Prototyping an open education project

This challenge consisted on completing a template concerning the design of an open education project. To begin with, I was provided with a template to design my prototype. This template that I am going to show you at the end of the post, contains the coming parts:

- The title

- The level

- The number of sessions

- The areas covered

- The teacher’s and student’s role

- The aims

- The 4 Cs of CLIL

- The competences

- The assessment criteria

- The skills

- The resources

- The setting

- The challenges

 I have chosen the topic of the weather and the climate, as I'm fond of it, besides, during my internship I was able to deliver the lessons concerning it. Due to the fact that I worked with fourth-graders, I decided to plan this education project for fourth-graders, too.

 As far as the sessions are concerned, I have deemed around 13 sessions, since there are several contents to work with, and some of the challenges will require more than one session to be overcome.

 As for completing the 4Cs of CLIL, I have to say that I had to mull it over, until I came up with an idea of what I wanted my students to focus on. Actually, I had some doubts concerning the vocabulary content and the linguistic content. Furthermore, as it is a CLIL project, I have several cross-curricular links with the content in mind .

 Regarding the assessment criteria, I’m of the opinion that as teachers, creating rubrics to gauge our students for each challenge is going to be demanding, as apart from taking into account the evaluation standards, we have to go further and decide what is going to be taken into consideration when gauging the created artefacts. However, thanks to what I learned while assessing an open education project by Cedec, I’m going to be guided.

 Finally, as for the challenges, I wanted to cover the majority of them, but giving it a second thought, I decided to be realistic and select the ones that best suited my project. What I know for sure is that I would encourage my students to reflect on a learning diary about their learning. I like the fact that it is a prototype, so it can be modified, since it is difficult to plan all the project from your own ideas, without developing and monitoring it.

 Now, let’s move on to the creation of the document and the video to explain the template.

 Firstly, what I did was upload the template to Issuu. I have used this tool, since I am accustomed to using google drive, which I find fantastic, to share and create collaborative documents; nevertheless, I wanted to try new tools and for this reason I have chosen Issuu. I was registered in a second and I chose the free plan. After that, I only had to upload my pdf, and add a description. What I like of this tool is the fact that it presents the document as a book, turning its pages.

 Secondly, I created a video. Because of the fact that I wanted to try new tools, I chose Wideo, the problem was that I had recorded a video and this application didn’t allow me to embed videos in the slides, therefore, I had to go for another one. I was practising with Magisto, but finally, I ruled it out and I went for Powtoon to create the intro of the video, and then Youtube Editor, to create the final one with small videos and screenshots of the open education template. I haven’t used this tool before, and I have to say that it was extremely manageable, so I definitely recommend it.

 Here you have the video and the template.

 Please, don't hesitate to give me your feedback to improve.

 Thanks !