INNOVATIVE TEACHING PRACTICES SUPPORTED BY THE FOCUSED USE OF ICT TOOLS IN THE LANGUAGE CLASSROOM

  Mo (Swedish): 3rd - 4th. We start in 3rd and 4th grade with reading comprehension activities. During the 45-minutes class, the teacher pauses for 3-4 minutes to do kinetic exercises and promote brain activation.  OL (Natural Sciences) : 3rd - 4th. We go out into the environment to observe different birds that have come to spend the summer season with binoculars. We took a book to identify them and learn about some of their characteristics. We return to the classroom to read and comment on the section related to birds. Finally, we search on on two websites about the migration of elks in Sweden where they have to cross a river. Also, we observed on another website the evolution of a nest from mating to hatching. Both pages offer live connection. Slöjd (Carpentry) : 1st - 2nd . We individually build a wooden fishing rod.  Mo (Swedish) : 5th - 6th. Writing an essay. The teacher writes and explains a mental map to explain the different parts of this type of text and the stud...

  We are close to say goodbye to this interesting course about a wide range of digital resources to use in class, but before I finish I have been looking up the different blogs created by the participants where they have shared their ideas and experiences and this provides enrichment for everybody. I  liked the Edpuzzle  from Ángela´s blog since it´s about the topic we are working in class and it helps the students to practice listening and speaking. The activity is structured in Pre task, Task and Post task with clear objectives.  I will now plan a Edpuzzle activity with my group.  Project : Planning a trip and writing a postcard. 1. Create groups of three students. 2. Watch the Edpuzzle video.   Answer then questions and w rite down the different expressions they have used in the video. https://edpuzzle.com/media/61e19e7935b24c42c28c804b 3.  Choose a day trip destination. 4. Write a list with the activities you can do in your trip. 5. Think and answe...

  This time the instructions are simple. We will use the tool Genially to support and encourage oral interaction in the classroom. Students will plan and develop a small  project in groups of 3  with the end of  presenting it to the rest of the class . Although the task touches on all skills at some point, the main aims are:  1) To practice SPEAKING.   2) Improve presentation skill.     3) Encourage interactive (or active listening) . Present a plan which shows clearly the staging of the activities that the students used to prepare the project (e.g. Stage 1. Choose topic and establish groups; 2) choose modality of Genially…). My presentation of the project using Genially. 1. Choose the topic and establish groups.  The topic for this mini-project is "Writing a magazine advice column". They will work in groups of three. 2. Choose modality of Genially. For this project students have to use infographics.  3. Read the problems and...

 In group the students will create a collective story through the visualization of different images from the book the Monster. Read this book made on StoryJumper ● How did you organise the groups? We made this activity using cooperative learning. We are nine groups of three people each. Every group had to create a tale using pictures. ●     What was the sequence of tasks that you followed to get to the final product? I am a primary teacher so I organised the activity from three subjects.  1. Lengua Castellana y Literatura.  They collaborated in groups of three to create a story watching a sequence of images. First, the students had to describe their ideas to their classmates about the different images taking turns. Then, they had to listen their classmates ideas. Finally, they had to write their own story. 2. Inglés. The students used the dictionary to translate the story that they had created in Lengua. They had to summarize it selecting t...

Watch the next video about the life of William Shakespeare and answer the questions.  William Shakespeare biograpy. Give a reason for your choice of video. I selected this video because is related with the topic we have been working on the timeline. Thanks to it, students will recognize the vocabulary activating their background knowledge and improving their comprehension. With this activity we are going to work Top-down and Bottom-up exercises. Explain briefly the learning objectives for the session(s) and sequence of activities. Objectives - Activate vocabulary. - M ake a prediction about the listening they are going to hear. -  Watch and understand and english video. - Use strategies for activate listening. - I mprove top-down and bootom-up listening skills. - Answer a questionnaire. Activities 1. Prediction. We ask the students to make a prediction about the video they are going to watch. They talk in small groups about this and then we share our prediction. 2. Previou...

Here we can find the time line of William Shakespeare biography of the last activity we did in class about an important writer in Great Britain. https://www.timetoast.com/timelines/2703512 The learning objectives of the activity. Learn about the life of William Shakespeare. Establish reading purpose. Guide reading to facilitate comprehension. Help students construct meaning and monitor comprehension. Support ongoing summarisation. Check comprehension. Provide opportunities for students to summarise, synthesise, evaluate, elaborate, integrate, extend and apply text information. The advantages of using TimeToast for this activity. TimetToast is a helpful tool to use in the English classroom when you have to create online timelines. It has the advantage that they are very attractive and you can add photos o videos to make it more interesting and interactive. The steps you followed to set up the activity. 1. Learn to use TimeToast. 2. Research, select and prepare the text (format, vocabula...