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The students of Estonia, Belgium and Ireland tested the first version of 'The little prince'. 👑

Despite a lot of play, they also had some comments. Next, we will make the necessary adjustments! 🎮

Momenteel in Dublin voor het Erasmus-project iRead, samen met Piso Tienen, Ierland en Estland. De ontwikkeling van de online leesgame is bijna afgerond! 😍. Daarnaast wordt er hard gewerkt aan de online cursus Close Reading en de toolbox met uitgewerkte lessen… Koen Bouve Maarten Van Nieuwenhove Inge Denaeghel Laurien Mees Redial partnership Kehtna Kutsehariduskeskus Howest EPOS vzw

🧐 Can you solve our rebus?

💻 The first chapter of our game is ready to be tested. Several schools in Belgium, Estonia and Ireland are working on it.

Can you guess which book our first chapter is based on?

🎮 Yesterday, we started the day with a preview of the game. We talked about the adaptations.

☕ Then our Estonian colleagues provided an activity: ceramics. We made our own mug under the guidance of a very enthusiastic lady.

📝Later we discussed the testing of the game and had a meeting with PlayIt, our game developers.

🍷🍽️ We ended the day with a fantastic five-course dinner.

🚂❄️Today, we took the train to Kehtna to start the first meeting of TPM4. We were enchanted by the winter wonderland.

📝After a tasty lunch, we discussed the surveys again. We embrace the wishes of our students and we consider it very important that they have a voice in the making of our game.

👩🏽‍🏫📚👨🏼‍🏫Then we got to work on creating the teacher materials. We would like to encourage teachers to implement the techniques of 'Close Reading' in their reading lessons.

We are in the midst of designing our reading game. 💻🧐
What do you think an educational game needs to be successful?

Inge and Laurien attended the OMG festival in Kortrijk. It is a gaming event explaining educational games. We picked up many good ideas that we can use for our own game.
It was also great to try out new gaming techniques, such as virtual reality.

On the last day of the TPM, we created content for our game. We searched for texts translated into multiple languages. Then we drafted questions and let our imaginations run wild regarding the visualisation of the texts in our game.
After lunch, we said goodbye to our Estonian colleagues. We are already looking forward to the next meeting with each other and our game developers.

💻 We had a meeting in the morning with Play it, our game developers. Our first text was already incorporated into the game. WOW! What a fantastic job they had already done! We are already looking forward to the sequel.
🌸 Koen then organised a fantastic blossom walk in beautiful Borgloon. This resulted in very beautiful photos.

Piso Tienen Howest Provinciaal Onderwijs Vlaanderen

Today was the first day of TPM3. After breakfast, we discussed the results of the various surveys. We will take these conclusions to our game. After lunch, Koen arranged an interactive game for us on the Alden Biesen estate. Using film clips and texts, we had to solve the invented murder mystery of Alden Biesen. It was fun! After this, we went back to work. We chose different texts that we will integrate into our game. Tomorrow we will have a meeting with the game developers. We are very much looking forward to the preview of 'iRead: The adventure'.

But today, the Estonian partners are using their passports to spend a few days in beautiful Alden Biesen. 🇧🇪
The next TPM starts tomorrow. Follow our page to find out the news and decisions regarding our game. Would you also like to travel with us to the blossoms of Alden Biesen? Then follow our stories. 🌸

This is where our next TPM will take place. Who can guess which country this beautiful building is located in? 🧐
You can choose between the countries of our partners: Estonia, Ireland or Belgium.

Throw🔙 to the last day

On the last day, we reflected on our TPM in Estonia. We reviewed whether we achieved all the goals for this meeting. Check!
Finally, we took a nice walk in the swamp a few kilometers from Kehtna.

Throw🔙 @ Day 2 of the amazing TPM !

We were given a tour of the school
It was nice to see how schools from different countries also have different teaching methods. 🧑🏼‍🏫

After this, we went back to work. We discussed the content of our game and finalized the survey for students. We also briefly reiterated the principles of close reading, which will be covered in our app and our lesson preparations. 📝🎮

During the afternoon, we were treated to a delicious multi-course dinner. Completely prepared by the students of Kehtnakhk. 🧑🏼‍🍳

Throw🔙 to our TPM @ Estonia.

At the first meeting we discussed the subjects of the TPM. We also welcomed our new partner: Ireland! 🇮🇪

We ended the day in a nice restaurant and slept tight at the hostel of Kehtna.

Reelika is a teacher whose main subjects are Estonian, English and history. She has been teaching for 18-years. Reelika has participated in several projects and workgroups, where various curricula and materials have been created. What she highly appreciates is testing new methods, empathy, playfulness, and creativity. In her free time, she is doing different sports but most loved one is basketball.

But today...
We we're also going on an adventure.
Who knows what we will do today?

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Kaidi is the head of development department. During 13 years she has written, taken part as a partner and coordinated many projects that are addressed to young and grown up students, including ERASMUS+ projects. The main responsibilities in Kehtna VEC are communication, trainings for grown-ups and projects. She has master's degree in education leadership at Tallinn University and Bachelor degree from Tallinn University in advertising and media. In her free time she likes forest, hiking, volleyball and taking care of her bees.