In this post I'd like to take a quick look back at ten of the most popular posts I wrote from last month. These posts cover a host of free apps, games and resources sites that you can use to create engaging digital learning for your students.
I hope you enjoy these resources and make good use of them with your students over the coming year.
Create Vocabulary Activities from Authentic Text in Minutes
WordBooster is a real time saver for
anyone creating courses using authentic materials.
The site generates
word lists and vocabulary quizzes from authentic texts and includes
definitions of the words and a range of activities to help students
understand and remember the word.
Get Teens Writing with Gamified Writing Activities
Students read short chapters of the beginnings of stories and then have to submit the next chapter for the story.
Give Young Learners Structured Writing Practice with WritingSparks
WritingSparks is a great site for giving
structure and adding an element of fun to writing activities, especially
if you have a data projector so that students can see the prompts on
the screen.
Create Texting Fiction to Keep Your Teens Engaged
Texting fiction is a new emergent genre
of fiction writing that is becoming very popular among teens and I have
to say when I started reading a few of these creations I can see why.
Basically the narrative is structured as
a phone based text conversation and can include images and videos as
well as text and audio message
6 Useful Resources for Exploiting the News in the English Language Classroom
In this article I'm sharing a collection
of resources that you can use with your students to help them
understand news stories in English.
Create Animated Speaking Activities with Toontastic
Toontastic provides the kind of activity that could
be used to get younger students speaking and it gives them the
opportunity to play out different roles and to listen and reflect on
their own speaking before they save and share.
Build Your 3D Virtual Reality Classroom Today
This is a great tool for running online
group classes or social events for online students.
There is also now the capability to build course materials and launch commercial courses through: . You can also take free courses that can help you use the platform.
There is also now the capability to build course materials and launch commercial courses through: . You can also take free courses that can help you use the platform.
Using Computer Games to Raise Awareness of Global Issues
In this post I'd like to introduce a few
games that you can use with students as a springboard for discussion on
what can be some difficult issues for teachers to address in the
classroom.
Get Students Creating Video Summaries with Lumen5
This is a great tool for quickly
creating video summaries. You can use it to write a short summary or
just put in the URL of an online article or blog posting and then pick
the parts of the text you want to include in the video.
You can find more tools and activities like these in my ebook 20 Tech Enhanced Activities for the Language Classroom.
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My Books:
- 20 Tech Enhanced Activities for the Language Classroom
- Digital Tools for Teachers
- Thinking Critically through Digital Media
- Exploiting Infographics
- 10 Lessons in Digital Literacy
- Digital Video – A Manual for Language Teachers
Nik Peachey
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