Here is one of our students, Tuula, explaining about traditional Christmas food in Finland. Sorry about the poor quality of the video (I am NOT a professional photographer, although I pretended to be one...)
MERRY CHRISTMAS FROM FINLAND!!!
Showing posts with label Finland. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Finland. Show all posts
Friday, 10 December 2010
Tuesday, 7 December 2010
Let's get social in Finland
Our English group has started its Christmas holiday, which means that we don´t have any contact lessons before January, but we keep in touch by email and the students will be working on a mutual assignment on the group blog. Have you watched our Christmas party video yet? We invited a few students from the group "Finnish for foreigners" to join us over a cup of mulled wine and Finnish Christmas goodies.
The experiences from our trip to Portugal inspired us and our students so much that we are nine people going to Italy in February, six students and three teachers. We are also looking forward to getting in contact with students in our partner organizations and, of course, looking forward to meeting some of them in Italy, too.
For now, we would like to wish you a very merry Christmas.
The experiences from our trip to Portugal inspired us and our students so much that we are nine people going to Italy in February, six students and three teachers. We are also looking forward to getting in contact with students in our partner organizations and, of course, looking forward to meeting some of them in Italy, too.
For now, we would like to wish you a very merry Christmas.
Friday, 12 November 2010
Pictures from Christmas Party
Here are some pictures from an early Christmas party that the "Let's Get Social" group arranged in Valkeakoski. We invited some international guests from a Finnish for Foreigners course to join us and talk about Christmas traditions around the world.
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| Let's Get Social Christmas Party |
Thursday, 11 November 2010
Presentation of Finnish partners in Leiria
This is the presentation of the Finnish partners in Leiria:
Let s get_social_leiria
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Friday, 29 October 2010
Real collaboration
When starting this project, we hoped that it would help create some real-life interaction between students in various countries. For us, it is important that our students can practice their English and communication skills in real contexts with real people.
Now, we believe that this will be achieved on two levels. Firstly, the students who came to Portugal with us got to practice their speaking skills with the Portuguese and Spanish students. They were "thrown in at the deep end" and had to manage by themselves, without one of us teachers by their sides at all times. This way, they got a positive experience that they could manage with the language skills they have. It is important for them to realize that you don't have to be perfect in order to get by in English. This idea worked well in Portugal, and after this first visit we have many more students who are excited about the upcoming visits to Italy and Spain!
Secondly, the students on the "Let's Get Social" course are excited about communicating with their counterparts in the other partner organisations. They really hope that their blog will be interesting to students in Spain, Portugal, Italy and Poland. They are also looking forward to seeing what other students in the other countries are doing.
As to increasing online communication, the meeting in Portugal showed concretely what we have already thought to ourselves: that in order to encourage online collaboration, two requirements must be met. First of all, the themes must be authenticl, and really interesting to the students. They need to be such that the students can relate to them, and that they have a real reason to do what they are required to do. Secondly, although we hope that real, authentic interaction will grow out of this, initially a structure needs to be created with set themes and a preliminary schedule.
After doing all this, we hope that this project will encourage our students to reach out to the other students and that they will all share things with each other, be it in the form of stories, pictures, music, or whatever else they can think of.
Now, we believe that this will be achieved on two levels. Firstly, the students who came to Portugal with us got to practice their speaking skills with the Portuguese and Spanish students. They were "thrown in at the deep end" and had to manage by themselves, without one of us teachers by their sides at all times. This way, they got a positive experience that they could manage with the language skills they have. It is important for them to realize that you don't have to be perfect in order to get by in English. This idea worked well in Portugal, and after this first visit we have many more students who are excited about the upcoming visits to Italy and Spain!
Secondly, the students on the "Let's Get Social" course are excited about communicating with their counterparts in the other partner organisations. They really hope that their blog will be interesting to students in Spain, Portugal, Italy and Poland. They are also looking forward to seeing what other students in the other countries are doing.
As to increasing online communication, the meeting in Portugal showed concretely what we have already thought to ourselves: that in order to encourage online collaboration, two requirements must be met. First of all, the themes must be authenticl, and really interesting to the students. They need to be such that the students can relate to them, and that they have a real reason to do what they are required to do. Secondly, although we hope that real, authentic interaction will grow out of this, initially a structure needs to be created with set themes and a preliminary schedule.
After doing all this, we hope that this project will encourage our students to reach out to the other students and that they will all share things with each other, be it in the form of stories, pictures, music, or whatever else they can think of.
Friday, 17 September 2010
Let's get social - the course has started
We have 13 enthuastic students of which 4 is coming to Portugal with us. The start was great and we are really looking forward to experiences it'll give us.
You are more than welcome to read our blog.
You are more than welcome to read our blog.
Wednesday, 2 June 2010
Let's get social! Course plan
Reeta and Sirpa have worked out a detailed plan for our course "Let's get social!". We plan to bring some students from this course with us to the IEOL meetings in Portugal, Italy and Spain. Also, one part of the course will be contact with students from partner organizations.
Here is a link to the plan: Let's get social!
We would very much like to hear your comments about the plan, so that we can make the course even better!
Here is a link to the plan: Let's get social!
We would very much like to hear your comments about the plan, so that we can make the course even better!
Monday, 12 April 2010
Course plan for next year
The Valkeakoski team has made a course plan for next year, incorporating contact lessons and online work. Here it is:
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Course: English in authentic environments
Duration: 9 Sep. - 25 Nov. 2010 and 13 Jan. - 21 April 2011
Contact hours: 12 + 12
Teacher: Sirpa Paavilainen
Course description:
The aim of the course is to use a foreign language in authentic environments, to learn about your own and other cultures and to use social media tools for interaction. The participants will meet face to face every other week, and meet online between lessons. Contact lessons will consist of meetings with foreign visitors and guided visits to local places of interests, such as museums. The language of the visits and guided tours is English. There will also be contacts with European partners. The students will have an opportunity to travel with the teachers to meet partners in Portugal, Spain or Italy (additional cost). An ICT teacher will participate in the course to assist in using social media. The course is suitable for everyone, regardless of language skills (not for absolute beginners). Spanish and Italian can be used in communicating with European partners. The students will benefit from having the possibility to use the Internet outside of class.
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This text (in Finnish, of course) will be published in our course catalogue . We would like to hear your comments about our plan. What do you think?
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Course: English in authentic environments
Duration: 9 Sep. - 25 Nov. 2010 and 13 Jan. - 21 April 2011
Contact hours: 12 + 12
Teacher: Sirpa Paavilainen
Course description:
The aim of the course is to use a foreign language in authentic environments, to learn about your own and other cultures and to use social media tools for interaction. The participants will meet face to face every other week, and meet online between lessons. Contact lessons will consist of meetings with foreign visitors and guided visits to local places of interests, such as museums. The language of the visits and guided tours is English. There will also be contacts with European partners. The students will have an opportunity to travel with the teachers to meet partners in Portugal, Spain or Italy (additional cost). An ICT teacher will participate in the course to assist in using social media. The course is suitable for everyone, regardless of language skills (not for absolute beginners). Spanish and Italian can be used in communicating with European partners. The students will benefit from having the possibility to use the Internet outside of class.
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This text (in Finnish, of course) will be published in our course catalogue . We would like to hear your comments about our plan. What do you think?
Monday, 15 March 2010
Vlk Presentation
This is the presentation by the Finnish partner.
Vlk Presentation
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Wednesday, 11 November 2009
Minutes of the meeting in Valkeakoski
These are the minutes of the meeting. If there are mistakes or if something is missing, please let me know so I can correct the document. Thanks!
Minutes of the meeting in Valkeakoski
Minutes of the meeting in Valkeakoski
Tuesday, 10 November 2009
Valkeakoski Adult Education Centre
Check out this SlideShare Presentation:
Centre In English 2010
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Friday, 11 September 2009
Agenda for kick-off meeting
The nature is showing its best here in Finland, and we are having a beautiful autumn.
We have managed to draw up an outline for the IEOL kick-off meeting in Valkeakoski. You will find it here:
Valkeakoski agenda
We have managed to draw up an outline for the IEOL kick-off meeting in Valkeakoski. You will find it here:
Valkeakoski agenda
Wednesday, 12 August 2009
Project kick-off
Welcome to the IEOL blog! The purpose of this blog is to keep in touch with partners, share ideas and develop new ways of using social media in teaching adults.
We would like to invite all partners to describe the ways they have used ICT in teaching in the past and the aspects they would like to explore within the scope of this project.
We are very excited about this project and looking forward to working together!
We would like to invite all partners to describe the ways they have used ICT in teaching in the past and the aspects they would like to explore within the scope of this project.
We are very excited about this project and looking forward to working together!
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