Fun Ideas for Foreign Language Classes - Classroom 2.02024-03-29T13:50:21Zhttps://www.classroom20.com/forum/topics/fun-ideas-for-foreign-language?feed=yes&xn_auth=noHi, Tim . Teachers use voicet…tag:www.classroom20.com,2010-05-06:649749:Comment:4695152010-05-06T16:57:36.233ZNellie Makarova-Crosshttps://www.classroom20.com/profile/NellieMakarovaCross
Hi, Tim . Teachers use voicethread, Skype and epals for this reason <a href="http://edupln.ning.com/forum/topics/looking-for-international" target="_blank">http://edupln.ning.com/forum/topics/looking-for-international</a><a href="http://edupln.ning.com/forum/topics/looking-for-international" target="_blank"></a><br />
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Hi, Tim . Teachers use voicethread, Skype and epals for this reason <a href="http://edupln.ning.com/forum/topics/looking-for-international" target="_blank">http://edupln.ning.com/forum/topics/looking-for-international</a><a href="http://edupln.ning.com/forum/topics/looking-for-international" target="_blank"></a><br />
NMC I think that's where you'd fa…tag:www.classroom20.com,2010-05-06:649749:Comment:4694562010-05-06T14:07:15.257ZTim Musgravehttps://www.classroom20.com/profile/TimMusgrave
I think that's where you'd fall down Juan, getting native speakers interested.<br />
You could set them up in an environment like this where all the teachers would respond... ???<br />
Student writes a message on the noticeboard, someone english or other replies to it... just get them to join a network. (coffeeshopenglish.ning.com would be a good place to start hehehe:0)
I think that's where you'd fall down Juan, getting native speakers interested.<br />
You could set them up in an environment like this where all the teachers would respond... ???<br />
Student writes a message on the noticeboard, someone english or other replies to it... just get them to join a network. (coffeeshopenglish.ning.com would be a good place to start hehehe:0) I like Twitter as an educatio…tag:www.classroom20.com,2010-05-06:649749:Comment:4694532010-05-06T13:54:40.761ZJuan Pablo Velez Barraganhttps://www.classroom20.com/profile/JuanPabloVelezBarragan
I like Twitter as an educational tool. Unfortunately, for foreign language, the tweets themselves so often have abbreviations (140 character limit), that I'm not sure how useful it is (more for following links).<br />
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Tim, I really like the idea of collaborative story telling or the video presentations, Cameron, but I'm really hoping to find ways to get my students to interact more with native speakers. What do you think of some sort of pen-pal driven (every one writes a paragraph or a video chapter…
I like Twitter as an educational tool. Unfortunately, for foreign language, the tweets themselves so often have abbreviations (140 character limit), that I'm not sure how useful it is (more for following links).<br />
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Tim, I really like the idea of collaborative story telling or the video presentations, Cameron, but I'm really hoping to find ways to get my students to interact more with native speakers. What do you think of some sort of pen-pal driven (every one writes a paragraph or a video chapter the passes it along) project between students and native speakers in the target language? hard to organize? would native speakers be interested? We used a digital video camer…tag:www.classroom20.com,2010-05-06:649749:Comment:4694272010-05-06T11:25:02.981ZCameron Fosterhttps://www.classroom20.com/profile/CameronFoster
We used a digital video camera - but I don't think it would have mattered. In terms of learning outcomes and outputs, I thought it was great. I actually didn't 'teach' at all. The kids had to go to the new unit we were about to tackle, find the new grammar points, understand them THEN plan how to explain the use of the phrase in an engaging way.<br />
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They had a lot of fun took their understanding of Japanese to a much deeper level.
We used a digital video camera - but I don't think it would have mattered. In terms of learning outcomes and outputs, I thought it was great. I actually didn't 'teach' at all. The kids had to go to the new unit we were about to tackle, find the new grammar points, understand them THEN plan how to explain the use of the phrase in an engaging way.<br />
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They had a lot of fun took their understanding of Japanese to a much deeper level. Great idea... did you use a c…tag:www.classroom20.com,2010-05-06:649749:Comment:4694262010-05-06T11:22:00.701ZTim Musgravehttps://www.classroom20.com/profile/TimMusgrave
Great idea... did you use a camcorder or a webcam?
Great idea... did you use a camcorder or a webcam? This is a low-tech, high-tech…tag:www.classroom20.com,2010-05-06:649749:Comment:4694242010-05-06T11:11:14.635ZCameron Fosterhttps://www.classroom20.com/profile/CameronFoster
This is a low-tech, high-tech exercise I used:<br />
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I had my year 8 students make videos explaining grammar points for another year 8 class and vice-versa.
This is a low-tech, high-tech exercise I used:<br />
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I had my year 8 students make videos explaining grammar points for another year 8 class and vice-versa. I've just seen another discus…tag:www.classroom20.com,2010-05-06:649749:Comment:4693952010-05-06T05:18:24.452ZTim Musgravehttps://www.classroom20.com/profile/TimMusgrave
I've just seen another discussion<br />
<a href="http://www.classroom20.com/forum/topics/what-does-interactive-mean" target="_blank">http://www.classroom20.com/forum/topics/what-does-interactive-mean</a><br />
which gives a link to '50 ways to use wiki in the classroom'<br />
Perhaps you can get some ideas from here?
I've just seen another discussion<br />
<a href="http://www.classroom20.com/forum/topics/what-does-interactive-mean" target="_blank">http://www.classroom20.com/forum/topics/what-does-interactive-mean</a><br />
which gives a link to '50 ways to use wiki in the classroom'<br />
Perhaps you can get some ideas from here? I used Google Wave to encoura…tag:www.classroom20.com,2010-05-06:649749:Comment:4693942010-05-06T05:16:01.621ZTim Musgravehttps://www.classroom20.com/profile/TimMusgrave
I used Google Wave to encourage peer correction in writing. That was quite successful, but obviously it's still not available to everyone.<br />
I also was hoping that my students would collaborate in writing a story... trouble is the Chinese students I have met just turn their noses up at creating a fiction. They want academic writing for Uni and IELTS exams...<br />
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Have you tried Twitter? I've heard a lot about it, but being in China I have no access to the tool :0(
I used Google Wave to encourage peer correction in writing. That was quite successful, but obviously it's still not available to everyone.<br />
I also was hoping that my students would collaborate in writing a story... trouble is the Chinese students I have met just turn their noses up at creating a fiction. They want academic writing for Uni and IELTS exams...<br />
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Have you tried Twitter? I've heard a lot about it, but being in China I have no access to the tool :0(