interactive ideas
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Ideas for enhancing language classes with technology, even if teachers don't have computers or internet available at school.TRANSCRIPT
Interactive ideas for keeping your English classes relevantin the 21st Century
The starting point:
Technology should enhance lessons
Everything has a learning curve
Free is good
What tools do you already have?
Even if your internet connection looks like this, you can do these projects in class!
How can you use the internet to enhance teaching?
• Find materials and lesson ideas
• Create projects
• Extend English contact time
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Send me questions
Tools for this workshop
Internet Search
Wordle (word clouds)
OUP Kids’ Club
Voicethread (slide shows)
Glogster (posters)
Topic: New Zealand & seasons
Cultural tip: Nelson, New Zealand
Internet search activity
Science connection:
Seasons & hemispheres
A Google search for “Nelson, New Zealand”
No internet in class?
Do the search at home and print out results for some great
skimming and scanning
practice in class
What could your students say in English about this page, even if they can’t read all the words?
How could you use this in class?
How does it change if we add in all the little words?
More frequent words are larger.
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What kind of activity could you do with a black and white version?
Tools for this workshop
Internet Search
Wordle (word clouds)
OUP Kids’ Club
Voicethread (slide shows)
Glogster (posters)
Download free activities from OUP Kids’ Club Let’s Go page:
http://www.oup-letsgo.jp/
What else can you do with the activity pages?
Transportation Uno
Students created their own book, using the story as a model.
How can you create a digital book in a class that doesn’t have internet?
Do the online preparation at home.
Select photos from a free photo site.(Don’t use copyrighted materials.)
Caption the pictures
Discuss the story
Order the pictures
Add the students’ captions to the photos
Select the photos to upload to Voicethread.
That’s it!
Can you think of other ways to use Voicethread?
Tools for this workshop
Internet Search
Wordle (word clouds)
OUP Kids’ Club
Voicethread (slide shows)
Glogster (posters)
The basic lesson. How can you expand and build on the language?
Never pass up a free activity that gives your students extra practice
with the lesson language!
Power Point shapes and OUP Kids’ Club activity art make it easy to make games
Extend class contact time with email
discussions (cell phones work, too!)
Teacher adds photos.
Student adds text.
No internet in class?
Print the page and have
students write on the poster.
Teacher then adds text to
poster at home.
Create a poster to practice
writing in another format.
Publishing online means a chance for students to
get real feedback from other
students around the world.
Take a class poll about favorite animals. Enter the results in Wordle.
How could you use this graphic in class?
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Because the project is online (instead of only in my classroom) it becomes a collaborate effort. Students and teachers around the world can add comments!
Credits
Great lessons to build from by Let’s Go Third Edition (OUP)
Web-based expansion activities by Let’s Go Teacher’s Books
Activities to reinforce language by OUP Kids’ Clubhttp://www.oup-letsgo.jp/
Word graphics by Wordlehttp://wordle.net
Posters by Glogsterhttp://glogster.com
Student Alphabet Book by Voicethreadhttp://voicethread.com
Teacher resource gathering by Twitterhttp://twitter.com
Visit http://teachingvillage.wikispaces.com for live links and more resources!
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