Showing posts with label ICT. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ICT. Show all posts
February 23, 2015
January 21, 2014
Van Gogh's teaching unit
This teaching unit is about the painter Van Gogh. It is aimed at 12 year old kids and it deals with Art and ICT contents.
On the Scribd file below you have the teaching unit with the goals, contents, activities and assessment. You are welcome to use it in your lessons.
August 30, 2012
May 30, 2012
Andy Warhol
I’ve designed, with the help of the language assistant, a lesson plan about the artist Andy Warhol. It is aimed at 11/12 year olds and as the title suggests, it deals with Art contents.
Below you have the teaching unit sketch in Galician but you also have the digital activity in English with all the information you need to put it into practice. It shouldn’t be a problem if you don’t understand the document in the Galician language.
I hope you like it and you use it in your Art lessons.
I hope you like it and you use it in your Art lessons.
Andy Warhol
March 22, 2012
Book reports
My older
students are required to read one book in English per school term and I find
that checking this task is quite a difficult job for the teacher, up to now I
asked them to talk about their books during a break but I realized that it was
better to make them write a report because they will take the task more
seriously.
Within the School
2.0 framework I have decided to design a book report using forms in Google Docs,
the students can access to the form in the Moodle courses and fill it with the
information required. The form application in Google Docs is very useful since
it helps to keep a record of their works and the books read by each of them and
it even allows you prepare some graphs for the educational end-of-course report.
Apart from
the compulsory reading, they can voluntarily read more books what will be taken
into account to assess them. It is also interesting to have a reading log
poster to display in the classroom for all to see.
Below you
can take a look at the reading report I’ve designed and you have a link where
you can find different report models and reading logs or records.
February 1, 2012
Mind Maps
Free Mind is an open source program that allows you to make mind maps. I’ve recently discovered the program and, once I did, I realized the useful it can be for students and for teachers and I decided to implement it in my lessons.
Our school is immersed in an ICT project (Escuela 2.0, also called Abalar in Galicia) by which the educational government provides the students with personal netbooks, those netbooks work with a Linux-based operative system and open source software. FreeMind is one of the programs that comes in the computer image we are working with.
How do I use FreeMind in the classroom? The most common purpose is as 'a teacher tool' to explain a lesson, especially Science lessons, below I let you one map I prepared to talk about classifying animals in the second and third grades of Primary Education.
Taking into account this, another purpose comes by inversing the process, making students prepare their own mind maps to summarize a lesson and learn it better, but that would just be appropriate for higher levels and subjects such as science or history.
As I haven’t yet started to teach Science in English to the higher level students, I decided to ask them to make a mind map at the end of each of the ESL units. At the beginning, I had to spend some time teaching them how FreeMind works but now they find it very easy and they don’t need the teacher help. It might be good to give them a model to start.
Free time (Unit 1, model, saved as Flash object)
When students have their maps finished and corrected, they can export them to JPEG files or FLASH files and print them to study and review at home.
Examples of my students’ maps:
The Animal Kingdom (Unit 2, 5th Grade) by Nerea
Food from around the world (Unit 2, 6th Grade) by Chris
Food from around the world (Unit 2, 6th Grade) by Lucy
If you want to download the program, click on the following link:
January 19, 2012
Vegetables
My higher level students have a unit on food in their coursebooks but they already know a lot of vocabulary related to the topic so I decided to prepare this vocabulary game to teach them vegetables. Primary education students usually learn some vegetable vocabulary like potatoes or carrots and that’s the end of it so, why don’t teach them more?
I hope you like the activities:
December 1, 2011
Thanksgiving Day
This year for the first time we have been working on this important American date. We have learnt about the Thanksgiving History through a video, we have learnt some vocabulary with an activity played on the interactive whiteboard, we have coloured some pictures, we have written our ‘thanks for’ and we have designed our own Pilgrim and Indians hats in the Art lessons.
Teachers can realize the variety of possibilities this topic offers, most of the skills and different competences are innate to it and several subjects can be involved (History, Art, Religion, Citizenship, Language).
The video below was the one we watched in the classroom to understand the Thanksgiving origins.
We have played this game below on the interactive whiteboard in order to learn some vocabulary.
Older students wrote some sentences following the pattern ‘I’m thankful for (my family, my cat, …).
The next box shows some pictures with the Pilgrim and Indian hats.
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November 30, 2011
PDI y Moodle en el aula de inglés
I was as a lecturer in the III Congreso Escuela 2.0 (Granada) in the month of October. I was talking about my experience with new technologies in my English lessons. I presented some activities to work with students in the digital whiteboard and I also presented the virtual courses I created in the Moodle platform.
I will let here the presentation and the video with the lecture.
Presentation:
Lecture:
May 19, 2011
I am a pizza
'I am a pizza' is the title of a song I’ve recently discovered when teaching food. It’s a great song that allows you to exploit different ESL contents: food vocabulary, feelings and intonation, asking for a pizza (pizza menu), writing a recipe…
The song and the pictures in the videoclip are really funny, my students love them and whenever they have the opportunity they ask me to play it, no need to say that they are singing it all the time. Although the song is rather long, it isn’t a disadvantage because ‘I am a pizza’ is a catchy song that sticks in your mind and you can’t stop singing it.
I worked with this song in the first and second grades or Primary Education when we were dealing with a food teaching unit. I designed a digital activity for the SmartBoard aimed at pre-teaching the vocabulary in the song. In the video below you can watch the different screens with the different activities and games, if you like and you are interested in downloading it, you are free to do it, there’s a link below the video screen that allows you to open or download the file.
As you can see in the video, although you can’t hear it, there are some activities with audios and listening games.
I was going to adapt the activities for higher levels by adding some ordering activities, some pizza menus with prices to prepare dialogues, some drill activities to exploit some phrases in the song … but I ran out of time and I had to cover other curriculum contents that couldn’t be related to the song.
Lastly, a good piece of news for those who like and teach other languages is that you can find the song in French and Spanish too.
April 29, 2011
ESL in Moodle
In this post I want to apologize for not writing as many posts as I would like, I’m quite busy at the moment and it’s very difficult to publish something because of all the work that is behind (writing the post, preparing the pictures, making videos and presentations, uploading files…), the problem is that I have many things to tell you and many posts stored in my mind and no time to make them real.
Future posts I hope to write are:
- Easter
- Past Carnival
- The very hungry caterpillar
- Oliver’s vegetables
- I am a pizza
Let’s see if you can read them before the school year finishes. I will try my best.
The reason why I’ve been so busy to write is that I ‘was and am’ working in Moodle. I created two virtual ESL courses aimed at the older students (10-12 years old), the courses are based in the teaching program I have for those levels and in the coursebook I use, but they can be used with other teaching programs because the contents that most of the teachers deal with in those levels are more or less the same.
I'm embedding a presentation about Moodle for those teachers who haven't heard of it.
I'm embedding a presentation about Moodle for those teachers who haven't heard of it.
My virtual courses allow students to review, practice and study the contents they have seen in the classroom with me, apart from improving their listening, reading and writing skills, as well as their digital competence, so important at the moment.
Along the units I provide students with all kinds of exercises, activities and explanations. They have listening quizzes, cultural videos, grammar explanations and exercises, writing tasks, vocabulary practice, texts … a great variety of opportunities to improve and practice the language.
You can find different kinds of files, Powerpoints, Flash, PDF, Word, html… and you can find activities designed with Hotpotatoes, Quizfaber, JClic and online tasks. As you can check Moodle is a very interesting tool where you can compile lots of different files and activities.
I made some screenshots to show you some of them but I invite you to take a look at it on the next link, you have the possibility to enter as a guest in the two English courses.
May 11, 2010
He/She has got
Today I want to show you an activity I’ve prepared for the digital board using the Smartboard software. It’s based on the principle of learning by doing and acting. It is addressed to ten-year-old children.
Students will learn to use the third person of singular of the verb have got by including it in small descriptive texts. They will also learn some vocabulary related to face signs and hair colour and they will recycle previous words from other courses and units.
I recorded the activity, so everyone can watch how the activity goes. I’m not going to upload it because there are photos of my students but if someone is interested I can send it by mail.
March 25, 2010
Reusing in Art
Reusing in Art is the title of a CLIL project I designed after doing a course for CLIL teachers, it's based on the idea of reusing old things to create new ones.
Here you can read, download and print the teaching unit in Spanish with the goals, the contents, the assessment and the different stages .
Título: “Reusing in Art” Autor: María Isabel
Here it's the web page where I uploaded the project with the reusing song, the recycling story, the game and the craft links.
If you click on the link below, it's possible to download all the files and use them with the students on the digital board without entering the school webpage where I have uploaded. To be able to visualize it, first you''ll have to unzip it.
March 3, 2010
Microsoft Paint in our lessons
I'm going to present you a new activity I've recently made in the English classroom. The main goal of the activity was to evaluate the use of there is/are and some/any in the written form.
If I tell you the truth, I'm really fed up with those structures, even if students know the rules to use them; when writing, they aren't able to apply the rules and so, their compositions are always full of mistakes and I get angry because I can't understand their mistakes.
As my older students had to review this grammar point, I decided to prepare a different activity, I asked them to draw a picture with Microsoft Paint on the computer and then, they should describe it using there is/are and some/any. Apart from the structures, they had the need to remember recycled vocabulary from other units and they had to be creative in order not to do similar drawings.
Here are the results. If you can't read the texts, it's possible to take a look at them on the Slide webpage.
December 15, 2009
Weather
I've designed this activity as an introduction to the unit on the weather. With this activity I want my students to learn vocabulary related to the weather and the seasons. It is made with a new program called EdiLIM that serves to create and to edit interactive books (LIM=libro interactivo multimedia), this program is easy to work with and it has got a good variety of activities to choose, it's based on Flash but it isn't necessary to know anything about Flash in order to prepare your own activities. Try it, I hope you'll like the activity I designed.
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