LTE- DISSEMINATION LTE- DISSEMINATION IES Josep VallverdúIES Josep VallverdúGemma Llovera & Francesc Solans

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What’s dissemination?What’s dissemination?“the opening of a subject to widespread discussion and debate” .

(www.thefreedictionary.com)

For us dissemination must For us dissemination must answer these 4 questionsanswer these 4 questions

WHAT?WHAT?divide the “whole product” in parts

WHOM?WHOM?find who can be interested in each part

HOW?HOW?Design an individual dissemination strategy

WHY?WHY?Find out the goal of each dissemination, the aim

How a Comenius 3 How a Comenius 3 network works in network works in CataloniaCatalonia

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Fields of interestFields of interest

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WHAT: LTE NETWORK.WHOM:

◦Educational Department of Catalonia.HOW:

◦Personal meeting: Educational staff School headmistress Teachers involved

WHY: ◦Get to know the project.◦Inform that a Catalan school is involved

in a Comenius 3 network.

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WHAT: STRESS REDUCED LEARNINGWHOM:

◦English Department of Education in Catalonia.

◦Schools and teachers of languageHOW:

◦Being invited to explain SRL to the responsible of Foreign Languages Department, partner of a project called “Neues lernen” . (Neues Lernen Lingua 2 project, 72097-CP-2-2001)

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WHAT: STRESS REDUCED LEARNINGWHY:

◦To improve learning and teaching◦To reduce stress to teachers and

students◦To test a new methodology which aims

to: Enable students to become self-confident,

autonomous

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How to get teachers involved in SRL◦Summary of SRL methodology upload to

the net and mailing invitation to join the group in order to: Get more information Share ideas, doubts Put into practice

◦Mailing list of language teachers involved in projects by the Department.

◦Personal contact with colleagues and friends

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How to get teachers involved in SRL◦Summary of SRL methodology upload to

the net and mailing invitation to join the group in order to: Get more information Share ideas, doubts Put into practice

◦Mailing list of language teachers involved in projects by the Department.

◦Personal contact with colleagues and friends

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How to keep teachers involved with the survey◦ Sending e-mails with updated tests◦ Creating material to carry out some specific

tests Quiz PWP with images Glossaries Translation vocabulary lists Explanatory texts Clarifying the content

◦ Summarising the main ideas on each test◦ Suggesting ways for a better practice

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WHAT: MULTIMEDIAWHOM:

◦ Language Teachers and schoolsHOW:

◦ Seminars.

HOW COULD IT BE DISSEMINATED?◦ Choosing activities to exemplify the way of working◦ Using the mailing lists to spread this methodology◦ Inviting teachers to:

get in depth practice with the activities generate more activities get feedback

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WHAT: INTERACTIVE WHITEBOARD METHODOLOGY

WHOM: ◦Educational Department of Catalonia.◦Local Inspector.◦Local community.

HOW: ◦Barcelona

Personal meeting with the local inspector and the department. (They provided us with 2 IWB)

◦Design a pattern unit using IWB Languages (English, Catalan, Spanish, French) Biology, history, Industrial technology.

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◦Our local educational department invited us to disseminate this methodology: Doing some lectures

On provincial level On local level.

Training courses: 2007/08:

IES Josep Vallverdú (20 teachers/60) 2008/09:

IES Josep Vallverdú (19 teachers/60) IES La serra (17 teachers/50)

Preparing materials ready to use.

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◦Workshops: Local:

IES Lladonosa (30 teachers/45)

Palermo Estenfeld (GER)

◦ Including this methodology in LTE-subprojects Summary of LESET

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WHY: ◦To get to know the project.◦To promote the potentiality of IWBs in

educational field.◦To become a pionner school on this

technology.◦To help improve learning and teaching

process by: Giving extra multimedia tools to learn Ensuring a better motivation, Helping critical thinking and creativity Emphasizing interactivity (teacher/student and

student/student)

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ResultsResults

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◦DISSEMINATION THROUGH MEDIA.