Hello again in my last blogpost here.
This will be my very last examples of working with ICT as a teacher in English: I want to make stories out of the programme Photo Story. I´ve made it in Swedish and social science together with a colleague, but I think it would be nice doing this in English with simple dialogues. They can through pictures record themselves saying Hello. What´s your name? What are you doing? etc This is pupils in the age of 8 years and they have been studying English during 1½year with me. I think it would be nice doing this practice in a different way than just saying it in the classroom to eachother. You also get the shy pupils to speak louder when you record it this way I think. Maybe I will have this as a project in my essay in Module 1C??
I also want to tell you about the iPhone-application ”tyda” and how useful it is. Dictionary is too heavy for my young learners, but they use ”tyda” through my iPhone now and then in the classroom. I myself also use ”tyda” when pupils ask me about a word I can´t remember or if I´m unsure about spelling a word. I use ”tyda” also in my own Englishstudies and when I´m writing letters to relatives and friends in English all over the world. ”Tyda” is a sort of dictionary where you are able to look up words in a quick way from Swedish-English and English-Swedish. Recently I had a lesson with my pupils about fruits and vegetables. One of my pupils thought the words we´ve been practicing were too easy so he wanted to learn more words. He took help by me and ”Tyda” to spell and to learn the words for ”sparris”, ”rödbeta” och ”blomkål”, which we hadn´t talked about at all. He just wanted to learn more. Some of the pupils around him also wanted to learn these new words and suddenly ”tyda” made my pupils wanted to learn even more than I had ever imagined and expected!! J Now most of my pupils also know aspargus, beetroot and cauliflower. Isn´t this fantastic!?...
I also love to show the programmes produced by BBC called ”English zone”. It´s programmes giving a fun input to pupils who have recently started to learn English. The programmes lasts about 10 minutes and each of them have a subject about something you usually teach your pupils in, for example colors, fruits, numbers, familywords, clothes. I show them as ”streaming video” in my classroom now and then and I´m able to get them from ”Medioteket” (AV-centralen) in Stockholm, which is a place where schools in Stockholm are able to get support in all kind of media (books, films, recordings…) Fortunately I have a projector in my classroom so it´s very easy to do whenever it´s suitable in a certain lesson.
Regards again from Ann Goliath-Pillóla.
Wednesday, 14 December 2011
Tuesday, 13 December 2011
Story Phones
Hi.
This will be my last blogpost for this evening. This is only one thing I remember from BETT in London, January 2011. They were called storyphones. The site is: www.storyphones.co.uk.
It´s a complete MP3 audio system that allows small children beginning to learn English to listen by themselves to stories, music, songs and games. It´s a headset together with a remote control that you can order in 4 units or 6 units. I haven´t ordered it yet to my school, but i still think it´s a great way of listening indoors or outside without distractions and it´s also useful because the practitionsers can record their own activities, song and stories also by using the remote control. They can actually record themselves and their friends and create podcasts to eachother. Of course you are able to do this with a computer as well, but thes story phones I´m talking about is easier for small children I think and you can carry them easier as a teacher and as a child in school. If you want to learn more about this I can strongly recommend their own site. I think I want to buy these in the future if I can talk my teachercollegues at school into this as well. :-) We´ll see...
Regards from Ann Goliath-Pillóla
This will be my last blogpost for this evening. This is only one thing I remember from BETT in London, January 2011. They were called storyphones. The site is: www.storyphones.co.uk.
It´s a complete MP3 audio system that allows small children beginning to learn English to listen by themselves to stories, music, songs and games. It´s a headset together with a remote control that you can order in 4 units or 6 units. I haven´t ordered it yet to my school, but i still think it´s a great way of listening indoors or outside without distractions and it´s also useful because the practitionsers can record their own activities, song and stories also by using the remote control. They can actually record themselves and their friends and create podcasts to eachother. Of course you are able to do this with a computer as well, but thes story phones I´m talking about is easier for small children I think and you can carry them easier as a teacher and as a child in school. If you want to learn more about this I can strongly recommend their own site. I think I want to buy these in the future if I can talk my teachercollegues at school into this as well. :-) We´ll see...
Regards from Ann Goliath-Pillóla
content creators
Hi again.
I have some more information about a site that are useful as a teacher in English. You can make your own games through www.content-creators.co.uk You only pay an amount to the design of a game and then you make it as you want it for your pupils. You don´t have to make everything from the beginning. They help you through this site to do the first design of a game you want to do about practicing words English-Swedish or English-pictures. I found this at the BETT-show in London as well. I can recommend it to you all. Enjoy making games for your pupils without inventing them all from the beginning!! It will save you some time and it will make your pupils happy to practice new words...
Regards from Ann Goliath-Pillóla
I have some more information about a site that are useful as a teacher in English. You can make your own games through www.content-creators.co.uk You only pay an amount to the design of a game and then you make it as you want it for your pupils. You don´t have to make everything from the beginning. They help you through this site to do the first design of a game you want to do about practicing words English-Swedish or English-pictures. I found this at the BETT-show in London as well. I can recommend it to you all. Enjoy making games for your pupils without inventing them all from the beginning!! It will save you some time and it will make your pupils happy to practice new words...
Regards from Ann Goliath-Pillóla
Vision Viewer Digital Document Cameras and BETT
Hi again everybody.
In January this year I visited the BETT-show in London (an exibition, British Education and techniques for teachers). There were so many different things to see about ICT in schools, but one basic thing I really enjoy since then is my Vision Viewer Digital Document Camera from ken-a-vision (www.ken-a-vision.com). I use it daily. In the English lessons i use it most to show pictures from books to talk about. This is something you´re able to use all the time together with a projector in the roof and a smartboard. I have an oportunity to work in a newly built school so we are having good ICTsupport I think. At least compare to the school nearby Linnéuniversitetet that David Richardson keep talking about a lot during his lesson. I can also recommend all people working in schools to visit "BETT" in London next year in January when there are a new BETTshow. I will not go there again, but it was nice as an input-source once. In my case I went there with a group sent from Stockholm through my school. I think it´s good to support the futurework in schools in ICT by sending teachers to things like this.
Regards from Ann Goliath-Pillóla
Regards from Ann Goliath-Pillóla
In January this year I visited the BETT-show in London (an exibition, British Education and techniques for teachers). There were so many different things to see about ICT in schools, but one basic thing I really enjoy since then is my Vision Viewer Digital Document Camera from ken-a-vision (www.ken-a-vision.com). I use it daily. In the English lessons i use it most to show pictures from books to talk about. This is something you´re able to use all the time together with a projector in the roof and a smartboard. I have an oportunity to work in a newly built school so we are having good ICTsupport I think. At least compare to the school nearby Linnéuniversitetet that David Richardson keep talking about a lot during his lesson. I can also recommend all people working in schools to visit "BETT" in London next year in January when there are a new BETTshow. I will not go there again, but it was nice as an input-source once. In my case I went there with a group sent from Stockholm through my school. I think it´s good to support the futurework in schools in ICT by sending teachers to things like this.
Regards from Ann Goliath-Pillóla
Regards from Ann Goliath-Pillóla
Movie Star Planet
Hello everybody.
I recently tried to practice words for clothes by help from a game called Moviestar Planet that the children play with during their sparetime. In the game you´re able to change clothes and when you have a nem out-fit you could practice them by saying She´s wearing a (color) and (clothes). You could also practice only by talking about the clothes of your pupils in the classroom, but they got more excited and happy by practicing these words through a game they enjoy during their sparetime. I made up a profile for a girl and a profile for a boy and we could do it together through our roofprojector in the classroom. It was nice to connect their sparetime-game with our English-lesson about colors and clothes. The adress to this game is moviestarplanet.com (in English) and moviestarplanet.se (in Swedish). My pupils is 8 years old. They enjoyed it a lot.
Regards from Ann Goliath-Pillóla
I recently tried to practice words for clothes by help from a game called Moviestar Planet that the children play with during their sparetime. In the game you´re able to change clothes and when you have a nem out-fit you could practice them by saying She´s wearing a (color) and (clothes). You could also practice only by talking about the clothes of your pupils in the classroom, but they got more excited and happy by practicing these words through a game they enjoy during their sparetime. I made up a profile for a girl and a profile for a boy and we could do it together through our roofprojector in the classroom. It was nice to connect their sparetime-game with our English-lesson about colors and clothes. The adress to this game is moviestarplanet.com (in English) and moviestarplanet.se (in Swedish). My pupils is 8 years old. They enjoyed it a lot.
Regards from Ann Goliath-Pillóla
Wednesday, 7 December 2011
Dear All
Did you see the Contact Lesson 3 that David Richardson did with Nicky Hockly and Gavin Dudeney? It gave a lot of food for thought. If you missed it, I recommend you listen to as much as you can on
http://www.flexlearning.se/englishcourses/ictmodule1bc/connectlesson3.htm
You will see that the Contact 3 session has been divided into two parts of around 40 minutes.
If you don't already have an idea for the Blog Post- ICT resource, this should give you some ideas.
If you need to comment on your ideas for the Blog post, you can contact me on miglark4@yahoo.es
Best wishes
Jon
From sunny, but cold Valladolid, Spain
Did you see the Contact Lesson 3 that David Richardson did with Nicky Hockly and Gavin Dudeney? It gave a lot of food for thought. If you missed it, I recommend you listen to as much as you can on
http://www.flexlearning.se/englishcourses/ictmodule1bc/connectlesson3.htm
You will see that the Contact 3 session has been divided into two parts of around 40 minutes.
If you don't already have an idea for the Blog Post- ICT resource, this should give you some ideas.
If you need to comment on your ideas for the Blog post, you can contact me on miglark4@yahoo.es
Best wishes
Jon
From sunny, but cold Valladolid, Spain
Sunday, 4 December 2011
ICT in English Teaching - Group 4: Welcome to the Blog
ICT in English Teaching - Group 4: Welcome to the Blog: I see that some of you already found this blog. Welcome to the Blog where you will be able to post your ideas. This is an area to give s...
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