SOCRATIVE, EBIBLIO AND OTHER RESOURCES

Socrative is an interesting tool that you use to

Ebiblio is a tool

Here you have other websites full of fantastic resources to use with our students:

• LearnEnglish Teens - British council
• Great big story

See you soon!

EDPUZZLE

As we saw earlier on this blog, EDpuzzle is an innovative video site that lets you take any video you like off the web and edit it so that you can use it for educational purposes. You can cut it down into different parts and add audio notes and questions for the students to answer. Moreover, you can create virtual classrooms where teachers can monitor individual student work.

We can use it in class to practise the listening and check the students' comprehension.

Here you have an example of a video activity taken from the library:

Finally, here's another activity created by me:

CINEMA PER A ESTUDIANTS

Cinema per a estudiants is a website where you can find plenty of resources to work with films. There are lots of films and lots of activities about those films that can be very useful and engaging for students. There are also courses and workshops that you can attend.

AN ACTIVITY WITH VIRTUAL REALITY

We are going to show Manresa to the world presenting the most representative monuments in the city.

1. Brainstorming: let's find out the most representative monuments students want to present through writing a list on the board.
2. We divide the class into groups of 3-4 students. Each group choses a monument. 
3. Each group surfs the net to get information about the chosen monument and a picture. Then they write a brief description of it.
4. Each group sets off to videorecord the monument using Cardboard Camera app. They take a 360º picture while describing the monument using the text they prepared before. 
5. The students create a Wix website and they upload all the materials there (text, picture and video). 
6. Each group creates a multiple choice question about their monument.
7. We put all the questions together to create a Google Forms and share it on the website. 
8. All the students watch all the videos created to get information about the different monuments and be able to answer the questionnaire. 

EXAMPLE

Brainstorming:

1. La Seu de Manresa.
2. El Pont Vell.
3. El Pont Nou.
4. La Cova.
5. Hospital de Sant Andreu.
6. Torre de Sobrerroca.
7. La Muralla de Manresa.

Group creation:

1. Mònica Carrasco
2. Isabel Vila
3. Núria Samsó

Monuments chosen:

1. La Seu de Manresa
2. El Pont Vell

Written text about the monuments:

1. The Santa Maria Basilica Collegiate of Manresa is one of the most representative examples of the Catalan Gothic and it is also a symbol and an icon of the Bages district capital.
2. The Old Bridge is one of the characteristic elements of the monumental appearance of the town. It was built between the 12th and 13th centuries. The central part was destroyed during the Spanish Civil War, and was rebuilt between 1960 and 1962. 

Videorecording:

(You need to download the Camera Cardboard app and watch the video through a pair of virtual reality goggles)

Questionnaire in Google Forms:

VIRTUAL REALITY

Virtual reality is a three-dimensional, computer generated environment which can be explored and interacted with by a person. It is something very motivating for students and it can allow teachers to do many different activities in the classroom and out of it at the same time.

There are different tools that we can use to experience virtual reality:

• Expediciones. The teacher is the guide and the students are the explorers. The teacher controls the expedition and decides what the students see with their goggles and mobile phones. The teacher can also read some explanations of the different places that the students visit virtually. Then the teacher can ask the students to do a task about that: write a story,  describe a place, play a guessing game, do a reading comprehension exercise, etc. 
• A journey into your brain (CLIL)
• Titans of space (CLIL)
• Sites in VR (CLIL)
• War of words
• Youtube 360º videos
• New York Times Virtual Reality APP

If you are thinking of working with virtual reality with your students, I recommend you the article 10 simple ways to use google cardboard in the classroom. 

PLICKERS

Plickers is a tool that, like Kahoot, we can use to play games with our students. The difference is that with Kahoot all the students need a mobile phone, but not with Plickers. To use Plickers, only the teacher needs a mobile phone. The students have a card that they have to move according to the answer they want to give. The questions appear on the screen. They have to decide which answer is the correct one (A, B, C or D) and show the card. The teacher scans the cards and gets the answers.

Here we have the cards that we have to print to play games with our students:

https://www.plickers.com/PlickersCards_2up.pdf

The teacher can prepare the game, but also the students. It's a good tool to revise grammar, to test if they understood a book or chapter they had to read, etc.

DIGITAL TOOLS TO ENGAGE WEB 2.0 TEENS

Here we have a good collection of basic digital tools to engage web 2.0 teens. Thank you, Abel!

DIGITAL TOOLS TO ENGAGE WEB 2.0 TEENS