Trainers’ Toolkit – Window View

Exercise nr 3: Window view Duration 15 – 20 min Type of activity Social / Body / Emotional / Cognitive The goal of the exercise Getting to know each other, breaking the ice  Group size  10-15 participants Hashtags #warm-up #energizer #visual Apps Padlet Materials  Before the meeting, ask participants to have their smartphones nearby. Exercise […]

Trainers’ Toolkit – Collage of Associations

Exercise nr 2: Collage of associations Duration 10-15 min Type of activity Social / Body / Emotional / Cognitive Goal of the exercise Checking participants’ knowledge, beliefs and perceptions; first, basic thoughts before you go deeper into the subject of your meeting. Group size  10-15 participants Hashtags #engagement #collage #visual #webApp Apps Prepare a Padlet […]

Trainers’ Toolkit – Self Portrait

Exercise nr 1: Self-portrait Duration 10-15 min Type of activity Social / Body / Emotional / Cognitive The goal of the exercise Getting to know each otherGroup feeling Group size  10-15 participants Hashtags #warm-up #energizer #drawing #visual Apps n/a Materials  Before the meeting make sure that each participant will have prepared an A4 sheet of […]

LET’S FIRST DEFINE WHAT ARE SOFT SKILLS

Skills are one of the four pillars of Competency. Competencies can be defined as a set of inborn and acquired personal characteristics, attitudes, knowledge and skills leading to high-quality performance. [1] So competencies are composed by: Personal Characteristics: they represent the qualities of an individual such as talent, mental, physical features, etc., and vary from […]

Framework for Digital Educators

As part of our TRENDSS project, one of our central outputs is the Comparative Methodological Guidelines. We aim to compare the soft skills used by educators in the on-site classroom and the soft skills for the online classroom. We believe that there are many transferable soft skills that educators can use for creating an engaging […]

Pivoting to digital empathy

Empathy in the classroom is at the root of the soft-skills an educator should have. It shows you care more than just delivering the hard knowledge you are supposed to. But how can you put communication to work in an empathic way in your digital classroom? In our online classrooms we rely on digital products […]

Our E-learning Functions

TRENDSS KICK-OFF

Following our successful project approval by the international Erasmus+ assessors we were happy to see each other again and enthusiastically kicked off our TRENDSS project. The kick-off was organized by the Hungarian Coordinator Team via several Zoom meetings due to the pandemic situation. While we acknowledged and looked at this unprecedented situation with empathy we […]