Category: Resources

Free access to e-learning portal for Greek

3/7/2020

E.DIA.M.ME., the Centre of Intercultural and Migration Studies (Department of Primary Education, University of Crete, Greece) is offering free access to its e-learning portal for Greek (“Πύλη Ηλεκτρονικής Μάθησης”) where a large number of interactive activities organised in levels of difficulty can be found. Educators can login to the portal as visitors or create an account for full access to the interactive materials.

Photo source: http://elearning.edc.uoc.gr

New digital application for learning Modern Greek

26/6/2020

The Centre for the Greek Language (Thessaloniki, Greece) has developed a new free digital application for learning Modern Greek called KLIK App.

KLIK App is supplementary to the textbook series for Modern Greek “ΚΛΙΚ στα Ελληνικά” and includes 2000 interactive tasks and exercises.

For more information, including terms of use, please visit the Centre for the Greek Language website.

Stage 6 Continuers speaking practice

2/6/2020

In order to support you and your students in the preparation for the HSC oral examination, we have added sample speaking questions for Modern Continuers to our website.

Comprehensive guide to online educational resources

1/6/2020

Please find attached a publication titled
“Web 2.0 100 + 1 Online Tools for Education”.

The publication constitutes a comprehensive guide to more than 100 online educational tools. It offers detailed suggestions for the use of each tool in class or as part of learners’ homework or independent learning. It further provides a list of questions that can be used by the educator both as a way of assessing learners’ understanding of the learning area as well as a way of assessing their learning experience through the use of each online educational tool.

The publication is written in Greek and the sites included are hyperlinked.

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COVID-19 resource book for young learners

24/5/2020

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Please find below two links for the electronic version of a book regarding COVID-19 addressed to young children.

The author of the book, Manuela Molina, describes her book as an invitation to families and educators to discuss the full range of emotions arising from the recent circumstances after the outbreak of the COVID-19. It is pointed out that the resource does not seek to be a source of scientific information, but rather a tool based on fantasy. The recommendation is to print the material, so that young children can draw on it.

You can access the Greek version of the book here.
For versions of the same book in a variety of languages, please visit the link here.

Language learning resources in Greek

17/5/2020

Please find below a list of resources and online tools that can further assist the online teaching of Greek:

1. Through Photodentro (user generated content), the repository of educational resources of the Ministry of Education and Religious Affairs, Greece, you can access e-me for all, an edition of the official version of e-me, where everyone can register. "e-me for all" is a digital educational platform for primary and secondary education that can be used by students, teachers, researchers and educators who do not have access to a Greek School Network account. Access to the platform is given through user registration.

2. The Cyprus Pedagogical Institute (Cyprus Ministry of Education, Culture, Sport and Youth) has made available pdf versions of materials for teaching Greek as a second language. The materials cover topics such as greetings, around the school, family, food, fruit, vegetables, body parts, clothing, weather, animals, house, professions, neighbourhood, means of transport, holidays. The materials can be accessed through the link here, where you can find pdf files of two books, a guide for teaching the materials, flashcards as well as additional worksheets.

3. All the materials for teaching Greek as a second language developed by the Centre of Intercultural and Migrations Studies (Department of Primary Education, University of Crete, Greece) are still available for free access in the link here.

4. The following educational portal offers online games and activities for the teaching of sounds to Early Stage 1 and Stage 1 students: link 1, link 2.

5. StoryWeaver is a platform that provides young students with reading resources in different languages. Under Read and then Languages, Greek can be chosen and you can access a number of illustrated, open-licensed children's stories in Greek. The digital platform can be used not only to read a story, but also to create, adapt and translate new stories.

Happy Mother's Day 2020!

10/5/2020

Nurse Reading to a Little Girl,
1895, Mary Cassatt
Source: https://www.metmuseum.org

Happy Mother's Day to our colleagues, the women teachers who teach and care for other women's children at schools!

Resources in Greek for Mother's Day tasks for Early Stage and Stage 1 students can be found here and here.

Older students can engage with the plethora of themes relating to a mother's life that emerge from the following excerpt of a poem by Greek writer and poet, Nikiforos Vrettakos (1912-1991).

Excerpt from:
Όλα Είναι Μοναξιά στο Καλέντζι
Νικηφόρος Βρεττάκος

Δίχως θέα στο μέλλον,
περπατούσες στα νύχια, γονάτιζες,
αφουγκραζόσουν τον ύπνο μας τα μεσάνυχτα,
μάς έλουζες και μάς χτένιζες,
μάς φορούσες καθαρά ρούχα την Κυριακή,
μάς συνόδευες κάτου στην πόρτα
και μάς κοίταζες άφωνη, ώσπου
μάς έπαιρνε ο ήλιος.

Όλα ήταν για μας.
Για σένα δεν είχε τίποτα ο κόσμος.
Για μας τα λουλούδια κι η θάλασσα,
τα τραγούδια και η Λαμπρή.
Χωρίς δαχτυλίδι στο χέρι,
περιχαρακωμένη στη μοίρα σου,
ψήλωνες μέσα στη μοναξιά σου,
μας μάλωνες με την πίκρα σου.

Κι ενώ τρέχαμε μείς
πιασμένοι απ' τα χέρια
ν' αγκαλιάσουμε τον ορίζοντα, εσύ
έψαχνες για παράθυρα,
σ' ένα σπίτι παράξενο και πικρό, που δεν είχε τίποτε άλλο εκτός
από μια πόρτα να φύγεις.

Μα τα πλοία δεν σε παίρνανε
γιατί είχες τον άνεμο και τη θάλασσα μέσα σου
γιατί είχες μιάν έρημο μέσα σου, δίχως
πουλί και τραγούδι.

Source: Νικηφόρος Βρεττάκος, Όλα Είναι Μοναξιά στο Καλέντζι, Η εκλογή μου: Ποιήματα 1933-1991, Ποταμός, 2008.

46th Anniversary of the Athens Polytechnic Uprising – educational resources

14/11/2019

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As the 46th Anniversary of the Athens Polytechnic Uprising (14-17 November 1973) will be commemorated in Greece this coming Sunday 17 November, Greek language teachers may engage students in conversation about the November 1973 university student demonstration against the military dictatorship imposed in Greece on 21 April 1967.

Year 5 and 6 students can benefit from the illustrated material here, which provides a photographic rendering of the events during 14-17 November 1973.

Younger students can listen to the eBook “Τα αδέσποτα” by Greek author, Sophia Zarabouka.

Additional educational resources for all years can be found here.

Greek national celebration – 28 October 1940

27/10/2019

Photo source: http://www.mathima.gr

Every 28 October, Greeks all over the world celebrate 'OXI Day', the 'no' to fascism voiced on 28 October 1940. The national celebration commemorates Greece's heroic stance during WWII, which is believed to have changed the course of the war and the course of modern history, and to have become a lesson of the universal values of freedom, justice and equality.

Below can be found various educational resources:
Greek national anthem
Ζωγραφική για την 28η Οκτωβρίου
Παιδικά ποιήματα για την 28η Οκτωβρίου

A request for all teachers of Greek to join our resource sharing group in 2014

12/12/2013

Αγαπητοί συνάδελφοι,

Mία ακόμα σχολική χρονιά πλησιάζει προς το τέλος της.
Η έγκαιρη προετοιμασία και η σωστή επιλογή υλικού γνωρίζουμε όλοι ότι αποτελούν παράγοντες για την επιτυχία στον τομέα μας κάθε σχολική χρονιά.

Μέσα από την επικοινωνία μαζί σας διαπίστωσα ότι η θέληση για θετικά αποτελέσματα και το μεράκι δεν μας λείπουν. Όμως η επιλογή κατάλληλου εκπαιδευτικού υλικού είναι ένα ζητούμενο.

Γι΄ αυτό ας οργανωθούμε. Με την συμπαράσταση του Γενικού Προξένου της Ελλάδας στο Σύδνεϋ κου Σταύρου Κυρίμη μπορούμε να εκτυπώσουμε υλικό σε τιμές ασυναγώνιστες όταν η παραγγελία μας γίνει από κοινού. Δημιουργούμε ήδη ομάδα αξιολόγησης και επιλογής του υλικού για την επόμενη σχολική χρονιά και σας ζητάμε να πάρετε μέρος σε αυτή τη διαδικασία.

Θερμή παράκληση:
1) καταγράψτε και στείλτε μας άμεσα τις ανάγκες που έχετε σε ποσότητα βιβλίων ή άλλου υλικού σε έντυπη μορφή για τη διδασκαλία της ελληνικής γλώσσας.

2) Δηλώστε συμμετοχή για την στελέχωση της ομάδας επιλογής του υλικού (έντυπου ή ηλεκτρονικού).

Εγκάρδιες ευχές για καλή ξεκούραση και ευχαριστίες για την μέχρι τώρα συνεργασία μας!

Με εκτίμηση
Ελένη Παπαγιαννοπούλου
Eleni.Papagiannopoulou2@det.nsw.edu.au or at hellenicedu.sydney@yahoo.com.au