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How to Create Video Quizzes on Vizia Last week I shared some information about a new video quiz creation tool called Vizia. Since then I've received some questions about how it actually works. To address those questions I created the short video that is embedded below. As mentioned in the video, all of the responses to your questions are collected in a spreadsheet that you can download and or open in Google Sheets. Once the responses are in Google Sheets you could use the Flubaroo Add-on to grade the responses to your quiz. Applications for Education Vizia could be a good tool to use to create short flipped video lessons in which you ask questions to check for understanding.
English Grammar Pill: Modal Verbs (Part 3) – How to use Modals of Probability (Deduction) In this final part of my modal verbs series, I’d like to address modals of probability (or deduction). We use modals to talk about the chance or probability that something will or will not happen in the future. We call them degrees of probability. Source: The EFL SMART Blog The table below gives you an overview which I will develop. CERTAINTYWhen we are certain that something will happen we use will and be certain to.
Speak to Me: Teaching with Voki Grades 6 – 12 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson Vote for Me! Making Presidential Commercials Using Avatars After researching political platforms of past presidents through primary sources and other resources, students create commercials for these presidents using Voki, an online web tool that produces speaking avatars. Grades 9 – 12 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson Dialect Detectives: Exploring Dialect in Great Expectations Drive: creare, collaborare e condividere Google Drive is a safe place to back up and access all your files from any device. Easily invite others to view, edit, or leave comments on any of your files or folders. With Drive, you can: • Safely store and access your files anywhere• Quickly access recent and important files• Search for files by name and content• Share and set permissions for files and folders• View your content on the go while offline• Receive notifications about important activity on your files• Use your device’s camera to scan paper documents Learn more about Google Apps update policy:
EnglishTux - 6EME- Cours - vocabulaire2 write the name of the countries and nationalities (s.boulinguez) révise les nationalités (rv.humbert.chez-alice.fr/cinquieme/nationality1match.htm) crosswords on nationalities (mots croisés)(mrt.apinc.org/site/exercices/nationalities/NATXWORDS.HTM) Guest Blogger: Carmen Brettel – How to Use Voki in the Classroom Voki speaking avatars are great tools for the classroom. Teachers and students alike can create avatars and use them in a number of ways to make learning fun and more accessible. Not sure how Voki can help you or your students? Here are a few fun ideas for how you can incorporate Voki speaking avatars in your classroom and lesson plans: Use Your Avatar as a “Substitute” Students can start to zone out in the middle of lectures, and the teacher’s voice can start to sound like the “mwah mwah mwah” in a Charlie Brown cartoon.
Must and Should for beginners I have recently written a post on Modal verbs. This post was aimed at intermediate students and it demonstrated the usage and meaning of all the modal verbs in present and past tenses. This post deals only with the basic usage of the modal verbs SHOULD and MUST. You can find here a graphical presentation of the usage of the verbs SHOULD and MUST and several completely new games to practise the usage of these verbs. Top 10 Do’s and Don’ts When Flipping Your Classroom #edchat Produce material for YOUR students to engage them outside the classroom. Generic content works as a starting point but students have greater faith in their own teacher’s input.Decide on a workflow solution and stick to it. I use Edmodo to set assignments and annotate responses.
Simple Past - Grammar for Kids (Past Simple of Regular Verbs) (Past Simple of Irregular Verbs) (Regular/Irregular Verbs) (Interactive Book by Mrs Haquet) (Present and Past Tenses) (a Ramadan story) 40 Interesting Ways To Use Word Clouds For Learning If we’re being honest (and we are), we were of the opinion that the primary use of word clouds for learning–most notably with Wordle and Tagxedo-were to help support the analysis of diction and tone. There were some other “cute” uses, but little that made it stand out above other more versatile tools. But then we saw this list. Slideshare user vreed17 has put together 40 interesting ways to use word clouds for learning, including visualizing a syllabus, using clues to make inferences for literacy practice, or to do simple character analyses.
The crazy teacher's blog Possessive Case Posted by thecrazyteacher on gennaio 31, 2013 Si può usare il Genitivo sassone anche quando il possessore è: - nazione o città The Top 10 Free Web Tools to Curate and Bookmark Online Resources for Teachers Curating, bookmarking and sharing web content is one of the skills every 21stcentury teacher should have. Internet has grown to be, if not the primamry then a great resource of information and knowledge. Students as well as educators are having a free unlimited access to this treasure trove whenever and wherever they are.One of the things we need to pay heed to, howver, is the information load the net exposes us to. This information load if not handled carefully and wisely can have some severe reverse impacts on the way we benefirt from intenet educationally.This is why the need for for using bookmarking and content curating tools has become very important especially for us in the field of education. So after having learned how to clip web content and annotate it using this list of great free web annotating tools, we are going to explore some of the equally important and free tools but this time for bookmarking and curating web content. Here is the list :
Teacher's Corner: Comparatives and Superlatives - Adjectives This activity describes how Activate: Games for Learning American English “Picture This – Same and Different” game cards can encourage students to use comparative and superlative adjectives as they discuss groups of related items. These game variations enable students to practice using comparative adjective forms and a variety of vocabulary items in fun, creative, and personally meaningful ways. Level Intermediate and above