using spaced-repetition with esl classes, part 3
DESCRIPTION
Creating leaderboards with Memrise to keep up motivation: part 3 of a series of presentations about my project to trial using spaced-repetition software with my ESL classes to increase their retention of new vocabulary. For more information see my blog: http://steveneslwilliams.wordpress.com/2014/06/21/using-memrise-with-esl-classes/TRANSCRIPT
Keeping up Motivation
Ensuring your class doesn’t give up on using Memrise: creating leaderboards
and making it competitive
“Memrise seems great but…will they use it??”
- Everyone
CREATE A LEADERBOARD FOR YOUR CLASS
A good way to keep up motivation is to…
Log-in to Memrise
Give your students the URL of your Memrise account
Go to this URL and click ‘Follow’
Get them to follow you - this will let you see their progress
Click here
Then get them to follow each other!
Click on ‘Followers’ to see the other people who are following me (it should just be your classmates). Click on their profiles and follow them!
Competition
Who will have the most points by next Tuesday’s lesson??
DOES THIS WORK?
See for yourselves…
Week 2
…Not everyone has successfully followed me yet...
Week 3 (after Easter)
Only one hasn’t managed to follow me!
Week 4
…I forgot to take a screenshot
Week 5
I’ve caught them all!
“But this is with a (halfway) motivated class!!”
- Everyone
How about this class…
They’re like… and I’m like…
Week 1
They’ve all registered…
Let’s see how it goes from here…
My accounts!! Not relevant…
Week 2
Week 4 (after setting individual targets)
You could give out prizes!
Battle Royale
If you create your own course, the account you used will show a leaderboard of all the people studying it.
You could pit different classes against each other!