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Text-based games:
Picture-based games:
Post a puzzling picture and have
students guess
Task:
Design a forum game for a class of
yours.
Write the introductory text/ task.
Post as a Ning discussion.
Invite others to do your task.
More: http://askauntieweb.blogspot.com/2010/07/games-to-play-in-your-forum-or-blog.html
Wallwisher
Pre-task thinking:
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Wallwisher is an online sticky board. One person sets up, and anyone with the link can
add notes. Notes are limited to 160 characters.
Task 1:
Use this Wallwisher to post something you'd love to try out. Optionally, add a link to an
example. No need to register, just add your name so it's not anonymous. (If you're
registered your name shows automatically)
Task 2:
Every photo tells a story, they say. But doesn't it in fact usually tell several?
So give your students two or more separate storytelling prompts made from one
photo, using simple photo editing techniques.
Tuxpi http://www.tuxpi.com is an online app you upload photos to and add photo
effects to. Crop, add frames and effects online, for slight variations to make a completely
different image.
Task 1: Task 2:
Look at the three pictures of Yvette, the Find a picture using Google
Headless Woman in three different Advanced Image Search (select
groups. Each group: "Say, who is Yvette?" "labeled for reuse with
modification")
Edit it in Tuxpi. Download it.
Open a new discussion in Ning.
Upload/embed the picture.
Formulate a task.
Respond to answers.
Respond to someone else's picture
task.
More: http://askauntieweb.blogspot.com/2010/07/storytelling-tuxpi-to-edit-photo.html
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Barbara Sakamoto, writer of Teaching Village, is using the ProProf Quiz Maker, a simple
and free quiz-making tool, for her quiz series, "What you can learn from my PLN". You
can win Japanese sweets if you get the questions right! She's made a quiz on tech tools
and using technology in time for our ELTAS Tech Tools Day!
Then come back and create a quiz of your own using the software.
http://www.proprofs.com/quiz-school
More: http://askauntieweb.blogspot.com/2010/07/comprehension-quiz-using-proprofs-quiz.html
http://www.makebeliefscomix.com/C
omix/
More:
http://askauntieweb.blogspot.com/2
010/07/make-your-own-comix-with-
make-beliefs.html
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Bitstrips http://www.bitstrips.com/ is the most creative and versatile online comix tool.
Time-consuming, in a good way. It’s a social networking site. Connect with other
Bitstrippers. The site lets you
More: http://askauntieweb.blogspot.com/2010/07/comix-starring-you-bitstrips.html
Task:
add music to the slideshow, and write a short text as an intro or to post alongside.
add a short audio file in which you speak about the pictures them (Audacity,
GarageBand etc. Go to Shelly Terrell’s workshop to learn more about your audio
options!)
More: http://askauntieweb.blogspot.com/2010/07/storytelling-slideshow-with-animoto.html
What do your students get out of listening to and writing out dialogues?
How is having puppets or cartoon characters speak the dialogue different from
your students’ speaking it themselves?
How important is it to your students to present the fruits of their learning to
others?
Note: While you are working on it and save it as work in progress, you can share it with
your students and collaborate in class. As soon as you want to publish it, it costs $$.
Task 1:
We could edit my project together, the way you could with students.
Task 2:
See what other teachers are doing and comment on their ideas. (Links: “More:”)
Task 3:
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Make a survey or contact form on your blog using Google Docs Form/Spreadsheet. This
form can also be emailed to users. It allows respondents to input information that is
then collected neatly in one spreadsheet. Some possible uses for this function are:
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Let's say you want to send clients an assessment test for them to do from home, and all
the data should be evaluated instantly, without you having to correct it. You would like
to have all of the data neatly in one table, easily available. This could be for a general
assessement test that you use again and again.
More: http://askauntieweb.blogspot.com/2010/07/assessment-test-with-google-docs.html
If your goal is not to assess, but to give your quiz takers a quick-fix for formative self-
evaluation and motivation, they need at least the minimal feedback whether they got the
question right or wrong. I've changed the above assessment test into this type of quiz.
More: http://askauntieweb.blogspot.com/2010/07/self-correcting-quizzes-with-instant.html
Does it make sense to keep a vocabulary list for the entire class?
Or does each individual have his/her own list that can not be generalized?
How do you collect vocabulary in your classes? Have you tried other systems?
How does a digital list differ from having it in a notebook?
Thanks for your attention! Good luck, have fun, and stay in touch!
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