Partners' Institution:

FASE.net

Project's period (from/to):

01 March 2010 - 31 October 2011

WPs concerned:

WP 3 - Delivery of Courses

Objectives of activities carried out:

Creating the classroom;

Making teachers familiar with the online portal;

Assisting the teachers;

Introducing Course 0, Course 1 and Course 2.
30 presentations of experiences carried out in the application of e-learning by each of the teachers and trainers involved.
60 evaluations of e-learning products by each of the teachers and trainers involved.

Reports on the delivery of the courses (register, list of participants, signatures, report, evaluation, pictures, material delivered)

To develop a new e-learning product and the guide of use of the product

Practical experimentation with students of the e-learning product

Description of activities carried out:

Given out the guideline to making teachers familiar with moodle;

1º class time, held at the premises of FASE on 31/05/2010 in a room with all the necessary equipment for the correct development of the course. Two different sessions, from 10:00 to 12:00 and from 19.00 to 21.00, concentrated on the Presentation of the LeTS portal and of course 0 in particular.

Tutored the teachers in the portal and with online courses;

Demanded a distance learning experience report from the participants;

2º class time, held at the premises of FASE on 14/06/2010 in a room with all the necessary equipment for the correct development of the course. Two different sessions, from 10:00 to 12:00 and from 19.00 to 21.00, concentrated on course 1.

Demanded a distance evaluations learning products reports from the participants;

Carried Out the two live meetings; the first one for the introduction to Course 0 (four trainees) and the second one for the introduction and evaluations to Course 1 (one trainee).

Demanded a distance learning experience report and evaluations of e-learning products from the participants;

3º class time, held at the premises of FASE on 06/09/2010 in a room with all the necessary equipment for the correct development of the course. Two different sessions, from 10:00 to 12:00 and from 19.00 to 21.00, concentrated on course 2.

Demanded a distance evaluation learning products reports from the participants and the evaluation of the LetsGo Portal;

4º class time, held at the premises of FASE on 28/09/2010 in a room with all the necessary equipment for the correct development of the course. During the workshop, the teacher explained what is different between a blog, a web site and a wiki. The teachers decided to develop a free web site. We decided the structure of the web site. At the end of the workshop we sent to the rest of the students some examples of free web sites to decide the best one.
New task are fixed until the next workshop: name and structure of the website

5º class time, held at the premises of FASE on 18/10/2010 in a room with all the necessary equipment for the correct development of the course. The aims of this workshop were: (1) Develop of the web site (2) New task are fixed until the next workshop.
THE STRUCTURE: Fix the structure of the web site before to star to upload contents on the web site.
THE CONTENTS TO UPLOAD: FASE net sent an e-mail with a user guide to the teachers to know how to register as administrator in the web site and to upload contents.

6º and 7º class time, held at the premises of FASE on 10 and 15/12/2010 in a room with all the necessary equipment for the correct development of the course. The aims of these workshops were:
(1) Learn to use HOT POTATOES and to develop specific exercises to teach languages (2) Upload the contents in the web site

Once the website is finished, the group with the help of the teacher has developed a Guide of how to use the e-learning product. This guide can be found into the website.

Also, the team of Fase.net has developed a course description with more information about the e-learning product.

The last part of this Wp was the practical Experimentation of the e-learning product with students into the classroom. Thus teachers who participated in the course have implemented in the classroom the language resources that are available on the web site that they have developed.

As reflected in the testimonials that teachers sent to us, most teachers are very satisfied with the results and knowledge acquired in the course Letsgo.

Certificates of course attendance vave been distributed to teachers

Outcomes:

Teachers can navigate the portal without troubles; they are making progress in the course contents and acquiring new knowledge;

Trainees have given 18 presentations on e-learning experiences and 20 evaluations of e-learning products.

During the first live meeting participants discussed about their e-learning experiences;

During the second live meeting participants discussed about the problems they are founding surfing the portal.

Selection of the e-learning product to develop during the last course: A WEB SITE WITH DIDACTIC RESEOURSES TO LANGUAGE TEACHERS
Discussion and first develop of the web site structure (structure and contents)
Implementation and completion of the website: DIDACTIC RESEOURSES TO LANGUAGE TEACHERS that you can find in the link https://sites.google.com/site/recursosidiomas/

Develop a Guide of Use of the e-learning product
Develop a Course Description

the results of practical experimentation with students in classrooms are: (1) completion of the Experimentation report developed with the help of teachers, (2) testimony from students, (3) certificates of attendance

Evaluation of the work undertaken:

The skills acquired for the trainees have been general concepts of the Project LetsGo, how to create a website, create content for the web page and upload that content.
We have also made a specific course to learn how to use the Hot Potatoes program for the creation of specific exercises
Teachers have also been able to implement in their classroom all the knowledge acquired during the course