ICT in Auce secondary school, Latvia

1. ICT in Auce secondary school, Latvia Fridis Sarcevichs 2009

2. Auce Secondary School • 636 students • 52 teachers • 2 buildings • 2 sport halls • Hall for body building • New stadium • Large library • boarding-school with 50 places • 2 computer labs Google photos (virtual introduction) Auce Secondary School Website: http://aucesvsk.blogspot.com

3. 1 september – Day of Knowledge

23. Using ICT in Auce Secondary School Common use of ICT: • Search information in Internet • Part of our teachers create materials for lessons and homeworks – reading texts, presentations, exercises, lesson plans, tests, exams, .. • Use of multimedia CD-ROM and DVD (English, Math, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Latvian Literature, History, Geography, ...) • Interactive online resources in Latvian – www.dzm, www.letonika.lv, www.liis.lv, www.pasakas.net, www.tv.lv, www.eradio.lv, www.skolotajs.lv, www.skolas.lv, • Auce Secondary School websites – http://aucesvsk.blogspot.com, http://fs-it.blogspot.com, http://local.auce.lv • Other online resources • Some teachers create study sets for different subjects, including online content multimedia learning objects

24. Use ICT in different subjects and school everyday life • Latvian language and literature • Latvian History • English • Russian • Physics • Math • Chemistry • Biology • Economics • CultureHistory • Inteaching students withspecialneeds • Geography • Visual Arts • Music • Classroomteachers • Outofclassroomactivities • Forcontacts Informatics

25. Latvian language and literature • Creating materials for lessons (exercises, tests, exams, presentations) • Online exercises and tests – sites_list; site1; testi.eclub.lv; site2; site3;ailab.lv; surdo; • Latvian authors full reading texts – letonika.lv; satori.lv; • Online multimedia materials and cartoons – pasakas.net • Multimedia disks about famous latvian authors –J.Rainis; A.Čaks; O.Vācietis; M.Zālīte; etc. (video) • Making videoclips and photos (video)

26. Latvian author CDs, DVDs, websites in school

27. Video about Latvian poetry

28. Video about Latvian poetry

29. Latvian History • Multimedia CD “History of Latvia” • Latvian history encyclopedia – link • History for mobile – mobilaizglitiba.lv • Online multimedia materials – link

30. English, Russian • Reading texts online • Using dictionaries – link; Tildes Birojs • Online materials, exercises and tests; • Video (clip_En_1, clip_En_3, clip_Ru) • Audio CDs for English • Multimedia CDs and DVDs • Story writing • Working with projects • Translation of poems, stories, ... • Student research work

31. Math, physics, chemistry and biology • Work with new standards and programs • Online study materials (Lv) – www.dzm.lvwww.liis.lv; www.astro.lv, www.uzdevumi.lv • Presentations (chemistry) • CDs and DVDs in nature science subjects • Video (atomic physics, alternative energy) • Using sensors with computer (pic_1, pic_2) • Building measurement systems and software in our schools (mechanics, molecular physics) • Students research work

32. Astro.lv

33. DZM – website for nature science subjects

34. Work with website in physics lesson

35. Website in physics lesson

36. Work with website in chemistry lesson

37. Work with website in chemistry lesson

38. Discussion about math role in education(grade 10)

39. Discussion about math role in education(grade 10) Students watch video and listen thoughts of prof. Agnis Andzans (LU ) about math role in education. After the video students with help of their math teacher I.Ante have a short discussion about math role...

40. Culture History • Pictures (link) • Online resources • Online museums • Demostrations • Research work • Mindmapping

41. Other subjects and activities • Geography – CD “Forests land Latvia”, presentations and research work • Economics – presentations, research work, work with websites, use CD about money, make multimedia commercial clips, etc. • Students with special needs – reading, writing, painting, searching information, etc. • Classroom teachers – presentations and multimedia materials about safety and internet safety – drossinternets.lv; netsafe.lv; draudzigsinternets.lv; • Project work – I*EARN, NBP, eTwining.lv,

42. Netsafe.lv

43. Music and Visual Arts Music: • Listening to music • Research works about music and using music software, research of DJ software • Composing music with computers Visual Arts: • Work with pictures, graphic software • Use internet materials about colors and painting • Project work – creating pictures, calendars, etc.

44. Beginning school • Reading and writing texts • Listening and watching presentations, videos • Using CD-ROMs and online resources: • Skaņu meža pasaka, Sākumskolai, • Pasakas.net • Painting with graphics software (MS Paint, Drawing for Children, Tux Paint, etc.) • Work with online materials in bird observing project – Latvijas.daba.lv

45. Skaņu meža pasaka

46. Pasakas.net

47. After lessons...

48. Developing social skills • PortalDraugiem.lv: • E-mails, chat, photogallery, blogs, discussions; • Contacts; • About 1 500 000 users (Latvia ~ 2 300 300 inhabitants) Many classrom teachers use portal draugiem.lv to organize their class work.

49. Informatics in school • Standarts and programs – VISC.lv • Grades 5,6,7, 10, 11,12: • Grades 5,6,7,10 – standard based on ECDL; • Grade 11, 12 – some courses of IT and basics in programming • Websites: • DZP; Termini.lv; • Computer for beginers; • LIIS (LEIS) – www.liis.lv; • vortal “Informatics in school” - (http://informatika.liis.lv/); • LU Linux Centre - http://linux.edu.lv/; • XLAB – www.xlab.lv; • LatSTE – www.latste.lv • ECDL study sets - http://jrpic.lv/?ID=1650 • Skolotajs.lv – www.skolotajs.lv;

50. Some websites about IT Of course we also use Youtube, MIStupid.com and etc. websites!