Pools-2 (Producing
Open Online
Learning
Systems - 2) has been approved for an EU grant in the period
2009-2011. POOLS-2 is
coordinated by
Confederación Española
de Centros de Enseñanza
(CECE),
the teams come from
Cyprus, Denmark,
Malta, Portugal,
Scotland, and Spain. EfVET has
been chosen as
dissemination partner
with access to thousands
of vocational colleges
across Europe.
Pools-2
is a Transfer of
Innovation (TOI) project
which will exploit the
results from the "original" pools
project, which
developed materials for
language teaching and
learning as well as
teacher training
courses. Pools-2 will
transfer the core
outputs of pools to
three new languages:
Greek, Maltese, and
Portuguese
The POOLS-2 project target
group is teachers of
the LWUTL (Less Widely
Used and Taught
Languages) in technical
colleges. Due to the
limited range of ICT
materials for these
languages the teachers
often have to develop
materials themselves if
they want to exploit the
many advantages of
eLearning.
The final
products are:
1. Pools of online
copyleft materials to be
used during in-service
teacher training courses
and in teaching.
2. Flexible competence
based language teacher
course modules on ICT
methodologies and
development of ICT based
teaching resources.
3. A DVD with step by
step instructions and
examples on how to
create multimedia online
material.
4. A course book (downloadable
.pdf file) with
description of language
teaching eLearning
materials and
methodologies
The pools-2 course
book is a supplementary
DIY material (a
reference book) that may
be used during and after
the method and materials
production courses.
The pools-2 course
guide contains all the
units that the pilot
teams can offer with
guidelines on how to run
the courses (in-service,
online only, or blended
courses.
The teams have prepared
sample exercises to be
used during the pilot
courses. The idea is
both to show what can be
made with the tools
available and how to use
online resources in
classes.
A ready to use WebQuest
in Greek. Ξέρετε με ποιο
τρόπο ένα καγκουρό που
δεν ζει στην Αυστραλία
να μπορεί να φτάσει εκεί;
Ο Mικές Τρικοίλης του
5ου Δημοτικού Σχολείου
Καλύμνου γνωρίζει την
απάντηση. Εσείς την
γνωρίζετε:
Click here to
download
The newsletters below cover the period from the first methods
project BP-BLTM to now. After the funded project period the
Newsletters will be continued (as has been the case since
BP-BLTM:-)
The four projects
teams from Cyprus,
Switzerland, Malta, and Portugal have
produced videos that can
be used for language
learning / teaching, The
videos cover different
aspects of life,
culture, and education
in the four countries.
Each video is
transcribed with
translations into
English and has cultural
and language notes to
assist the selection.
The videos are graded
according to which level
a user should have in
order to benefit from
the material (when
supported by online
dictionaries) according
to the
Common European
Framework of Reference
for Languages.
The pools-2 DIY
videos have subtitles in
the three core project
languages. The videos
cover how to produce
online language learning
materials with a tool
called the TextBlender
(produced by the pools-t
project) and Hot
Potatoes. The videos
also shows how to make
exercises online for
free.
Pools-2 may have
finished the funded
period, but the teams
are still actively
adding new content, e.g.
try a Portuguese unit
here. Or use
your Smartphone / tablet
QR reader here:
October 2011
Pools-2 has finished
the funded project
period, read the
evaluation report from
the external evaluators
here.
Pools-2 was presented
at a round table in St
Julian (Malta) at the
EfVET 2011 conference
with examples of the
outputs and newsletters
September 2011
The project teams met
in Malta for the final
project meeting.
Read
the agenda here.
The statistics for
the first six months of
2011 indicates
approximately 30.000
unique visitors.
Download to read here
June 2011
A resource page for
the ongoing courses in
Malta has been set up.
Access it here
The pools website is
dedicated to serving all
languages, especially
the less widely taught
languages, but also
English:
Try a new exercise
English Mania.
The twenty Greek
videos have now been
completed with summary,
cultural notes, language
notes, transcript, and
translation.
Go to the Greek
videos
A book of reference
(based on the work of
POOLS-2) for Computer
Assisted Language
Learning can now be
downloaded in
English,
Greek,
Italian, and
Turkish
April 2011
The project
newsletter issue 29 is
ready for
downloading.
The project teams met
in March in Evora,
Portugal to check on
progress and milestones.
Read the minutes here.
The Cyprus team has
found a good manual in
Greek for Hot Potatoes.
Click here to
download
After moving the
website to a new hosting
service we can get more
reliable information on
the activity:
Statistics covering
January 2011
January 2011
The feedback to the
Interim Report from the
Spanish National Agency
has arrived and can be
downloaded here
More videos have been
added to the Portuguese
video area. There are
now 23 Portuguese
videos.
Click here to watch
the videos
Enterprise, the third and final section in the series of Guthan nan Eilean/Island Voices videos, is now complete and online. Click here to get to the menu page.
Completion of this section brings the total number of videos between the first and second series to 150. It’s a tribute to these island communities that so many individuals and organisations were prepared to make important contributions to a body of work that will be a very useful resource for local learners of both languages, and perhaps of wider interest still.
As the Enterprise catalogue explains, the amount and level of material in this section pose a new order of challenge for learners. Good luck!
The Portuguese team
has started the pilot
courses, as a result
from one of the courses
a new unit for learning
Portuguese "Quem somos
nós?" is now online.
Test it here
Also the Cyprus
team has had the first
pilot course with 20
participants. One of the
results is an online
unit in Greek
"The Tombs of the
Kings" or "Οι Τάφοι των
Βασιλέων". The
unit has been saved in a
Dropbox folder.
The meeting minutes
from the September
meeting in Malta can be
downloaded here.
Download the
evaluation form to be
used for the pilot
courses in:
English,
Greek,
Maltese
September 2010
The teams have
prepared a course
evaluation form for
course participants to
ensure adaptation of and
fine tuning the courses.
Download the form in
English, or
Greek.
Two French videos has
been added to the video
portfolio of pools-2
outcomes:
Watch them here
The
Maltese team has
finished adapting and
translating the Course
Book.
Download it from here
Also the Course Guide
has been adapted and is
now ready in Maltase.
Download it from here.
The
Cyprus team has finished
the adaptation of the
course guide into Greek.
Download it
here
The
teams are preparing for
the workshop and pilot
courses in September.
Download the agenda
here
The
Cyprus team has prepared
a ready to use WebQuest
in Greek. Ξέρετε με ποιο
τρόπο ένα καγκουρό που
δεν ζει στην Αυστραλία
να μπορεί να φτάσει εκεί;
Ο Mικές Τρικοίλης του
5ου Δημοτικού Σχολείου
Καλύμνου γνωρίζει την
απάντηση. Εσείς την
γνωρίζετε:
Click here to
download
The
Portuguese team has made
three new WebQuests for
learning Portuguese,
each of them has support
texts in English,
download and test them
here:
On Thursday 27th May,
POOLS-2 was presented in
Arezzo (Italy) to the
workshop “An update on
the Lifelong Learning
Programme 2007-2013”,
organised by the
Education and Training
Department of Arezzo
Province. Read more
about the presentation
in the next newsletter
(July 1st)
Producing Open Online
Learning Systems - 2
has been approved for an
EU grant in the period
2009-2011. POOLS-2 is
coordinated by Confederación Española
de Centros de Enseñanza
(CECE), the teams come
from Cyprus, Denmark,
Malta, Portugal,
Scotland, and Spain.
EfVET is a
dissemination partner
with access to thousands
of vocational colleges
across Europe.
Pools-2 is a Transfer
of Innovation (TOI)
project which will
exploit the results from
the "original" pools
project and transfer the
core outputs of pools to
three new languages:
Greek, Maltese, and
Portuguese
This project has been funded with support from the European Commission. This publication [communication] reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.
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