Contact
Teacher T&U, wkvw, Eliane Suter (MSc UZH, Safety engineer CAS ETH) teacher@dontwastemy.energy
Collaboration Project Befter: [completed]
3 Lectures: Wednesday, 16.50/17:30/18:40 (ends 19:15)
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*25.01.20 - End of autumn semester*
W19: 01/21 Wednesday * 2020
FINAL PARTS RESULTS / PUBLICATION / CELEBRATION
- Improvements/suggestion in your private OneNote >Assessment
- Ask for comments!
- inform (and thanks to) all people that contributed to your project; send them the direct link to your web contribution on dontwastemy.energy
- Write first comments to the freshly published contributions
- Support the promotion!
Be an experienced collaboration partner - support teams - be a member of the-horse.education
Think circular - think cross-generational
Good bye from The Horse
W18: 01/15 Wednesday * 2020
FINAL PARTS RESULTS / PUBLICATION
Reminders for different teams:
Did you give feedback or do a comment to the posts of the Belgium teams?
=>Green walls team
=>Local food team
=>Food waste team
=>Food waste at home team
=>Transport team
W17: 01/08 Wednesday * 2020
FINAL PARTS RESULTS / PUBLICATION
- Transfer text, media, etc. from The Horse to the website dontwastemy.energy =>Login: https://dontwastemy.energy/dwme
- Intro manual to Wordpress: To the WP manual (The giant Horse)
- Add to all your posts (project food & climate) the appropriate categories (or sub-categories) and befter steps
- Add your suggestions for social media propagation (category: Step 7 Promotion and feedback)
- Ask for reviews (English/Maths/Economy teachers, colleagues, experts, lay people)
- Do a team self-assessment (once or more): Project elements, self assessment
22.12.19 - 05.01.20 Weihnachtsferien - Schulfrei für alle Abteilungen
*Christmas & New Year Holidays*
W16: 12/18 Wednesday * 2019
W15: 12/11 Wednesday * 2019
Introduction to Wordpress Web publishing, project work, transfer
W14: 12/04 Wednesday * 2019
Project work - present current project status =>Show your first FINAL PARTS/RESULTS, =>Interim assessment / forecast (part I)
Your goals for today:
Begin of lecture =>What are your today's goals? Who is responsible? (post on The Horse)
End of lecture =>successful? did you reach your goal? Why not?
Project work - present current project status =>Category: "Ready for publishing"
- Step I - Imagination: did your really understand this step? Let's do a short imagination post!
- Mind your project categories: do you need an additional one?
=>for text/media you intend to publish (transfer to the website dontwastemy.energy) please add the category: "Ready for publishing"
- Please mind the quality criteria for project work
- First propagation post completed? Do you already have first experiences, interesting facts, funny stories, etc. in connection with your project development? (Goal: make people curious and looking forward to your publication on dontwastemy.energy).
- Project elements, self assessment
Regarding your assessments: Collect all your links to the completed tasks on The Horse or Website dontwastemy.energy in your private section at TZ17 Class OneNote.
W13: 11/27 Wednesday * 2019
Project work - present current project status =>Intro WP Webpublishing / Category: "Ready for publishing"
=>Feedback junk food / fast food survey (testing)
=>Start preparing your propagation posts for social media (category: Step 7 Promote and get feedback)
W12: 11/20 Wednesday * 2019
Goal: Active learning in the context of special environmental topics related to food, climate, energy, resources.
Project work, feedback team work, media, links, sources, team challenge food waste app.
Get the full topics' and teams' list !!!
Homework: next steps according to teams' concept and project planning.
W11: 11/13 Wednesday * 2019
Project work - present current project status (3' per team, collaboration, planned experience with whom/where, next steps)
Get the full topics' and teams' list !!!
W10: 11/06 Wednesday * 2019
- Project work (depending on the team concept, befter step 1 or 2)
- Please mind the quality criteria for project work
- My explanation: Ozone in different effect areas (ozone layer in the stratosphere vs greenhouse gas as a reaction related to the summer smog)
Homework: Project work - communication and collaboration
W9: 10/30 Wednesday * 2019
Concept draft, communication plan
Important - outline
W8: 10/23 Wednesday * 2019
Connecting & Collecting
- Collection of ideas (category: project ideas) =>in progress
Our vision of a "festival of project ideas"
- Rating round (cross cultural rating & commenting round) =>in progress
- Communication & grouping! (team building)
- Propagation start (planning, first info, e.g. video/audio pitch)
OneNote: Assessment rules =>Example will be shown
Homework:: Get in contact with your team abroad, discuss the project concept (must be approved by the teachers). Write your concept (as a draft) on The Horse, include a rough time plan, =>Who of the team is responsible for which part?
-Concept example
-check out The GIANT Horse (knowledge pool):: there are many concept examples by former student teams
-Quality criteria for project work
Autumn vacation: 10/6 - 10/20/2019
W7: 10/02 Wednesday * 2019
Collection of ideas (project ideas)
=>Pitching TASK:: What's your goal and how can it be achieved?
=>What is a pitch? Info about pitching (see Class OneNote, Collaboration space)
- Interesting and crisp title or question
- Audio pitching (or even video)
- Name of the authors
Info, suggestion: Tasks in OneNote
Feedback "speedy posts"
"Some stud. did not correctly write the scientific name; an example is given in the ASSIGNMENT. They also need to write the scientific family name!
=>corrections: the scientific name should be in italics (not poss. on my iPhone)
Hemp: Cannabis sativa,
family Cannabaceae
Pumpkin: several Cucurbita species, e.g. C. pepo, C. maxima, C. moschata
family: Cucurbitaceae
Nasi Pear: there is no pear family. It belongs to the Rosaceae
Mustard: family name Brassicaceae.
Apple: correct info but prob. long text directly copied from Wikipedia! They need to write it in their own words! Do they know what deciduous, cyme, inflorescence etc. mean?"
Connecting & Collecting
- Collection of ideas (category: project ideas) =>in progress
Our vision of a "festival of project ideas"
- Rating round (cross cultural rating & commenting round) =>in progress
- Communication & grouping! (team building)
W6: 9/25 Wednesday * 2019
Photos or Video greetings of the class: footage in elaboration.
*Warming up: Discussion in the team: Share your experience of the food data collection. In your opinion how good is your food data?
Ongoing Food app experiment: Going to the details: What's on the reverse side of the package =>go for the specific ingredients
=>processed foods
TASK:: The origin of plants =>research on the origin of food plants
=> Team work: Create a "Speedy post" on The Horse about a food plant: its origin, its family, scientific name, picture (background, history, significance of the plant today) =>speedy post (research).
=>Have a look at the assignment, step 2:
Research your plant using this platform or the internet (note link and date of access)
- common name & photo of plant => scientific name and plant family. A plant's scientific name is given as its genus and species in Latin; it is written in italics. e.g. the potato is Solanum tuberosum.
- ancient region of origin (i.e. where did the plant grow naturally)
- Add an estimate of your ‘food kilometers’ for each plant product and for the week in total: how far in total did all the elements of your weekly food travel to reach you?
For example: potato / stem tuber / Solanum tuberosum / family Solanaceae (nightshades) / Switzerland / Andes / 50km.
Some info, links, articles
Connecting & Collecting
- Collection of ideas (category: project ideas) =>in progress
Our vision of a "festival of project ideas"
- Rating round (cross cultural rating & commenting round) =>in progress
- Communication & grouping! (team building)
W5: 9/18 Wednesday * 2019
*Warming up: Discussion in the team: What is the relationship between food and climate? What examples do you know?
- Showcase: Arte video on global food
- The web app for our food survey: Info, testing, feedback
Working in teams, try it out, improvements? Questions?
Think about the possibilities and next steps. What could be interesting to do research on? Food, climate, energy, transport, chimicals, farming, soil, land use, ...? Do you have ideas for precise research questions? Ask yourself and the team what you would be personally interested in?
Interactive maps :: maps (The giant Horse) / worldometers
Homework: The food data collection experiment for one week =>Read the intro and get to know how to use the tool (Sway)
W4: 9/11 Wednesday * 2019
*Warming up: What did you eat today so far? (discuss in the team:)
Input: introduction to our food & climate
Students' short presentations of Energy Carriers (Energieträger)
=>Showcase :: maps (The giant Horse) / worldometers
=>Info digital skills "About the Sway tool": how to share and edit simultaneously in the team (check out your collab. space in OneNote), how to embed it in a post on The Horse.
=>Energy concepts: Homework: From kJ to kWh (an every day example, suggest a calculation tool, a picture of your example)
Material:
W3: 9/4 Wednesday * 2019
- Project: Food & Climate
-Raising awareness of plant blindness :: Video (youtube)
-Project steps
-"What do I eat today": announcement of the app
-Various
- Office 365
- Basics on Energy Carriers (The giant Horse)
-Renewable vs non-renewable energy
-Energy made of plants
Learning objectives:
- unterschiedliche Formen der Energiegewinnung beschreiben
- Grundbegriffe und Einheiten verstehen und richtig anwenden
- Vor- und Nachteile der unterschiedlichen Energieformen abwägen
- Homework
W2: 8/28 Wednesday * 2019
- Basics & exercise about handling The Horse:
-Pages (teaching material)
-Posts (students)
-Categories, Tags
-Knowledge Pool, Toolbox, The giant Horse
-Images: 100 kB (kilobyte) is enough for the web =>Try to upload Task 1 (Team work)
=>Test your knowledge: Link to the quiz »
- Office365 for wkvw students »
- Task 3: Brainstorm "Communication, planning, strategies for international collaborations"(team of 3-4)
Goal: Website contribution on www.dontwastemy.energy
in collaboration with team members of foreign countries =>see map on www.the-horse.education =>What do we need? What are the important questions? What difficulties could arise?
a) discussion in the team (1 piece of paper)
b) Team leader presents his/her ideas/tools/strategy
Product: Drawing, mind map, notes (Material: sheet of paper with the name of all members and the team leader) =>Post on The Horse
- Homework (Task 3) - Watch the Arte video "Humans - Destroyers of the Earth", post 3 insights/questions/causes/facts on The Horse
Deadline: 9/3, 22:00 MEZ (Category: TZ19, Energy carriers)
W1: 8/21 Wednesday * 2019
- Welcome & Introduction
- Goals, grading, bili & CLIL, getting to know the students
Repetition of handling The Horse:
-Pages (teaching material)
-Posts (students)
-Categories, Tags
-Knowledge Pool, Toolbox, The giant Horse
- Login to The Horse 2019/20 (for international collaboration projects)
- Brainstorm "Our food & Climate", Plants & People
a) Single b) In the team
Task 1 - Product: Drawing, mind map, notes (Material: sheet of paper)
- Intermezzo
- Homework
Task 2: Comment writing www.dontwastemy.energy
-Learning by reviewing and commenting students' web contributions (Task, comment writing)
-Question: What are the characteristics (Merkmale) of a good web contribution?
Submission date (Abgabetermin): Wed 8/28
*START*
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"The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team."
by Phil Jackson