Pictures from a Nordplus project 2013-2016

Nordplus leaders and traveling students hold a seminar about E - learning, integration and work stations in Oddeyrarskóli in Mai 2016.

Link to Oddeyrarskoli homepage about the seminar

http://oddeyrarskoli.is/fraedslufundur-kennara-og-studningsfulltrua/

Brekkuskóli got 1st and 2nd place in a national short film competition

Siljan is a national film competition in Iceland where students read a book and make a short film about it. 50 videos were sent in and Arndís and Egill got 1nd prize and Ingunn and Kristiana got 2nd prize. These students have been active in our Nordplus project.







"Vetrarfrí trailer" made by Arndís and Egill







"Norn" er fædd made by Ingunn and Kristiana



https://youtu.be/dkJVynvGdHc

Students and staff at Brekkuskóli dance in Mai 2016

All students and staff at Brekkuskóli learned a dance made by one of the teachers, Erna Jónsdóttir.

What do students in Brekkuskóli, Iceland think about coding?

Brekkuskóli took part in "Hour of code" during all years of the project. In 2015 all students from grade 2.-10. took part where older students visited younger students and taught them how to code.

Happy easter to our Nordplusfriends!

 

Using Piccollage:)
Greatings from us in Norway and from Hjelmeland skule

Students learning how to use SketchUp

Students learning how to use SketchUp from Halldór, the guest teacher. 

Teaching trip to Húsavík

A part of the Nordplus group went to Húsavík to tell teachers about how we are using technology to study and to teach teachers to use some of the programs we like to use. 

On our way to Húsavík 

Egill and Kristjan explaining how they like to use technology 

Margrèt and Kolka

Arndís

Learning how to use NearPod

Trying the 360° in NearPod

QR-codes 

Dinner after a good day 

The Hour of code week in Brekkuskóli

Older students  in the Nordplus project teaching the younger ones how to code in the international Hour of code week. 

EduCamp in Eyjafjörður

EduCamp was held in Þelamerkurschool near Akureyri. It is a part of a development project for teachers in the area. Margrét and Helena, teachers from Brekkuskóli were in charge of two parts of the EduCamp this time. One about using QR-codes and another one about using IMovie in the classroom. 

Practicing for The Hour of code week

In the NordPlus lessons today the students tried out the new themes  for the Hour of code week. This year we will have for example Minecraft and Starwars themes. The Hour of code week will take place from 7.- 13. of December. 

We surly hope most of our students can participate. 

Visit to the TV station N4

Today the second half of the students in the subject Multimedia in Brekkuskóli visited the Icelandic TV station N4. 

There we were shown around and then the students got some great tips about technical things in producing short films. We will use the next lessons to make short films. The students will work in groups, make storyboards, shoot, edit and in end present their films. We are really looking forward to work on this project 

Students presenting NordPlus in Brekkuskóli

Students in Brekkuskóli preparing a presentation wall for our yearly festival. Every year we have a huge festival with over thousand guests coming to see students shows and presentations. 

Working with social science

Working with social studies in the 8th grade in Brekkuskóli. Students had been working with different things involving the earth. Then they got an assignment on Padlet, we put a QR- code on the Padlet so it would take less time to enter it. Then the students draw pictures of the earth, took pictures and put text with the pictures straight to the Padlet. 

At the end of the lesson we practiced the most important things of the lesson by using the norwegian program Kahoot 

Coding in Hjelmeland

Course in how it is possible to use coding in the classroom. The teachers in Hjelmeland were very interested in learning how they could use coding for example in mathematics. We showed them the website code.org because there you can choose between different languages and projects. It's easy for the teacher to create a class and see the progress  for each student. Some of the teachers went straight to their classrooms and tried it out. 

Teachers work in Norway

Project meeting that took place in Hjelmeland from 17th to 22st October let the teachers reflect on the previous work done on the project. They analysed the results of the common work and set out the aims for this year.

Teachers watched lessons in Grades 1 and 9, participated in the smart board course that was organised in the school and shared their experience in using different web applications with their students. A lot of new ideas were generated that will be tried out with students.
Teachers agreed on the necessity to involve students in common activities using online communication.

The guests were grateful to the Norwegian teachers for preparing and hosting the meeting in Hjelmeland school which was well-organised and efficient.

1st graders in Hjelmeland school using work stations

Teachers participating in NordPlus project in Hjelmeland observed a lesson with Siren and Sigrund where little students worked in stations doing Reading, Maths, English, Norwegian and Physical exercise.
Teachers saw that the kids were very good at doing the tasks on the computers. They were organised and excited to show the guests their skills.

N4 TV-interview

Interview on N4 TV-station in Iceland about tecnology in the classroom and the Nord-plus project in Brekkuskóli.

Egill translated the whole video in I-Movie so people, other than Icelanders would understand it. What a great job he did. Lots of thanks to Egill for the translation and Arndís who was in the interview.

E-book for the Nord-plus project

Filmed in all the countries. Nice to use to learn the languages. Have fun, we sure did ;)

Using technology on TV

We got a great opportunity to introduce our project on two different TV channels. First on the 7 a clock news on the  national TV channel RÚV and then an interview with Helena and Arndís Eva about how we can use technology in the classroom and at home to studie. 

A student in the NordPlus group is now writing subtitles in English so we can post them in here.