I liked the storyjumper activity from Crazy
for English’s blog. It is a very interesing activity to carry out in
Halloween. It is a different and motivating way of working on reading skill.
I would work on the same way, although I would have recorded
the story with their voices.
In the third cycle, instead of a big group, different
groups of 3-4 students. Each one has to create their own story with different
images.
Hi everyone!
Do you know Genially app? It is an interactive app
in which you can create animated and interactive presentations.
Here you are the link: https://www.genial.ly/es
Among the main advantages are the following:
- -Interactive content.
- -Increase motivation in our students.
- -Increase attention in our class.
- -It is visual.
- - It is easy to use.
- -It has templates on which you can work.
- -Encourage creativity.
By other hand, as disadvantages we have:
- -With the Free plan we cannot download the
content we design.
- -It takes hours of dedication to create a
good product.
Now, I will tell you some
examples for using Genially in class with our students.
I consider that work in
group is the best way to create a good design. They interact with each other
and work collaboratively. So, groups of three students are perfect.
With the use of this app, there are general objectives:
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Increase motivation.
-
Encourage collaborative work.
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Develop digital, linguistic, learn to
learn and social and civic competence.
-
Work creativity.
Taking into account that
we are in Christmas, a good example would be an interactive presentation about traditions and typical food in
British Christmas.
First of all, they have
to search information and then, create the Genially.
Another good example
could be design and invent a game, for
example, “Pasapalabra”, about the vocabulary that we have learned and worked. It
can be a lot of fun for them because it is something real.
Finally, you as teacher
can use this tool for presenting
vocabulary or grammar. This is an example with my 5th grade students when
we were confined.
https://view.genial.ly/5e98a739ab06b70df9731f15/presentation-future-be-going-to
Hello!
Do you consider that working on
speaking skill is boring for students? Pixton is an easy and intuitive tool for
creating comics. It encourages creativity and motivation in our students. It is
an ideal tool for working creativity, digital competence, collaborative work
and writing skill.
Bearing in mind I wrote above, my
main goals would be the following:
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Encourage creativity.
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Develop digital, linguistic and social and civic
competences.
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Promote collaborative work.
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Work writing skill in foreign language.
Now, I will tell you how I would
use it in my class. Taking into account
my groups of students, I will do groups of three of the third cycle of Primary
Education.
Steps:
1. Let’s
invent a short and brief story in comic form (four or five bullets).
2. The
story is about Christmas. First of all, think that you are the protagonists.
3. Later,
invent the script.
4. Once
we have the story created, we start using the tool.
5. Each
group with their laptop begins by creating their avatar.
6. Then,
they have to choose wallpapers, characters and ¡start!
To the end of the session, each
group uses an anonymous rubric to evaluate the work of the rest, about
creativity, presentation, story… Subsequently, the results are discussed
orally.
EXAMPLE
ED
PUZZLE
Hi!
Today I show a new tool for editing videos. It is an
excellent, useful and easy tool to energize long videos or get the attention of
students.
The video I have chosen is about british Christmas
traditions because I have considered that it was excellent to present Christmas
vocabulary in a different way. Initially, the video was quite long, so I have
cutting it according to my interests.
https://edpuzzle.com/media/5fec8972f6d325427095653c
Taking into account that this video is destined to the first
cycle of Primary Education, I will briefly explain some activities to work with
this video:
- -Brainstorm about Christmas vocabulary, to know
what they remember.
- -Oral questions: Do you think that Christmas is
the same all over the world?; Do you decorate your home?; How?...
- -Watch video and answer the questions.
- -Different oral games with the new vocabulary.
In conclusion, the first objective of this video was to
remember and learn Christmas vocabulary and to compare British and Spanish
traditions.
Hello!
I have been using a new tool for making timelines,
TimeToast, and the following link is a timeline of my students: https://www.timetoast.com/timelines/2450489
From my point of view, this tool is simple, easy and
intuitive. It is also motivating for students.
Among the main objectives I highlight the following:
- -To extract information for a text.
- -To know what a timeline is.
- -To represent the extracted information on the timeline.
- -To use a new technological tool.
- -To know the importance and useful of this new
tool.
I consider that TimeToast is a good tool for:
- -Collaborative work.
- -Representing information in a different way.
- -Developing digital competence.
- -Motivating students.
-In conclusion, this tool facilitates the teaching- learning process for the previous reasons.
At first, I consider that there are different reasons to
read. For example, we can read for pleasure, to inform us or by obligation. All
theses cases appear in the photos. Taking this into account, when we read for
pleasure or to inform us, we select the book. However, when we read by
obligation someone choose the book that we have to read and this is the problem.
I think that, when we read for pleasure or to inform us, we
are interested and we enjoy what we are reading. But if they force us to read a
certain book, it is very likely that we don’t like the type of story or book
and we can get tired of reading instead of enjoying it.
Finally, in relation to my reading habits, I will highlight
some aspects:
- - I read the same type of books in both Spanish
and English, usually novels and comedy.
- - I usually read in my e-book, but I also have
many books on paper. I consider that the e-book has many advantages.
- - From my point of view, the perfect time to read is before going to sleep.
In conclusion, reading for pleasure is enjoying reading.
Hi everyone!
Welcome to my little English corner!
My name is Maite and I'm an english teacher.
I love creating materials and resources for my classes. So, I would like to share them with you through this blog.
I hope you like them. You can use them or be inspired through them.
Let's start!
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