Since I came across Thinglink I've tried it with my groups and what I like best is that is so user-friendly. You can prepare an online board quite fast.
The first time I used it was to work with vocabulary. I just selected a picture from google and added some links connected with the target vocabulary, later I shared it in edmodo and facebook.
My second attempt aimed revision and I used a wordcloud to guide my students.
Later, students commented that it was much easier to study following a clear guide.
Wednesday 24 April 2013
Thursday 18 April 2013
Popplet - a tool with possibilities
I came across with Popplet some time ago but I haven't explored it for a while. There are several possibilities for this mind mapping tool and yesterday I tested it with a group of mine.
This group of mine is learning about past modals and I this is what I did with popplet:
- I created some "cards" on popplet;
- Selected the presentation mode;
- Presentation on intecative board;
- Asked students to react to each situation using: must/may/might/can't/should have (past deduction)
My popplet
My impressions:
1- Students participated well;
2- Students asked more time on the cards;
3- Students managed to use the structure;
4- Students also mentioned real examples that had happened to them.
This group of mine is learning about past modals and I this is what I did with popplet:
- I created some "cards" on popplet;
- Selected the presentation mode;
- Presentation on intecative board;
- Asked students to react to each situation using: must/may/might/can't/should have (past deduction)
My popplet
My impressions:
1- Students participated well;
2- Students asked more time on the cards;
3- Students managed to use the structure;
4- Students also mentioned real examples that had happened to them.
Monday 15 April 2013
Project: Dilemma
Last week I invited my Upper 2 group to solve some problems...
This group has been studying conditionals and I felt they needed to use it for real, so I presented several dilemmas in class and each pair chose one. I asked them to create a comic story using the conditionals and solve their dilemma.
They could use toondoo or bitstrips to create their comics, I opened my account on both sites and let them work.
Friday 15 March 2013
Project: Expressing Your Opinion
This term I have a lively group of teenagers, so we will be developing a project with some online tools.
The aim of this project is to give them the oportunity to expand what they learn in class. We will share every single task on our edmodo group, and these tasks will deal with SPEAKING, READING, WRITING and LISTENING.
For the first task I selected linoit, so that the students could work with writing.
Feel free to express yourself as well.
The aim of this project is to give them the oportunity to expand what they learn in class. We will share every single task on our edmodo group, and these tasks will deal with SPEAKING, READING, WRITING and LISTENING.
For the first task I selected linoit, so that the students could work with writing.
Feel free to express yourself as well.
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