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Using Web Comics in Education Comenius Multilateral Project Institutions involved: Thematic Field: Literacy Centre for the Advancement of Research and Development in Educational Technology (Cyprus), Kindersite Project (United Kingdom), University of Granada (Spain), University of Cyprus (Cyprus), Politecnico Di Milano (Italy) Coordinating institution: University of Piraeus Research Center (Greece) Key words: Teaching skills, Promotion of reading, Digital competence, Suppport for children with reading difficulties Description: Literacy has become a problem in many schools, and teachers are looking for new ways to teach that will be stimulating and fun while skill-building at the same time. Web comic books are an instructional medium that gives children the chance to use material from their own lives to conceive, write, and illustrate stories. They also offer a dynamic way to teach elements of fiction that are required in many schools. The Web Comics combines text and imagery as well as hypermedia and streaming elements. They can be interactive means for studying as well as for selfassessment. Children having read some pages of the web comic book could be asked to respond to an online assessment test. Furthermore, Web comics can offer scaffolding to difficult scientific disciplines and concepts and can be an effective instructional medium especially for reluctant readers and poor students. On that basis, the goal of the project was to help teachers and children effectively use an alternative instructional method for learning about literacy and scientific concepts by writing, designing, and publishing original web comic books. It places children in the role of creators, rather than merely receivers of information. Children write and draw about their personal experiences and interests, thereby being engaged in the learning process and motivated to succeed. The idea is not to drop a web comic book on a child’s desk and say: "read this". Rather, the project will train teachers to design learning scenarios where students will have the opportunity to draw upon stories which they then revise, publish and share with others. The project collected and published best practices in terms of educational comic books on various subjects such as literacy, language learning, science education, authoring tools as well as effective learning strategies and lesson plans. It also created training material for teachers and organised seminars for teachers; these teachers applied strategies and lesson plans to their schools in order to gather evidence of what works, why and under which conditions. Duration: 2008-2010 Webpage: http://www.educomics.org/ 10
The European Children’s Travelling Language Library Comenius Multilateral Project Institutions involved: Thematic Field: Literacy Çukurova Ünivesitesi, Yabancı Diller Öğretimi ve Araştırma Me (Turkey), Jazyková škola s právem státní jazykové zkoušky PELIKÁN s.r.o (Czech Republic), Sastamalan Opisto (Finland), Associazione Culturale Benalua (Italy) Asociacion Cultural LibreMente (Spain) Coordinating institution: The Mosaic Art And Sound Ltd (United Kingdom) Key words: Reading skills, Libraries, Teaching skills, Promotion of reading Description: The EuroLib projects aims to answer 3 needs: to provide early European language experiences using a format that can resonate with the imagination of young students, to introduce books as the best source of autonomous lifelong learning, and directly attack the lowering levels of book readership and to promote the idea of Europe and its cultural diversity . In the project, travelling libraries of the most beautifully illustrated children's books in multiple European languages travel from school to school across Europe. Each school has the library for a period and has to carry out a number of pedagogic and collaborative activities before, during and after the visit of the Library. They place the results on the project website for use and viewing by other schools. Activities include inter-comprehension, comprehension, creative expression, criticism, reflection, task-based learning, collaboration and using languages within a social context. On the project website and travelling with the library itself are tools, teacher diaries and teacher guides. The impact on students includes exposure to the rich cultural heritage of Europe, motivation to learn languages, motivation to read books as a source of autonomous lifelong learning and reinforcement of emerging literacy. Duration: 2009-2011 Webpage: http://www.eulib.eu 11
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