The Horse 2019/20

Contact

Teacher T&U, wkvw, Eliane Suter (MSc UZH, Safety engineer CAS ETH) teacher@dontwastemy.energy
Spring semester, 3 lectures: 7.10/8.05/8.55 (ends 9.40)

=>Project work =>Do a "real life" project and be guided until your publication on dontwastemy.energy (web publishing experience, media skills, expert feedback, certificate) =>air food waste started a project, but due to the special situation they decided not to continue.

W14: 5/27 Wednesday * 2020

W14: Qualification talks & feedback with all students & studen teams (video meetings by MS Teams).
Qualification/Assessment =>individual feedback in the class OneNote >Your private section >Assessment

=>See time tabel (time for the Q-talks was sent to each sudent / student team by MS Teams.

*** wishing you lots of luck and a sustainable future ***

W13: 5/20 Wednesday * 2020

Special - your own pace (eigenes Tempo) - Not required for "real life" project teams, going for a publication on dontwastemy.energy!
(in case of questions you can get in contact on Wednesday, 8:00-9:40)

Course Circular Economy on edX.org: An Introduction

a) Planning: Each student writes in her/his study diary on the class OneNote and answers the questions: how many episodes, chapters and quizes she/he intends to do this week 13 within the timeframe of at teast three lectures (time planning), etc. (it's all there, check it out).

b) Go through the episodes, chapters, videos, quizzes, ...
=>learn, ask, have fun, be astonished, get curious, discuss with your class members, etc.
=>you must insert your personal proofs (screenshots) in the class OneNote (private section "edx Circular Economy"), as well as the state of the art of your "Progress diagram".

c) Done: Fill out & complete your study diary: reflect about your learning process, what was difficult, what topic did you like and why / why not? Are there new questions emerging regarding the specific topic?

Due date: Monday 25 Mai, 8 PM.

ASSIGNMENT T&U for week 13:

W12: 5/13 Wednesday * 2020

Special - your own pace (eigenes Tempo) - Not required for "real life" project teams, going for a publication on dontwastemy.energy!
(in case of questions you can get in contact on Wednesday, 8:00-9:40)

ASSIGNMENT T&U for week 12:
Course Circular Economy on edX.org: An Introduction

a) Planning: Each student writes in her/his study diary on the class OneNote and answers the questions: how many episodes, chapters and quizes she/he intends to do this week 12 within the timeframe of at teast three lectures (time planning), etc. (it's all there, check it out).

b) Go through the episodes, chapters, videos, quizzes, ...
=>learn, ask, have fun, be astonished, get curious, discuss with your class members, etc.
=>you must insert your personal proofs (screenshots) in the class OneNote (private section "edx Circular Economy"), as well as the state of the art of your "Progress diagram".

c) Done: Fill out & complete your study diary: reflect about your learning process, what was difficult, what topic did you like and why / why not? Are there new questions emerging regarding the specific topic?

Due date: Tuesday  19 Mai, 8 PM.

W11: 5/06 Wednesday * 2020

Special - Distance learning experiment VI

Video meetings

1. 07:10 - Introduction and meeting per Teams with the teacher (all VZ19A class members)
2. Meetings per Teams at least to the following hours:
   Start of lecture 1: 7:10 - Introduction
      - Have a break 8:00
   Start of lecture 2: 8:05 - Project Work / Waste Management & Critical Raw Materials (RCM)
   Start of lecture 3: 8:55 - Project Work / Waste Management & Critical Raw Materials (RCM)
   5' before the end of lectures: 9:35
   or in case of questions I will refer to students directly, so you have to be online during this time!

Program and Tasks

Task 12 ("real life" project teams excluded), all posts reg. edX Waste Management and CRM

1. Update your Forms to a Quiz, add the correct answers (with explanations) and update the setting link as shown in the following example: Forms-Quiz-Info.pdf (1.17 mb)
2. Share the Quiz link with your teacher (also shown in the pdf above)
   
3. Feedback round peers to peers on (comment on The Horse) =>The team indication list is here
4. Reply to the feedback on The Horse and improve your post and quiz if necessary

Task 13 (single task)

• Do all quizzes
• Do the final exam (see direct link on Class OneNote) =>you can also ask for help by the expert teams (via teams)
  =>As proof please take a screenshot of the final result and/or progress and insert it into your private section on the class OneNote >Task 13

W10: 4/29 Wednesday * 2020

Special - Distance learning experiment V

Homework ("real life" project teams excluded): Completion of task 11 until Thursday 5 Mai, 8 PM

Video meetings

1. 07:10 - Introduction and meeting per Teams with the teacher (all VZ19A class members)
2. Meetings per Teams at least to the following hours:
   Start of lecture 2: 8:05 - Project Work / Waste Management & Critical Raw Materials (RCM)
   Start of lecture 3: 8:55 - Project Work / Waste Management & Critical Raw Materials (RCM)
   

Earn a Certificate, prove yourself as a project manager: Competencies of performing a "befter project" (What is befter?), team work, bilingual, communication and media skills (e.g. photo, video, audio), publication of your project work on www.dontwastemy.energy, competencies in handling the most popular Content Management System "WordPress" as an "Author", etc.
Topics: "freely chosen" (Freechos), but you will need the consent (Zustimmung) of your teacher. Get inspired by the following overall topics:
>Your Energy question (dontwastemy.energy)
>Life cycle & resources: From where 2 where of a thing
>Think out of the box and create a scenario (even crazy one) calculating with "real data" (examples)
>Food & Climate (examples)
>Sharing economy & resource efficency (examples on The Horse)

Task 11  Waste Management and Critical Raw Materials (if no project is carried out) =>Check out the collaboration space of your Class OneNote:

1. Choose your topic (1 team per topic regarding OneNote, please fill in your name directly to the topic page, teams of 2)

2. Study the content and produce a post on The Horse (based on the edX content)
   =>Categories: your class, edX Waste Management and CRM
   =>Tag: [your topic]
   -Content, examples, basic & advanced knowledge, important links
   -Media (e.g. Pictures, diagrams)
   -Vocabulary of technical terms
   -Interesting questions
   -Critical insights

3. Produce an informative Quiz with the correct answers using MS Forms
   (min. 6 questions/answers)

Homework ("real life" project teams excluded): Completion of task 11 until Thursday 5 Mai, 8 PM

*2 Weeks Spring Holidays 14 - 26 April*

W9: 4/08 Wednesday * 2020

Special - Distance learning experiment IV
Reminder: Class OneNote & entry of tasks

Video meetings

1. 07:10 - Introduction and meeting per Teams with the teacher (all VZ19A class members)
2. Meetings per Teams at least to the following hours:
   Start of lecture 1: 7:10 - Discussion of homework (Task 9) =>Energy carriers (deepening knowledge)
   Task 10: Feedback round peers to peers (graded task, randomly indicated by the teacher): Double check the "deepened knowledge post" (in relation to the assessment of task 9) and give the other team a constructive but critical feedback and tell them what kind of enhancement (Verbesserung) they could do or give them additional tips or ideas.  =>The team indication list is here
      - Have a break 8:00
   Start of lecture 2: 8:05 - Circular Economy: What is the Circular Economy? Study the Introduction on The giant Horse (knowledge pool), and answer the quiz questions (1-4) (you must login to wkvw Office365).
   

   The giant Horse (knowledge pool), please mind the login steps:

   1. Step 1 >Login (User: knowledge PW: pool*today)
      =opens the door to "the library"
   2. Step 2 >after your login click a second time on the link above
      => so you get to "the manual's room of the library"
   
   Start of lecture 3: 8:55 - Circular Economy: Episode I and II - Quiz (was not active as there will be another course on 29 April)
   5' before the end of lectures: 9:35
   or in case of questions I will refer to students directly, so you have to be online during this time!

*Combination of single work and discussion in the team*

edX.org: Circular economy - 2020
=>edX Course (was not accessible, new course starts 29 April)

W8: 4/01 Wednesday * 2020

Special - Distance learning experiment III

Video meetings

1. 07:10 - Introduction and meeting per Teams with the teacher (all VZ19A class members)
2. Meetings per Teams at least to the following hours:
   Start of lecture 1: 7:10
   Start of lecture 2: 8:05
   Start of lecture 3: 8:55 - Online Quiz (graded, singe task)
   5' before the end of lectures: 9:35
   or in case of questions I will refer to students directly, so you have to be online during this time!
3. Get ready for the Online Quiz Challenge II (single work), Start 8.55 AM, 40' :
   =>Please mind that you can not go back to the completed questions/answers - your have to make up your mind!

Program [in progress]
Reminder: be transparent and add professional link sources => Title of article, year (website.org) =>open new window; ...

• Worldometers - some numbers ...
• Your Speedy posts of Energy Carriers
• Doing a "real life project with feedback from experts" =>There's an opportunity now!

Knowledge deepening

Task 9 (Team work) - Homework: From speedy posts to deepened energy posts! Deepen your Energy knowledge. You can add it directly in your Speedy post or even better create a new post and set internal links to the new "deepended knowledge post" (Categories: your class, Energy knowledge; Tag: knowledge deepening  Check out the teacher's note here >

W7: 3/25 Wednesday * 2020

Special - Distance learning experiment II

Program

1. 07:10 - Introduction and meeting per Teams with the teacher (all VZ19A class members)
2. Meetings per Teams at least to the following hours:
   Start of lecture 1: 7:10
   Start of lecture 2: 8:05 - Online Quiz (graded, singe task)
   5' before the end of lectures: 9:35
   or in case of questions I will refer to students directly, so you have to be online during this time!
3. Get ready for the Online Quiz Challenge (single work), Start 8.05 AM, 40' : [link was here]
   =>Please mind that you can not go back to the completed questions/answers - your have to make up your mind!
   

Learning Objectives

• Unterschiedliche Formen der Energiegewinnung beschreiben
• Grundbegriffe und Einheiten verstehen und richtig anwenden
• Vor- und Nachteile der unterschiedlichen Energieformen abwägen

Material

• Non-Renewable Energy (The giant Horse)
• Renewable Energy (The giant Horse)

Note:: The giant Horse (knowledge pool), please mind the login steps:

1. Step 1 >Login (User: knowledge PW: pool*today)
   =opens the door to "the library"
2. Step 2 >after your login click a second time on the link above
   => so you get to "the manual's room of the library"

Task 8: Enhance your Energy knowledge. Speedy post: (teams of 2 / Speedy post content guideline)

=>Choose your energy carrier and write it in your class OneNote >collaboration space (Name of energy carrier and your name)
CHECK OUT! There's only one team per energy topic!

Renewable energy carriers / Non-renewable carriers

1. Wind
   
2. Biomass
3. Solar (thermal)
4. Solar (photovoltaics)
5. Wood
6. Hydro
7. Geothermal (Erdwärme)
8. Tidal (Gezeiten)
9. Oil
10. Gas
11. Coal
12. Nuclear
13. etc.

Homework: Comment at least 2 energy posts of your team mates (critical comments reg. the chosen energy carrier). Expand and deepen your energy knowledge! Get ready for the energy carrier quiz challenge week.

W6: 3/18 Wednesday * 2020

Special :: Lectures will be held as a distance learning experiment
Dear students,
Please prepare your tablets or PC's for today's T&U lecture (7.10-9.40) as we will do an experimental online distance learning via teams, The Horse and OneNote. You will need internet and you have to do a double check of your wkvw Office365 login. In case you can not login please get in contact today (17.03.2020) until 6 PM! (you can also write an email to informatik@wkvw.ch and add me in the cc)
PS: FYI =>Extract of the School's special guideline by Dr. Jürg Haefelin, Rektor wkvw:
"Die Lehrkräfte sind befugt, von den Lernenden zu verlangen, dass sie zu den gewohnten Lektionszeiten via Lernplattform miteinander in Kontakt treten."

Preview (in progress)

• Check your homework as mentioned on 11 March (add the link in your wkvw class OneNote, private section "Tasks")
  
• Category check: double check your categories, otherwise your posts are "not valid" resp. "task not fulfilled"
  
• Please rate all sharing ideas:
  =>https://2020.the-horse.education/category/SHARING
• TEAMS: How to guide for the video conference experiment:

  TEAMS-How-to-guide-Video-Conference-Start.pdf (411.06 kb)

Learning Objectives

• unterschiedliche Formen der Energiegewinnung beschreiben
• Grundbegriffe und Einheiten verstehen und richtig anwenden

Warming up for Watts and kWh
Video: Olympic Cyclist vs. Toaster (youtube.com)
Full article: Protecting nature by bike (dontwastemy.energy)

Task 6: What’s the energy source (Energieträger) for heating your room? Is it renewable or non-renewable energy? Inform yourself (e.g. ask your family, technical caretaker, etc.) and take a picture of: for example the heating (Heizung), boiler (Heizkessel), heating and oil storage room (Heizungsraum und Heizöltank), thermal heat pump (Wärmepumpe), solar panels, etc. =>try to get as close as possible
Give a short comment about your energy source and heating system. Can you explain how it works?
Product: Post on the horse (single task), Categories: your class, Energy knowledge Tag: myheating (please resize the picture and upload it in your VZA folder; kilobytes are ok - NO MEGABYTES!)

Learn about energy concepts, read the text and watch the video here: Basics in energy concepts (The giant Horse)
Note:: The giant Horse (knowledge pool), please mind the login steps:

1. Step 1 >Login (User: knowledge PW: pool*today)
   =opens the door to "the library"
2. Step 2 >after your login click a second time on the link above
   => so you get to "the manual's room of the library"

Task 7 (teams of 2) Invent an exciting real life energy calculation example (you can use online calculators but you should understand the principles of the technical terms as for example kWh).
NOTE: Do not announce the solution yet but write the explanation/calculation in your class OneNote (section "Tasks")!
Product: Post on The Horse (team task), Categories: your class, Energy knowledge Tag: calculation

Task 8 (team of 2): Find the right solution to the energy calculations (comment writing), due date 23 March, 8 PM

Video: Olympic Cyclist vs. Toaster (youtube.com)

NEXT WEEK - Get ready for the Online Quiz Challenge (single work), 40' : postponed to next week! Perpare the Energy Concepts knowledge.

W5: 3/11 Wednesday * 2020

Preview (in progress)

• Check your homework as mentioned
• Thinking "out of the box"
• Task 5 Your project idea about Sharing [teams of 2 or single, post, categories: your class, sharing]
  

PROJECT WORK - Proposals

• Your favourite idea (teams of 2 or single), related to the overall topic "Sharing" (in the context of "resource saving" (Nachhaltigkeit von Ressourcen)
  =>Goal? =>Reason why you think it's important =>Welche (nicht erneuerbaren) Ressourcen sind betroffen bzw. sollen "gespart/geschont/effizient genutzt" werden? (You have to be convincing, you need the concent (Zustimmung) of your teacher!)
  =>Imagination "out of the box thinking" (you can also do an audio for this step)
  
• Project concept and planning: What steps do you need to reach your goal?
  Who in the team is responsible for what? Time plan, etc.
  =>Challenge example: guessed/calculated amount of resource savings
  10 people using your sharing system vs 10 people without any sharing
  [time span? Calculation basics/data? Etc.]
  
• Experience (important!): what personal and/or team experience in the "real world" will be tried to implement (test, visit, survey, event, video/audio, etc.)
• .... further steps depending on the topic (befter - dontwastemy.energy)
  
• GOAL: Contribution on the project website www.dontwastemy.energy

Reminder: profile pictures (e.g. O.S.), drawing tool, check-box, parking-t/responsibility, etc.

W4: 3/04 Wednesday * 2020

Reminder: profile pictures (e.g. O.S.), your posts [more], shift/enter, links (web source), drawing tool, etc.

Preview (in progress)

• Intro Circular economy (some technical terms)
• Transformation of your presentation material into a post on The Horse [pitching Task 3 (audio), graded task]: what are the highlights of your topics, why should we read the whole article, what insights can I get?]
  =>Good post title, 1 picture/diagram/etc., short but informative intro text, quiz question (correct answer as a comment), vocab, correct source links =>as shown in the following example:: Title of article (wikipedia.org)
  Category: your class, Mineral resources
  =>Manuals for post writing
  
• etc.

Homework for 10 March, 11 PM:

1. Team work Task 3 (graded task): Improvement of your team post =>fulfill all criteria as shown in the example draft here
   =>add the link to the class OneNote VZ19A, your personal section "Tasks"
   
2. Single work: Do ratings of all posts and give at least 2 comments to your class mates' resource posts (Task 4)
   =>add the links to the class OneNote VZ19A, your personal section "Tasks"
3. Additional: Read the full article (in German): Gegen die Übernutzung der Ressourcen: «Weg von der Wegwerfgesellschaft» (bafu.admin.ch)

? - OneNote login, office.com: doublecheck your wkvw class OneNote (shared/geteilt mit) =>in case you can not access it you have to inform your teacher.

W3: 2/26 Wednesday * 2020

Short presentations

Mineral Resources -  Focus Terra
Basics knowledge material you should refer to: Focus Terra Material and Sway Presentations (The giant Horse)

Knowledge
Learning objectives (overall goals):

• den Weg vom Rohstoff bis zur Entsorgung (Produktlebezyklus) an Beispielen beschreiben
• die ökologischen und sozialen Auswirkungen der Rohstoffgewinnung und -nutzung (Anbau und Gewinnung, Transport, Verarbeitung, Entsorgung) an Beispielen beurteilen

Performance of Task 2: A) Team Presentations: min 3 to max 5 minutes (team work). All your notes, material and sources should be accessible in OneNote (collaboration space) and/or The Horse for the "big team" (class).

Quality criteria

• Quality of presentation (wirkt gut vorbereitet, Blick ins Publikum, möglichst frei)
  
• Language (bili, klar, verständlich)
• Content: Qualität Inhalt, Aussagekraft, Fragen, Vocab)
• Media: Text, images, sources, zuverlässige Quellen, Texte gut aufbereitet, gute Auswahl
• Question: 1 good question on your topic with 3 multiple choice answers.
• Vocab: important (technical) terms (Fachbegriffe und wichtige Ausdrücke)

Homework
Repetition of all teams vocab terms!

*2 Weeks Sport Holidays 9 - 23 Febrary*

W2: 2/05 Wednesday * 2020

Reminder: Categories vs tags, your name, grading guideline, profile pictures, your posts [more], shift/enter, laptop parking, etc.

• Office365 for wkvw: https://www.office.com (not completed)
  =>Info
  
• Publishing the comments on dontwastemy.energy
• etc.
• Reminder: support and propagation for food & climate (mailing wkvw)
  

  Instagram: www.instagram.com/dontwaste_myenergy
  Facebook: www.facebook.com/dontwastemyenergy
  Twitter: www.twitter.com/where_2_where

Resources for life

• Overview topics and learning objectives
• Overview of resources & circular economy (The giant Horse)
• Circular Economy - part 1 (The giant Horse)

Team building (randomly vs self determined) and topic selection.

Knowledge
Learning objectives (overall goals):

• den Weg vom Rohstoff bis zur Entsorgung (Produktlebezyklus) an Beispielen beschreiben
• die ökologischen und sozialen Auswirkungen der Rohstoffgewinnung und -nutzung (Anbau und Gewinnung, Transport, Verarbeitung, Entsorgung) an Beispielen beurteilen

Task 2: Team Presentations: min 3 to max 5 minutes per team (team work). All your notes, material and sources should be accessible in OneNote (collaboration space) and/or The Horse for the "big team" (class).

Quality criteria

• Quality of presentation (wirkt gut vorbereitet, Blick ins Publikum, möglichst frei)
  
• Language (bili, klar, verständlich)
• Content: Qualität Inhalt, Aussagekraft, Fragen, Vocab)
• Media: Text, images, sources, zuverlässige Quellen, Texte gut aufbereitet, gute Auswahl
• Question: 1 good question on your topic with 3 multiple choice answers.
• Vocab: important (technical) terms (Fachbegriffe und wichtige Ausdrücke)

Homework
Submission date of notes and vocabulary (Abgabetermin): Tuesday, 25 Feb, 11PM (in case of delay please write an email)

W1: 1/29 Wednesday * 2020

Introduction and goals

• The website: dontwastemy.energy
  Pre-task: What topics are you interested in?
  a) 3 direct links to articles (web contributions) on dontwastemy.energy
  b) Why did you choose them?
• The Horse 2020: https://2020.the-horse.education/
• The giant Horse: https://pool.the-horse.education
• Office365 for wkvw: https://www.office.com  =>not completed

Homework
Task 1: 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? =>check out the criteria here (The giant Horse)
Submission date (Abgabetermin): Tuesday, 4 Feb, 11PM (in case of delay you have to write an email)

* START Term II *

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VZA Program & Tasks *Term I* Intro

Introduction 6 Lectures: Wednesday, 7:10-9:40

W2: 8/28 Wednesday * 2019

1. Repetition of The Horse Education Concept
2. Our tools: Tablets or "bring your own device"
3. Enrollment & login to The experienced Horse 2019
   experienced Horse 19: https://the-horse19.azurewebsites.net/
   =>here you will work this semester!
   new Horse 19/20: https://2020.the-horse.education/
4. 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
5. Test your knowledge: Link to the quiz »
6. Your precious homework on precious paper:
   "The greenhouse effect" (natural vs anthropogenic/man-made)
7. Join THE ! association: You can get experiences in international collaboration by co-creating a web contribution on www.dontwastemy.energy
8. Homework - Watch the Arte video "Humans - Destroyers of the Earth", post 3 insights/questions/causes/facts on The Horse
   Deadline: 9/3, 22:00 MEZ

W1: 8/21 Wednesday * 2019

1. Welcome & Introduction
2. Goals, grading, bili & CLIL, getting to know the students
3. Presentation of The Horse Education Concept at wkvw, the students' web projects published on www.dontwastemy.energy
4. Enrollment & login to The new Horse 2020
5. Self-made drawing and explanation regarding the topic "The greenhouse effect"
   => Homework

* START Intro *

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