Listening to students’ exam answers
Why? It comes as no surprise but grading exams, and giving feedback, can be exhausting. What? Therefore, I decided to try to make the exam more fun for both the students and myself while simultaneously encouraging collaborative learning and interactivity. I followed the three requirements for an interactive task (Damnik …
A playful interactive experiment with Socrative
What did I do? This is a description of a playful interactive experiment with Socrative that I carried out in Do One phase. The first aim of this experiment was to urge my students to read chosen chapters in the course literature before they attend the lecture and the second …
German Grammar Videos
– a Sustainable, Reusable Investment I work as a German teacher at a university Language Centre in Finland, teaching students from different fields of study practical language skills. One factor becomes more and more important to me for every term: if I want to be a decent teacher, I need …
Teaching basic statistics in google sheets – the online dialogue way
As a maths teacher for 7th to 9th grade, I have had to teach students how to use google sheets to work with statistics over the last couple of years. My online dialogue brought a new twist to this. Where I’ve previously taught this in the classroom, while my students …
Online English lesson
My playfull exeriment My playful experiment was doing an online English lesson with a girl in year five in a Danish primary school. Preparation I prepared her by sending her, and her parents an email about date and time and an instruction in how to download the app and how …
Play&Learn with online dialogue
This blogpost deals with my experience of creating a online dialogue. Besides being a teacher, I also work in home care. Here, many resources are used to help senior citizens become self-reliant. I believe that you could release resources for example by using online dialogue to instruct elderly people on …
Let’s have a playful dialogue and learn in the process
So it seems only appropriate to start off with letting you know a little bit about me and what you are about to read. My name is Kamilla and I am an educated pedagogue, who next to my studies, work in an afterschool program with teenagers. This blog post is …
Pedagogues having an online dialogue about apps
This blogpost is about my experience with a playful online dialogue. Backstory: In my experience pedagogues can find it challenging to use iPad’s and app’s in the kindergarten to create a playful learning environment. Because of that I thought it could be beneficial to have a dialogue with some fellow …
Fail forward and perform well
The Do One part To begin with, I would like to introduce myself as an experienced teacher when standing in front of children and grownups, and I never really thought about how I will perform in a real online dialogue as a host or teacher. So while getting through all …