Welcome to the study week in Kiel! With this study week, we aim at offering activities that contribute to your own teaching and learning as future language teachers; to your own professional development - and ours as teacher educators as well! On this page, you will find a range of activities that were part of the study week in Kiel. Further we link the different locations, where the activities took place.

Before the study week, we asked everyone to share a short introductory video of him-/herself on this flipgrid. It was really interesting and motivating to see and hear everyone beforehand.

During the study week, we focused on one important components of the course: the e-portfolio. On the first day we invited everyone to introduce themselves and present their e-portfolios to the group. This was a useful way to share experiences, interests and goals related to teaching and learning in the context of language teacher education. At the same time, the students further worked on their e-portfolios in course of the week. We invited them to document the activities that they took part in, such as an interview with an in-service teacher, classroom observation, several project discussions and the video workshop. We encouraged them to include written and recorded (audio or video) reflection, as well as monologic and dialogic reflection.

Why are videos actually useful for education? The potential of videos for language learning and teaching is an important and current topic of research. This medium offers obviously a new approach to the learning process and especially the opportunity to develop creativity. As a teacher you can produce videos, but you can also let your future students produce them. For students, videos offer a learning approach to develop media competence, as well as social (interacting with other students or dialogue partners) and personal competence (standing in front of a camera). For teachers this is a valuable resource to foster reflective practice. In this workshop we will use the interactive tutorial 5 on 'Video production'. Starting the workshop with a short quiz on socrative.com, We continued discussing the basics of non-professional video making in the context of teaching. We further talked about the different steps of the process of video making in general. The students then produced short educational videos themselves, which you can find below. This workshop intends to enable you as future teachers to be prepared for producing videos in your classrooms, to integrate them in your future teaching practice.

While preparing for the school visit, students got in two groups in order to do research about the school and about e-twinning. Later on, they shared the information they found. Afterwards, all of them had a look at the e-twinning project "Does the earth have borders? Migration and Human-Rights". Based on our shared knowledge, we developed a set of questions for the interview with the in-service teacher Sabine Burkhardt.