It is a padlet wall designed for my P.3 class. It is all about festivals.
2016年11月25日 星期五
2016年11月18日 星期五
Session 10: Reflection
I believe that one of the most difficult tasks of English teachers is to motivate students to do English writing. In the last two years, I taught P.1 students and they loved writing. However, I am teaching P.3 and P.5 students this year and I've found that they do not especially love writing. A few of them even hate writing. Encouraging them to write has become a challenging job for me.
In this session, Paul showed us how to create story e-books on the Internet. Unexpectedly, after Paul demonstrated how to use mystorybook.com to create a story e-book, we suddenly became so attentive and quiet and created our e-book excitedly! (I admitted that I was so exhausted after an extremely busy week!) This showed that interesting tasks can attract students in class! Although Paul asked us to make simple story e-books, we all paid a lot of effort and tried our best! We all love the task so much and I think of my students immediately. I hope they will have much fun as I have had just now!
Another website, storybird.com also reminds me of TSA writing exercise which some of my students hate a lot! I believe some teachers also have a hard time asking students to do the boring TSA writing exercise, especially for those writing tasks with four pictures. In this website, students can choose the set of pictures that they like and create their own story. They can be very creative and it is very motivating. They are not forced to write about a topic or a story which they are not interested in! My classmates and I enjoyed a lot when we were trying to create a story by ourselves. When writing becomes an interesting task, students will not be afraid of writing any more. I hope I will have a chance to share what I've learnt this session with my colleagues!
In this session, Paul showed us how to create story e-books on the Internet. Unexpectedly, after Paul demonstrated how to use mystorybook.com to create a story e-book, we suddenly became so attentive and quiet and created our e-book excitedly! (I admitted that I was so exhausted after an extremely busy week!) This showed that interesting tasks can attract students in class! Although Paul asked us to make simple story e-books, we all paid a lot of effort and tried our best! We all love the task so much and I think of my students immediately. I hope they will have much fun as I have had just now!
Another website, storybird.com also reminds me of TSA writing exercise which some of my students hate a lot! I believe some teachers also have a hard time asking students to do the boring TSA writing exercise, especially for those writing tasks with four pictures. In this website, students can choose the set of pictures that they like and create their own story. They can be very creative and it is very motivating. They are not forced to write about a topic or a story which they are not interested in! My classmates and I enjoyed a lot when we were trying to create a story by ourselves. When writing becomes an interesting task, students will not be afraid of writing any more. I hope I will have a chance to share what I've learnt this session with my colleagues!
Session 10: My story e-book
This is the first time I've made a story e-book. I am so glad that I've learnt how to use it during this session! It is so interesting to make a story e-book by myself! :-)
Read my story e-book now!
2016年11月11日 星期五
Session 9: Reflection
In this session, we have learnt how to create some interactive tasks for reading comprehension. Some of my students are quite afraid of reading a text. They think reading is boring. I always create some group activities or pair work for them as pre-reading, while-reading and post-reading tasks to make reading more interesting for them. Yet, I have never tried something like Actively Learn or Nearpod before. I think they are also very new to my students. Actively Learn is quite user-friendly as I can add notes and questions to a passage very easily. If I would like to explain the meaning and the part of speech of a word, I can simply add a note! I can also create some multiple choice questions right after that paragraph so the students can find the clue more easily. I think Actively Learn would be much more interesting than just a comprehension worksheet!
I am also attracted by Nearpod. It is a bit like Powerpoint but it is much more interactive! I have signed up as a teacher and I have tried some functions. It is very easy to use and I can create some interactive tasks in just a few minutes!
I can create some slides very easily on Nearpod. Look! All you need is to use the slide editor there, choose a layout, and drag any files to the slide!
This is what I like the most. I can add any activities I want. I added a poll in just a minute!
I've tried to make these three slides in just a few minutes. It's worthwhile to explore something new! I don't need to just rely on using Powerpoint anymore! :-)
I am also attracted by Nearpod. It is a bit like Powerpoint but it is much more interactive! I have signed up as a teacher and I have tried some functions. It is very easy to use and I can create some interactive tasks in just a few minutes!
I can create some slides very easily on Nearpod. Look! All you need is to use the slide editor there, choose a layout, and drag any files to the slide!
This is what I like the most. I can add any activities I want. I added a poll in just a minute!
I've tried to make these three slides in just a few minutes. It's worthwhile to explore something new! I don't need to just rely on using Powerpoint anymore! :-)
Session 9: Actively learn
I've created a reading comprehension exercise by using Actively Learn. It's a pity that I cannot use my own reading passage that I am going to teach!
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Session 9: J Cloze and J Cross
2016年11月4日 星期五
Session 8: Reflection
Paul taught us how to use Adobe Spark Video and Screencast-o-matic in this lesson and I found both of them very useful. I have never tried to create a video by myself because I have never thought that making an amazing video is so easy! (I admit that I was not keen on using IT in classrooms but now I have changed my mind!)
Adobe Spark Video is very easy to use and the videos would be very attractive to students! When thinking about how to use it in my classroom, I think of my lovely P.3 kids immediately. I am going to teach simple past tense very soon. Why not using Adobe Spark Video to share with them how I spent my weekend? I can share my photos with them and add some sentences in the video. I can also highlight the past form of verbs! This is an authentic context and I am sure my students will be interested!
Screencast-o-matic is user-friendly as well. It is not difficult to use at all! Sometimes I don't have enough time to explain how to answer some tricky questions in homework or how to do corrections. Screencast-o-matic will help! Also, I always want my students to learn more new words that are related to the themes taught in the textbook. I can use Powerpoint, pictures and record my voice at the same time to explain the meaning of words and how to use the words when forming a sentence.
Can't wait to try them out in my class!
Adobe Spark Video is very easy to use and the videos would be very attractive to students! When thinking about how to use it in my classroom, I think of my lovely P.3 kids immediately. I am going to teach simple past tense very soon. Why not using Adobe Spark Video to share with them how I spent my weekend? I can share my photos with them and add some sentences in the video. I can also highlight the past form of verbs! This is an authentic context and I am sure my students will be interested!
Screencast-o-matic is user-friendly as well. It is not difficult to use at all! Sometimes I don't have enough time to explain how to answer some tricky questions in homework or how to do corrections. Screencast-o-matic will help! Also, I always want my students to learn more new words that are related to the themes taught in the textbook. I can use Powerpoint, pictures and record my voice at the same time to explain the meaning of words and how to use the words when forming a sentence.
Can't wait to try them out in my class!
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