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Orthography Training with IDeRBlog
an Open Educational Resources Practice
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IDeRBlog - Individually differentiated spelling
with blogs
• Erasmus+ Project
(VG-SPS-SL-14-001616-3)
• Partners in
• Belgium
• Germany
• Austria
• Combine development of writing skills and
the acquisition of orthographic competences
• Primarily for children, age 8 to 12
IDeRBlog - Individuell Differenziert Rechtschreiben mit Blogs (de)
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Ideas and main points
• User friendly web-based platform
• Writing a text and get automatic feedback for
autonomous correction
• German orthography is known to be difficult to master.
• Help pupils who struggle with the acquisition of German
orthography
• Help them improve writing and spelling
• Provide qualitative analysis of orthographic
problems for teachers
• Provide OER exercises for training
Ideas and main points
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Interface
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Write
(student‘s area)
Exercises
(training DB)
Reading
(Blogs)
Area for teachers and parents
(general information and additional material)
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Student‘s area
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Start writing
Continue text,
Show feedback
Exercise
recommendationsAccess Blog
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Student: example
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Different feedback strategies:
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„Fresch“ System
Standard Feedback
„Say the words out clearly.
If you hear a long vowel
then you write just one
consonant”
„swing the word“
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First outcomes
• 60 essays,
• 3rd grade,
• 405 sentences
First outcomes
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Free Orthography courses
• Individual
recommendation
• Short overview with
examples
• Audio-Guide available
OER Material
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OER Material
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• Contains online
and offline
exercises
• Preselection and
recommendations
are made by the
system
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OER Materials - Structure
• Currently around
500 exercises
• 300 online
• 200 worksheets
• Easy to find the right
exercises
• Congruently ordered
in categories of
spelling mistakes
OER Material
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Goals
• make in-depth analysis of occurred misspellings
• better understanding of the process of spelling
acquisition
• predict the performance of students
• make recommendations for personalized OER
exercises
• offer reflections about
• recommended OER exercises
• changing performance (spelling acquisition)
Researchers
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Educational Technology
• Information available at:
• https://elearningblog.tugraz.at
• For further information about the project and partners
please visit:
• http://iderblog.eu
• https://elearning.tugraz.at
• https://www.tugraz.at/en/
oe/lehr-und-lerntechnologien/home/
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Acknowledgements
This research project is supported by the European Commission Erasmus+
program in the framework of the project IDERBLOG (VG-SPS-SL-14-001616-3).
For more information about the project IDERBLOG and its project partners:
Hugo Adolph1, Christian Aspalter2, Susanne Biermeier3, Mike Cormann4, Sandra
Ernst4, Markus Ebner6, Martin Ebner6, Sonja Gabriel5, Gabriele Goor4, Michael
Gros1, Anneliese Huppertz4, Kathrin Irmag4, Konstanze Edtstadler6, Philipp
Leitner7, Susanne Martich2, Nina Steinhauer1, Behnam Taraghi7 and Marianne
Ullmann5, please visit our homepage http://iderblog.eu/ (German language only).
1. LPM Saarland, Saarbrücken, Germany
2. University College of Teacher Education Vienna, IBS/DiZeTIK, Vienna, Austria - Europe
3. Albert-Weisgerber School St. Ingbert, St. Ingbert, Germany
4. School of Raeren, Raeren, Belgium - Europe
5. University College of Teacher Education Vienna/Krems, 1210 Vienna, Austria - Europe
6. University College of Teacher Education Styria, Institute of Professionalization in Early Childhood and Primary Teacher
Education, Graz, Austria
7. Graz University of Technology, Department Educational Technology, Graz, Austria – Europe
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(VG-SPS-SL-14-001616-3)
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References
1. Ebner, M., Edtstadler, K., & Ebner, M. (2017, July). Learning Analytics and Spelling
Acquisition in German–Proof of Concept. In International Conference on Learning and
Collaboration Technologies (pp. 257-268). Springer, Cham.
2. Edtstadler, K., Ebner, M., Ebner, M.: Improved German Spelling Acquisition through
Learning Analytics. In: eLearning papers 45, pp. 17-28 (2015).
3. Ebner, M., Edtstadler, K., & Ebner, M. (2017). Tutoring writing spelling skills within a
web-based platform for children. Universal Access in the Information Society, 1-19.
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