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DA#30 – Find the Shape!

What is this shape ?

In this atelier children learn to recognise geometric shapes and to find occurrences of these shapes in their environment. The ateliers is based on the use of a free online quiz platform : Kahoot. This workshop trains children to use a tablet : navigate, take pictures, create and play interactive content.

Have a look here to discover the activation trailer : https://tube.tchncs.de/w/o4kd5ES9oQev4A4yXFXGPh

An idea from

La Fabulerie, Marseilles, France, tested with: Ecole Maternelle Extérieur, Marseilles, France

Time

3 activities of 25 minutes each for a total of 1h10

Objective

  1. Recognizing shapes.
  2. Take pictures.
  3. Create interactive content.
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#numeracy #projector #colours #shapes #photography

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DA#29 – The Photo Hunt

How to find one’s way in space using photos?

How can photos help us recognise our environment and find our bearings?  During this workshop, children discover different levels of the representation of a geographic place (satellite view, maps, photos), they identify landmarks and learn how to find their bearings. By creating a treasure hunt, they trace an understandable itinerary on a map. Several photos placed one after the other become a sequence of movements, thus introducing the notions of coding and sequencing.

An idea from

Aurélie Modave, teacher at the Sainte Julienne Haut school in Fléron – Belgium, in co-design with Média Animation ASBL

Time

8 activities for a total of 5 hours, and 3 activities at home

Age

5-6 years

Objective

  1. Recognise one’s environment and finding one’s bearings by observing photos.
  2. Discover the notions of image framing and point of view.
  3. Introduce to the concepts of coding and sequencing.
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#numeracy #photography #geolocation #environment #map #code #mediaeducation

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DA#28 – Building Stories

Can digital tools help children to develop language?

Yes!

By listening to the story and the song using technological resources (Tablet, PC and Smartphone), children develop language, above all by retelling the story, recording the song and the stories made with the families using the different digital applications. In the end, using the App Book Creator, you can build a book, with the stories elaborated in collaboration with the families and create a theater performed by the children.

An idea from

AESA educators- Barreiro-Portugal

Time

4 activities (20 to 30 minutes each)

Age

3-6 years

Objective

  1. Establish a relationship between writing and oral message.
  2. Use digital tools to help the child develop language.
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#language #storytelling #emotions #theselfandtheother#Bookcreator#digitalbook

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DA#27 – Nature’s Storytelling

How many stories can we find in the enlarged and projected image of nature?

The projection of enlarged nature becomes the backdrop for games and the invention of fantastic stories…..After collecting natural materials in their surroundings and collecting them in a box, that will be the transitional object that will enable children to continue experimentations started at school to be continued at home and vice versa, children will discover new properties of these materials through their observation with a digital microscope. Attaching the microscope to the projector, the enlargements give rise to imaginative and evocative environments, with which the children can play, interact and develop a character that will be brought home for the development of a common chain story.

An idea from

Sara Battistel  – Cristina Zecchin, ECEC educators at the Kindergarten “Scuola dell’Infanzia Tre Piere”, Oderzo – Italy.

In co-design with Zaffiria.

Time

6 activities (30-45  min each)

Age

4-5  years

Objective

  1. Experimentation of different tools and materials.
  2. Peer collaboration.
  3. development of language and narrative skills.
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#storytelling #art #science #immersiveenvironments #digitalmicroscope

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DA#26 – The 5 Misfits

How can we make the characters of a book become the driver for self-esteem and participation using digital and analogical expression techniques?

Starting with the illustrated book “The Five Misfits” by Beatrice Alemagna, children take an artistic and emotional journey in which they discover that people’s flaws are also what makes them special.  Children listen to the story and create their own misfits using simple materials, bringing them “to life” with a simple app, and inventing a different ending for the story. At school, the children transform themselves into the characters of the story through a series of psychomotor and theater experiences. The stories invented by the children and all their experiments are collected to create an ebook.

An idea from

Caterina Fabbri – Catia Podeschi, ECEC educators at the Kindergarten “Gli amici di Ulisse”, Pietracuta – Italy.

In co-design with Zaffiria.

Time

7 activities (40 min each)

Age

3-5 years

Objective

  1. Enhance communication channels, verbal and non-verbal.
  2. Fostering self-esteem and participation.
  3. Increasing attention and listening skills.
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#storytelling #movement #images #bookcreator

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DA#25 – Little Stick

Can the use of the digital and its declination in various expressive modalities develop competencies in the reading and translating of real and fantastic worlds?

Inspired by the book “Stick Man” by J. Donaldson and A. Scheffler, children invent and create small photographic stories, short films and plays inspired by their experiences and reflections during excursions with Little Stick, a character created by the children using wooden sticks collected in nature. Little Stick will follow the children on family and school excursions and help them find polluted places and reflect on their environment.

An idea from

Barbara Tosi – Giorgia Balducci – Annalisa Straccini – Annica Celli – Morena Montanari – Antonella Iafisco, ECEC educators at the Kindergartens “La Gabbianella” and “L’albero dei bambini “, Rimini – Italy.

In co-design with Zaffiria.

Time

6 activities (50 min – 2 hours each)

Age

4-5 years

Objective

  1. Motivational learning.
  2. Creative use of ICT.
  3. Creative approach in reading reality.
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#storytelling #nature #art #photography #animatedmovies

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DA#24 – In the Snow Covered Valley

Can the natural environment inspire the creation of digital stories and characters?

Nature is the protagonist and muse of collaborative digital storytelling. Children explore a natural environment  with the family and play at creating characters using the materials they find there. Starting from the created characters, the children at school collaborate on the conception of a story and animate the various parts using the stop motion technique. The children also act as the narrators in the story, using in some parts all the languages present in class or in the family.

An idea from

Giulia Benvenuto – Loredana di Rubbo – Vuerich Gigliola – Vidoni Michela – Monica Blasotti – Valentina Martina, ECEC educators at the Kindergartens “Costantino Cologna”, Tarvisio – “Gianni Rodari”, Tarvisio – “C.Collodi”, Ugovizza – “Scuola dell’Infanzia di Chiusaforte” – Italy.

In co-design with Zaffiria.

Time

7 activities (20 to 50 min each)

Age

5 years

Objective

  1. Exploring nature.
  2. Developing the ability to read images.
  3. Use vocabulary related to lived experiences.
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#storytelling #nature #language #stopmotion #images

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DA#23 – Audio Experimentation with Watermusic

Is it possible to make your own version of Händel’s water music with water sounds?

Audio puzzles and sound experimentations are suitable for children from the age of 3 and a lot of fun. First, children can search for random sounds in the environment and record them with a simple recording app. While listening, the children can guess together what they hear. At home, parents and children look for special water sounds, create and record them. In kindergarten, children can talk about their experiences with water sounds and listen to Händel’s original “water music”. Inspired by classical music, children can mix live water sounds in the kindergarten with the recording of the classical music. In the end they create their own version of Händel’s masterpiece.

An idea from

JFF-Institut für Medienpädagogik
tested with Inklusives Luise-Kiesselbach-Haus, Munich, Germany

Time

3 activities (30 minutes each)

Age

3-5 years

Objective

  1. Get to know auditory design and expression possibilities.
  2. Implement own ideas in audio and music recordings (e.g., sound stories).
  3. Expand personal skills like auditory perception of the environment and auditory training.
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#language #storytelling #sound #environment #art

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DA#22 – Speaking Portraits

What would my favorite book’s character say, my grand-grandma’s pictures or my pokemon cards if they could speak?

In this atelier, kids will learn to use apps to make still pictures speaks. They will need to take pictures with digital devices and import them in the apps. Then they record themselves speaking to create the character’s voice.

With their parents, they can make their old family pictures speak. At the end, all this work can be edited by the teacher/educator and exhibited in school.

Discover the activation trailer here : https://tube.tchncs.de/w/oWydQKJSTbQ9b9VLiANGCB

An idea from

La Fabulerie, Marseilles, France, Tested with: Ecole Maternelle Pommier, Marseilles, France

Time

3 activities of 30 minutes each

Age

5-6 years

Objective

  1. Learn to tell a story.
  2. Improving language skills.
  3. Discover special effects.
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#storytelling #language #art #portrait #stillandmovingimage #acting

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DA#21 – A Stop Motion Film

How can animated images become a film?

Yes! 

Is it possible to make a film using pictures taken in class? The answer is yes! In this workshop, children will first learn how to distinguish still images from animated images and play with moving images by creating a folioscope and a thaumatrope. After learning how to take photos, the children will be invited to make a small stop motion animation film. The scenario of this small film can build on a story the class knows and appreciates, such as a children’s album. In class or at home with their family, the children will imagine a scenario and make the characters (modelling clay, toys, paper) and the set. With the educator’s help, the children will photograph the images that make up the story, put these photos in a sequence and animate their film.

An idea from

Florence Fery, Belgrade municipal school – Belgium, in co-design with Média Animation ASBL

Time

10 activities for a total of 10 hours in school, and  3 activities at home.

Age

5-6 years

Objective

  1. Distinguish between a still and an animated image.
  2. Illustrate the milestones of a story. 
  3. Discover and understand the stages involved in making a small object animation movie.
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#language #photography #movement #stopmotion #sound #animatedmovie #mediaeducation