Well, this afternoon I took my iPad to class as I wanted to record students reading their own sentences to a voice thread created by a colleague (AureaStela). Stela had the brilliant idea to create a wordcloud with verbs which take GERUND and INFINITIVE and then asked her students to record sentences using the given verbs.
This is what I proposed to my students today:
1. First, I opened her voice thread on the IWB and played the recordings for them.
2. Then, I assigned a different verb to each student and asked them to make a sentence using Gerund or Infinitive. I monitored helping them out with their sentences.
3. I gave them a hand-out with a grammar exercise on the same topic and asked students to complete the exercise in class. Meanwhile, I would use my iPad to move round the class to record each student reading their own sentences ( I used the voicethread app for recording) . To make it faster, all students used my voice thread account.
4. After I had saved all recordings, I played their recordings on the IWB for everyone to listen to.
Impressions? I would definitely do this again. Students were involved and seemed to have enjoyed listening to all the sentences in class.
Dear Ana Maria,
ReplyDeleteI came home from school this afternoon very proud of my students' work on a Voicethread I'd created for them and found your post about Voicethread with your students. It looks like we thought about the same tool at the same time:)
I found your use of Voicethread very interesting. I am sure your students enjoyed the lesson and learned a lot. Thank you for sharing your idea.
Regards,
Sanja
Dear Sanja,
ReplyDeleteThanks for the comment. Voicethread is truly an amazing tool, it's a pity you have a limit of presentations if you have a free account. The activity was very simple but really engaging.