This is my third year with the use of the books published by Zanichelli and I have been learning a lot as the books are supported by online tools and lots of materials both for educators and students.
Currently I am using Performer B1 - the new edition and in the third, fourth and fifth year of the secondary school we have chosen Compact Performer, the book is about English Literature but it offers a lot of links with today's world. http://online.scuola.zanichelli.it/compactperformer/
The books are available online and in print ; educators can rely on many resources for helping learners and providing help and support while learning. Educators can create collections of videos and materials online - Collezioni in Italian- and they also rely on online tools for creating tests.
You can choose the topics and then select exercises from a rich database.
Last winter I could do an interesting course online-New Skills for interpreting Texts-, it was my second course with ZANICHELLI and I really loved the work carried out with us.
I am here to say that I have developed as an educator thanks to them. When I did my first course with them I had not used their books in the cloud, now I can use part of the tasks they have created in the editions of their books as I am using them.
The course which I took in the winter had an interesting title " New Skills for interpreting Texts" and I felt I should do it as teaching reading and literature is a great challenge. My passion is literature and I think that literature can enhance our student's learning. We just need to approach the teaching of literature in a new way.
The Learning Platform was Cloudschool and I really liked working with the other educators as it is user-friendly and everybody can work online in an easy way.
We had to follow 4 modules, we were guided into the Platform by doing Module 0 as an introduction.
Module 0 was focussed on the platform which is offered to teachers in Italy
HOW TO BECOME A MEMBER OF MYZANICHELLI
RESOURCES ONLINE BOOKTAB
BOOKTAB ZETA AND HOW TO CREATE MAPS
The four modules were focussed on practical activities and how we could work with texts in our lessons:
In Module 1 we were guided to help our learners to become critics: we worked on some simple tools like using adobe acrobat reader and annotating the text in a pdf- this is quite easy and useful.
- Create a pdf document of a text you would like your learners to analyse and use Adobe Reader to annotate the text to show how your students might annotate the document.
Here is the task which I created
I really liked the way you can work on a text and work with comments and brainstorming ideas.
In Module 2 we worked on Feedback: here you can find a collection of activities we worked and shared on Padlet https://padlet.com/zanichellicorso/sharing
In Module 2 we worked on Feedback: here you can find a collection of activities we worked and shared on Padlet https://padlet.com/zanichellicorso/sharing
Here is my task for module 2 : I used Nearpod, which a nice tool ,but I realized that the basic account doesn't offer many activities. You will have to rely on a premium account to have access to many lessons and to use it .
In my next post I will describe modules 3-4.
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