Tools, techniques, activities

Tools, techniques, activities

1. IWB: Interactive whiteboards

   • creative functions
     • Create a digital notebook de lo que escribes
     • Hide and reveal items
     • Highlighter
     • Votting buttons
   • how to teach
     • teach as a normal board
     • Annotate en vivo al work in texts
     • Sharing learners' work
     • Show internet materials
     • Run automated exercises

2. Presentation software

   • Tips
     • Minimal words. Key words, diagrams.
     • Look for good illustrations
     • Apply animations
     • Take someone else's lesson as a starting point, but adapt and edit
     • Drills, Exercises.
   • Avoid
     • just T and IWB interaction. T-SS is key.
     • Too many ppts. Boring. Not teaching.
     • Use the same ppt for years.

3. To improve skills

   • Listening and speaking
     • Make recording for ur SS. They too.
     • Podcasts
     • Video conferences
   • Writing
     • Sending E-mails
     • Word processors as Padlet
     • Wikis, Personalized wikis.
     • SS wirte in their blogs.
     • Groups in social networks to share documents.
     • Forums
     • Text and voice messaging
   • Reading
     • Webquests
       • task for SS to produce a summary doc o ppt
     • Treasure hunts
       • find answers seraching in internet
         • (1) Why dhgbkjhdks? (2)
     • Web puzzles
       • find answers searching in internet
         • Hsdhfkjsdhfkj(1) | use an online dictionary

4. Flashcards

   • to show meaning
   • to tell a story
   • as pistas to remind to use an specific grammar
   • guessing games/cescription games

5. Picture stories

   • involve practice of simple and past progressive
   • What if the pictures change their order?

6. Storytelling

   • delightful technique but high TTT
   • for the end or mid lesson
   • aim: to tell a story for the listener's pleasure

7. Songs and music

   • possible objectives
     • set the mood
     • background
     • starting point to bring the topic
     • relax. conclude session.
   • ideas
     • gapped text
     • matching pictures. number of order u hear it.
     • reading or listening comprehension
     • song jumble
     • dictation of the chorus or whole song
     • sing along
     • compose ur lyrics

8. Fillers

9. Lexical games

10. Dictation

11. Sound-effect recordings

12. Poetry

13. Drama

14. Project

15. Getting to know a new class

16. TV, DVD and video

17. Learning online

    • VLE: Virtual Learning Environments. website with many resources to run a course.
      • use it for
        • distance programms
        • blended courses
    • PLN: Personal Learning Networks
      • an online group to discuss course and education-related issues
    • Search better
    • Analyse text
      • Word clouds
      • Visual dictionaries
      • Corpora
    • Virutal worlds
      • Create your virtual classroom
      • virtual field trips
      • virtual simulations that are difficult to do in real life
      • create a location and set a specific task there