Testing, testing, 1, 2

We're so happy to have some of our products ready (or almost ready) that we decided we would show it to some students and get their feedback.

A first test was organised in Germany at the begining of September. They gathered a few students that were already involved in the Hoogatrans Project and told them a little bit about our project.

They were able to show them :
The german videos for the soup recipe
The french videos made for the desert recipe
The glossaries made with Engage explaining some of the terms used in the french videos.



The results of this test is on page 12 of the following presentation :

Präsentation 27092012 scotland from Ecuisine

Another test was conducted at the begining of Octobe. This time it was in France and the Guinea pigs were also students involved in the HoogaTrans project : they had been working in France for two weeks, in some of the most prestigious restaurants in Bayeux (Normandie, France).

We decided to test the Language Module that we will use as an introduction to our course. It is mainly about getting them used to french and helping them to find strategies to guess new words from the context.

The testing lasted for a full hour and students were really excited about the project. They also pointed a lot of points we will be working on in the forthcoming days and weeks. This will be very helpful for all partners.

The experiment and the conclusions are detailed in this document (in French) : https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B5CuuqC9k_8OYVdGOW5pWjV6R2s

The mystery of the little russian - Explained

Do you know what a french cook means when you tell him that you need "a little russian" ?

In French, "La petite russe" is the name cooks use to talk about your normal everyday pan...

Our french teachers team just uploaded pictures they made of all the ustensils they use in their kitchen ! This is gonna be super useful for our project ! Thanks !

Une petite russe

(Very) Dynamic vocabulary building with Quizlet

Since a lot of the linguistic aspect of the course will be around memorizing vocabulary, I thought we need some

In Ecuisine, the main aspect of the language course will be around learning vocabulary. There are some really good tools on the Internet to automatizes vocabulary learning (this is something machines are really good at !).

Quizlet is my favourite of these tools. It's an easy to use tool based on the concept of flash cards. You just enter a list of words and their translation or definition and it automatically generates flash cards. See for yourself :

Choisissez un mode d'apprentissageDispersionApprendreFiches

Étudier ces fiches | Étudier les fiches french

Quick Seminar Debrief

Last week was our second seminar, an important step for all the partners : an opportunity to get together and find out the practical details about our collaboration the final outcome of the project.

The Scottish partner, Anniesland College, and the German partner, Technologie- und Gründerzentrum Ostprignitz-Ruppin GmbH [DE], came to France in Caen for 2 days. Unfortunately, the polish partners from 36°6CC couldn't come but Mosqi.to, the sub-contractor in charge of the design, brought a Polish touch to this meeting.


Many things were agreed on at this meeting :