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PALOURIOTISSA GYMNASIUM Advanced School

PALOURIOTISSA GYMNASIUM Advanced School. Pepy Michaelides Deputy Head Teacher Josephine Pavlou Lead Teacher. PALOURIOTISSA GYMNASIUM AS AN ADVANCED SCHOOL. OUR GOALS The use of technology in all subjects as a tool of teaching, in order to achieve more creative and effective learning

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PALOURIOTISSA GYMNASIUM Advanced School

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  1. PALOURIOTISSA GYMNASIUM Advanced School Pepy Michaelides Deputy Head Teacher Josephine Pavlou Lead Teacher

  2. PALOURIOTISSA GYMNASIUMAS ANADVANCED SCHOOL OUR GOALS • The use of technologyin all subjects as a tool of teaching, in order to achieve more creative and effectivelearning • The use of technology as a tool of communication, cooperation και training for all participants involved (Management, Teachers, Students, Parents, Community)

  3. S T E P S SHARE/PRESENT What we are already doing regarding our goals

  4. 1. THE USE OF ICT IN TEACHING PRACTICE e.g. Computer Science, Mathematics, Literature, Chemistry, Physics, Music, Home economics, Design and Technology.

  5. 2. THE USE OF ICTIN SCHOOL ACTIVITIES Programmes such asMovie Maker, AVS video editor and Adobe after effects are being used in school activities’.

  6. 3.THE USE OF ICT FOR COMMUNICATIONANDCOOPERATION Dropbox Edmodo Email School website Social Media websites Websms

  7. OUR SCHOOL WEBSITE

  8. Teachers - students; students - students communication throughFACEBOOK GROUPS

  9. Teachers – students; students - students communication through theEDMODO PLATFORM

  10. 4. TEACHER TRAINING • A seminar was carried out by the company ‘PROMITHEAS’ for all teachers regarding the effective use of the interactive boards. • Seminars for all colleagues for the use of Dropbox and the Edmodo platform. • A training course for all teachers regarding the PREZI programme was conducted by the Pedagogical Institute.

  11. 5. EQUIPMENT SPECIAL EQUIPPED ROOMS AND LABS MULTIMEDIA ROOM COMPUTER SCIENCE LABS (3) CHEMISTRY LAB PHYSICS LAB 2 HOME ECONOMICS LABS HISTORY ROOM MATHEMATICS ROOM 2 DESIGN AND TECNOLOGY LABS HEAD AND DEPUTY HEAD OFFICES TEACHERS’ COMMON ROOMS BIOLOGY LAB ART ROOM AND MUSIC ROOM

  12. There is access to the network and Internet Provider for all special rooms and labs and relevant infrastructure has been created for the rest of the teaching rooms. • There is Wireless Internet ( WI-FI) access in the main Building of the School. • In addition, the School can provide: • Teachers can borrow the above at • anytime. • Students use laptops and tablets. 2 5 17

  13. S T E P S TEACH/TECHNOLOGY Examples of the useof technology In Teaching

  14. COMPUTER SCIENCE • A’ grade : Students learn how to handle and edit files and documents using Microsoft Word, how to use the browser for internet search, how to use and handle electronic mail, how to draw and editimageswith Paintandhow to create simple graphic applications employingScratch. • B’ grade: Students learn how to handle spreadsheets within the Excel, how to use applications of interactive communications , for ex. Skype, how to create their own website and make graphic applications using Aliceand preparing presentations using PowerPoint. • C’ grade: Students learn to create and manage databases by using Microsoft Access, use the Diagram Creator and create their own simple applications with the use of the Visual Basic language.

  15. PROJECT EXAMPLE: Creation of games with the use of Visual Basic.

  16. MODERN GREEK Students prepare and present powerpoint projects about books that they have read

  17. Comics and posters are created by students

  18. Grammar and Spelling games employing Glogster, Word and Powerpoint

  19. Grammar and spelling games using Shape Collage

  20. LITERATURE FORUM

  21. Blog creation: Break the wall: Talks about racism and xenophobia Students participated in a competition organised by the school and created their own blog, electronic newspaper and documentary which included student’s interviews from other countries

  22. HISTORY Teachers and students use Powerpoint presentations very often. Students search in the internet in order to create their own projects. In addition, documentaries or other historic sources are presented to make the lesson more interesting.

  23. E-book of Asterix and Obelix Ancient Greek Online exercises

  24. Educational Material on Homer’s Iliad • Documentaries on www.youtube.com: • La querradiTroia • The true story of Troy

  25. ENGLISH http://goanimate.com/videos/0gqsQfxt-U0E Students use the Go Animate software, they write their own dialogues and produce short cartoon videos.

  26. Students make use of the website www.surveymonkey.com to answer questionnaires

  27. MATHEMATICS Geogebra, Graphi and Mathtype are being used

  28. HOME ECONOMICS Students use mobiles and computers (Movie Maker, Audacity, Word and Power point) in a number of diverse projects and activities.

  29. MUSIC: AN EXAMPLE OF A COLLABORATIVE PROJECT WITH THE USE OF ICT Students collected recycled materials and with the use of mobile phones they transformed the collected material into musical instruments. The project was enriched with sound effects and electronic sounds made on computers.

  30. Questions Future Design S T E P S PLAN/INNOVATE

  31. WHAT WE HAVE GAINED SO FAR …. • ICT offers the opportunity of a meaningful communication between Teacher-students; student -student at any time. • Class becomes more attractive to students. • It provides teachers the chance to communicate and advise the students about their work during non-school hours. • It facilitates personalized learning. • It give us the opportunity to answer any questions students may have during their homework. • It gives the opportunity to students who may be absent, to participate, to be active.

  32. Questions based on our goals: • How can we help all teachers and students to achieve more effective teaching/learning by using ICT? How does this ultimately help us as a school? • How can we (further) challenge, encourage, train and update (more) teachers, students and parents to use technology as a tool for communication? • How do we further share practice? • How do teachers and students perceive all the efforts and activities that are being done through the LSL programme and how effective is it for them? What is each one’s role?

  33. FUTURE STEPS

  34. THE USE OF ICT IN TEACHING AND LEARNING • Teacher training - UPDATE • Teach students how to work on group projects from home with the use of the PREZI Program. • Use of the site WORDLE, where one can select/write a paragraph which can be transformed into a poster format. • Creation of LiteratureBlog “Reading Club”. • Use of GoogleHangeoutsfor the COMENIUS European programme. • Blog Creation

  35. THE USE OF ICT AS A TOOL OF COMMUNICATION AND COOPERATION • - Encourage the use of Edmodo by parents. • - Invite parents to relevant common activities • - Use of Dropbox by all teachers • - Create a Twitter school account for continuous communication • - Creation of personal websites by all teachers that are involved • - Focus on student feedback/voice in different levels

  36. ICT EQUIPMENT AND LEARNING SPACES • Organise activities in order to raise fundsto buy additional interactive whiteboards, computers, tablets and projectors • Upgrade the equipment in the multimedia room • Upgrade the equipment in all special rooms • Enrich school’s educational software • Create informal learning spaces

  37. The Brain – is wider than the SkyFor – put them side by side – The one the other will containWith ease – and you – beside –Emily Dickinson, c. 1862

  38. THANK YOU web http://gym-palouriotissa-lef.schools.ac.cy email gym-palouriotissa-lef@schools.ac.cy Pepy Michaelides – Deputy Head Teacher Josephine Pavlou– Lead Teacher ViolariVasso– Support Teacher NikiShiati - Support Teacher The work presented in this presentation is partially supported by the European Commission’s FP7 programme – project Living Schools Lab (Grant agreement Nº 317587). The content of this presentation is the sole responsibility of the consortium members and it does not represent the opinion of the European Commission and the Commission is not responsible for any use that might be made of information contained herein.

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