interactive ideas

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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Tools for this workshop

Internet Search

Wordle (word clouds)

OUP Kids’ Club

Voicethread (slide shows)

E-mail

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)

E-mail

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)

E-mail

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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