Greeting from Tunisia,
What a pressure! The countdown has started. I’m juggling end of term
work at school, project draft writing and the weekly tasks of the course.
This week achievement is the project draft writing, the focus on online
tools to enhance learning and the discovery of ANVILL.
Personally I have focused on the creation of a class
blog, here is the link: http://mounirabenmrad.wordpress.com/?p=5&preview=true,
This blog will serve as a bridge for the home and school connection. I preferred the use of the blog to nicenet because I find it more friendly looking. I’m glad my students will have a curriculum corner where they can find hints and links that will help better acquisition of the syllabi. . They can also take part in the learning that is taking place in the class by giving their comments and suggestions. The class blog will provide my students with the opportunity to practice English reading and writing as well through collaborative and peer editing.
I have also used http://hotpot.uvic.ca/ to create a matching activity reporting the structures and vocabulary seen the session before. The same tool can be used to create quizzes, crosswords and fill in the gap activity.
This blog will serve as a bridge for the home and school connection. I preferred the use of the blog to nicenet because I find it more friendly looking. I’m glad my students will have a curriculum corner where they can find hints and links that will help better acquisition of the syllabi. . They can also take part in the learning that is taking place in the class by giving their comments and suggestions. The class blog will provide my students with the opportunity to practice English reading and writing as well through collaborative and peer editing.
I have also used http://hotpot.uvic.ca/ to create a matching activity reporting the structures and vocabulary seen the session before. The same tool can be used to create quizzes, crosswords and fill in the gap activity.
ANVILL
This week we have been lucky
having Jeff Magoto in our online discussion. He introduced an awesome speech-based course authoring tool called ANVILL and focused on Voiceboards. He explained how This
audio and video-based too can be used for discussion and storytelling.
He provided us
with a link to You Tube which allowed me to watch the
video of Pavlov's dog. It was simply gorgeous.
I'm longing to mastering this new tool and exploit it the best I can.
Best,
Mounira
Hi Mounira,
ReplyDeleteYou have done an excellent job. Creating a blog for your students and building your own course on the ANVILL is great. I agree with you that the video of Pavlov's dog is gorgeous and it is a good idea to use the audio-video materials will make wonderful lessons.
Are you going to use ANVILL for storytelling or you have any other ideas? Maybe it is useful for teaching grammar, vocabulary and other important aspects of English? Crosswords and puzzles are very good for learning. Do you agree that they will provide the learner's autonomy? Is ANVILL good for it. too?
Best regards,
Julia
Hi Julia,
ReplyDeleteThank you for reading my blog. I'm looking forward to better mastering ANVILL so as I can exploit it for different purposes, notably storytelling, but I think I will rely on using audio- video materials most especially since they meet the needs of my engineering students better.
Best of luck,
Mounira