EFELCREN is a European Comenius 2.1 project involving researchers, trainers and teachers. It aims to create and evaluate educational materials based on the use of ICT, and to detect good teaching strategies involving their use. It also aims to provide teachers of different topics and from different countries educational material of excellent quality, together with suggestions for their use or development in class. The project includes different activities: -collection of information on software environments (especially open source, free or offered for free to schools) apt to help teachers to develop creative and flexible materials with their students or for their students; -gathering and training, in all involved countries, of a group of teachers willing to contribute to the production of educational material and to form the initial core of a group of teachers sharing educational materials and experience in their creation and use; -evaluation of the educational materials collected and detection of good teaching practices; a variety of material types is to be covered, including interactive activities (games, quizzes, tests, simulations, etc.), conceptual maps, multimedia presentations, webquests and treasure hunts, creative use of media (graphical projects, animations, videos, etc.); -cataloguing of the collected materials and translation into the different project languages; organization in a database; -organization of an enlarged community of practice with all European teachers interested in exploiting the competence developed in the project and expansion through the sharing of further pedagogical experience and materials.
EFELCREN è un progetto europeo Comenius 2.1, che coinvolge ricercatori, formatori e insegnanti. Ha lo scopo di stimolare la creazione e valutare materiali didattici basati sull'uso delle ICT, individuando buone strategie per il loro sviluppo ed utilizzo. Il progetto mira anche a mettere a disposizione di insegnanti di materie e paesi diversi risorse didattiche di ottima qualità. Il progetto include diverse attività: -raccolta di informazioni su ambienti software (soprattutto open source, gratuity o offerti gratuitamente alle scuole) che permettano agli insegnanti di sviluppare materiali creativi e flessibili, con gli studenti o per gli studenti; -individuazione e formazione, in ognuno dei paesi coinvolti, di un gruppo di insegnanti disposti a contribuire alla creazione dei materiali didattici; -valutazione dei materiali didattici raccolti ed individualzione di buone pratiche di insegnamento relative ad essi; i materiali considerati includono una varietà di tipologie diverse, quali: attività interattive (giochi, quiz, test, simulazioni, ecc), mappe concettuali, presentazioni multimediali, webquest e cacce al tesoro, uso creativo di media (progetti grafici, animazioni, video, ecc.); -catalogazione dei materiali raccolti, traduzione nelle lingue del progetto, e organizzazione di una banca di dati con questi materiali; -organizzazione di una comunità di pratica allargata a tutti gli insegnanti europei interessati ad usufruire delle competenze sviluppate nel progetto e ad aumentare la base di dati realizzata condividendo la loro esperienza didattica e materiali di loro creazione.
EFELCREN - Flexible and Creative Educational Environments
Giuliana Dettori
2005
Abstract
EFELCREN is a European Comenius 2.1 project involving researchers, trainers and teachers. It aims to create and evaluate educational materials based on the use of ICT, and to detect good teaching strategies involving their use. It also aims to provide teachers of different topics and from different countries educational material of excellent quality, together with suggestions for their use or development in class. The project includes different activities: -collection of information on software environments (especially open source, free or offered for free to schools) apt to help teachers to develop creative and flexible materials with their students or for their students; -gathering and training, in all involved countries, of a group of teachers willing to contribute to the production of educational material and to form the initial core of a group of teachers sharing educational materials and experience in their creation and use; -evaluation of the educational materials collected and detection of good teaching practices; a variety of material types is to be covered, including interactive activities (games, quizzes, tests, simulations, etc.), conceptual maps, multimedia presentations, webquests and treasure hunts, creative use of media (graphical projects, animations, videos, etc.); -cataloguing of the collected materials and translation into the different project languages; organization in a database; -organization of an enlarged community of practice with all European teachers interested in exploiting the competence developed in the project and expansion through the sharing of further pedagogical experience and materials.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
