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This online course is designed to enable teachers to develop basic skills necessary for use of interactive ICT tools for creating e-artefacts effectively, and for creating activities envisaged in methodologies which will motivate students to read and learn about their national literature and national literatures of other European countries. The aim of the training is also to empower teachers by developing their competence and confidence in using interactive ICT tools in the classroom. If the course is a moderated one, it will also facilitate communication, collaboration and sharing of good practice among participants.
Please read this section before starting on the activities. It describes the target users the course was originally designed for and how the activities might be best approached by other users.
This section will be used for communicating announcements, reminders and anything else that is considered important for the whole group. Feel free to use the Questions for your moderators forum to start discussions of your own.
In this forum your moderators will post general news and announcements. These posts can't be answered by the course participants.
If you have any question for your moderators regarding the course content, Moodle or course delivery, this is the place to ask.
This section contains a tutorial which will help you to use and understand Moodle in a student role. You will also be able to find out more about the other course participants and moderators by posting in the forum.
This forum is intended for the course participants to introduce themselves and exchange their views and expectations regarding this online course.
This section will help you grow more comfortable using Moodle in the role of a student. You will be able to share a video presenting the school where you teach, and discuss the videos posted by other course participants. You will also discover which video creation tools most course participants like using.
This forum is dedicated to posting and discussing videos of schools or other institutions where course participants work.
Here you can find the documents describing the AMORES teaching methodology, the background theory, and technology recommendations.
Click on AMORES poster for download
This section will familiarise the user with a range of tools used to create videos and with the possible uses of videos in class.
These recommendations are a result of the observations made during the pilot carried out in five partner schools in the school year 2014-15.
This forum is dedicated to video-related discussions. Further ideas can be found in chapter 3 of Tasks and activities.
This section will familiarise the user with a range of tools used to create comic strips and with the possible uses of comic strips in class.
Click here for a bit of background on comic strip generators.
Here you can find more details about comic strip generators that were considered for use in AMORES.
This forum is dedicated to sharing and discussing further suggestions on comic strip generators.
This forum can be used to share any examples of comic strips which you might have created. If you have never used them, take a look at some of the ideas in Recommended comic strip generators and have a play!
This section will familiarise the user with the possible uses of online games in class.
This text contains sections on what games are, what gamification is, how games relate to learning, and an overview of issues with games-based learning. It should be read before taking part in the discussions in this section.
In this paper Kurt Squire criticizes the current organization of schools based on his experiences using Civilization III in a high school history classroom. The paper should be read before taking part in the discussions in this section.
This forum could be used for discussing games-based learning - ideas about using games in education and what the issues are.
This section will familiarise the user with the Edmodo environment and with the possible uses of social networking tools in class.
This text should be read before taking part in the discussions in this section.
This forum could be used to discuss experiences in using social networks in teaching, how Edmodo could be used in teaching, and safety issues in using social media.
This section will familiarise the user with a range of tools used for videoconferencing and with the possible uses of videoconferencing in class.
These recommendations are a result of the observations made during the pilot carried out in five partner schools in the school year 2014-15.
This forum could be used to discuss how videoconferencing will be used to share e-artefacts between pupils/students across schools. Positive and negative experiences of videoconferencing could also be discussed, as well as the structure and content of videoconference events and what activities might be organised to facilitate this.
There is also practical help and guidance on how to use videoconferencing software at Videoconferencing resources.
It is recommended that this section be used by course participants for the whole duration of the course. It may be used for reflecting or for planning practical applications of new insights and knowledge. This section may come in particularly useful for participants who are collaborating on a project and need to devise a schedule.
This section contains further resources.
This document contains contributions from participants in the training for teachers run as part of AMORES.