Today I came across PicLits and I decided to explore it.

PicLits.com - Create a PicLit via kwout

Here are some ideas:
- Writing: use the drag-n-drop to brainstorm vocabulary; use freestyle so that students can write their texts and share them.
For lower levels, I thought of selecting some words and asking students to order them so that they could have complete sentences

- Speaking: use the drag-n-drop to input vocabulary so that students can describe the pictures.

My first try:

See the full PicLit at PicLits.com

Writing is fun

Writing is one of the hardest skill for my students, so when I came across Writing Fun by Jenny Eather I was amazed, since then I have been using it to help my students to develop this skill. My students claim that following her steps and expressions they can do the tasks much faster.

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Writing Fun by Jenny Eather - helping kids write using text organizers. via kwout

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LIVETYPING

I chose livetyping to develop a warmer activity aiming to reinforce the structures of 2nd and 3rd conditionals.

I had two computers in class and I asked students to complete the stem sentences (I WOULD..../ I WOULD HAVE...), after they had done so I clicked ENLIVEN, grabbed the code and shared their work in our edmodo group.

I got the idea for this activity from www.lifefeast.blogspot.com, where Ana Maria Menezes used the same tool to work with gerunds and infitives.

This video shows how the activity looks in edmodo.

Reading Task

I came across Urtak via Nik`s learning Technology blog and I prepared this task.
I`ve asked my students to read the article below and answer the questions.

http://www.nzs.com/new-zealand-articles/travel/new-zealand-activities.html


New Zealand

Project

I`ve developed this project in order to drill Future perfect tense. You might notice some pronunciation problems which I`ve already dealt with in class. The students who took part in it, liked the idea of having themselves recorded in spite of having some trouble with voicethread.

IMAGES

Using images in class might make teachers`lives easier. In the past we would take a lot of flascards to class in order to have some visual input.
I came across flickriver via Nik`s technology blog.

Flickriver: Searching for photos matching 'weather' via kwout

What I did in class
- I used it to revise "weather" vocabulary, students were asked to describe the pictures

Other options
- The teacher could use the pictures to present vocabulary;
- as a lead-in to reading, listening tasks;
- picture dictation.