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Background information

Page history last edited by Manon van Herwijnen 8 years, 1 month ago

 

 

Phases and challenges:
About making choices, giving and receiving feedback.

 

For each of the four phases of the Circle we have chosen a variety of ways to learn and think about Children’s Rights. 

Teachers and students can choose a way that encourages engagement and matches levels and skills. 
 

  1. On your school page you can post contributions to all the assignments on one page, your own school page.
  2. In phase 2 and 3 (challenges 1 and 2), at least two other groups will post their feedback directly on your schoolpage
    (See also feedback schedule
  3. In consultation with your group, you can focus on one assignment or more from any challenge and discuss whether to divide your class into groups to work on the various assignments.
  4. If students delve into Children’s Rights it will probably lead to many new questions; you may decide together that you want a different interpretation of the (sub) theme. Your school page in the wiki provides all the space for it. When new questions arise, feel free to add them on your page; students from other groups in your Circle may think along with you. 
  5. For the other participants in your Learning Circle, it’s nice to know what assignment your group has selected. Please make this clear when you post your work in the wiki.
  6. Please share with us how your group worked together. The learning process is as interesting as the results!

 

Tips for uploading photos, videos, files:

 

Upload a photo:

  1. The pictures from your camera are often 4-6 Mb, three of those pictures on one wiki page will make the page heavy and slow, so:
  2. Before you upload your photo in the wiki: give the photo a recognizable file name, and resize it to 75-150 Kb. 
  3. Then go to the left top in the wiki, to the tab 'pages and files'. You will find a folder 'photos of participants'. Select this and then select 'upload' at the top.
  4. Go to your own school page. Click on edit. Click your cursor on the spot where the photo should be.
  5. On the right in the sidebar menu choose 'Insert links' and 'images and files' and click on the name of your picture.
  6. You can click on the photo now to adjust the size
  7. Remember to click on 'save' at the bottom.

Scan and upload a picture/drawing:

  1. When you scan a picture / drawing, give the file a recognizable name and save as jpg or png file.
  2. Upload the scan of your picture/drawing (as above in a photo).

Movies and Videos:

  1. In many schools downloading files is not possible due to security reasons, so we ask you to post your videos IN the wiki, directly on the school page, so it's not necessary to download it.
  2. So upload your video (.mp4 or .mov) to YouTube and insert the YouTube clip it directly into your school page with the embed code.

Powerpoint, PDF, Word and other files:

  1. Same story: in many schools downloading files is blocked for safety reasons.
  2. PowerPoint slides can also be saved as .jpg or .png images of the slides, to post directly on your wiki school page
  3. Or make a Prezi or Glogster. You can insert it (like a YouTube video) with embed code.

Word file in the wiki.

  1. Same story for a Word file. It can't be downloaded in many schools.
  2. The wiki has the ability to create a wiki page identical to your Word file, super easy!
  3. So click in the left top on the 'pages and files' tab, then upload your Word file and choose 'save as a wiki page'.
  4. You can cut the text from the page and paste it into your own school page.

Do not link to a Google document, but copy the text from the Google.doc and paste it into your school page.

  

 

Cool Tools and learning/teaching methods.

 

In the sidebar you'll find a link to the Cool Tools Wiki with some ideas how to present what you've learned. These tools include ones for editing images, text, sound, video, slideshows and other 'cool tools' to use for designing your page--like submitting your students' cartoons to a worldwide network of cartoonists, who will create an professional version of your cartoons.

 

Very useful and extensive information on learning- and-teaching methods can be found in de werkvormen plannerHowever: Since this is a site only in Dutch, please feel free to add information in English on learning methods or links to creative digital tools on this page if you think it will be useful to the other participants.

 

Making a Skype appointment

 

On the Home page: we will add information about how to make a Skype appointment with another group from your Learning Circle. 

 

E-mailing other teachers in your circle

There are two ways to find your colleagues:

  1. Go to the school page of the group/class/teacher you want to send an email. Look at the title of the page. Just underneath, is the name of the last person who edited it --> the name is a link to their email address. 
  2. Go to the dark blue tabs on the top navigation bar and click on "Users." The names and addresses of all participants are listed there.

 

Meaningful conversations with your students.

 

Children's Rights is an issue that raises many questions and the discussions/debates can get emotional. When our students hear stories and see pictures of the harsh situation of other children, they may feel distress, outrage and fear. At the same time, involvement in the subject also can encourage our students' critical thinking and their creativity about how to make positive changes for Children's Rights in the future.

 

We have observed that learning with other students in a 'global classroom' will give your students reassurance that even as children and later as adults, they can help improve the rights of children in their own society and perhaps others.

 

Reflective questions for children.

 

We discuss the rights of children because it's about their own future and position in the world. By caring and investing in these rights, students can learn to give rights attention in their own meaningful way, in relation to others. They can investigate which values ​​that children's rights have in the world and their world, by seeing the reality and discussing the dilemmas.
 

In the challenges, children can discuss and examine how they perceive children’s rights in their own environment. Together, our students can discover that they are connected to others and how they can learn and live with each other.

 

On the pages for Introduction, Challenge 1 and Challenge 2 you can find a set of reflective questions to introduce the topics and assignments. You can download and print these pdf's:

 

You can find additional questions on this page.

 

 

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