The Finds Stories Open Course
A core component of Finds Stories is the training of educators on how to produce Object Biographies and Creative Object Biographies (COB) and consequently teach through them. Thus, complimentary to the Handbook (O2) we produced a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) available to everyone who is willing to use and adapt the Finds Stories methodological framework, objects, COBs, and/or resources in second language teaching.
The MOOC is designed in a format that a participant will be able to complete it in maximum 21 hours. These 21 hours will include interaction with the course videos, recorded lectures, quizzes, and exercises, alongside with independent study of resources and publications available through the MOOC. The MOOC structure leads, towards a series of presentations, videos, and activities to the better understanding of the Finds Stories method and resources.
All material included in the Teach FINDS Stories course are created under the Creative Common Attribution + Noncommercial + ShareAlike licensing format. We are using the CC BY-NC-SA with the aim to allow re-use parts of Finds Stories for other open education courses and transfer the Finds Stories methods to other contexts.
The MOOC is designed in a format that a participant will be able to complete it in maximum 21 hours. These 21 hours will include interaction with the course videos, recorded lectures, quizzes, and exercises, alongside with independent study of resources and publications available through the MOOC. The MOOC structure leads, towards a series of presentations, videos, and activities to the better understanding of the Finds Stories method and resources.
All material included in the Teach FINDS Stories course are created under the Creative Common Attribution + Noncommercial + ShareAlike licensing format. We are using the CC BY-NC-SA with the aim to allow re-use parts of Finds Stories for other open education courses and transfer the Finds Stories methods to other contexts.
You can access the full course through Learnworlds at:
https://findsstories.learnworlds.com/course/teach-finds-stories
But in this webpage you can also find all the videos, reading lists, and resources for the course if you do not like to follow the structured element.
Please note that the course is complimentary to the project's exhibition, resource, and handbook that can be accessed also through this website!
https://findsstories.learnworlds.com/course/teach-finds-stories
But in this webpage you can also find all the videos, reading lists, and resources for the course if you do not like to follow the structured element.
Please note that the course is complimentary to the project's exhibition, resource, and handbook that can be accessed also through this website!
The course lecture bites:
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The course reading list and activities
In the files below you can access all the independent reading you need to do in order to get a full understanding around the notions raised in this course. You can also find activities that you can do to test your understanding. Allow at least two hours for reading the materials and undertaking the activities of each course part. For some of the activities you need to watch the associated creative object biography videos, listed at the end of this webpage and to visit the projects virtual exhibition.
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Associated videos - Creative Object Biographies
Alongside the lecture bites and reading list, there are associated videos for the course. These videos are creative object biographies on objects recorded by the project. You can see the objects and their biographies in the FINDS traveller resource in this website. You need to watch these videos to understand the examples given in the course lectures.
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A Creative Object Biography by Konstantza Kapsali on a small object that have travelled from Albania to Greece, with Albanian immigrants. Now is part of the Albanian community in the little island in Greece
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A Creative Object Biography by Zoe Katsilerou on the small table that Greek transhumance groups are carrying with them over their traditional movements.
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A creative biography by Zoe Katsilerou. Inspired by an interview between Eleni Kazakou and Konstantina Kalogirou around the habits of migratory populations Vlachoi of Samarina, Greece, and their use of sacks Haragia.
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A creative biography of the Greek transhumance kapa - the overcoat - by Konstantza Kapsali.
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A creative take by Konstantza Kapsali on the biography of the basketball ball of the 2005 Eurobasket final.
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A creative biography of the transient life of Greek Vlachs.
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