Wednesday 27 October 2010

8.- LAST BUT NOT LEAST

I hope you have found some of the web pages you have been surfing today interesting for your teaching. This is why I recommend that you create a Delicious Account so that you will never lose track of them.

First of all you need a Yahoo Account to get started. When you get it, you are ready to start using Delicious.
Below you have a short presentation on Delicious.

Monday 11 October 2010

7.- LESSON PLANS WITH WEB 2.0

Now it is time to have a look at what other teachers are doing with their students in Web 2.0.

Do not miss this video about the use of web-based software to support speaking skills in a foreign language

The following presentation contains  Web 2.0 projects and ideas to engage your students.
Click here to go to the original site.


6.- WEB 2.0 RESOURCES

Below you have several links to different Web 2.0 resources with real examples of their use in the classroom.

Mixbook: Create electronic books

Primary Students' Mixbooks
My students' Mixbooks

VoiceThread: Engage your students in conversation

Primary Students' VoiceThreads
My students' VoiceThreads

Storybird : Create your own storytelling


Primary Students' Storybirds

What2learn : Create your own educational games

A game on geography

ESL Video : Create interactive quizzes for videos

A quizz on animal habitats


Mingoville : An e-learning environment with exercises, songs, games and lots more.


Teaching Ideas : Lots of  ideas to implement CLIL in your lessons


Bilingual Education Platform : community with lots of ideas, resources and materials to  improve our results when teaching academic content through a foreign language


EFL Classroom 2.0 and Classroom 2.0 :   social network for those interested in Web 2.0 and education.


Up to Date blog and Working with English wiki: my two sites, in case you want to take a peek at them.

5.- PROJECT 2: GLOGS FOR THE CLASSROOM

Now we are going to see what a glog is and try to make a simple one and then upload it into our blog.

Glog On!
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Have a look at some glogs made by students in different sites:

Glogs on Scientists by 3ยบ ESO students

Greetings From The World Project by students from different countries

Glogs by Spanish as a Second Language students

Now try to create your own poster based on your particular teaching subject. Start creating your glog here.

3.- PROJECT 1: VOKIS FOR THE CLASSROOM

As you have seen there are so many Web 2.0 resources that we may get overwhelmed. 

Let's start by using one of them: Vokis. Why Vokis? I think it's motivating, easy to grasp both for students and teachers and can be applied to any subject.

Voki is a free service that allows you to create personalized speaking avatars and use them on your blog, profile, and in email messages.

We are going to learn to create one and to embed it in our blog.

 

4.- HOW TO EMBED A VOKI IN A BLOG

In the following video you can learn to embed your voki into the blog:


Sunday 10 October 2010

2.- WEB 2.0 TOOLS

The following presentation includes examples and links to some useful Web 2.0 tools in Education. Click on the images for more details.


1.- WHAT'S WEB 2.0?

In this workshop we are going to learn about web 2.0 and its uses in Education.
I intend to show you real examples of what can be done with web 2.0 and then it's your time to explore, take part and create.


Off to work!!!

Let's start by learning what web 2.0 is in the following videos:






And now from the students' point of view:




Have I convinced you already? 

Let me show you some web 2.0 tools and what you and your students can get to do with them.