Feedback I got on my learning activity:

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• I was disappointed about the first review I received: 'Dear Irène INDEMANS this plan has been very beautiful. See you later..'
• I very much appreciated the second review I received from Marija Mikic - Serbia and this review made me aware that

1. I didn't accomplish my peer reviews according to the instructions: completing the rubrics document. However I did take the criteria into account but I didn't perform it in the correct document.
2. I am still struggling with the difference between aims and outcomes. Marija Mikic made it clear to me with her constructive remark: 'I am a little bit confused about this. In my country (Serbia) the aims are what the teacher has to teach their students, and the outcomes are what will the students know, or can do after the teaching process.'
3. I also agree with her remark: 'Our teachers in this MOOC want more collaboration in our plans. In many parts I had the same dilema: is something a production or a collaboration. The learning designer doesn~t allow us to pick both of them.'
4. I can also see that she was rightly confused about 'I didn~t understand what part is taking place outside the classroom. The investigation, or the presentation.' I had already spend a lot of time in working on this MOOC and because it was a plan about a project day we prepared with a group of colleagues during half a year, it wasn't easy to describe/translate every detail of the project in the Learning Designer.

• I liked the way Nicole Scardino - Italy reviewed my project plan.

My peer reviews

Lesson plan https://v.gd/jigX8M

Hello Evridiki Gkori - Greece

I liked your project 'How can we make our school more student-friendly?', especially since we did the similar project 'Well-being@school' with eTwinning partners in the past as well. Your project plan explicitly addresses entrepreneurship education topics and covers the following competences outlined in this MOOC:

• working with others,
• taking initiative,
• valuing ideas,
• vision,
• spotting opportunities.

Some activities which inspired me are:

• the introduction, the real-world connection, the students being responsible for writing a report for the Ministry of Education. When we repeat the project, we can use exerpts of the authentic inspection report we got last year and make the students reflect on their conclusions.
• the idea of the coat of arms and the template you added. We could have our students choose whether to work on a new school slogan/pitch or drawing a coat of arms. Our actual slogan is 'a school with a heart for each talent'.
• the 'Flipping over the raft', physical exercise. We also work on the Multiple Intelligences Theory of Gardner in our school. I, personally, have difficulties to integrate assignments related to the kinesthetic intelligence.
• the students divising their own questionnaires. We used to do that but we 'unlearned' to integrate this activity mostly because it takes up more time. However, I am convinced that it's a very valuable, creative assignment. One can draw more conclusions out of the types/contents of the questions the students prepare themselves than of the 'flat' results of a standardized questionnaire.
• Maybe the interaction between the eTwinning partners could be enhanced by exchanging the 'consensus' questionnaire from each school. Instead of answering the questionnaire from the beginning, the students could make remarks on the questions of their partners. That way, they are really comparing their learning environments. The students would have to 'illustrate' their remarks with pictures/descriptions of their own situation. Finally, they would come to a 'common' questionnaire which all partners would have to answer.
• the interviews with relevant professionals. That's a new idea for me in the context of this project. Not only the teachers and Head are relevant partners here, also the parents could have their say. And it's an excellent opportunity to link with the local community: why wouldn't we have interviews with the neighbours of the school? What are they experiencing every day and what do they say about the school even if they haven't got a son/daughter attending our school?

The fact that you added your learning diary and your contact was inspiring as well.

So you can find my learning diary of this course here and my learning activity here.

Best regards and maybe you can give me some feedback on my LA as well?

Irène Indemans

Lesson plan https://v.gd/iOPvCW

Hello Barbara di Paola

I liked your project 'Help stop bullying'. Your project plan explicitly addresses entrepreneurship education topics and covers the following competences outlined in this MOOC:

• self-awareness
• mobilizing others
• working with others
• coping with uncertainty
• ethical thinking.

There is a very good balance and mix of activities. Going back to the initial brainstorm is a good idea to make the students aware of the added value of the project activities. That way they can reflect on their evolution in thinking about the theme.

I love your networking initiatives in this project: the link with the local community - entering the end product, the short film for the Festival - and the cooperation with your Arts colleague for the creation of a joint outcome. This boosts the self-awareness of the students and they learn from the exemplary behaviour of their teachers, working together.

Some suggestions I would like to make, especially concerning the use of more ICT-tools:

• instead of the sheet of paper for the brainstorm activity, digital mindmaps could be created on the free version of MindMup or Coggle. Here you can find an example of a mindmap in Coggle I made for an eTwinning Learning event I participated in lately 'Learning in a museum'.
• a cooperative structure which could support the brainstorm activity and which is more student-led is the 'Roundtable', a written chain activity. Students pass an A-Z-(alphabet)paper around, adding a word next to the alphabet letter of their choice, which expresses what they are thinking about when they think of bullying. Each student in the small groups says a response, writes it on the page and passes it on. All the words could be entered in a Wordle and a word cloud could be generated. The cloud gives greater prominence to words that are entered by more groups. So you immediately could have a class discussion based on this word cloud. Or you could use the voting and word cloud tool in 1Mentimeter, the tool they used in this course.
• Do you also use infographics as 'text'? We yearly do a project on 'cyberbullying'. Before the project day, the students individually answer an online questionnaire in Google forms. We analyze the results and draft our own school/class infographic with the results. This infographic is presented to the students at the start of the project day.
• For writing the script in a collaborative way, Google docs and for voting for the best script, Google forms could be used again.

Congrats for your project.

irene.indemans@hhartbree.be

P.S. You can find my learning diary of this course here and my learning activity here.

Lesson plan: https://v.gd/p6gCv8

Your review :

Hello Armandina Carvalho - Portugal

I liked your project 'Small entrepreneurs' very much. Your project plan explicitly addresses entrepreneurship education topics and covers the following competences outlined in this MOOC:

• mobilizing resources
• mobilizing others
• creativity
• sustainable thinking.

It's a very good idea to make the children (and the parents) aware of the fact that you organize the project for fundraising for their trip to the planetarium.

Raising awareness for sustainability by using waste materials from the classroom for the production of the end products and having the children view on the internet different things which can be made with the waste materials, lead to practising entrepreneurial skills.

Finally, I appreciate the involvement of the parents, during the production as well as during the fair.

Congrats for your project, certainly for this age group of children.

Irène Indemans

P.S. You can find my learning diary of this course here and my learning activity here.