martes, 25 de agosto de 2020

Using websites

 

Lessons

Age group: 17 years old
Language level: intermediate
Topic: Recycling
Objectives: The students will have to write a report out of a collection of research about recycling.
Number of students: 18
Duration: 80 minutes each lesson
Physical location: Computer lab

Lesson plan 1

○ Warmer    

At the beginning the teacher will ask some trigger questions to the students, such as;
 
  • What do you know about recycling?
       • Do you recycle? How?
       •Why do we have to recycle?
       • Do you know friends or people in your neighborhood who recycle?       


○ Web
After the discussion the teacher will provide the students the link to the different websites in order to do some research. They will have to write down which are the most important ideas for them about recycling.

Guiding questions:

• What is recycling?
• How can we recycle?
• Elements that can be recycled                                     
• Why is recycling so important?

They will use the following links


Students will have to look up the meaning of the words that they don't know and write at least two examples. They will use online dictionaries.


Students will work on the new vocabulary solving the following activity.

 
○ What’s next

After having done some research, the students will be divided into groups of four.

Group 1 : What is recycling?
Group 2: Why should we recycle?
Group 3: How can you recycle?
Group 4: Items that can be recycled.

The different groups will prepare a poster that they will stick on the school board.



Lesson 2

○ Warmer

The teacher will start the lesson asking the students if during that week they started to recycle, how they did it, how they felt about it and what changes they have seen in their daily lives. The teacher will share her own experience, too.


○ Web

The teacher will ask the students to do more research on recycling and select information that will be useful for them to write a report.

Guiding questions:

• What can the school do to promote recycling?
• Think about ways which help to engage people in recycling.


They will use some of the following links:






In compliance with grammar, students will revise modal verbs. They will have to solve the following activity and then apply this grammar topic on the report.




○ What’s next

The students will gather all the information they have read and collected, and display it on a report about recycling. They will be divided in the same groups they have formed the previous class, they will have to write about what is recycling, what materials can be recycled, how everyone can collaborate to recycle and its benefits. 


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lunes, 10 de agosto de 2020

Evaluating websites


         ○  Accuracy:  The content was published by Office of Resource Conservation and Recovery Clear.

         ○  Currency: Last updated on November 13, 2019 .
    
         ○ Content: This webpage is interesting and very helpful to understand why and what to recycle. It contains links to the different entries.The content is clear.   

         ○ Functionality: This website works well. It has some entries which allow you to expand about the topic.              

○ Accuracy: ©2020 Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. It is an official website.
○ Currency: This article was recently revised and updated by Adam Augustyn. Managing editor.
○ Content:  You can find multimedia content such as videos and images which help you to understand the content.
○ Functionality: It works well. It has different entries that leads you to the article, or to videos or images about the topic.






○ Accuracy: It was published by Isabelle Philippe, who is an author on ABC News.

○ Currency:  Last updated on November 17, 2019.

○ Content: You can find an article and a video illustrating the topic.

○ Functionality: It works well and have some entries related to this topic in particular, but also to some other topics.





ü  • © British Council. Recycling retrieved from https://learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org/topics/recycling/term

       ○ Accuracy: © British Council

       ○ Currency: It is not mentioned

       ○ Content: This website contains some entries which lead you to different videos and articles about why we should recycle and different ways in achieving it.This website is very interesting and engaging.

       ○ Functionality: It works well and provides links to pages that are related to the topic.












 • United States Environmental Protection Agency. Reduce, reuse, recycle. retrieved from https://www.epa.gov/recycle

      ○ Accuracy: It is an official website of the United States government. It is called EPA, United States Environmental Protection Agency.

      ○ Currency: Last updated on May 12, 2020.

      ○ Content: This is a very interesting and useful website for educators and students, there is even a specific section for them.

      ○ Functionality: It leads visitors to internal web pages and it works well.



○ Accuracy: American Chemistry Council

○ Currency: Not mentioned.

○ Content: You can find a short text but very concise, it goes straight to the point. You can find images about the items that you can recycle.

○ Functionality: The images take a few seconds to load, but it works well.









  • RecycleNow. Plastic fantastic retrieved from https://www.recyclenow.com/recycle-plastic-fantastic

○ Accuracy: The Waste and Resources Action Programme (which operates as WRAP)

○ Currency: Not mentioned.

○ Content: The content is clear and straight to the point. You can also find a short video.

○ Functionality: It works well.








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lunes, 18 de mayo de 2020

Lesson plan



Age group: 15 years old.

Language level: Intermediate

Objective: The students will have to discuss the advantages and disadvantages of social media and they will be able to choose one of them and do some research, while using a variety of vocabulary and grammar structures.

Language areas: Writing.

Number of students: 18
              
Time allotted: 40 minutes.

Physical location: Computer lab.

Topic: Social media.
          
Activation

The teacher will write “social media” on the board, and will ask the students to brainstorm what comes to their minds and write it on the board.





Once they have done that, the teacher will ask them questions, such as:
  •     What they think about it?
  •     How much they use social media?
  •     Why they use it and what for.

                        
Comprehension and clarification

After having the discussion, the teacher will project a short Genially presentation showing what is social media in general. Then she will show a tutorial about how to use Genially, which will be posted on their Google classroom.

Application

The teacher will ask the students to get in pairs or groups of three, choose one social media, do some research about it and take some notes.  After doing that, they will start to explore how to make a presentation on Genially, with the help of the tutorial.

For homework, the different groups will have to create their own Genially presentation, in which they have to explain the advantages and disadvantages of the social media that they have chosen.     

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domingo, 17 de mayo de 2020

Genially tutorial


Genial.ly is a free web tool used to create interactive visual content. This content can be used to enhance websites and blogs or as a communication tool. This means that it can be used to make presentations, infographics, reports, posters, or guides. This tool is designed to be broad and wide-reaching because it can be used in different areas such as education, in order to teach skills; media, with the purpose of circulating news; marketing with the aim of attracting customers.

Advantages:
·       It is a tool easy to use, you don’t need to know much about technology. You can design and create great and unique digital projects.
·       You can integrate many different types of content such as audio, videos, social media, maps, surveys, links and more.
·       Another advantage of Genial.ly is that it works with the cloud. This allows you to easily access or modify your creations from anywhere.
·       You can also shared your project through social networks or Whatsapp.
·       You can create your account for free. Once you create it you will gain access to a lot of resources, templates, images, etc. You can also use your accounts on Google+ or Facebook to register.

What differentiates Genial.ly from other tools, such as power point, are:
  •  Animation: Genially allows you to add animation and movement to your presentations in an easy way. Helping your audience to focus their attention on the most important parts of the content.
  • Interactivity: The layers that you find in Genially give interactivity to your content. Your presentations become innovative and stimulating. It allows your audience to be the protagonist, and not just a spectator. Through layers of content, the information is separated out by importance, allowing the audience to choose what content they want to see in each moment.
  • Integration:  The web content is integrated in the same place. Genially allows you to embed the content from videos, audios, social media, calendars, interactive graphics.
Many teachers say that Genially is very useful in education. Here is a comment of one of them; “I love this tool as a teacher. It's powerful, and once you get the hang of it, you can use it to make almost anything. Think simplified Photoshop meets interactive tool to easily embed videos, giphs, text, images, audio, etc. I'm hoping they'll make an app soon, but in the meantime students with chromebooks or ipads can use Genially in a web browser." Common sense education, (2019, December) Retrieved from https://www.commonsense.org/education/website/genially
Limitations and drawbacks:        
  • It has many options, so you can feel a bit overwhemled.
  • You can not use all the templates or tools if you don’t have a premium account.
  • Upgraded premium membership at cost.


Tutorial on how to use Genially to create your own presentation


  • First you have to create an account.


    • In order to create your own account, you will have to introduce your email and create a password.


    • If you want to start to create your presentation, click on "Create Genially".




      • You will be presented with many options, such as guide, video presentation, gamification. All you have to do is click on the one you prefer. In this case we will be exploring presentations.





      • Before choosing your template, click on "free", in order to be presented with only the templates that are availaible for you if you don't have a premium account.
      • You select the template that you want to use and a window with it will open. You can either select "Use this template" in order to begin to create or you can select  "start" in order to have a quick gaze of how the design of presentation is.








      • Once you have clicked on "use this template" you can start creating your presentation by adding images, text, videos, audios, links, graphics.

        • You can give a title to your presentation by clicking on "untitled Genially".

          • In order to add a text or change the font, click on "text".


            • If you want to add images, giphs or stickers, click on "Image", you will be presented with different options, choose the one you want.
              • If you click on "Resources" you can add, shapes, icons, even maps and silhouettes.

                • If you click on "Interactive elements", you can add buttons that allow you to link one page of the presentation with other, through animations. 
                  • You can add tables and graphs by clicking on"Smartblocks".
                    • If you want to add an audio file, ou should click on "Insert". You can either record an audio, upload it  from your computer or link it with an URL.








                    • You are able to change your background or its colour, by clicking on "Background". There you will also be presented with the option of uploading an image, in case of wanting to change it.

                      • Some important buttons that I haven't metion yet are: Undo and redo, and saved. Although this tool automatically save your changes.





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