thursday, 12-11-2020
    First synchronous class in webex for B3a-arrangements. Teams in forums. Testing uploading photos in Materials
    Thursday, 19-11-2020
    B3 Working in forums and uploading photos for the partners' Taijitu
    Tuesday, 24-11-2020
    Thursday, 26-11-2020
    B3a students have directions to work on their Taijitus in the shared for the class google drive https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1lt3940t4YJOsYunZyvRZQB1K_qPrrBkA?usp=sharing Each student having a presentation to work on his/her Taijitu
    DECEMBER

     

     

    Tuesday, 01-12-2020
    C3a: https://adventmyfriend.com/calendar/edit/117195/36d09de821/
     
    Thursday, 03-12-2020
    B3a: Checking missing photos for collages (step2) and practicing the collage making
    Tuesday, 08-12-2020

    The students in C3a ICT class at Ilion had started to create their collage on Tuesday 08 December.  The process we had followed is the one that we describe in the video that the teacher has shared on Sunday 29 November to her fellow teachers We hope we will have finished all by next Tuesday  15 December

    On Tuesday 02 December online synchronous class (C3a), Marina sharing her screen in online synchronous class while she is downloading the images that her peers have posted for her  and cropping them

    Miltiades sharing his screen, he has finished cropping the downloaded images and has created his collage

     

    On Wednesday afternoon, 9 December,  Georgios11 and Panagiotis11 (B3b ICT class) have worked on our asynchronous class and the teacher had the luck to be watching them working on the assigned and shared with the class google folder on their presentations and collage and had successfully created their collage. Also Georgios besides for Jimena and for Foteini, after the teacher's kind request, has posted photos also for Laura (Romania) and Shakira (Germany). So,  from all our students now, Georgios is the one that has posted for 4 fellow students so far, 1 Spanish, 1 Greek, 1 Romanian, 1 German!

     
    Thursday, 10-12-2020

    B3a directions for the creation of a christmas card in partners languages https://padlet.com/etwpetroupoli/yyb3a

    and for sending twinmails to the partners

     

     

    Tuesday, 15-12-2020
    C3a voting the quiz 1 and directions for the christmas cards and twinmail activity
    Thursday, 17-12-2020

    B3a Solstice and Celebrations around the world

    Last Christmas cards through twinmails  and in Christmas cards Exchange page to our partners

     

    Tuesday, 22-12-2020

    C3a  Solstice and Celebrations around the world

    Video

    Enjoy your Holidays!

     
     
     
    JANUARY 

    A short tour in China-collaborative work in C3 

     

    12-01-2021

    C3 Ilion students have started working on trigrams (web search, shared google slide, very short discussion about cosmology and a work that will be on progress for the next sessions about trigrams in scratch)

    14-01-2021

    B3a ICT class has worked on binary system and on ASCII code and we have discussed the similarities/analogy with yin  yang coding as lines that form the Si Xiang (Seasons) and Bangua (Hexagrams) on the google slide that C3a had created on Tuesday

    Also, a short discussion on the artcle "The ancient book of wisdom at the heart of every computer

    19-01-2021

    Students have played the games in step 3 and have filled the forms (polls) in step 3

    The students have also worked in copyright issues and have created a video added in the relevant page

     

    21-01-2021

    B3a students have played the games in step 3 and have filled the forms

    web-search https://docs.google.com/document/d/1uYexTcJJ2k2Kdjn-Uzfha-tDtDJaiwqmJ3iOGdxmHZU/edit#heading=h.5mwtjivvcrxp  about the 5 traditional elements in the various cultures
    Quiz 2(step 3)
    26-01-2021
    C3a students have worked in trigrams in scratch and here you can checkour projects

    https://www.thinglink.com/video/1410438347809095683

    These projects have been added in project's studio in scratch, https://scratch.mit.edu/studios/27783598/ 

     

    28-01-2021

    B3a students working on scratch starting from a collaborative work in google slide "Elements in History"

     

    FEBRUARY 

    02-02-2021

    C3 playing the color team games-choosing color team-padlet why-SID kahoot create

     

     

     

    04-02-2021

    B3-choosing color team (step 4 test)- a padlet is used for students to explain their choices

    -SID 2021presentation

     We also talked about things we can do  to support good use of the web and we tried to post them in the shared google slide as yin or yang responses

    We also had a little progress in the elements in History work we do

     

     

     

       

    09-02-2021

    Live event with Santander-Safer internet Day

     

    11-02-2021
    B3a: working in forums (teams) Step4
     
    16-02-2021 C3a: Starting step4 in Forums

    18-02-2021

    Work in Forums step4 B3 class

    and in media Literacy

    23-02-2-21
    C3a working on Scratch
    25-02-2021

    B3a working on Media Literacy

     
    MARCH
    02-03-2021 Forums-step4 -C3b class

     

     

    04-03-2021

    Working on scratch for the presentations in forum

     

    09-03-2021
    11-03-2021
    16-03-2021
    C3a: scratch games (conditions-loops)
     
    18-03-2021
    B3a: scratch games ("Letters in the right order")

    23-03-2021

    C3a students work in scratch-color-teams-presentations and upload the links to their teams' forums

    Some projects here:

    by Eleni: https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/505842318/

    by Miltiades: https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/505854110/

    by Dimitris: https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/505842257

     

    https://bit.ly/2X9htKu

    https://www.16personalities.com/articles/our-theory

     
    APRIL 

    01-04-2021

    B3a: scratch project "two sprites interact-events"

    06-04-2021

    Students have worked on a google slide where we summarized what we have learned so far for YY and the 5 elements

    Also, the students have worked on scratch ("on the meeting basic idea") -conditions, sensing- creating some projects (we will add all in the project's gallery soon) and here is one by Eleni, one from Miltiades and one from Danae

    We like these meeting projects very much

    13-04-2021

    Ilion, C3 class has worked on posters in step 4.

    20-04-2021

    C3a works in Chinese language in a jamboard celebrating UN Chinese day  and invites partners to join

    22-04-2021

    B3a class at Ilion has worked on colors challenge set by Lafrancaise and students had web search to create a google slide. This is the version the class has managed  

    Later in the evening, Ilion's teacher had a collaboration with the teacher from Lafrancaise and a new version for the google slide is created that we think it is useful to our classes (editor's right here: https://bit.ly/2PgEavX)

    *(The amazing image below that has the link to the slide is created by Eric)

    Ilion's students had also worked in the jamboard -Chinese writing- and in the padlet with Chinese UNESCO monuments -activity proposed by the teacher from Garmisch 

    Some instances of our work in the online class yesterday are on this gif:

    MAY

    11-05-2021

    "Happy Europe Day

    Happy eTwinning Day" by C3a

     

    13-05-2021

    B3a students work in a jamboard and invite their partners to comment on the image that fits to our project so well

    Very interesting work in jamboard and in the discussion we had in class

    18-05-2021

    20-05-2021

    Today the students of B31 ICT class have played the games in the spinning yy challenge and have posted their comments in the page's forum. Two videos were recorded explaining, too

    23-05-2021

    On 11 May C3a students have voted the teams' posters and have worked on a genially about the Great wall of China

    This presentation and some more work about the History and Religion in China and the relations among EU and China that had been created in online classes during school's lockdown is uploaded in a subpage "EU and China"

    25-05-2021

    @Ilion, C3a class had a full day today, playing the games, long discussions how economy, politics, culture, well being, religion and infrastracture are all connected and related and how important is to know the history when we try to explain the present and make some predictions for the future

     

    Finally, we summarised all the work the two classes at Ilion have created in the shared google drive -after long web search, December to May- into a google slide

    and you can follow that here

     

    So, now students are ready to work in the final 5 step of the project-next week, 2 June- and close this school year with students' evaluation on 9 June -last meeting for this year-

    27-05-2021

    B3a ICT  class has enjoyed the journey to China's more famous sites and the games. Posters are uploaded in the padlet and in Materials

    B3a at Ilion Ilion accepts the Lafrancaise team's new challenge on colors => "Our" world is our point of view! So, choose your own "filters" wisely!

    "Together Forever is difficult and needs work"

    C3a has experienced the 3D color challenge and students were really impressed!

    We have found out that anybody can create such glasses using simple materials, clear plastic (the front cover of a cd, or a plastic slide etc) and 2 markers, blue and red

    JUNE

    01-06-2021

    C3a has filled the 5th step poll, they have played the games according to their elements and they have posted in their  color-team-"element's" twinboard

    They have also filled the students' evaluation form

    03-06-2021

    B3a Students work in the colors challenge using the 3D glasses and the RGB generator that the team from Lafrancaise has sent us

    step 5 -polling

    playing the games of the 5 elements: Olga in the yellow team, christos and panagiotis on the blue team

    silver team-giorgos

    red team-ioannis

    blue team-Foteini

    08-06-2021 and 10-06-2021

    Students work in calligraphy. They create posters for the ICT lab and for the school's main hall where the project was presented and they take their souvenirs from the project (pins and hats). We have sent souvenirs to our partners, too

     

    Two padlets that we have used as working spaces-coordinating the classes activities in Ilion

    padlet-C3a.pdf

    padlet-B3a.pdf

     

    Last words:

     

    Lockdown of our school (9 November-1 February and 9 February-10 May) because of the COVID pandemic and meeting my students in online classes asynchronously and once a week for 40 mins synchronously, when my students have had a variety of devices, was a huge challenge. If we were in face-to-face classes, it would be far more easily for my students to follow the activities of the project. Even under these conditions, my two ICT classes (12 students 13 years old and 12 students 14 years old) have worked in all of the projects' activities and have also proposed some of the freestyle activities to their partners. So, these difficulties -the teaching mode, the lack of equipment and time) compared to the contribution of my students to the final productions of the project, proves how successful had really been in motivating my classes to work and develop their collaborative skills and their responsibility to fulfill their duties towards their partners. 

     

    The project is a brilliant idea that i had loved from the very beginning, challenging and innovative for my curriculum in the ICT class where main aims are developing ICT skills (web2 tools and computational and critical thinking) as well as collaboration and creativity in a PBL approach, based on real-life problems. The “problem” that our teenager students had to work on during this project was their reflection on their own personalities. They had to think about themselves and make comparisons to the inputs they had through their peers and through personality tests inspired of Chinese Culture. Our students developed their knowledge not only about their personality, or about attributes that they share with their peers across Europe but have also reflected on what is that “makes a team”, and realized that they can always find commonalities and bonds. Because of the wisely chosen personality tests, they had a motive to form a community of inquire on Chinese history and culture and get familiar to an Asian country that was of great importance in the world’s culture in the past and of huge economic importance in Europe and globally nowadays. STEM activities were the best way to trigger conversations and thoughts of how nature-science and community-culture are interconnected and interdependent. The STEM  freestyle activities summarize in the best, sleek and clear way the main message of the project:  all are a matter of perspective,  adopt skepticism, questioning our sourcessearch for answers and check back these answers which is also in accordance with eTwinning’s annual theme. Nothing is just black or white, it is both constantly and we need both to find out which is which and under what conditions