English Game Experts: February 2021

Friday, February 26, 2021

We are creating a line of acrostic poem-child rights

Together with students from other countries, we took part in various activities online: reading children's rights in English, playing various games related to democracy, remembering the rules of polite behavior and school.

France.

The students really enjoyed creating posters and games that would help them get to know different nations, their language, traditions. Students of Šiauliai Medelynas Progymnasium prepared and presented a poster about France, created a puzzle.

A presentation about Albania

Our students were assigned with a country by their peers and search for it regarding its capital city, flag, nationality, and map, then they made a collaborative paper poster. Lastly, one of them gave a short presentation about that country.My students worked hard and made a presenattion about Albania, despite the lockdown because of COVID-19. After presentation my students played the digital game about Albania.

I students' webinar and choosing a Logo

At the first students' webinar we created a collaborative logo of the project. Our students created a word cloud as project logo together typing three words that reflect their ideas, views and expectations from the project using the web2 tool Mentimeter.

Non-digital and digital games

After our students familiarized with the main theme, democracy & children's rights via coding sheets as well as videos and presentations, they played one non-digital game, which is TARSIA, and one digital game which is "Time to climb" made with Nearpod app. Non-digital game was created by themselves and they enjoyed while preparing the game. After preparing they played it and sent us pictures while playing. This way they played and learned about children's rights and democracy.

Monday, February 22, 2021

Posttest

Our last meeting and last game together :)

It is our final meeting(21.02.2021) and final game with the partner schools across many beautiful countries and cities. We evaluated the project, gave a visit to the twinspace reflecting on our project tasks. Then, our students played a final game keeping in mind that it is not the winning that matters but taking part that counts.

We had a great time together celebrating splendid teamwork, hard work, and dedication indeed. Thank you, my dear partners, It is wonderful to have worked with you :)

Sunday, February 14, 2021

According to the posttest results for teachers, all of the teachers in the current project enjoyed using all of the games presented in the project in your classes, think the games presented in the project benefitted their student.Also, learning any new web2.0 tools with the current project, they think that using games in the lessons have contributed to their professional development. All of the partners have contributed the project a lot. The teachers believ that the aims and outcomes of the current project very well matched and the outcomes of the current project exceeded their expectations. The frequently used expressions are as follows; students and teachers being satisfied with the project; well integratiion of the lessons and Efl and games (CLIL-(Content and Language Integrated Learning)); improvement of students' skills of English, ICT, beside their motivation and enthusiasm for learning;the opportunity to work collaboratively; fun learning environment; discovering new web2 tools; being content with "learning more about the safe internet, children’s rights, the languages and traditions of other nations, nature, global warming, being polite"; students' gaining the self-confidence to use the EFL effectively. The teachers experienced the power of the games on students' learning and motivation, they seem to be decisive using the games in their regular lessons, which is in line with the philophosy of the current project.