1. First training event in Estonia
Workshops conducted during 1. Training event in Tallinn, Estonia
The topics of the pre-prepared practical workshops were:
-Kahoot application;
-applications and internet environments to create games for learning activities;
-creating videos and photocollages.
Estonia:
- LEARNINGAPPS - you can create there yourselt different kind of games for learning activities: pairing, crossword puzzle, memos, group assingment, ordering, quizes aso.
https://learningapps.org
2. BAAMBOOZLE - you can create there yourself jeopardy kind game or quiz.
possibility to plan teamwork.
https://www.baamboozle.com
3. KAHOOT - you can create there yourself a quiz to be played with smartdevices
(tablets and phones).
https://kahoot.com
4. VIDEOPAD - video creating and editing software. You can create your movies
including pictures, videos, music, text and effects.
https://videopad-video-editor.en.softonic.com
5. PHOTOCOLLAGE COLLAGEABLE - you can create there photocollages, cards.
You can add background, colors, stickers, text.
Turkey:
- QUIVERVISION - coloring pages you can open in tablet or smartphone as 3D pictures that come alive.
http://www.quivervision.com
2. CODE - simple games for practicing coding with children.
https://code.org
Spain:
- TYNKER - easy coding teaching for children. Coding with blocks.
https://www.tynker.com
2. LIVEWORKSHEETS - you can create there online and interactive worksheets.
https://www.liveworksheets.com
3. PHOTOCOLLAGE - you can create there photocollages, cards.
You can add background, colors, stickers, text.
Greece:
- PADLET - you can create there shareable walls, posters, networks, pages.
https://padlet.com
2. KIZOA - video creating and editing software. You can create your movies
including pictures, videos, music, text and effects.
https://www.kizoa.com
3. FOTOJET - you can design cards, create photocollages and edit photos.
https://www.fotojet.com
France:
- JIGSAW PLANET - you can create there puzzles and play ready puzzles on tablets, phones and smartboards.
https://www.jigsawplanet.com
2. IMOVIE, MOVIEMAKER - video creating and editing software. You can create your
movies including pictures, videos, music, text and effects.
2. training event in Turkey
Workshops conducted during 2. Training event in Alanya, Turkey
The topics of the pre-prepared practical workshops were:
-creating comic books;
-applications and internet environments for creating quizes;
-creating interactive pictures;
-opportunities for teamwork.
Estonia:
- LEGO STRORYSTARTER SET AND LEGO STORYVISUALIZER APP - you can create Lego storystarter set tales with children and visualize the tales with Lego blocks. Then you can take pictures about the scenes created and upload the pictures to Lego Storyvisualizer app. There you can create comic book about the story – add background, special effects, speech bubbles aso. Ready comics can be saved to computer or be printed out.
https://le-www-live-s.legocdn.com/sc/media/files/curriculum-previews/storystarter/45100-curriculum-preview-enus-3ba0c56ce99464706c47ca67387f1fb8.pdf
Other opportunities to create comic books:
- PUZZLEMAKER - you can create there yourself several type of educational games –
quizes (word search, crossword puzzles, math puzzles, mazes, cryptograms).
http://puzzlemaker.discoveryeducation.com
Other opportunities to create quizes:
(ready games)
- THINGLINK - you can create there interactive pictures for learning activities. You can add to pictures – text, links, voice aso.
https://www.thinglink.com
More opportunities to create interactive pictures – Skitch application.
- MINDMEISTER – online mind mapping environment. You can create your own project – word mapping, idea/meeting management, knowledge management, brainstorming, note taking.
https://www.mindmeister.com
More opportunities for mind mapping - https://www.wordclouds.com
Turkey:
- FLIPSNACK – free page for creating online books and magazines.
https://www.flipsnack.com
- WHEEL DESIDE – you can create any kind of game or challenge and then spin the
wheel and the wheel will make a random choice.
https://wheeldecide.com
- HP REVEAL – site to create 3D pictures from drawings or photos.
https://www.hpreveal.com
Spain:
- PLICKERS – webpage that let you create online quizzes. Instead of tablets or smartphones children hold plickers cards and choose right answer. Teacher cheks the answers with smartphone or tablet and the results are been reflected to smartboard.
https://get.plickers.com
- LAYAR APP - you can create there interactive pictues. Take 1 picture and then add
additional features there.
https://www.layar.com
3. EVERNOTE- you can create common pages, add notes. Works like padlet.
https://evernote.com
Greece:
- STORY JUMPER – page for creating online books.Voice can be added also.
https://www.storyjumper.com
- AUTO DRAW – environment for drawing with free hand and choosing the system to
improve the drawings.
https://www.autodraw.com
3. TRICIDER – online voting and brainstorming environment.
https://www.tricider.com
France:
- BOOK CREATOR – page for creating interactive stories and online books.
https://bookcreator.com
- PHOTOFILTRE – drawing in computer, photo editing.
http://www.photofiltre-studio.com
- BLABBERIZE – edit pictures, you can add voice and mouth movement to pictures. Make pictures talk!
https://blabberize.com
- TRIVENTY – create classroom quizes.
http://www.triventy.com
- PUPPET PALS APP – for creating comics, cartoons. You can add voice.
3. training event in France
Workshops conducted during 3. Training event in Tourrette-Levens, France
The topics of the pre-prepared practical workshops were:
- applications and internet environments for creating crossword puzzles;
-applications and internet environments for creating wordmazes;
-creating animation;
-creating picture story;
-programming;
-other programs and equipment used in schools.
Estonia:
- EDISON ROBOT: Edison is a simple educational robot. It reads barcodes with different commands of activities and you can also create programme with blocks with tablets or computers. Edison also matches with Lego blocks. Edison moves around according to program or following light, noise or black lines.
Webpage with teaching materials: https://meetedison.com
Webpage for programming: https://www.edblocksapp.com
- MINECRAFT EDUCATION – here is programme “Minecraft adventurer” where you can rehearse simple programming with blocks. There are different levels of difficulty. The programme will give you assingment you have to solve and the the player has to plan the journey according to the assingment. The game is identical with original Minecraft game, so it is very motivating for children to rehearse programming.
https://education.minecraft.net
https://code.org/minecraft
Other opportunities for programming:
- Younger children – games with Bee-Bots.
- Scratch: https://scratch.mit.edu
- Blockly: https://blockly.games
- Tynker: https://www.tynker.com
Apps – koding games for children:
- Daisy the Dinosaur
- Spritebox
- ANIMAKER - you can create here animation and interactive pictures using ready templates or empty project. You can add here special effects or sounds on the pictures and create videos. Log in is possible with google account.
https://www.animaker.com
POWTOON – similar to animaker.com. You can compose here videos or
presentations.
https://www.powtoon.com
- CROSSWORDLABS– crosswordlabs is very easy to use. You can create crosswords and save them for playing or sharing. You can save crosswords in PDF or in Word. When saved in word document you can solve the crosswords in computer.
https://crosswordlabs.com
More opportunities for crossword puzzles and mazes:
- theteacherscorner.net
- https://crosswordlabs.com/
- https://www.worksheetworks.com/
- https://www.puzzle-maker.com/ (not fre)
- https://www.education.com/ (not free)
- http://puzzlemaker.discoveryeducation.com/
- http://www.suchsel.de.vu/ ( not english)
Turkey:
- ARMOUREDPENGUIN – free page for creating wordsearch, crosswords, word matches. You can print out pages. You can create your own or use a ready page.
https://www.armoredpenguin.com
- STORYBIRD – you can create a storybook or comic book. You can upload here your artwork, write a story, create a book or comic and print it out.
https://storybird.com
- MOVE THE TURTLE – simple coding and programming for children. Possible to use only with iPhone or iPad.
http://movetheturtle.com
- BOTLEY ROBOT – a coding robot suitable for smaller children. The robot can follow a line, avoid obstacles and it can be controlled with simple remote. The robot is a screen free toy and the set includes coding cards for planning the journey or giving children different assingment.
- DOCROBOT – simple educational robot that gives children assingments about moving around and children have to push the right buttons to follow the instructions.
Spain:
1.LIGHTBOT– a coding app for tablets. LightBot is a puzzle game based on coding; it
secretly teaches you programming logic as you play!
https://lightbot.com
2. CURISCOPE – VIRTUALI TEE – Animated interactive picture about human body.
The Virtuali-Tee combines a t-shirt with a free app enabling your students to
learn about the human body...on a human body. When wearing the interactive
t-shirt you can look inside the human body when scanning the T-shirt with the
tablet. The app also includes different videos about human body.
https://www.curiscope.com
3. CLASSDOJO- it is virtual classroom where you can give children assingments,
communicate with them, evaluate them and give feedback about behaviour.
https://www.classdojo.com
Greece:
- BEE-BOT ROBOTS – Bee-Bots are educational robots. It is very simple programming opportunity for children from very early age. Children push the movement buttons (forward, backward, turn left, turn right) according to the planned journey for the eobot.
There is also a app for Bee-Bot, where children can play very easy programming games.
https://www.educationalappstore.com/app/bee-bot
- SMILEBOX – environment for creating books and collages. You can also create presentations, where you can add text for pictures. There is also possibility for creating a newspaper there.
https://www.smilebox.com
- For crossword puzzles there is HOT POTATO environment:
https://hotpot.uvic.ca
- KIZOA.com – environment for creating slideshows and videos.
https://www.kizoa.com
France:
- GREEN SCREEN – you can use this application to set a embed background behind an oral presentation or to set a background behind of short animation with puppets. You can create „tarvel“ pictures when adding to embed background persons. You need a green backgound and application.
https://apps.apple.com/fr/app/green-screen-by-do-ink/id730091131
https://filmora.wondershare.net/green-screen.html?gclid=CjwKCAiAwZTuBRAYEiwAcr67OZaN_oEeI21SCx0FKBZxGBxeDQGuTeIydt328s4_-lIU0Kyc39sQdhoCCe0QAvD_BwE
- CODING EXPRESS– Coding express is Lego Education blocks. This is easy way to teach children simple coding with blocks and also problem solving skills.
https://education.lego.com/en-us/products/coding-express-by-lego-education/45025#product
4. training event - virtual meeting
Workshops conducted during 4. Training event: virtual meeting.
The topics of the pre-prepared practical workshops were:
-Using QR codes in learning activities;
-using smart equipment for planning outdoor learning activities;
-new programs, environments and equipment used in schools.
Estonia:
- METAL DETECTORS: There are 4 metal detectors in one charging set. Metal detectors will make peep sound when they recognize metal. Teachers can plan outdoor activity – for example treasure hunt (metal coins are hidden in the sandbox and children search for the treasure with metal detecors). Also teachers can plan indoors activity – for example teachers hides something inside folium paper and places them inside kinetic sand. Children look for folium paper inside kinetic sand with metal detecors.
- QR CODES– QR codes were used in both indoor and outdoor activities. Teachers created QR codes orientation activities where children searched for QR codes and and opened them with tablets. Then children solved different assignments. You can create your own QR codes. Every QR code can open pictures, internet sites, text aso.
- PET-BITS ROBOTS – Pet-Bits are very simple coding robots and suitable for small children. The robots move around, dance, talk and giggle. You can record your voice and robots act for hand clapping, blowing air and pushing button. 2 and more Pet-Bits robots communicate when they meet.
Turkey:
- INO-BOT ROBOT - InO-Bot is a simple robot. Robot follows/reads a line and also works with tablets. The robot can be led with programming in Scratch program. You can insert a pencil inside the robot and the robot draws while driving.
- DOC ROBOT – Doc robot is an interactive talking robot. Robot teachers letters, colours and the names of animals. Command are inserted with buttons. And the robot also moves around a game board.
- ONLINE LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES - teacher sends students assignments at home to be solved using different internet environments as:
- WORDWALL – online educational games created by teachers according to the topic.
- QUIVER – coloring assignment and opening the colored picture as 3D in the app.
- QR CODES – children open QR codes prepared by teachers and solve different assignments as for example learn Turkish regions.
Some coding games:
Spain:
1.QR CODES – QR codes created by teachers are used during different activities and
fields of study. For example:
- LANGUAGE LEARNING – each QR code include a small text from different tales as a reading assignment. A worksheet is completed according to every QR code.
- OUTDOOR ORIENTATION AT PHYSICAL ACTIVITY LESSON – children look for QR codes created by teacher all around the playground using tablets or smartphones. Children open the codes and read the assignment. Then children complete the physical education challenge described.
- HOMECOURT APP – Homecourt is a app for interactive physical activity. Challenges can be played solo or in teams. The app is a fun and motivating way to improve physical skills and increase physical activity.
https://www.homecourt.ai
- ONLINE MUSIC LESSONS – During covid period music lessons are held through video conference. Teacher uses several apps to give children assignments:
- KEEZY APP – Keezy app is available for ipads. It is an environment for creating music. Music can be made with color coded samples – every color code symbolizes different sound. Voice/ sound recording is also possible.
- NOTEFLIGHT – Noteflight site is designed especially for music education. Teachers can create assignments, students can create and compose music. Teachers can do assessment and give feedback. Recording is also possible.
https://www.noteflight.com
- GARAGEBAND – Garageband app is available for apple devices. You can create and record music. And learn different instruments on computer.
Greece:
- LIVEBOOKS – Livebooks is online book creating environment.
https://www.livebooks.io
- MYADVENT.NET – Myadvent is environment where you can create a personal online calendar. Add as many windows as necessary. You can add photos, voice messages, text, videos.
https://www.myadvent.net/en/
- WORDWALL – Wordwall is environment where you can create custom activities for your classroom. You can create interactive games: quizzes, match ups, word games aso.
https://wordwall.net
- SAMMY-BOT ROBOT (Kids first coding and Robotics) – The set is for learning basic coding. It includes story cards, coding cards, Sammy robot and smart blocks to create different models for the stories. Sammy robot reads code cards and moves around the map cards.
- TRICIDER – Tricider in online voting and brainstorming environment.
https://www.tricider.com
France:
- LEARN-O – Learn-o is a digital orientation game. Children move around with map/card and solve assignments created by teacher. Every child has a programmed and individual electronic finger that is used in the checkpoints when solveing the assignments. The results are viewed in the computer.
https://www.learn-o.com
- SEESAW– Seesaw is a digital portfolio for children. There can be saved individual info about every child for teachers and parents about the childs development.
https://web.seesaw.me
- GCOMPRIS – GCompris is a educational software that includes many different type of activities and interactive games. Suitable for online/ distance learning for assignments to be solved at home.
https://gcompris.net/index-en.html
- CONNECT MICROSCOPES – Easy scope microscopes are digital microscopes that are controlled with tablets. It is possible to take a picture of the magnificated object.