Colleagues' presentations on lesson ideas

Strategy #1: Music Friday

• using mixpod

• where students will need to research a song or artist and present to the class

Strategy #2: Make kids make their own introduction on audioboo and embed on their own blog, get kids to visit other people's blog. Then T do a jeopardy game in class to test people 

Strategy #3: Xtranormal video

• different language, and different accent available
• quick pace; can use pauses to slow down

Day 10 Homework

Example shows I made:

A gloster on Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet I made.

A tagxedo word cloud with words scoured from @mstespana and I picked the shape of a whale. Other ways this app may be used could be scouring words from a theme (e.g. shopping) in a shape relevant to the theme. This can either be done by the teacher as a hook to the unit; or it can be the students who work in groups and get assigned a theme.

And finally, my first prezi. The theme is Art and the grammar point is how to say what you like.

Qué tipo de arte te gusta más? on Prezi

Day 10 Presentation Tools

Reading Discussion

• use powerpoint for multi-literacy purposes (e.g. videos, audio)
• presentation skills

Hook for introducting using Powerpoint effectively 



Powerpoint replacement or enhancement

1. Graphing papers

* storyboard creation

2. Pecha Kucha & Ignite

* 20 slides, 5 seconds for each slide
* can be used to challenge students to give presentations that create a dynamic run-through on a theme
* websites provide some examples
* at the events Ignite presenters share their personal and professional passions, using 20 slides that auto-advance every 15 seconds for a total of just five minutes

3. Google slides

* MS Powerpoint can be imported into Google Slides which allow embedding
* only downside is losing transitions

4. Sliderocket

* great templates
* classy presentation show
* only need gmail ID
* when searching for images, automatically credit them for you (when cursor hovers over image during slide show)

5. Mixbook

* Scrapbooking - some people make scrapbook with Powerpoint. Painful process!
* Free to use
* can collaborate as a class
* can print and store a copy in the classroom
* students tend to love the artistic design opportunity if use for a project and presentation

6. Image Generator

* unsophisticated way to have photoshopped effects

7. Tagxedo

* the generator makes an image through positive and negative space use

8. Prezi

* I have found this prezi by a blogger who is interested in exploring using prezi to teach vacabulary.