1 / 13

Your e-road to languages

Your e-road to languages. Improve T eaching. Here at IPF we provide an online portal for teachers to improve and develop their teaching skills. This portal can be used to improve the student’s language skills and provide career guidance using a fun virtual classroom.

guglielmo
Download Presentation

Your e-road to languages

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Your e-road to languages

  2. Improve Teaching • Here at IPF we provide an online portal for teachers to improve and develop their teaching skills. • This portal can be used to improve the student’s language skills and provide career guidance using a fun virtual classroom. • This has proven to be a success with our local teachers and institutes, giving them an extra tool to prevent early school drop-outs.

  3. iPortal project • ‘iPortal’ - an Integrated Platform with Online Resources for Teaching Languages • Aim: to improve the quality and access to independent language learning tools by combining existing e-learning tools (e.g. resources, virtual classroom, Second Life learning environment) • The platform enables teachers to teach students of various nationalities in different languages in an attractive, interactive and effective way.

  4. What is iPortal? • iPortal – Platform for language learning online: • Create a language course and share resources on the platform • Teach languages in the virtual classroom facilitating distance and independent learning • Practice communication skills like in real-life settings on the iPortal island in Second Life

  5. iPortalplatform • Set upand manage a worksiteforyourcourse • Structureyourcourse (syllabus) • Developyourcourse (toolsforcreatingexercises, tests, audiofiles, etc.) • Upload materials (texts, documents, presentations, pictures, videos, etc.) • Communicatewithyourstudents (chat, e-mail, news, announcements, virtualclassroom, 3D environment) • Manage yourgroupoflearners (gradebook, calendar, assessments, assignments, surveys, statistics) More than a classroom

  6. How does it work?

  7. How does it work?

  8. How does it work?

  9. How does it work?

  10. Virtual Classroom • It enables a teacher to teach a language class as in a traditional classroom: • Communication • Presentations • Videos • Text on the whiteboard • Interactive exercises (e.g. mindmaps, painting or guessing vocabulary, writing stories/ dialogues in teamwork, matching exercises, text puzzles, scrambled words) • It motivates the students through cooperative learning and the possibility to meet their classmates online. More than a classroom

  11. iPortal island in Second Life More than a classroom

  12. Here we have some of our teachers and students who have found this to be a succesful way of learning and developing OurTeachers

  13. IPF website: www.ipfinternational.com Contact Project website: www.iportal4languages.eu/ iPortal platform: http://demo.iportal4languages.eu/ spanish@iportal4languags.eu

More Related