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About the COOL project

The project has developed a web3 service where a teacher can paste in text, select the language of the text, add graphics and video, create or attach language exercises/assignments and then automatically create an online webpage with all words linked to free dictionaries in +100 languages. The proposed web3 resource enhances/improves the Clilstore tool/service (www.multidict.net)  developed in the TOOLS project (2012-2014) https://languages.dk/tools/index.htm,  which has been selected as “one of the European Commission’s success stories”.

The project targeted two user groups; teachers and learners representing transversal educational sectors with a main focus on teacher education (both in-service and college training).

The teachers access to Clilstore has been simplified so the original database look has been replaced with easier/intuitive choices. The students access has likewise been simplified, e.g. the first step for a newcomer is to select language and level thus avoiding having to browse through thousands of units in many languages.

Both teachers and learners have options like sharing and posting Clilstore units to social media (Eg twitter and Facebook) and Clilstore units can be run from within Moodle platforms.

To ensure future sustainability of Clilstore the service is now cloud based and installed/mirrored from GitHub.

After the project co-funded period the partners prepared a final brochure with the results:

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A free CLIL Course

Duration

Core: 4 Weeks (Modules 1-7, including Assessment and Certification)

Optional: 2 Weeks (Modules 8-10)

The COOL CLIL course serves as a general introduction to Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) while also delivering training in how to create digital materials to support learners and plan lessons using CLIL methodology. Modules 1-6 are core learning modules which cover CLIL theory, lessson planning and technical training in how to use the Open Educational Resource - Clilstore.eu which caters directly to both learners and teachers. Module 7 is a summative assessment module which if successfully completed leads to the award of a Certificate. Modules 8-9 will allow course participants to learn about a series of EU funded projects that have helped to advance the dissemination and uptake of the CLIL methodology within Europe and beyond and also find out how they can participate in a growing community of practice centred around these projects and Clilstore.eu. Finally, Module 10 provides access to case-studies and academic discussions on CLIL to enable participants to explore the theory and its application in more depth and deepen their knowledge of the field. This may help participants plan for the adoption of CLIL at a wider curricular or institutional level or design projects to research and assess the efficacy of CLIL.

Estimated work load three hours per week

Register and participate in the course in the following languages:

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CLIL Guidebook

The Clilstore Practitioner Guidebook comprises an introductory guide to using clilstore.eu in Content  and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) contexts and provides technical guidance for CLIL practitioners at all educational levels. It has been funded with support from the European Commission’s Erasmus+ programme through the Spanish National Agency as an output of the CLIL Open Online Learning  (COOL) project, carried out from September 2018 to December 2021, coordinated by Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain (reference number KA2-2018-1-ES01-KA203-050474).

We are greatly indebted to all the colleagues who have participated in the project and contributed to the  success of the COOL project and its main outcome, the clilstore.eu CLIL authoring tool, materials reposi- tory, and multilingual dictionary interface.  The Guidebook is available in English, Danish, Irish, Italian, and Spanish all versions in .pdf format and as .ePub

Download the Clilstore Guide as .pdf in:

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Clilstore

We intend to continue improving the Clilstore outcomes for many years to come. Please help us to further improve the Clilstore authoring tool and respository of teaching materials by answering some question in a Google Form, indicating your level of agreement using the scale: 5 Excellent 4 Very good 3 Good / Acceptable 2 Weak 1 Poor

Clilstore has the address: https://clilstore.eu


Clilstore entry page


A brief video demonstrating Clilstore authoring

Clilstore users can click "Help" and go to content relevant help pages in the five project languages. Alternatively you can click through the help pages from the links below:


A sample help page in Danish

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Exemplary Clilstore Units

The teams have curated and developed exemplary units that demonstrate what can be authored with the new Clilstore.

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2024

Several pages with videos prepared in the different POOLS projects have now been "repaired", the pages were supposed to have embedded videos stored in YouTube, but the embed code was outdated (using Flash). The videos come complete with transsciption so they can be used for developing onlinae teaching materials.

You can now make use of the following video pages:

There are still a number of languages waiting for repair, please have patience

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July 2023

Use of ChatGPT in Clilstore (https://Clilstore.eu)

One can use ChatGPT (https://chat.openai.com) to prepare Clilstore units for students at different ELP levels. An example: Go to ChatGPT and enter “What is a Wankel motor”, copy the produced text and enter “Rewrite the following text to ELP level B1:” followed by pasting the copied text.

The ELP A1 unit can be tested from https://clilstore.eu/cs/11506 which has links to three levels C1, B1, and A2.

One advantage of Clilstore is that all words are linked to dictionaries in numerous languages.

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June 2023

The COOL teams have in June been active spreading the good news about the developed services and tools in Minneapolis (USA) and in Sheffield (the UK)

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May 2023

An old unit mainly for electricians called "Jacob's Ladder" has been updated: The video clip in the unit was captured at the 500 kV Eldorado substation near Boulder City, Nevada by power company engineers and maintenance staff. It shows a three-phase air disconnect switcher attempting to open the high voltage supply to a large three phase shunt line reactor. The line reactor is the huge transformer-like object behind the truck at the far right at the end of the clip. Line reactors are large iron core coils which are used to compensate for the effects of line capacitance on long extra high voltage (EHV) transmission lines. Internally, each phase of the reactor is connected through a large coil to ground. Each coil within the reactor is capable of providing 33.3 Million Volt Amperes of inductive reactance (MVAR) at 290 kV between each phase to ground. The unit is complete with language exercises

Go to the unit here: https://clilstore.eu/cs/243

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February 2023

The languages.dk website is undergoing an annual check to locate possible missing files (#404 messages), should you come across a missing page then please inform ka@faz.dk about which page or file you cannot access.

During the website check the webmaster found files from a Marketing Course. Unfortunately none of the exercises worked, but the webmaster started repairing and updating. The materials used in the Marketing files are based on exercises and materials developed as part of an old Interreg project "Interregional modulopbygget videreuddannelse for Export- og Umweltschutz Techniker Ref.: 1-53-24-94-96 (Interreg 1997-1999) Project co-ordinator Odense Tekniske Skole". The materials have been adapted by Kent Andersen for use in CLIL based courses (Content and Language Integrated Learning.: Visit the course: https://www.languages.dk/marketing/

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January 2023

The webmaster (Kent Andersen) has just discovered that the CLIL database with links to materials in eleven languages doesn't work properly. To cater for this there is now a new page containing 249 entries with materials in 11 languages: https://www.languages.dk/clil4u/materials.htm

61 free and ready to use CLIL scenarios for vocational colleges and schools. The contents are for learning/teaching: English (28 scenarios), Danish (7 scenarios), German (1 scenario), Greek (6 scenarios), Italian (2 scenarios), Maltese (10 scenarios), and Spanish (6 scenarios). The scenarios have been made based on a set template with PowerPoint presentation and Lesson Plan.
The scenarios (with list of aims and objectives) describe how to plan and teach in a CLIL based module, i.e. a subject module from the chosen vocations, which is taught through a foreign (or second) language. Go to the scenarios: https://www.languages.dk/clil4u/index.html#Scenarios4VET

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December 2022

Dr Caoimhín Ó Dónaill is going to Leipzig in the second week of January to present the COOL project results and to deliver a workshop to the Irish language staff and students there.

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November 2022

The teams have compiled a newsletter with some of the activities since the EC co-funded period ended in December 2021. Click to read the latest project newsletter

The COOL project results are still growing and being used by learners and teachers across the world. The outcomes have been labelled "Good practice":
 https://erasmus-plus.ec.europa.eu/projects/search/details/2018-1-ES01-KA203-050474

One of the core outcomes https://clilstore.eu in October 2022 had a total of 5,209 ready to use units.

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October 2022

During September Clilstore grew with 182 English units dealing with teambuilding and team work. The author's, Alessandra Frassetto, units have been viewed 4,290 times, this is very impressive:-)

Another busy Clilstore contributor, CLARA AGOSTINI CAMPISTA, created 171 units dealing with psychology that have been opened 1,464 times, it's a true treasure of learning materials:-)

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September 2022

Learn about BIM (Building Information Modelling) and GIS (Geographic Information Systems) technologies in a new Clilstore unit: clilstore.eu/cs/10884

Many educational institutions have now finished the summer vacation which is really visible in https://clilstore.eu/clilstore/ . In August the number of Clilstore units grew with 150 units, the current number of ready to use units is: 4,986

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August 2022

A mail from Caoimhín, the clilstore programmer: "First of all, a big thank-you to Sandra and Valerie at ETI Malti who notified me of a serious problem which I have since managed to put right. They had some students from Czechia on a course last week and noticed that if you changed the language in Wordlink to Czech, everything in the browser tab immediately froze and became non-functional. The culprit causing the trouble turned out to be the Seznam dictionary, which translates between Czech and various other languages, so I have removed this dictionary from Multidict.

While I was looking into this, I was reminded of something else which I always meant to try and put right. In the dropdown lists of languages in Clilstore, Wordlink and Multidict, Czech (Čeština). because it had an accent on the first letter, was being sorted right to the end of the alphabet, past Z, sandwiched between the Latin script languages and Greek and Cyrillic script languages where you would never expect to find it. Same with Icelandic (Íslenska). The sort algorithm which I was using for the language dropdowns was the best which I was able to find at the time, but I have now managed to do better, by using the Unicode Collation Algorthim in the database itself. So now Čeština appears among the ‘C’s as it should do, and Íslenska appears among the ‘I’s. I have also managed to add script dividers to the dropdown language lists to separate the Latin script languages from the Cyrillic script languages and so on. I think this makes the list quite a bit clearer. The end of the long A-Z list of Latin script languages can be seen more clearly now. And it will be easier for Gordon to find Hindi and other Indian languages under the Devanagari script, and to find Japanese in the Han-scripts block at the bottom.

Le deagh dhùrachd, Caoimhín (Skye)"

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July 2022

Dr Caoimhín Ó Dónaill will on Wednesday 17th August present the COOL project during Eurocall 2022. His talk is titled ‘European project: CLIL Open Online Learning (2018-2021)’. />

The COOL project has been graded "Very good" with a score of 87:-) The teams are very happy with the evaluation from the Spanish National Agency, and most of all that all the outcomes are being used by students and their teachers across the world:-)

All the COOL team members are now on vacation and looking forward to continue the work with improving language teaching and teaching tools.

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June 2022

Caoimhín Ó Dónaill getting ready to present a poster on Clilstore.eu at the Celtic Language Technology Workshop, part of LREC Conference in Le Palais du Pharo, Marseille. http://techiaith.bangor.ac.uk/celticlt/cltw/?lang=en
Read more about it: http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2022/workshops/CLTW4/pdf/2022.cltw4-1.4.pdf

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The COOL project, which finished the EC Co-funded period in December 2021 is still going strong with presentations planned at the Eurocall 2022 conference in August. and in May the principal of the eleven Lambert schools on the high mountains at the West of Italy invited Albalisa Azzerti, the Italian COOL coordinator, to share COOL experiences with the schools involved in saving the minority languages Occitan and "Francoprovenzale". Albalisa suggested them to publish Clilstore.eu units in the languages spoken by the children and population.

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May 2022

For anyone who is interested in etymology and making use of cognate words for helping learn vocabularly, Caoimhín O Donnaile will be giving a talk at 11:00 UTC (i.e. 11:00 CET, 10:00 UK) on Saturday morning to the Polyglot Gathering Online, giving a practical demonstration of his Bunadas database. The talk/demo will last 30 minutes, with 15 minutes for questions. The whole Polyglot Gathering looks amazing, with hundreds of talks and language practice sessions in parallel, running almost non-stop from tomorrow evening until mid-day on Monday. And the whole event is free. You just come and go to events and sessions as you please: https://www.polyglotgathering.com/2022/en/online/program/

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April 2022


The Clilstore Practitioner Guidebook is now stored in the UPV institutional server: https://hdl.handle.net/10251/181708 You can change the language to English in the top line, see above.

Clilstore.eu now has a total of 4,735 units. In March 32 new units have become available in the following languages: English, Medžuslovjansky, Dansk, Čeština, Polski, and Italiano

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March 2022

Caoimhín O Donnaile (From SMO) has added the “Interslavic Dictionary”, https://interslavic-dictionary.com/ to Clilstore (at the request of, and with the help of, a Gaelic-speaking Pole, Benedykt Jaworski, who is now busy publicising it). “Interslavic” (medžuslovjansky / меджусловјанскы) is a constructed language, designed to be a simplified lingua-franca, which can be understood by a speaker of any of the Slavic languages. He has also created a Clilstore unit to test things, https://clilstore.eu/cs/10311, and the dictionary seems to work well with it. Please test the unit if you know one or more of the Slavic languages.

The COOL project results are being used across Europe and beyond. In this month we can recommend you to learn about which sport to choose: https://clilstore.eu/cs/10300 and units about St Patrick's day: https://clilstore.eu/cs/10309 Both units make use of the newly added web3 facilities in https://clilstore.eu

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February 2022

After the COOL project co-funded period the partners prepared a final brochure with the results:

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January 2022

The Clilstore.eu platform is now available in more languages than we had planned for, this is due to end users updating our translation database. Clilstore.eu is fully translated into nine languages: br, da, en, es, fr, ga, gd, it, and sh. Translations into Portuguese and Bulgarian is ongoing.

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December 2021

The teams finalised the CLIL Guidebook in five languages

On Friday December 3rd you can meet the COOL project teams at the final conference in Valencia. The conference will be in English and Spanish.


From the multiplier conference in Valencia: Ana Gimeno, Gisella Lange, and Letizia Cinganotto.

The project teams met in Valencia on November 30th and December 2nd to check on all project deliveries, the teams also met with the external evaluator to reflect on the QM report.

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November 2021

Last chance to meet the COOL project is at the final conference in Valencia on December 3rd 2021. The conference will be in English and Spanish

Participation is free:-) All you need to do is to register here.

The COOL project can now offer CLIL courses in our MOOC (Massive Online Open Course) demonstrating how to deploy CLIL using the https://Clilstore.eu tools.

The MOOC courses are in Danish, English, Irish, Italian, and Spanish. You can now register here: https://www.upvx.es/courses/course-v1:Filologiainglesa+clilstore+2021-01/about

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October 2021

Finally:-) All the COOL teams met in Dublin for a meeting which had been postponed since the spring of 2020

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September 2021

Please help us improve the Clilstore authoring tool and respository of teaching materials by answering some question in a Google Form, indicating your level of agreement using the scale: 5 Excellent 4 Very good 3 Good / Acceptable 2 Weak 1 Poor

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August 2021

We have mailed the August newsletter to 894 registered users. You may register to receive the newsletters here. You can also just read the newsletter here.

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July 2021

Watch our Clilstore taster

 

The project teams are preparing the final edit on the COOL CLIL Guidebook

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June 2021

When you or your students visit the clilstore.eu as students you may notice that the vocabulary part of the units has been updated with vocabulary training.

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April 2021

The Scottish team has finalised editing 20 units in Scottish Gaelic:

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March 2021

Read the latest COOL Newsletter: https://mailchi.mp/f999ac57884e/read-about-the-outputs-from-the-cool-project The Newsletter was posted to 880 registered users:-) You too can subscribe to the Newsletter

Watch a three minutes video showing Clilstore authoring:

 

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February 2021

The project main result https://clilstore.eu is being further developed, if you use Clilstore in Danish, English, Irish, Italian, or Spanish then try to click "Help" from within Clilstore, this will take you to help pages with 52 videos informing you what you can do on the the page.


The English help page dealing with how to create a new unit: (https://languages.dk/help/en/create_unit.html)

We have updated the Italian exemplary units in:

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January 2021

We need your help to evaluate the new Clilstore. For teachers, please complete Survey A and share the link to Survey B with your students:

A: For teachers: https://ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/runner/CLILSTORETEACHERSURVEY2021
B: For students: https://ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/runner/CLILSTORESTUDENTSURVEY2021

NB. If you have experience of using CLILSTORE both as a teacher and a student we would welcome your responses to both surveys.

The teams are implementing the Clilstore help system, you can have a walkthrough of the help visoes here: https://languages.dk/help/en/page2.html Within the next month all the help pages will be available in Danish, English, Irish, Italian, and Spanish. When using Clilstore there will be help buttons that will take you to the matching pages in the language you are using in Clilstore (the five languages) Clilstore itself has interfaces in many more languages.

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December 2020

The Clilstore help system is based on videos demonstrating each function in Clilstore. Each video is recorded separately for each language, so an Italian user will see the Italian version of Clilstore with an Italian speaker. There are currently 50 videos in each of the five project languages (250 videos in total), the English version has 195 audio recordings. The 250 videos with 975 audio recording are expected to be ready in January.

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November 2020

Read a new paper on: The Bilingual Advantage - The Impact of Language Learning on Mind & Brain. Download in:

Reproduction is authorised provided the source is acknowledged.

Citation: Marsh D., Díaz-Pérez, W., Frigols Martín, M.J., Langé, G., Pavón Vázquez, V., Trindade, C. (2020) The Bilingual Advantage: The Impact of Language Learning on Mind & Brain.

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October 2020

Download the October Newsletter

The new layout with the list of units in Clilstore has been fully launched from https://clilstore.eu


A screen shot from a sample unit https://clilstore.eu/cs/8789

The above unit https://clilstore.eu/cs/8789 demonstrates some of the new Clilstore facilities, e.g. sharing the unit on social media, embedding a web3 tool (learningapps.org)

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September 2020

We are now launching the new version of Clilstore: https://www.clilstore.eu There are still a few phrases in the interface that have not been translated, but most options and explanations are now in Danish, English, Irish, Italian, Scottish Gaelic, and Spanish

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August 2020

The number of languages in Clilstore is growing, we have recently seen 35 units in Lombard (a language in Italy).

We are now working towards having two versions of Clilstore, i.e. the classic versions that you can find from https://multidict.net and the new design which can be seen from https://clilstore.eu

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July 2020

The July version of the project newsletter is ready to download from: https://mailchi.mp/7d11dd540bc5/news-from-the-cool-project


The ongoing work preparing the new design

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June 2020


The work on the portfolio system for students has been started with a Zoom conference

You can watch Caoimhín Ó Dónaill - Ulster University present the COOL main outputs with a presentation titled: CLILSTORE: An open online platform for multimedia language learning

 

A short demo showing some of the new design

The project teams continue the work, but are now suffering some delays due to the Scottish partner, SMO who has been in total lockdown since March without access to the computer facilities. The teams working with Clilstore are therefore now mainly working on the design of the Clilstore tools.


Caoimhín from Skye informing the teams about the databases used in Clilstore.

Work has started with preparing the new CLIL Guide and the portfolio that will soon be part of the Clilstore, most work is now coordinated through Zoom meetings.


The transnational cooperation is now making use of weekly Zoom meetings

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May 2020

The Spanish team has selected / prepared twenty new Clilstore units in Spanish. Learn about the units here.

Read about the project from the EC website, click here.

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April 2020

The partners in COOL are now in lockdown. The fourth project meeting, which was due to take place in May, has been postponed. During this period the team mainly cooperate using Skype meetings. COOL is on course despite the difficulties, but some testing with students in classes has been postponed.

31 new videos in Gaelic: The Stòras Beò nan Gàidheal project has successfully met its target of producing 15 hours of new online community-based recordings of Scottish Gaelic, all fully transcribed! The collection comprises 31 videos of Gaelic speakers from four different islands in the Outer Hebrides talking about a wide range of subjects, including their upbringing in the islands and how they perceive things have changed during their lifetime. This project is led by the Language Sciences Institute (LSI) of the University of the Highlands and Islands, with Sabhal Mòr Ostaig and Soilllse, and is supported by Bòrd na Gàidhlig and Foras na Gaeilge. Irish partners are in the process of gathering together a parallel collection of recordings from the Irish Gaeltacht areas.

You can read more about the project on the LSI website here.

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March 2020

49 new units have been created in Clilstore in the last three week by authors across the globe, despite most educational institutions are closed due to the Corona virus. The 49 units have in total been opened by users 2545 times (an average of 52 times per unit) and 1046 words have been clicked on:-)

All COOL project teams are working from home, but the project work is still ongoing with good progress. Right now a designer in Spain, Yerany is preparing a first version of the new look for the main tools in the project. This is the link: https://yerany.multidict.net to the first changes in the design, which the teams are now testing and suggesting changes.

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February 2020

The Clilstore and Multidict interfaces have now been translated into the project languages (Danish, English, Irish, Italian, Scottish Gaelic, and Spanish) But we are also pleased that thanks to friends the interfaces are also available in Breton, French, Portuguese, and main parts have also been translated into Bulgarioan and Lithuanian:-)

The project teams have curated/added new units for learning Danish with descriptions of the five Cs used in CLIL (some still only refer to four Cs).

The new Clilstore now allows authors to insert web3 media from external sources (e.g. https://learningapps.org) by embedding them. From the Clilstore editor just click the "Embed media" icon:
which opens the window below, where the author can click the middle option "Embed" and then paste in the embed code

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Januar 2020

The first exemplary units that have been developd/authore with the newClilstore are now available in English: https://languages.dk/english_units.html More language units are being authored/selected.

The Spanish COOL brochure has been updated. Download from here

The Irish COOL brochure has been updated. Download from here

The pools projects were started in 2002 with one of the objectives to support the LWUTL (Less Widely Used and Taught Languages). The project partners in the ongoing COOL project would also like to support endangered languages like the Skolt Sami language (read a recent BBC document on saving the Skolt Sami language), BUT we need access to dictionaries in such languages either online dictionaries or scanned pages from dictionaries saved in the Web Archieves. If you know of language dictionaries that include endangered langueges, then please mail: Caoimhín Ó Donnaíle (caoimhin@smo.uhi.ac.uk)

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December 2019

The project brochures have been updated:

Clilstore now automatically changes its interface language to that of the browser used, e.g. Internet Explorer in Italian will result in the Clilstore interfaces in the Italian language (we are still in the process of translating). We are also translating the Interfaces into other languages like Lithuanian and Bulgarian. Go to experience the new Clilstore interfaces: www.clilstore.eu It is recommended to log in or register as a user, but it's up tp you:-)

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November 2019

In mid-November the SMO and Ulster COOL teams collaborated to deliver a two-day seminar, organised by Soillse - the National Research Network for the Maintenance and Revitalisation of Gaelic Language and Culture (www.soillse.ac.uk)  and hosted by  Sgoil nan Daonnachdan (School of Humanities) at the University of Glasgow, Scotland. 


 


On Day 1 of the seminar, Caoimhín Ó Dónaill from Ulster gave a talk on the background and context of the COOL project and focused CLIL methodology and the many technical and end user innovations that will be realised during the lifetime of the project. 
 
The seminar also featured a talk from staff at the Digital Archive of Scottish Gaelic (www.dasg.ac.uk) who demonstrated how they are breathing new life into a corpus of printed and audio materials that were previously unavailable to members of the general public. Discussions during the seminar naturally led to the COOL team investigating how they could facilitate the sharing of DASG materials via CLILSTORE with a view to further assisting DASG end users through CLILSTORE's unique dictionary hyperlinking functionality.

On Day 2 of the seminar, Caoimhín Ó Donnaíle from SMO delivered an intensive training workshop on CLILSTORE. During the workshop the participants had the opportunity to create some new units and gain a better understanding of what goes on behind the scenes at CLILSTORE. 

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October 2019

One of the new features in Clilstore is a simplified dictionary interface (which can be put in advanced mode if needed). Try out the new features here: www.clilstore.eu

The teams are now working on a login system where a user can store information like language, words that have been looked up and more (in future also a portfolio system)

The entry page for a new user

After having logged in a user can see her vocabulary (words clicked on)

An example of a vocabulary list

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September 2019

The COOL teams are working on the new Clilstore and its functions:

 

 

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August 2019

The COOL project workshop during Eurocall 2019. Two of the project teams were represented by Caoimhín Ó Dónail and Kent Andersen.

Download the full Eurocall 2019 programme and reserve the dates for the COOL presentations. https://sites.uclouvain.be/eurocall2019/full-programme/

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May 2019

Meet the COOL project teams at the Eurocal conference in Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium · 28-31 August 2019.

The teams have two presentations:

  • CALL for CLIL: Investigating the adoption of learning technology designed for CLIL Teachers.— Caoimhín Ó Dónaill, Ana Gimeno-Sanz
  • A Practical Application of Content and Language Integrated Learning — Kent Andersen

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April 2019

The Cool project will update the CLIL Guidebook (last update was in 2016). The book was written during the Clil4U project. The statistics from that book are stunning, since it came online in English, Italian, Spanish, Greek and Danish the total number of downloads is 570,408

Go to the download area: https://languages.dk/clil4u/index.html#Guidebook

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March 2019

We are preparing major changes in Clilstore (www.clilstore.eu) One of them is being tested right now by the COOL teams, the new function is an optional login for students. The advantage of logging in is that the new system will store lists of the words that have been clicked on and e.g. enable flash cards and vocabulary training. The student will also be able to see the list of words for each unit she/he has been working on i Clilstore.

As soon as the testers have ensured the system works perfectly, it will be rolled out for all users to enjoy.

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February 2019

The main work this month has focused on the registration option where learners can opt to register and save the progress that have been achieved in chosen units, e.g. list of words that have been looked up.

Some of functions that Multidict uses to send a word that has been clicked on to the dictionaries that are available from Multidict have now been updated. Some dictionaries e.g. Gyldendal now requires the user to click a "Submit" button in order to be used and the result is then displayed in a separate tab.

N.B. It's important that the user has logged in at https://ordbog.gyldendal.dk before clicking Submit (it's something we'll change in the near future):

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January 2019

The work on new structures and facilities in Clilstore and Multidict is continued. A new feature is that the user/student can save a list of all words that have been clicked on in the units the user has worked with, it is also possible now to enter own translations of the words in the list, this will be used for future vocabulary training and as part of a work portfolio. At the moment this is only visible in the "Teacher author mode"), but in the coming months all users who choose to register will have acces to the facility.

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December 2018

From the COOL softtware developer we have the following message: https://clilstore.eu/ (or https://clilstore.eu/ if you prefer) is now operating on the cloud server. So it should now be a much more reliable service than before, not subject to power cuts when there are winter storms on the island of Skye, or to people pulling out electrical plugs before leaving on Christmas holiday, or to any mistakes which UHI (University of the Highlands and Islands) make recofiguring their network. I would be glad if people would test it, but I do not expect there will be any problems.

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November 2018

COOL has been disseminated during WorldCall in Chile by Ana Gimeno Sanz and Caoimhín Ó Dónaill.

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October 2018

The project was presented during the Danish Erasmus+ promotional meeting in Copenhagen, one of the slides used was:

The Scottish partner (SMO) has started the work on moving the Clilstore and Multidict databeses to the clouds. The other teams are preparing a wish list for new Clilstore features.

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September 2018

The COOL project has taken off: The partners in the new consortium are:

Universidad Politécnica de Valencia (ES)
Sabhal Mòr Ostaig (UK Scotland)
University of Ulster (UK Northern Ireland)
Kroggaardskolen (DK)
FAZ (DK)
Executive Training Institute (ETI) Malta (MT)
Liceo Scientifico Elio Vittorini di Milano (IT)

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August 2018

One of our great CLIL friends, Letizia Cinganotto, has offered some great news about about a MOOC promoted by EUN and by the European Commission: Go to the MOOC

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