Title: Diapositiva 1
1Virtual Rural School
2Aragon CRA de Ariño-Alloza
Schools
- AULA DE ARIÑO
- AULA DE ALLOZA
3NEMED Schools in Spain
4Galicia CRA de TEO
Schools
- COLEXIO RURAL AGRUPADO DE TEO (SOLLÁNS)
- ESCUELA DE EDUCACIÓN INFANTIL DO AIDO
- ESCOLA DE BAMONDE
5COLEXIO RURAL AGRUPADO DE TEO (SOLLÁNS)
Manuel Mesaguer Rodríguez
6ESCUELA DE EDUCACIÓN INFANTIL DO AIDO
Ángeles Pousa Díaz
7ESCOLA DE BAMONDE
María Blanco Corral
8AULA DE ARIÑO
Isabel Simón
Isabel Rodrigo
José A. Blesa
Mª Ángeles Giménez
Gemma Clavero
9Catalunya ZER Baridà-Batllia
Schools
- CEIP PORTELLA BLANCA
- CEIP SANT SERNI
10CEIP SANT SERNI
Miquel Moyà Altisent
11CEIP PORTELLA BLANCA
Rosa Rius Safont
12Asturias CRA Juan Pérez Avello
School
13ESCUELA DE MUÑÁS
Norberto Martín Gómez
14Cantabria Escuela Unitaria de San Andrés de
Luena
15Escuela Unitaria San Andrés de Luena
Carmen Fernández Ceballos
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17CONTENTS
1.- Virtual Rural School Goals, Contents,
Target, etc. 2.- Technical Resources Used in
Virtual Rural School Moodle, Forums, Skype /
Chat / Videoconference, e-mail and Distribution
List (Googlegroups), Power Point and Word, Video,
others 3.- Educational expectations and results
obtained after the implementation of Virtual
Rural School 4.- The future of Virtual Rural
School, that is, the future of the NEMED Network
in Spain educational proposals at a local level
and educational proposals at a global level
18Virtual Rural School
- Educational Platform called Virtual Rural School
was created. It contains - training activities designed for the module
- spaces designed for exchanging opinions and
ideas discussion forums, chats, distribution
lists, spaces to share documents, etc. - e-learning methods
- The Virtual Rural School has been designed using
Moodle - a free, Open Source software package
- a Course Management System designed to help
educators create effective online learning
communities - a system allowing easy interaction between
teachers and students, as well as among students - a design based on a "social constructionist
pedagogy", which asserts that learning occurs
particularly well in a collaborative environment
that everyone builds together - a resource that promotes a shift in teacher role
from 'the source of knowledge' to an influence
19Virtual Rural School
- With this educational platform, as a research
group we aim at - training the multigrade teachers to design
Telematic Projects in order to implement them in
the multigrade school - familiarizing the rural teachers with the
online training so that they can experience it as
students before implementing it with their own
students - contributing to the creation of a small virtual
community of rural teachers who share similar
social realities within the same country - encouraging the cooperative and collaborative
work, since we consider it essential for the
correct development of the NEMED Network and
enriching for every educational process
20Virtual Rural School
- These goals coincide, at the same time, with some
of the goals of the NEMED Network - to offer specialized support and training to
multigrade school teachers - to evaluate the application of ICT-based
methodologies and practices addressed to
multigrade schools - to create the conditions for the sustainability
and expansion of the network. The same process of
creating a small virtual community of multigrade
teachers in Spain is also generating the suitable
environment for the subsequent incorporation of
these teachers into the international Network
21Virtual Rural School
- We aim not at remaining on a superficial level,
that is, on the merely technological level, but
at placing these technological resources at the
service of the teachers needs. This necessitates
a clear identification of the learning needs of
the teachers we are working with. - We point towards undoing the usually hierarchical
existing relationships between experts
(researchers and academic staff) and
practitioners (teachers), since only in this way
is a project of cooperative nature meaningful.
The goal is that experts and practitioners work
together, so that experts are nourished by the
practitioners knowledge while practitioners stop
being dependent and create their own knowledge
and learning communities. These must be global
and self-managed communities founded on
experience and not only on theory all this being
possible since the experts provide technological
resources and knowledge (virtual rural school,
wiki, etc.).
22Technical Resources Used in the Virtual Rural
School
Moodle Forums Skype / Chat / Video
Conference E-mail and distribution list
(Googlegroups) Power Point and Word Video
23Pedagogic expectations and results obtained
- The Virtual Rural School training was designed
with the purpose that the teachers participating
in NEMED learn to design a telematic project,
with its subsequent creation and application in
the teachers own rural schools. - The activities were created to be carried out
individually however, the teachers were asked,
specifically, to upload their exercises to share
them with their colleagues. - The UB educational team had considered a
collective work for the second part of the
module, in which there were different activities
to carry out together among the teachers of the
rural schools. - To our surprise the teachers of the Virtual Rural
School decided to overturn the activities
scheduled in the educational platform, converting
them into collective activities this way they
managed to jump towards what the UB educational
team had scheduled for the third training phase. - Therefore, the module had to be quickly
restructured in order to answer the need
expressed by the teachers active in NEMED. The
educational team assessed this change of plans
very positively.
24- The teachers attitude is very satisfactory, for
they have managed to create a link that is only
possible if are really thrilled and committed
with the project. On different occasions, the
teachers in the Virtual Rural School have
expressed their satisfaction and gratitude for
the opportunity to be connected and to generate a
collaborative work that fills them with new ideas
and thrilling experiences (exchange of
photographs, videos, opinions, experiences,
beliefs, etc.). - The goals that we had planned have already been
reached - creation of a Local Network of rural multigrade
teachers - who are designing and applying a beautiful
telematic project - they are sharing and acquiring knowledge in
different disciplines, including the use of ICT,
which was the basic aim of the project - furthermore, they are learning an educational
use of the ICT, and they are getting involved in
the design through ICT of educational materials
adapted to their schools real needs and wishes. - The project designed by teachers is "Sharing
Traditions". Its purpose is to share the
traditions celebrated at schools. - The ways of sharing them are different, all
involving the use of ICT Internet, Skype, e-mail
(teachers or class e-mail), Office (Word and
PowerPoint mainly), image processing, digital
camera, sound processor application), microphone
with speakers and earphones with micro, digital
video camera, and also possible specific programs
such as Click, Hot Potatoes, spreadsheets, etc.
25The future of Virtual Rural School
Pedagogic goals at local level 1) A greater
involvement of the schools that have expressed
interest but arent yet completely involved in
the project Canary Islands, Zaragoza and
Ariño. 2) Writing a document about the design of
the telematic project entitled "Sharing
Traditions" (by the multigrade teachers of the
Virtual Rural School). 3) An optimal development
of the telematic project "Sharing Traditions"
that allows the continuation of the already
created Network and that, in turn, updates and
improves the teachers knowledge of ICT. 4)
Obtaining, at least, an initial contact with some
school NEMED Network, out of Spain. Pedagogic
proposals at global level Name of the activity
What do we have in common? Goals links between
two or more NEMED local networks, looking for
points in common languages, customs, traditions,
geography, history, etc. Participants Those
multigrade schools which, in spite of language
limitations, we motivate to get
involved. Development It will depend on the
needs, interests and possibilities (time,
languages, etc.) of every country. Schedule The
schedule of the schools that want to work
together.
26Virtual Rural School Teachers training in Spain
NEMED project. Authors Mónica Martínez Paz,
Sara Silvestre, Mario Barajas and Roser
Boix University of Barcelona. Future Learning
Research gro