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.
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Encourage collaborative work.
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Develop digital, linguistic, learn to
learn and social and civic competence.
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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
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