WEBINAR recording (teachers in Chicago)

These are the recordings of the Webinar I presented to teachers in Chicago. I used screencast-o-matic to split the recording into 3 parts.

PART 1 - Developing the 4 Skills 



PART 2 - The 10 Tasks Challenge




To see the examples I mentioned throghout the talk, click on the LIVEBINDER below:
http://livebinders.com/play/play/181930

This is "The 10 tasks Challenge" WIKI where you can find explanations, examples, links and tutorials.

Next Presentation: EdmodoCon11 - The 10 tasks Challenge

Dear Lifefeast readers,

I'm very glad to invite all of you to attend the first EDMODO virtual conference (EdmodoCon11)  where Educators from different corners of the world will share how they have been using Edmodo with students.

My presentation will be about using webtools to assign homework. I'll be presenting a project I developed last semester with my students where apart from assigning the traditional homework, that is, workbook exercises and writings, students had to carry out 10 tasks using different webtools.

EdmodoCon 11
10 August (Wednesday)
Sessions start at 10:30 AM Eastern Time (11:30 in Brazil)and go on until 8:30 PM ET (9:30 in Brazil)

MY SESSION WILL BE AT 5:00 PM ET ( 6:00 PM in Brazil)

EdmodoCon 2011 Presentation Schedule via kwout

Hope to see many of you there.

You can  regitster for EdmodoCon11  HERE.
Click HERE to attend the sessions.

Task Challenge #9 - Using VOKI to make comparisons

Close to the end of the semester, the aim of a lesson was MAKING COMPARISONS.

Ex: way bigger / a great deal bigger / not any bigger / considerably bigger / no bigger , etc.


I decided to ask my students to use the new language learned to compare two items of their choice: two people, two places, two sports ...

These are some of their avatars and their recordings:

More recordings can be found at the SCHOOL WIKI

Task Challenge #8 - Expressing opinions with LIVETYPING

To present challenge #8, I elicited language students could use to write a comment expressing their opinion. 

At home, students were asked to use LIVETYPING to write their opinions about the statement "Some people spend fortunes on their pets". 

These are some of their writings:

LiveTyping.com


LiveTyping.com


LiveTyping.com

Task Challenge #7 - Dialogue with Phrasal verbs

We're close to the end of our semester and about to finish our Tasks Challenge. During this semester, I've proposed different challenges to students asking them to create animations, comic strips, audio recordings using content recently covered in class.

CHECK OUT CHALLENGE #7

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This is the example I showed them


GoAnimate.com: Challenge 7 by anamariacult

Like it? Create your own at GoAnimate.com. It's free and fun!

Here are some of their animations, CAN YOU IDENTIFY WHAT PHRASAL VERBS THEY USED?:

GoAnimate.com: excuses by Júlia

Like it? Create your own at GoAnimate.com. It's free and fun!
GoAnimate.com: Challenge #7 by juliana-pst

Like it? Create your own at GoAnimate.com. It's free and fun!

More animations can be found at the SCHOOL WIKI.

Task Challenge #5 - Picture Description with FOTOBABBLE

Picture Description is a skill our students need to develop for the Oral tests at our school and for the Cambridge exams.

Challenge #5 asked students to choose an image and record a description for it. This way students have plenty of examples of what is required of them.

These are some of the descriptions created by them at home.

All their FOTOBABBLES have been published in the SCHOOL WIKI and shared with parents.

Task Challenge # 3 - Students record themselves

This is the 3rd challenge proposed to my students this semester:

MY EXAMPLE:

Example "A happy day" recorded by anamariacult

The recordings made by students are being published HERE.

Check the post THE 10 TASKS CHALLENGE

The 10 tasks CHALLENGE

With the beginning of our semester, we've already started developing little projects with our students. I've got 4 groups of Upper Intermediate students ("I'm the queen of Upper As!) and this semester I plan to propose 10 challenging tasks for them to develop at home apart from doing their traditional workbook exercises.

The tasks aim to help students practise LISTENING, WRITING and SPEAKING. Students will also get the chance to learn how to use different webtools to create content, a skill I believe all our students need nowadays.

As a plus, students will get  to watch tutorials , in English, to learn how to use the tools.

This is what I have in mind:

•  All tasks involve uisng language learned during that week.
• The platform used for sharing is EDMODO and a school blog.

These are the webtools we're going to use:

• VOKI
• WriteComics
• Audioboo
• Fotobabble
• Stixy
• Typewithme
• LiveTyping
• Fodey
• BitStrips