Using Thinglink

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.

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.

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.

Some comics:

Neto&Marcel

Andre & Carlos



Ariane & Luiza

Once they finished their work, they shared it in their edmodo group.