The Clilstore teaser demonstrates the advantages that Clilstore offers to your students.
 

Clilstore allows students to create presentation portfolios based on their learning activity within the OER. These portfolios promote learner autonomy and allow students to build a repository of their work and self-assess their learning progress.

The Clilstore Presentation Portfolio may be used in conjunction with an evaluation interview between the student and the teacher, where the student shows the teacher how much progress they have made during a particular period or within a specific area. The student can write notes, ideas or complete tasks based on the learning units they have worked with and save them in the portfolio for the teacher to see. For example, they can link pictures, audio files, answers to assignments. It is up to the learner to choose areas of development and work on them. Students can create a portfolio folder for each subject and give their teacher (or more than one teacher) access to that portfolio to share their work. The main benefit of using a portfolio is that students can gather all their work in one place, which makes it easier for the teacher to follow-up on progress and provide appropriate feedback in a subsequent face-to-face interview.

The numbered sections 80 provide the following useful information and functions:

1. The unit number:  Clicking on this will take you directly to the original unit.
2. The unit title:  The title is also a link to the Clilstore unit. If you click on it, you will go back to the unit.
3. Editing Tools:  In order to start editing a unit’s portfolio record in the ‘What I have learned’ and ‘Links to My Work’ sections, you first need to click on the edit icon near the Unit title. This opens up these two columns for editing. These 3 tools give you basic control over the portfolio. The Edit button makes the portfolio ‘editable’, so that you can open up the portfolio and add to or amend the other columns. The Delete button will delete the whole unit and any linked work from the portfolio. This could be when you have finished with a unit and have no use for it anymore. The middle buttons (two arrows pointing upward and downward) allow you to move your units and linked portfolio records up or down in your portfolio, according to when you are working on them.
4. What I have learned:  Here you can write, in your own words, what you feel you have learnt from this unit. The maximum number of characters you can enter here is 250. Each time you finish a ‘Can Do’, another field (5) opens up, allowing you to add another item if you so wish. The Edit, Move Down and Delete tools are also available here for you to edit a comment or delete it, or to move it down in your list of ‘Can Dos’.
5. Add an item:  You can add more items to ‘What I have learned’ from here. (Remember the 250-character limit!) 
6. Links to my work:  Here you can add links to any work which you feel shows your learning journey and progress linked to the unit. 
7. Adding a description of your work: This is what you actually see when you are creating the link to your work (item 6, Fig. 80). Here, give a title or short description of what your work is about.  Once again, the maximum number of characters you can insert is 250. 
8.Adding a link to your work:  In this field, where it says ‘URL’, paste the web address of the work you have uploaded online. Your work needs to be online, and not stored on your personal computer. When you have done this, click on ‘enter’ on your keyboard, and the description and link appear as they do in item 6, Figure 80.            
9. Add a teacher:  Here you will need to know the Clilstore User ID of the teacher you would like to share your portfolio with. You can add more than one teacher to a portfolio. 
10. Create a new portfolio:   This function is extremely useful if students have more than one teacher with whom they are using Clilstore and portfolios, e.g., the French teacher and the English teacher. You (the student) might have one Portfolio (A) for your work on English units. You can then also open up another Portfolio (B), within which you keep track of other portfolios you are working on in French.

There has been lots of continuing programming work to improve Clilstore since the last COOL project newsletter.  The vocabulary builder facility, which allows students to record words they click on and to write in their meanings from the dictionary, has had several improvements.  Words can be sorted by column, either by the word itself or by its meaning, and the entire vocabulary list can be exported to enable students to import it if they wish into a spreadsheet or into various vocabulary flashcard programs.  Two "test yourself" facilities have been added: a "hide/reveal" facility:
  

 

 

The project EC co-funded period was originally planned for 36 months, but due to the Covid travel restrictions that have caused some delay in the project the partners have been granted four extra months:-)

The extension means that we can continue testing the outcomes and dissemination of the project with workshops and multiplier events throughout the autumn. 

A project meeting, which was planned to be in Belfast has been moved to Dublin, this means that all the project partners can meet without facing quarantines when returning home. 

We have prepared a brief 3-minute video demonstrating the steps in authoring a Clilstore unit. You can click on the image above or use this link to watch the video: https://youtu.be/tuCgkYpsz4U The unit shown has two embedded videos and a photo, the text is in gibberish Latin "Lorem Ipsum".

Clilstore has been put to particularly good use in a series of 10 Manx reading classes in the Spring, taught by Chris Lewin with sponsorship by Culture Vannin.  This was piloted in the previous series of 10 classes which Chris taught in 2020, but in this year's series, Clilstore was made a central feature of the classes, with the teacher sending out the link to Clilstore in advance each week, and demonstrating the use of Clilstore and Multidict by screenshare in the online classes.  Previously the students had to rely on texts and soundfiles in possibly awkward formats stored in Dropbox, but Clilstore enables everything to be brought conveniently together, with the added benefit that any word can be quickly looked up in a selection of online dictionaries.

Clilstore is particularly useful to students of Manx who already know Irish or Scottish Gaelic. Irish and Scottish Gaelic are cognate languages to Manx, but Manx is written in a peculiar spelling, based originally on English, which often completely disguises the words to Irish and Scottish speakers.  A quick lookup in the excellent online Manx dictionaries very effectively overcomes this problem.  The series of Manx classes was attended at times by close to 30 students, including many who were themselves celtic language teachers or university lecturers, as well as many from the Isle of Man itself. And they really did make use of the Clilstore units because several of them complained one time when I had accidentally labelled a unit with the wrong language code, which meant that the dictionary lookup did not work!

Go to the Manx page: https://clilstore.eu/cs/8657

Caoimhín Ó Donnaíle
SMO

The teams have curated and developed exemplary units that demonstrate what can be authored with the new Clilstore. 

We need your help to evaluate the new Clilstore features. For teachers, please complete Survey A and share the link to Survey B with your students:

The COOL project members from Spain and Ireland will still present during the EuroCALL annual conference, but this time the presentation will be virtual: 

The MOOC will be open for you from mid- September

 

The Help function is available on the Home page and also on pages such as ‘Create a Unit’. When you open a unit, the Help function appears as an icon: 

When the Help page loads, it will default to the language the interface is in. However, the videos are only currently available in 5 languages: da, en, ga, it, and es. If the user is using another language in Clilstore, e.g., German (de) or French (fr), the help videos will appear in English (en).

Alternatively, there are five options to access the help videos. Just click on the links below to go straight to the help videos in these languages: