By Dionysis Panagiotopoulos & Kostas Karpouzis - National & Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Greece The Greek team participated in this year’s “Researchers’ Night” event hosted in six major Greek cities on the last Friday of September. The event was an opportunity to showcase to the public key research happening within universities and institutions. The NTUA … Continue reading iRead researchers from NTUA participate in Researcher’s Night Event
iRead workshop at the Göteborg Book Fair
By Leona Bunting, University of Gothenburg The Göteborg Book Fair is probably Scandinavia’s most important literary event where the trade meets the public. During four days, 26-29 September, about 90,000 publishers, authors, librarians, teachers and book lovers mix on the 11,000 square meters provided. iRead was invited to hold a workshop in a part of … Continue reading iRead workshop at the Göteborg Book Fair
Romanian team present iRead to students at the Sibiu Researcher’s Night
By Ioan Mihu - Lucian Blaga, University of Sibiu (ULBS), Romania The Sibiu Researcher's Night, held on 27th September 2019, is an institution wide public event that is designed to show case research that is being carried out at the University of Sibiu. At the event, Ioan Mihu from ULBS was supported by high school … Continue reading Romanian team present iRead to students at the Sibiu Researcher’s Night
iRead @ PopUpDig19
By Leona Bunting (University of Gothenburg) On June 18 the University of Gothenburg (UGOT) team participated in PopUpDig19. PopUpDig is a one-day conference about learning and digitalization for teachers, IT pedagogues and library staff organized by the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. This was the third year it was held, and it was fully booked well … Continue reading iRead @ PopUpDig19
Reader workshop at Lextorpsskolan in Sweden
By Leona Bunting (University of Gothenburg) The past few weeks we have been out to schools holding workshops with EFL (English as a Foreign Language) teachers on our Amigo Reader. Teachers have been asked to create teaching designs with various objectives and content including elements from the Reader. The last workshop was held on 5 … Continue reading Reader workshop at Lextorpsskolan in Sweden
iRead Researcher Roger Gilbert interviewed on Spanish TV
By Roger Gilabert (University of Barcelona) Roger Gilabert was interviewed by the book show "Página Dos" in La 2 public TV channel. It appeared together with other technological projects promoting reading. You can watch the interview from 3:40. http://www.rtve.es/alacarta/videos/pagina-dos/pagina-dos-nacho-carretero/4794244/ This will be followed by a longer interview that will take place in June/July after iRead … Continue reading iRead Researcher Roger Gilbert interviewed on Spanish TV
iRead @ European Literacy Network Meeting
By Nelly Joye and Elisabeth Herbert (UCL) From 1-3 November 2018, a joint iRead-CIE-LLNR&P attended the first European Literacy Network Summit in Porto. The summit marked the end of the European COST action 1401 “Strengthening Europeans’ Capabilities by Establishing the European Literacy Network (ELN)” and gathered a network of European researchers, practitioners and software developers … Continue reading iRead @ European Literacy Network Meeting
Doukas School pupils give their verdict on the iRead Game
By Yannis Kotsanis and Thomas Economou (Doukas School) Brighter, more Adventurous, more Fun, more Accessible and Played with our Hands! We started an impressive digital exploration to the mysterious “Navigo: Pyramids of the Lost Words” we walked on moving stones, we ran around to avoid traps, we drove aerial trains and boats via underground tunnels and … Continue reading Doukas School pupils give their verdict on the iRead Game
iRead game piloted with EFL students in Spain
By Roger Gilabert Guerrero (University of Barcelona) In late May and early June, children and teachers in the six schools involved in iRead from the Barcelona and Tarragona areas tested the games in English. The reception from the schools was very positive and both teachers and children were delighted with learning the language through such attractive … Continue reading iRead game piloted with EFL students in Spain
iRead @ The International Science Festival Gothenburg – School Program
By Wolmet Barendregt (University of Gothenburg) iRead team members from the University of Gothenburg recently took part in the International Science Festival Gothenburg. The festival is one of Europe’s leading popular science events. With hundreds of activities and about 70,000 it is the only one of its kind in Sweden (for more information about the … Continue reading iRead @ The International Science Festival Gothenburg – School Program
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