Tools

Description: Take off uses videocoferencing via skype to provide in French speaking Belgium real-time distance education to pupils/students with medical needs while connecting their mainstream school’s class with the hospital or home during therapy and rehabilitation.

Description: Through the use of stories, plays and games, teachers can deliver the information in an easier and simpler way compared to conventional methods. Teachers can use storytelling techniques that will help students to fix information into their minds, or they can formulate plays in which more than one student participates, and play games designed to explain difficult concepts in a simple and easy way..

Description: In a project a tool was developed to change the ineffective attribution style of certain students during or immediately after an oncological therapy into a more effective attribution style, resulting in better learning. The ultimate goal of the project is to support young people in the commitment and motivation to learn during the period of therapy and post-therapy, to facilitate their reintegration into the school, thus avoiding episodes of school retardation.

Description: Facebook is an online social networking service. Since 2006, anyone who is at least 13 years old is allowed to become a registered user of the website, though this age requirement may be higher depending on applicable local laws. Students often use Facebook, MSN, Skype and WhatsApp for social networking. Facebook is often used directly by students to create online groups that simulate the classroom. This can be useful, especially when a classmate is ill to keep them up to date with the current activities, and not only in terms of school work.

Description: Real-time education for pupils/students with medical needs enables them to attend classes in the own mainstream school’s classroom from hospital or home. By doing so, the child’s focus is (at least temporarily) shifted from its medical condition to learning content, school retardation is being combatted, and the social contacts with classmates is maintained.

Description: The Italian Portal for School in the Hospital (PSO, Portale Scuola in Ospedale) is a website provided by the Ministry of Education (MIUR).It provides all the basic information needed for those involved in home and hospital education (HHE) in Italy, from teachers to parents.It is also the laboratory for innovation in didactics and organisation, and the repository for experiences in the field of Hospital schools and home learning in Italy.