Glogster - Activity

Name: My favourite sports
Level: Begginers
Focus: Writing
Pattern of interaction: Solo
Explanation: 
Go to Glogster's webpage http://edu.glogster.com/ and click on CREATE YOUR OWN GLOG NOW to start the activity.

You will create a poster under the heading "My favourite sports". 
Choose a wall and write the title using the text style you like the most.
You will insert at least three pictures of your favourite sports. You will also write some information about one of the sports you like ( including the equipment you need, the place where you can practise it, etc), and you will also draw  some pictures connected to your favourite sports.
Remember to write the name of the sport under each of the pictures or drawings.
When you finish, log in/register for the teacher and the rest of the students to see your work.


While students create their posters, teacher will monitor their work.
They will have 25 minutes to do it.


Evaluation:

• Use of vocabulary related to sports (equipment, places where you can practise those sports)
• Use of the tools offered by Glogster
• Punctuation

Professor Garfield's comics lab - Activity

Name: What do you do at the weekends?
Level: Pre- Intermediate
Focus: Reading and Writing
Pattern of interaction: Solo
Explanation:
Go to Professor Garfield's webpage  http://www.professorgarfield.org/


After having worked with Present Simple, start creating a comic saying what you do during the weekends. You will log in and write your surname in the space given. You will create at least 6 comic strips. You will have 20 minutes to create them.
When you finish, remember to save your comic as JPEG in the class's documents folder.


Click here if you want to know how to use Professor Garfield's comics lab http://webtoolsinenglish.blogspot.com/2011/10/professor-garfields-comic-lab-sample.html

While students create their comics, teacher will monitor their work.


Evaluation: 

• Accurate use of grammatical constructions (Present Simple form of verbs)
• Punctuation
• Use of vocabulary related to "routines"

ESLvideo - Activity

Name: Do you remember?
Level: Pre-Intermediate
Focus: Writing
Pattern of interaction: Solo
Explanation:
Go to the ESLvideo's webpage: http://www.eslvideo.com/

Before doing this activity, teacher will tell students to open the class account (4thformsagradocorazón) for students to be able to create the quiz. 

The title of the quiz will be DO YOU REMEMBER? QUIZ, as it is the name of the song they are going to work with. 

Remember that students will also have to go to YouTube's web page (http://www.youtube.com) and type the name of the song to find the video. 

They will look at the video and listen to the song before creating the quiz. They will do it individually. They will have 30 minutes to write five questions. After that, teacher will correct all the questions included in the quizzes orally.

While students create the quizzes, the teacher will monitor their work.

Click here if you want to know how to use ESLvideo http://webtoolsinenglish.blogspot.com/2011/10/eslvideo-sample-and-description.html

Evaluation:

• Listening skills
• Reading skills
• Punctuation
• Accurate use of the grammatical constructions (Past Simple)

Pimpampum - Activity

Name: My last summer holidays
Level: Beginners
Focus: Writing
Pattern of interaction: Solo
Explanation: 
Go to Pimpampum's web page (http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pimpampum.net%2Fphrasr%2F&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNEFPuD_8wwdLiMkVdYybwSMcqD7kw). 

After having worked with Past Simple (regular verbs), start writing what you did in your last summer holidays (at least, 5 sentences).
Write the title My last summer holidays and your name and surname in the spaces given after writing your sentences. 

Teacher will go to the Pimpampum's archive to see the sentences you have written.


Click here if you want to know how to use Pimpampum: http://webtoolsinenglish.blogspot.com/2011/10/pimpampum-sample-and-description.html

Evaluation:

• Accurate use of grammatical constructions (Past Simple - regular forms)
• Punctuation
• Vocabulary related to "holidays" (activities you did, for example)

Glogster - Sample and Description

Glogster is a tool which students can use to make interactive posters and share them with the rest of the class. 
Working with this tool is very interesting and funny because students can mix text, images, audio and videos.


The first thing we have to do is to go to Glogster's webpage: http://edu.glogster.com/.
Click on CREATE YOUR OWN GLOG NOW to start.

You will start by changing the wall of your poster. Click on WALL and choose the one you like the most. When you are ready, click on USE IT!

To delete the sign on the right and continue with the poster, click on the dustbin.

To insert text, click on TEXT and choose the text type you want. When you finish, click on USE IT!

Click on EDIT to insert text, change the font, the colour of the text and the size.

Click on Ab1 to change the font, the size and the colour of the text. When you finish, click on APPLY - OK.

If you want to include pictures in your poster, click on IMAGE. You can upload an image from your computer, copy the link of a picture from the Internet, or you can use a webcam to take pictures of yourself.

If you want to upload a picture from your computer, click on UPLOAD and choose the picture you want and click on ABRIR.

Then, click on the picture and go to USE IT!

Repeat the same steps if you want to upload a video, music (sound), or a piece of written document (data).


If you want to draw a picture, click on DRAW. You will see a button with a pencil. Click on it and then on USE IT! to start drawing.

Choose the colour for your drawing, click on APPLY, and start drawing.

When you finish drawing, click on OK.

Click on the picture and then on USE IT!

When you finish your poster, click on PREVIEW to see your work before uploading it. When you think that your poster is ready, click on SAVE OR PUBLISH.

Write the name of your poster and choose the category it belongs to (Art, social sciences, languages, etc). Then, click on SAVE.

Register, Log in, or go back to edit for others to see your glog.

Click on the following link to do the activity: http://webtoolsinenglish.blogspot.com/2011/10/glogster-activity.html

Professor Garfield's comic lab - Sample and Description

The Professor Garfield Foundation is a learning portal which offers a fun interactive online environment where children can explore different tools, create comics in the Professor Garfield's comics lab, and play games which deal with science, literature, history and art.


I am going to concentrate on the Comics Lab because it allows children to develop their writing and reading skills. They can create their own comic scripts and also print them. 


The first thing we have to thing is to go to Professor Garfield's webpage: http://www.professorgarfield.org/.


You will click on COMICS LAB to start creating the comic.

Before starting, you have to Log in. This means that you have to write your name in the space given so as to save your work. 
Click on LOG-IN and write your name. When you finish, click on on DONE.

Click on COMIC CREATOR to start.

To create the comic, you will click on EDIT THIS PANEL. You will be able to choose the characters you want, the props, the backgrounds, and the balloons to type the dialogues. 
Click on the arrows below the headings Characters, Props, Backgrounds, and Balloons to choose the ones you want. 
One the right, you have the instructions to delete the images, to scrap or flip them. When you finish, click on DONE.

You will follow the same steps to continue with the comic.

To add more strips, click on 2 and repeat the same steps. When you finish, click on SAVE to save your work.

Type your name and click on SAVE.

If you want to pint it or save it as JPEG, click on PRINT or SAVE AS JPEG.

Click on the following link to do the activity: http://webtoolsinenglish.blogspot.com/2011/10/professor-garfields-comics-lab-activity.html

ESLvideo - Sample and Description

ESLvideo is a tool for teachers who want to create fun and educational video quizzes for their ESL students. 
The quizzes created can be used for homework, classwork or other purposes.
If you follow the instructions, it is very easy to create and use online quizzes.


The first thing we have to do is to go to ESLvideo's webpage: http://www.eslvideo.com/

Before uploading videos, teachers should create their own accounts. 
In order to do so, they will click on REGISTER and complete with their personal information.

When you are ready to create a quiz, click on CREATE A QUIZ and read the Guidelines.

You will have to complete a form with the title of the quiz, its description, the video's embbedded code, the level of the students, the language they will use, and the type of quiz (listening comprehension, grammar, vocabulary, etc.) 
When you are ready, click on NEXT.

You will click on CLICK HERE to add questions, transcripts or notes.

To add the questions to the quiz, click on QUESTIONS - ADD A QUESTION.

You will write a question with three options for students to choose. You will have a blank to write the correct answer.
When you finish, click on SEND. 

To add more questions, click on QUESTIONS and repeat the same step. When you finish writing all the questions, click on CLICK HERE TO VIEW YOU QUIZ.

On the left, you will see the video you have uploaded and on the right, you will see the quiz you have prepared.

Pimpampum - Sample and Description

PimPamPum is an interactive web design application to create and share photobooks, comics, poems, and more, using Flickr pictures. As it is very easy to use, students will get familiar with it in less than 10 minutes!


The first thing we have to do is to go to Pimpampum's website: http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pimpampum.net%2Fphrasr%2F&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNEFPuD_8wwdLiMkVdYybwSMcqD7kw.
You will type a word or a phrase in the space given and press START.

You will see the word or phrase you typed and different pictures above each of the words. Those pictures represent the word typed.
You will write the title of your work and your name in the spaces given.
If you want to change one of the pictures given, click on CHANGE.

You will see more pictures. You can choose the one you like the most.
If you do not like any of them, click on MORE IMAGES.
If you do not want any image above the word, click on I DON'T WANT ANY IMAGE.

After you choose the picture you like, click on DONE.

When you finish, click on PUBLISH.

The following is the link to the activity: http://webtoolsinenglish.blogspot.com/2011/10/pimpampum-activity.html

The purpose of this blog

I've decided to create this blog to show teachers different types of Web 2.0 tools they can use with their students. As you will see, this blog has an educational purpose as it provides information for teachers and students. In other words, it is a tool for e-learning.


I find blogs very interesting because they facilitate communication between the reader and the owner of the blog. All the people who visit a blog can comment on the different entries and they can start up a discussion. What is really amusing is the fact that blogs can include images, links, and videos to support the information presented.


To conclude, bogs can create a social community environment.