Verschillende soorten toerisme in Zuidoost-Azië

Klas 2-vmbo zou eigenlijk een aardrijkskundetoets krijgen over de verschillende vormen van toerisme in Zuidoost-Azië, maar voor m'n gevoel was de klas daar nog niet klaar voor en konden ze na de praktische opdracht wel wat extra oefening gebruiken. Bij de praktische opdracht (die ik had vormgegeven m.b.v. wikiwijsmaken) hebben de leerlingen zich in kleine groepjes moeten verdiepen in de complementariteit van een Zuidoost-Aziatisch vakantieland en moesten ze een reisprogramma voor zes dagen maken, waarbij de toerist een goed beeld kreeg van de cultuur, het landschap en het klimaat van het betreffende land.

Tussen de verschillende arrangementen van de stercollecties van VO-Content vond ik een module over toerisme. Die heb ik vervolgens gekopieerd naar m'n eigen wikiwijs maken account en heb die aangepast aan de opdracht voor klas 2-vmbo en deze als link klaargezet in Google Classroom. Als eindopdracht moesten de leerlingen nu van elke soort toerisme + de complementariteit van de vakantiebestemming Zuidoost-Azië een collage maken in SMART amp. Aldaar had ik al een zgn. workspace klaar gezet en gedeeld met de leerlingen uit de groepjes. Genoeg te doen voor twee lessen en ik denk dat ze beter voorbereid zijn voor de toets over toerisme in Azië ... misschien maak ik er wel een formatieve toets van. 😉

Online les Nederlanders met als vakantiebestemming Zuidoost-Azië.

Google Mobile Bootcamp Sweden - Stockholm (part II)

Today was a very good day at the Google Mobile Bootcamp at Bromma Folkhögskola near Stockholm. I was very pleased with my sessions about Google Classroom and could tell that the attendees were happy with me sharing workarounds in Google Classroom. And due to the fact that I did this session twice today helpt me to understand and work even better with this application. Some new things and creative ideas came along, whilst sharing and discussing Google Classroom with the Swedish teachers. Can’t wait to start with this in the new period with my classes and share new ideas with the teachers in my school.

My last session was level two Certfied Educator about Blogger, Calendar (and the sharing settings) Forms and My Maps. With the help of the attendants I was able to show them how to create a form real quickly and have the content imported as a layer in My Maps, which showed the places where the teachers lived. Amazing tool. And we discussed about other pedagical values of the Google Forms and My Maps applicactions within the Google Apps for Education domain.

At the end of the day I shared the awesome workaround of the in only in gafe running collaborative tool SMARTamp, by showing the teachers workspaces that my students did create earlier this year.

Now I need to start processing on doing Google Bootcamps with EdTechTeam in the Netherlands.

Bootcamp Google Apps for Education - Gothenburg (part I)

Traveled to Gothenburg, Sweden to show and share my experiences with Google Apps for Education; in particular the focus on Level 2 of the certification program. Which contains applications like blogger, Google sites, adding annotations to a YouTube video, my maps, creating forms, sharing options of Google Calendar, sharing files and documents. All in favor to work smart and focus on the three C’s: collaboration, communication and creation.

Bit too technical if you ask me, but a good way to prepare for the final exams to become a certified Google Educator Level 1 and/or two. From my opinion teachers shouldn’t worry or bother about the technical background of certain applications. Google Classroom does a real good job by being a portal for all those background technical stuff and makes it easy for students to gain access to certain folders and files and a platform is created where students can collaborate together on different tasks and assessments.

So I’ve shared a lot of stuff about Google Classroom: adding students, students’ rights, Classroom stream, reposting assignments, collaboration, adding teachers and the more pedagogical value of the use of Google Classroom. I do hope that the attendants did learn something from my sessions today and I wish them all the luck acing those Google Educator Exams.

At the Demo-Slam I shared the SMARTamp application: cloud based collaborative software, which only runs on a Google Apps for Education domain and can even be shared cross domain. I shared two workspaces created by my students and one created by my and Danesa Jepson (#smartee from CA) her students as a collaborative project.

Me and my colleague that I brought with me were very fond of this bootcamp idea and thought of the idea to organize such a thing for the students in our school. We will try to do that in our school. Will keep you updated.