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Title: eXcitement A Socrates/Minerva projecthttp://lefo.net/excitement
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eXcitementA Socrates/Minerva project http//le
fo.net/excitement
- Martin Kaasik, project coordinator
- Laagna Gymnasium, Tallinn, Estonia
- 2006
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eXcitementUsing ICT to enhance Learning
- Change from passive learning to
- Learning through active communication and
collaboration - ICT enables
- Integration of formal and non formal
learning - Development of cooperation and collaboration
skills - Learners of different ages to learn together
- Empowerment of the learners
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eXcitement
- Collaborative learning platform
- Transnational collaboration in learning
- Facilitates competitions between groups of
learners - Questions are shown on the screen
- Competitors work against the clock
- Organisers set topics and degree of difficulty
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eXcitement Partners
- Estonia Laagna Gymnasium,
- Estonian School Heads Association,
Miksike LearningFolders. - Belgium School Heads Association
- Finland Jyväskylä High School,
- United Kingdom Knownet Ltd.
- Latvia Smiltene Gymnasium
- Netherlands Raycom
- Dissemination will include other member states.
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eXcitement How to Participate
- Step 1 Form a team of learners from 2 or more
countries.
This is the dialogue box that you use to create
your team
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eXcitement How to Participate
- Step 2 Enter an eventPress on Enter event
and choose team with whom participate
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eXcitement How to Participate
- Step 3 Collaborative competition
- Every partner can submit answers, administrator
of the team locks answers before submitting them - Team communicates over chat tool, which is
integrated into eXcitement platform
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eXcitement How to Participate
- Step 4 See the Results
- Team can see and evaluate their performance and
also compare with others. - Excitement can be used in a form of contest and
also as individual exercise
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eXcitement How to ParticipateCreating Events
- Events are created by administrator
- Questions can be created or selected from the
eXcitementquestion bank - Events are evaluated by theadministrator
- Accuracy and collaboration
- are considered.
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eXcitement Dissemination
- A pilot competition MentalMath has been running
for two years - 30,000 users have been reached
- Main dissemination events start August/September
- We will inform the existing on-line community
- Get in touch with other networks
- We invite participation from across the EU
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Join the eXcitement!
- Mathematical Europe - event where users have to
answer interesting (and sometimes tricky) puzzles - Runs from 20. August to 15. SeptemberParticipati
on a) team has to consist of at least 3 persons
from minimum 2 countriesb) teams lock answers
and send them for evaluation - c) deadline for submitted answers 15 September
There will be small prizes for winning teams - Check our website for news of further
competitions
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eXcitementThank You
Martin Kaasik Laagna Gymnasium,
director direktor_at_laagna.tln.edu.ee
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