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