Language Help inside the courses

There are 2 main aspects to the Ecuisine project :

1. Teaching the basics in cooking 
2. Teaching the basics in language to prepare students for a work placement abroad

To achieve that, each course contains 2 layers :

1. the cooking course
2. a language help

This language help comes in the form of :

• a glossary of the terms that are used in the cooking course (we, French, decided to call it "Dico")
• and a quiz to help students get familiar with and memorize this vocabulary.

We're currently working hard on these glossaries for our test course. Here's what it will probably look like.

Screen capture of the glossary in the language help module

On the left side is the list of the words to learn.

On the right is a nice, yummy and zoomable picture to illustrate the meaning and reinforce memorization. As one of my mentor puts it "Something to which you can hang the word to."

On the center is the "definition" of the word.

For now it only has the English translation but it will soon feature the German and Polish translations.

We also added a couple of exemples with their translations.

Our Scottish partner Anniesland College will proof read the English parts and the other partners will translate in German and Polish.

You can't quite here it from where you are but we will also reccords the entries (fleurer, fondu, pâte,...) so that students learn to recognize the word and get familiar with the sounds of French and their graphical representation.

All this was made using Articulate Engage, quite a bit of electricity and our brains.

This is such an exciting adventure !

... though I'm afraid I've gained a few extra pounds since I started working on this project ^_^

Learning x (cooking + languages) = Ecuisine

The originality in the Ecuisine lies in the fact that it is not only an online cooking course but that each of the cooking course produced by its 4 partners will offer the trainees from the other partners the opportunity to follow their cooking course thanks to 2 language modules.

The aims are twofold :

1. Create a new distance learning offer in basic cuisine tranferring French approach, available to more partners as support for trainers and apprentices within the partnership and create new tools fully adapted  to non-native speakers preparing work experience abroad
2. Enable trainees to apprehend both basic professional languages, strongly connected to the activities, and the cultural and occupational differences to prepare work experience abroad.

Transfers and mobility

 In this article you will discover how came the idea of the project : a common goal to encourage mobility and improve employability within students and to work together on a european scale to transfer expertise in creating e-learning tools.

How it all started ?

The "E-Cuisine" project in its European form was born through the need to prepare German beneficiaries for work experience periods in France.

This began as early as 2007 when e-learning tools were presented to German trainers and experts in different seminars in preparation for a mobility scheme in the framework of an Equal initiative for German kitchen apprentices.

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