Voyage Coetail

I finally did it! How I was dreading this 10mn video but in the end, that was a powerful way of reflecting. I enjoyed working that way with my students. I enjoyed documenting even though I felt sometimes that I was missing some of my students’ learning. Documenting and teaching at the same time is really tricky for me. While putting my video together, I noticed that I didn’t have any shot of my students choosing their topics. Yet I remembered we had a lot of interesting conversations going on in the classroom during that time I regretted also not being able to use SWAY as I did with the first Genius Hour last year. As we started the project early in the school year, my students didn’t have an email address until mid-October, therefore their presentation was already well advanced. [embed]https://youtu.be/CXM6tZ5teZk[/embed] New beginnings Coetail gave me the little  big push that I needed to feel comfortable with Educational technology, how to use it and what to address. The programme I...

[caption id="attachment_455" align="aligncenter" width="300"] flickr photo by mrsdkrebs https://flickr.com/photos/mrsdkrebs/6900256573 shared under a Creative Commons (BY) license[/caption] Digital story telling and blogging with my students were until recently my main ideas for my final project. But I wanted to use my final project to have my students really being creative. While I was wondering how I could have it worked out, I went to #Learning 2 Europe. Since then I have two bright ideas that I equally like. Genius Hour in French Creating a game with Scratch and Makey Makey : the upper primary grade would create it to the early years to play. I’d like them to create a “Operation” like as they both know, learn or will learn vocabulary about the body. As I’m still discovering Scratch, I decided to give up on the latter to focus on the Genius Hour. Here is my UBD planner. Why do you think this unit is a good possibility for my course 5 project ? ...

What I like the most with Coetail is that I have valid reasons to try new things!! As this week is about project-based learning, problem-based learning, challenge based learning….I jumped in and introduced a Genius Hour-like to my Grade 5. (To be honest, the idea came after I attended Marcello Mongardi session at Learning 2) …More on that later… [caption id="attachment_392" align="aligncenter" width="300"] flickr photo by Prairiekittin https://flickr.com/photos/prairiekittin/5951368139 shared under a Creative Commons (BY-ND) license[/caption] The philosophy behind PBL, CBL, PBL… Projects: I like doing projects with my students but at the same time, just the thought of organizing a project gave me goose bump! As yes, it’s always fun to start a project, I find also always difficult to finish it on time, to manage the unforeseen…. That’s why I’ve always kept it simple, kept it analog and more like a wrap-up of what has been learnt in the unit. Maybe it’s no...