ICT4LWUL in Florence: Two Years After the Start of an Inspiring Project

Wednesday 25th September afternoon, in the marvellous location of Spazi Sangalli in Florence, the culminating event of our European project "ICT4LWUL" took place. Twenty proactive and motivated participants were there to explore how to incorporate technology into teaching.

During our Conferenza & Workshop: Tecnologie per la didattica delle lingue, the main product of ICT4LWUL was presented: a handbook with guidelines and practical ideas for effective, creative, and fun use of many different educational platforms.

To gain further insight into the components of the handbook, participants had the opportunity to test some of them out. With computers and smartphones at hand, they took part in actual simulations on how to create learning tasks for students, making good use of tools such as Kahoot, Edmodo, Studystack, and Edpuzzle.

But they are not the only platforms presented by the authors of the handbook (who, by the way, are professionals in language schools from six different countries: the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Italy, Poland, and Romania).

In this text, I would like to mention some other useful tools that could help you design innovative learning activities. 

  1. Your students don’t have an internet connection to take part in an interactive quiz? Use PLICKERS! With Plickers, each student is issued a card, which is used to answer questions given by the teacher. Once the students have chosen an answer from the card, the teacher scans the room (using the phone or tablet) and the answers are collected and collated. Both the questions and the results can then be shown on-screen via the Plickers webpage.
  2. If you are looking for a complete, huge platform for e-learning, where you can make full lessons available for virtual classes, as well as use it to manage the discussion, share materials, grade students’ tests, award certificates (and much more)… MOODLE is probably the planet you would like to land on. 
  3. Then… isn’t there a space where you can store all the links to useful websites that you come across or that colleagues recommend to you? On SYMBALOO it’s possible to do that: you can easily create “webmixes” to save your web resources and organize them into different folders.   

Wish to discover more? Keep following us and download the “Multilingual Handbook for the Use of ICT Tools in teaching foreign languages”! Click here to download.

A special thanks to the participants that I met this week! Let’s keep on learning! 

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Website: https://ict4lwult.wordpress.com/project/
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Event within the framework of “ICT based methods to teach less widely used languages” Erasmus+ Strategic Partnership:

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