December 18th, 2009
Location: www.triptico.co.uk
PRIMARY:
Watch this PowerPoint presentation to find out how to locate and use Word Magnets, as well as some teaching ideas.
Word Magnets PointPoint tutorial
SECONDARY:
Watch this tutorial on how to locate Word Magnets on the www.triptico.co.uk site.
The following tutorial suggests some more ideas for working with Word Magnets:
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December 18th, 2009
Location: www.wordle.net
Wordle provides a novel way of working with a text, randomising the words into any number of different patterns such as the one above.
Why not use Wordle to get your students to predict the content of a reading text? Just type in the a few sentences and the programme will randomise them. Or challenge your students to predict sentences from the text with the words they see. Watch our Wordle tutorials for some more ideas.
PRIMARY:
Here’s an idea to use Wordle in order to get pupils to do some predicting work before reading a couple of texts (from Find Out! 5 by Mark Ormerod with Donna Shaw, Macmillan ELT):
Wordle PowerPoint tutorial
SECONDARY:
This tutorial shows a similar idea using a Secondary text from the Voices 2 Student website:
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December 18th, 2009
This tutorial looks at how to use the Text Tool option in the Macmillan digital books to blank out words and phrases. The advantages of this are numerous – for example, you can ask students to predict the content or title of a text by blanking out everything except a few words or phrases, create a gap-fill activity or do a ‘disappearing dialogue’. The example in the video is taken from the Voices 1 digibook.
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December 18th, 2009
Blogs can be a very useful way of showcasing students’ work. As many of the software applications they use exist in cyberspace, the work they produce using these applications often can’t be downloaded to their own computers. It has to remain in the cloud (a common metaphor for the Internet). So where can they store it? A great way is to upload it to the class blog or wiki.
Two of the most common programmes to set up blogs are Blogger and WordPress. Both are simple to use, but the difference is that WordPress requires you to download software whereas Blogger is a cloud tool, ie it’s completely online. If you set up a WordPress blog (like this one) you will need to upload it to your school’s server, whereas Blogger, being a Google tool, is accessible directly through the Google search engine.
This tutorial looks at how to set up a gmail account…
…and this one illustrates how to use Blogger:
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