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June 21, 2009

The power of web 2.0 tools

Today, I got very exciting when I checked my email box and found an email form one of my year 8 student (12-13 years old) saying:

Hello, miss, here is my montage. I would like you to know that I couldn't find a music that would fit in my presentation, I tried my best.
Anyways, hope you enjoy the presentation.
Take care
bye

See My Montage 5/25/09 online.

For the past few weeks, I have worked with my year 8 class on a project about holidays. I asked them to prepare a spoken presentation about what they usually do on holidays and to add pictures on One True Media. It allows you to create a presentation with pictures and sounds (a bit like Animoto). I recorded my students' spoken presentations on Audacity and saved them as mp3 files. They then added their voices to their One True Media presentations. All of this was class work and I never asked my students to finish the work at home. So I was very happily surprised when I received this email on a Sunday evening! This student had got to one true media on her own and finished the presentation on her own! This is the first time it happens to me and this is all due to the power of web 2.0!

What about you? Have you had students working on their own without you having "to bribe" them? Do you think web 2.0 tools engage our students much more?

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December 8, 2008

How to make pupils listen to a spoken presentation?

A pupil in your class has prepared a mini presentation in another
language and he/she presents it to the rest of the class but it soon
turns into a nightmare where not one student is listening!!!
 
Well... To avoid this kind of stress you can make the other pupils who
will listen to the presentation choose 5 words they think will come up
and write them down in their books. Every time they hear the words
they tick them as a tally chart of the frequency of the words. The
winner is the one with most ticks. So it is like a kind of Bingo I
suppose!
 
You could also do it using any tape extract. You tell sthe pupils the
topic then they think of 10 words to do with that topic and write them
down. They then listen to the tape and every time they hear the words
they tick them as a tally chart. It is good for predicting what will
come up.
 
And you? what do you do to make students listen to a presentation?

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