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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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Here, at Mozaik we are always dedicated to listening to the teachers’ needs. We are constantly working on building our connections in the German market to provide the best service for the educators. Also, our developer team is happy to receive feedback from teachers themselves because, at the end of the day, they are the ones who make future generations successful and ready for the adventure of life.
Thank you Schelderwald-Schule Oberscheld for the praise and constructive criticism as well. We are constantly learning from our users and we are happy that your first impressions of mozaBook are this positive! Thank you for teaching and learning with us!
If you would like to become one of our partner schools please write an email to sales@mozaweb.com
International teacher webinars - United Kingdom and Germany
The key to our constant improvement is working with teachers and seeing how they use our platform in the classroom and outside of the classroom. Therefore, working with Glenn Carter from the United Kingdom and Lukas Hoeser from Germany were some of our most exciting projects, where, on one hand, we could learn a lot from them about user experience as well as together we could show other teachers the potential of mozaBook and mozaWeb straight from a colleague’s perspective.
In this blogpost we share the story of Glenn and Lukas. If you would like to become a presenter for any of our upcoming teacher webinars, please write to office@mozaweb.com.
Glenn Carter (UK)
The idea of inviting a teacher to hold a webinar has been on our to-do list for long, but when we met Glenn in person and saw his enthusiastic didactic skills that he utilizes in activating a lot of teachers on the History Rocks Facebook page and Youtube Channel, we knew we have to start the program with him. Glenn has been using mozaBook for long and had a huge list of material he could present as an example lesson. Being a history and geography teacher we settled on showing a lesson plan including the achievements of the Ancient Egyptians and countries of Europe.
The event was a huge success and each participant received a 3 month demo-card while 3 lucky teachers received a 1 year code.
Please take a look at the webinar here:
Lukas Hoeser (DE)
Lukas is one of the most talented teachers at our partner school, Mittelpunktgrundschule - Haiger.
He is teaching German language, maths, physical education and environmental knowledge. Lukas had participated in our one week training in Szeged, Hungary where he became an expert user of mozaBook. Throughout the years he used mozaBook in creating spectacular presentations, games and tests as well as he trained many of his colleagues to make Mittelpunktgrundschule - Haiger a great representation of the schools of the present and future, using Mozaik Education’s products.
Introduction by Lukas:
Hi folks! My name is Lukas Hoeser. I'm a 34-year-old primary school teacher from Haiger, Germany. After studying in Gießen from 2007 to 2010 and doing my traineeship from 2011 to 2013 in a small school near Wetzlar I arrived at Mittelpunktgrundschule Haiger. Here I teach German language, Maths, Sports and Sachunterricht (a mixture of natural and social sciences) and I love doing my job. What's greatest about it is to encourage kids to believe in their own abilities and help them grow as personalities. Having fun with my students while learning together in a learner-friendly environment is the most important to me. I'm looking forward to meeting you in the Mozabook-webinar, where I will show you how we put this into practice digitally in our school.
You can check out Lukas’s presentation here (in German):
Would you like to become a presenter? Write an email with a short personal introduction and lesson plan to office@mozaweb.com. We welcome any nationalities and languages! Let’s teach together!
Supporting educators, educational institutions as well as commercial and national organizations in facilitating digital transformation and raising the quality of education has been an integral part of Mozaik Education’s mission, regardless of geographical location. Furthermore, it’s always a pleasure and an honour to be part of any initiative that is determined to recognize excellence in the digital age. So when Eduminds Consulting, one of our official distributor partners from the Arabic region demonstrated the idea of co-sponsoring a competition of young talents, we felt engaged instantly.
The National Competition for Young Entrepreneurship is the largest regional competition in the field of entrepreneurship and innovation dedicated to young people, held annually by Entro Gate since 2019 in cooperation with the Ministry of Education and a number of successful partners in the Arab world. The main aim is to provide students with entrepreneurship and innovation skills and to enhance their sense of social responsibility at the same time. Enabling them to come up with pioneering ideas and teaching them how to plan and turn these ideas into projects that benefit their communities, then incubate, direct and support the winning projects to completion and implementation.
In order to support this fantastic initiative and to incentivise those educators that guide the young talents on their journey from the background, Mozaik Education and Eduminds Consulting offered Mozaik Teacher licenses for all educators of the qualified teams and finalists in the competition. Together with Eduminds we believe that - beyond the incentive - these admirable teachers will make a very good use of their mozaBook and mozaWeb access to create digital exercise books and lesson plans, make their lectures even more engaging for students with interactive worksheets as well as with the use of the extensive Mozaik Media library’s various 3D scenes, animations and interactive teaching and assessment tools.
We can’t wait to see the award-winning projects materialize and hope to see this inspiring initiative continue to let talented youngsters and their impassioned teachers make their dream projects come true.
Winning an award is always amazing, but winning in one and being recognized as a finalist in another category in the same competition feels even better. We are truly honoured to receive some serious recognition from one of the largest and most competitive programs in all of the education technology sector. This year’s EDTECH COOL TOOL AWARDS was organized by the American EdTech Digest online magazine.
This year mozaBook won in the best "presentation solution" and mozaWeb was a finalist in the "blended/remote learning" category!
All of our colleagues and team members who put effort into creating mozaBook and mozaWeb are extremely happy to see that both teachers and our peers love our software solutions, and awards like this give us an incredible amount of motivation to continue the work we started many years ago.
On behalf of Mozaik Education, we congratulate all other finalists and winners! To check out the full list, visit the official website of EdTech Awards.
At Mozaik the new year always comes with a busy schedule for our team as the largest ed-tech fair in the world, the BETT Show traditionally takes place in the last week of January. In 2022, because of the pandemic, the organisers decided that they postpone the exhibition to March. On one hand, we were a bit sad because we always look forward to meeting new people, but on the other hand, we were happy that we could possibly see sunny London in March. But our main reason for travelling to London was to present mozaBook, mozaWeb and our new products Mozaik Teacher and Mozaik Student at our booth and sure we did! BETT 2022 was really a show to remember!
22,600 visitors came together over the 3 days at ExCel London to find out what the future and the present hold for teachers and students around the world and see what are the latest trends in education first-hand. Exhibiting at BETT for the 9th time, it was great to see many familiar faces stopping by our stand and sharing some nice experiences of using mozaBook and mozaWeb. Of course, hosting new visitors and presenting them our digital solutions feels amazing, too, as the pure excitement on the faces is always worth the hard work on and off the exhibition!
Fortunately, our meeting schedule was completely full and we were really busy during the 3 days. Among many other companies, it was a great honour to host groups of ministry delegations at our stand as well.
For the first time, we presented our CadaVR Anatomy atlas as part of our software portfolio and we were super excited about it! We got the chance to meet amazing professors from the UK’s most prominent medical colleges such as the University of Cambridge. We are sure that these meetings were a good start for wonderful cooperation. If you haven't checked it out yet, visit our CadaVR website!
Our team - as in every year - worked hard throughout the 3 days and did a really good job!
The BETT Show in London was just the first step as we are advancing into the new year, but it already set the tone for the rest of the exhibition season.
Stay tuned for the upcoming events where you can meet us and visit our Facebook page for more photos.
London, see you next year!
At Mozaik Education our main goal is to have a comprehensive system that supports all participants of the learning process. mozaBook, therefore, is updated every 6 months just before the start of a new semester.
Today we are excited to introduce you to the new 4.5.8.305 release of mozaBook Classroom application! Beyond huge amount of background development which increases performance and stability, we highlight the most important improvements and changes in the new version for you:
Mozaik Teacher and Student user-based licence activation in mozaBook
Our new user-based licence types Mozaik Teacher and Mozaik Student can be activated directly from mozaBook via a mozaWeb in-application process. After creating a new user on mozaWeb and downloading mozaBook, user-based licence holders can activate their licences in mozaBook.
Tests included in books or exercise books as interactive extras can now be sent as homework assignment
Beyond having the option to choose from tests created by or shared with the user, now already prepared test within exercise books or textbooks can be directly sent as homework to the students. 
Free-hand drawing option on any window
In every open window within mozaBook (eg. a tool, game, 3D scene, browser) users can now freeze the screen and draw freely by clicking on the pencil icon (upper right corner). All drawing tools can be used in the drawing/explanation mode from the pencil case except the geometry tools. By clicking on the pencil icon again, the drawings are deleted and the window continues to function interactively.
Adjustable density of pre-set lines and square grid
Within the page properties (long click on an empty space on the exercise book > Page properties) users can set the density of the lines and square grid of the preinstalled page backgrounds.
Gallery optimisation
- Selected images on a page can be added into a new gallery (G A L L E R Y Tool) by simply clicking on the image gallery option on the drop-down menu.
- Selected images from the media library can also be added to a gallery with right-click > drop-down menu > Image gallery
- Images sent to students through classwork can have free-hand drawing marks included when collected back by the teacher and can be added to an image gallery with student names
Simplification of slide arrangement in ‘pages’ side-window
Users can rearrange the order of pages as well as they can select, copy and move multiple pages of the exercise books with simple drag 'n drop in the ‘Pages’ side-window
Return to the last saved state option
Users actively editing their presentations during the lessons with drawings, added items or texts for example can simply return to the last saved state of the given page in the presentation by clicking on the Quick menu > Last saves state option.
Added filtering options for internet-based search
Internet-based search function enriched with additional filter attributes to find the relevant images and videos more quickly
Other new features/updates:
- PDF can be generated from the exercise book without an external PDF printer installed on the user’s device
- Automatic line-smoothing can be switched off
- It’s now possible to open a browser tab in mozaBook, have it detached from the tab-bar and use the standalone window for easier drag’n drop of items to your exercise book
- Steps and commands defined as part of the animation of items are now also included in the scope of undo-able / redo-able steps
- Shortcut menu added to pencil case recycle bin to delete all non-locked items from the active page
- Full HD and 4K optimization option available in Settings
Make your voice heard!
We are constantly looking for feedback to optimize and make mozaBook better. Write us on your contact sheet and don't forget to use the inbuilt mozaBook feedback feature to directly communicate with our developers.
How to send feedback in mozaBook (error, bugs, improvement suggestions):
Best regards,
mozaBook development