Schelderwald-Schule Oberscheld, Germany: Our first-year experience with MozaBook

Partner school report

In our first year of using MozaBook, two of our classrooms were equipped with digital blackboards. Two of our teachers worked with it extensively, while many others were educated on how to use it and were able to try it out for themselves.

Overall, our experience with MozaBook has been very positive. The interface is intuitive, the functions are useful and it enhances teaching with a digital blackboard in many ways.

We especially appreciate and work with the following features:

• The basic blackboard features with different pens, rulers, etc: The basic blackboard is very functional. It allows for dynamic teaching within the classroom. The fading pen is especially appreciated among our colleagues, along with the different writing backgrounds and fonts for primary schools.

• Our favorites are the 3D-models. The selection is large and suited for primary school topics. The functions work well. The children are mesmerized by the models which retain their attention very well. They gained a better understanding of the different topics and were more engaged during the lessons we worked with the 3D-models.

• We appreciate the direct internet pathways that allow for videos and images to be inserted into presentations.

• We are able to use many of the videos provided by MozaBook. Much like the 3D- models, they provide the students with a fuller understanding of the matter while retaining and increasing their interest.

• Since German school book publishers aren’t cooperating with MozaBook as of yet, the option to import PDFs has been especially useful.

In our first year of using the MozaBook software, we have found a few aspects we would like to mention for constructive feedback:

• We are in the process of buying tablets for our classrooms. This will allow us to involve children more in the lesson and have an interactive environment. As we started to work with different test exercise types (matching, gap filling) we realized that we cannot engage the whole class at once without student devices, but they work perfectly as homework assignments and grading, feedback management is also easy to use. Right now we use MozaBook exclusively on the blackboard and when we do one of the exercises in class, just one or two kids can do the exercise. 

• We would appreciate closer cooperation with German school book publishers, which would make our work much easier and expand our possibilities in the classroom. 

Overall, our experience in working with MozaBook has been very positive and we hope to

continue to work together in using and advancing the program. We appreciate the webinars that continue to educate us on the features of the platform as well as the improvements of the Media library and enjoy learning more about them. We also appreciate the access to MozaBook that we received when attending one of the teacher-webinars and are gladly continuing to use MozaBook in our classrooms.

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