Марина Грабарь - Дизайн урока и планирование с нуля / Lesson Design and Planning from scratch. Technology integration

Another activity is by showing your learners some very close-up pictures you took with your smartphone. This can be done very quickly by going into your staffroom or looking around your desk and taking very, very close-up pictures of different objects, showing them to the students and trying to get them to guess what they are. You can display these pictures on the class projector in your our classroom or you can send them to the students if they have mobile phones with an Internet connection and they can access them through email. A follow-up to this, assuming you have the time, is that you can get the students to do this themselves. They can go for a few minutes around the school with a partner and take some pictures of things close up and then show them to the other members of the group. Alternatively, they could do this before they come to class and send them to the class.

Word clouds

An engaging way to revise a text and the accompanying vocabulary that you have recently looked at in class is to create a word cloud and then getting students to look at the word cloud to try to reconstruct the text. These word clouds generally emphasize keywords and will make words that appear more frequently bigger. This helps students because they were able to identify repeating ideas or common themes in the text and this helps them to reconstruct

it. To create a word cloud, you can go to popular websites such as Wordle or Tagxedo. This can be printed out from the website or you can just show on the board. A quick online quiz

A quick online quiz can be a great way to start a lesson and there are loads of websites out there for creating them. The one I tend to use most is Socrative simply because it’s so easy to use both for the teachers and the students. The teacher does have to register to make a quiz but it’s a fairly painless procedure. You can build multiple-choice or short-answer quizzes, and these can easily be made available to the students by them going to a particular webpage on either a computer or their mobile phone (there is also a mobile app) and just typing in a room number that the teacher assigns. They can then take the quiz and get instant feedback on their answers. As a teacher, you can display the progress of the students on the board and you can control whether the students go at their own pace or a pace you decide. Again this is quite nice the checking recent vocabulary Grammar or anything else you want to revise or recycle from your lessons.

Hunt for QR Codes

This game is similar to the classic treasure hunt game except that students have to search the school for QR codes which contain questions or clues to the game.

Playing this fun activity is easy. First, I prepare a list of questions from the topics that I want my students to learn or revise. Then I create and print the QR code for each question and place them across the school.

Students are put into small teams or pairs with one person owning a mobile device. They need to download a QR code reader first which is free on App Store or Google Play. Internet connection is notrequired once they have the app since the QR codes decode as text files. Now, students need to search the school for these clues and scan each QR Code to get each question. They must then work together to find the answer to this question. The team that brings the most number of answers wins the game

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– EVE Online. Practice running the most powerful company in the world so you can sharpen your skills for

management in the real world.

2 – ElectroCity. Created in New Zealand for middle-school aged students, ElectroCity teaches about energy, environment, and more as the students build and manage their own towns.

3 – McDonald’s Video Game. Choose your language, then dive into this game that teaches about the harmful effects of fast food with a heavy dose of irony.

Collection of interactive whiteboard games for educators Pic-Lits – Drag words onto photographs to describe the scene or mood. The default language is english. A PIC-LIT is a combination of words placed on an image to capture the essence, story, and meaning of the picture. It can be a caption, a sentence, a story, a paragraph, a poem, a quotation, and more. You can create a PIC-LIT using Drag-n-Drop keywords or in Freestyle by typing your own words.

– — PIC-LITS.COMis an e-learning website that utilizes photography and word banks (keywords) to improve literacy skills via writing. It is a teaching tool and student learning platform that not only develops writing but helps to improve reading skills as well. With an emphasis on visual learning, the user is engaged by doing. The proprietary site is a vehicle for creativity, fun, and learning that lasts. It is also interactive and a social medium for people of all ages globally.

1. Warm-Ups without Technology.

2. Then think what technology would be most

appropriate.

Warm-up?

– Short (10 – 15 minutes)

– Nothing new or difficult

– Reviews a previous lessons or skill

– Sets the stage for an upcoming lesson

– Fun, interactive, communicative

– Gets students moving!

Warm-Ups: «Phrasal Verbs Game». My example.Reading/Writing Lesson

Material

Phrasal Verbs cards

– Teacher will divide the class into 2 teams to play the game in whole class.

– Teacher will request a volunteer who wants to explain the words to the team members, from both teams.

– Students will play the Phrasal Verbs guessing game again to win the other team. During the games, teacher will mark their score on the board.

– If there are the Phrasal Verbs that nobody knows, teacher could explain the meaning after the game. If at least one student knows the Phrasal Verbs, teacher could make him explain the Phrasal Verbs to the classmates.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSntadOvQAY&t=56sPhrasal Verbs in Context of Movies. Video clip

– Teacher will divide the class into 2 teams to play the game in whole class.

– Teacher will request a volunteer who wants to explain the words to the team members, from both teams.

– Students will play the Phrasal Verbs guessing game again to win the other team. During the games, teacher will mark their score on the board.

– If there are the Phrasal Verbs that nobody knows, teacher could explain the meaning after the game. If at least one student knows the Phrasal Verbs, teacher could make him explain the Phrasal Verbs to the classmates.