1. GAMES
Let’s learn/teach with games
2013-2015
Comenius Project - Lycée Giraux Sannier
Marie-Hélène Fasquel
October 13, 2014 – LPM.

2. Biography
 Language and Literature teacher, Lycée
International Ile de Nantes, American OIB,
 Formerly ESL teacher at Lycée Giraux Sannier,
 ICT trainer,
 eTwinning ambassador,
 Microsoft Expert Educator (International
Innovation Prize in 2014, UNESCO National
Innovation Prize, 2013),
 Writer (Ellipses & Hatier, author &
co-author)
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3. Birth of the project
Teacher’s needs
• Engaging the students (weak/shy),
• Promoting self confidence,
• Bringing out the students’ various talents.
Students’ needs
• Having their work and efforts recognized,
• Studying in an innovative and creative way
• Having fun and enjoying the course.
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4. Main objectives
Combining 4 essential motivation factors
  ICT  collaboration, content creation,
online publishing,
  fun and engaging activities
  Opening onto the international
 authentic communication
  Draws/competitions and prizes
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5. The project’s objectives
 Motivation
nurturing creativity
(games and engaging activities),
 sharing online,
 Task-based approach,
 Improving one’s command of English,
 Communicating.
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6. 2 ongoing projects
 Online curation on Scoop.it!
 2 ongoing experimentations (2013-15)
 Gamification: learning while producing
games for one’s partners (Comenius
Project)
 Gamification curation
 flipped classroom curation
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7. An engaging approach
 Project-based approach
 To make games, you need to master the topic
 Students want to do well – everything is published
online  pride in their work/in the outcomes
 They share and help others learn
 The constant goal = engage students, help them
improve their command of English, learn about
different cultures, new technologies
 Playing the partners’ games to learn
 Communicating directly in English, ony common
language of the 7 different partner countries--
authenticity
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8. Gamification
Games are very useful to teach as…
• They are interactive,
• fun,
• The student has a problem 8
to solve,
• He/she can win and plays/works without
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realizing it.

9.  A few examples:
 Who am I?
Games
 e-book
 New technologies
 Link
 Padlet
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10. Online tools & websites
creating games
Spelling city
Classtools
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Quizlet
environment quiz
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11. Spelling City
Spelling city
Example: whodunnit?
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Example: the environment
Tutorial
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12. Classtools
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Classtools
Example

13. Quizlet
Quizlet
environment quiz
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14. Any questions?
Have you tried to gamify your classes?
 Let’s share other ideas to help our students
improve and engage!
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 Our pad
What about you?

15. Competitions
 diploma generator
 Best works
Certificate
Gift
Handed out by the school’s headmaster
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16. Engaging and meaningful
topics
 For instance: the fight for the
environment, a real life issue.
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17. Outcomes/Conclusion
For the students:
• Pleasure to study
• More personal work
• MOTIVATION
For the teachers:
• Students tended to improve
• More ambition on the part of students (published works)
• Students created content (new role)
Difficulties:
• A lot of energy and work is needed to set up a Comenius project
• Differences in availability (international project, different
holiday dates, different types of lessons, different school
systems)
• Destabilization of some students at the beginning of the project
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18. What about you?
 Any questions?
 Any feedback?
 Any other useful websites to gamify
our classrooms?
Our pad
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19. Content curation and new projects
Scoop.it! curation
2 ongoing projects:
 Gamification  learning while creating
games and playing them.
games curation
 The Flipped Classroom
flipped classroom curation
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20. International community
The program Partners in Learning (PiL) allows
educators to
 Join a worldwide community of dedicated and
innovative teachers &
 Get free training (tutorials,webinars,
resources).
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21. International community
• My profile
• Documents
• Feel free to contact me, to join the community
(I will invite you), to work together or to ask
further questions!
• Write your information (name/email address)
on our Pad please?
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22. Contact -- References
Feel free to contact me!
mhfasquel@gmail.com
On Twitter: @mariehel2
Slideshare
My files on Slideshare.
blog
On Facebook, LinkedIn &
Google+, eTwinning: Marie-Hélène Fasquel
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23. References
 Anglais, Entraînement
et auto-évaluation,
Compréhension Ecrite,
Expression Ecrite,
Ellipses,
Paris, 2010.
Extract
Contents
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24. References
 Bac en Vue,
Anglais, Spécial
Vocabulaire, Ellipses,
2011.
Extract
Contents.
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25. References
 Contrôle continu
terminale, Anglais,
Ellipses,
September 2014,
Coordonné par Joël
Cascade.
Extract
Contents.
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26. Thank you!
Thank you very much for your attention!
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