They can generate their own newspaper article and personalise the name of the newspaper, the date, the title and the article. Great writing exercise if you are working on past verb tenses. The articles can be printed and put up around the classroom.
Monday, March 7, 2011
FODEY
Get your students WRITING using www.fodey.com
They can generate their own newspaper article and personalise the name of the newspaper, the date, the title and the article. Great writing exercise if you are working on past verb tenses. The articles can be printed and put up around the classroom.
They can generate their own newspaper article and personalise the name of the newspaper, the date, the title and the article. Great writing exercise if you are working on past verb tenses. The articles can be printed and put up around the classroom.
PHOTOPEACH
Photopeach (www.photopeach.com) is a presentation tool which teens seem to love. They can make a slideshow using their own photos and adding their favourite music. It's a motivating tool for them to use and at the same time it gets them writing in English. Below is an example.
My life on PhotoPeach
My life on PhotoPeach
WALLWISHER
WALLWISHER is an online NOTICE BOARD maker. You can get your students to make announcements, introduce themselves, leave clues, write post-its, etc... It's easy to use and it's COLLABORATIVE!
WETPAINT WIKIS and SCREEN JELLY
Screen Jelly is a great tool (www.screenjelly.com) for recording what's happening on your screen.
It records your screen activity with your voice and let's you share it via twitter, email, facebook or by embedding it on your site. I find it's often difficult to help fellow teachers or friends with managing a new tool without actually sitting down with them at the computer so this makes it really easy. I've made a quick demonstration on how to set up a wiki using wetpaint. The address has since changed so take note that the new site is www.createwetpaint.com
It records your screen activity with your voice and let's you share it via twitter, email, facebook or by embedding it on your site. I find it's often difficult to help fellow teachers or friends with managing a new tool without actually sitting down with them at the computer so this makes it really easy. I've made a quick demonstration on how to set up a wiki using wetpaint. The address has since changed so take note that the new site is www.createwetpaint.com
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
QUOTES
"If we teach today's students as we did yesterday's, we are robbing them of tomorrow" - John Dewey
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
USING VIDEO IN THE CLASSROOM
Students love being the protagonists of their own film clips. In this class, students were paired up to create dialogues demonstrating various verb tenses. In this example, they are using the future tense with 'will' to make predictions.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1izrensSUY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1izrensSUY
Monday, February 7, 2011
CLASS WIKIS
I have been using wikis with my classes for a few years now. What I love about them is that they are so easy to set up and all my students can easily join. I usually put a lot of class resources on the wiki and set it out term by term. I find it easy to set up all my grammar links for the year too, so students can practise what they are learning in class at their own pace. Of course, I also add a lot of links for students to improve their English whilst having 'fun'. (songs with lyrics, word games, comics, etc...) As a class, we have also been in contact with another school in America and the students were able to share their information about themselves and their lives. Basically, I use the wiki to put all of the work and information from any given class into one place and it makes it very easy for me, the teacher!
EXAMPLE OF MY CLASS WIKI
EXAMPLE OF MY CLASS WIKI
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