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Escape Room

The Escape room concept was prepared and piloted during a Summer school Bari (Italy). The concept reflected current needs of teachers and learners.

1. Each participant needed own device/mobile phones and access to the internet.

2. The participants were divided into 4 groups so that they can work at 4 points (places) - there was no order of visited points. Each point was identified by a QR. The participants could start with any task, they could play together or everybody could fulfil the tasks independently. During the piloting stage we monitored a close cooperation in teams, the participants developed skills and naturally discussed topics given in the game (soft/hard skills, competences for future, self-evaluation etc.).

3. It was very important to start with reading instructions.

4. The teams collect 4 words at 4 points

5. The four collected words formed a password to Padlet.

Intellectual Output 1: Design of an interdisciplinary further training VET 4.0: Examples and methods for successful teaching and training 4.0 - Escape Room

Description of escape room concept

Visitors of this webside can try to “solve” tasks hidden in 4 digital escape rooms the same as participants in Bari did. QR codes bellow.

The final step Padlet is not prepared, you can do it with the help of description bellow.

This concept can be used also in a classroom at ordinary computers.

Each team visited each point.

Tool / Method	Content	How to use it	Link
Genially	is a tool to prepare – presentations, videos, gamification. We tried gamification, a useful tool for warm up activities, evaluation, testing and fun	The best ways is start with a tutorial, tutorial is in each language. This is in English. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxeJow3ujag Document	https://genial.ly/
Google Slides	You can create an environment for a virtual escape room.	Video tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_gfVADQusY Document	The tool is a part of Google tools
Flippity	It is a free application and offers many Excel-based templates.	Video tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIpPe8N4teg Document	https://www.flippity.net/
Learnings apps	It is a free Web application, which contains lots of small interactive modules.	This application is very easily to use, it contains its own tutorial on the first page: https://learningapps.org/ There are created modules for 32 teaching categories (languages, biology art…). It is possible very easily modify each module according to your needs. Registration is required.	https://learningapps.org/
Padlet	It is a free online virtual board.	Padlet is a handy application for the last part of escape games. If you use the password option when creating a bulletin board, this password can be the searched password for the whole escape game.	https://padlet.com/