One of the many cool features of Learning Apps is the fact that you can group apps into a sort of folder and link your students just to that folder. You can give it a background image and structure and rename it according to your needs, thus making sure that your students only have access to the apps you want them to see. Below is an example of an App Matrix.
LearningApps on literature
Guess the character's name before you run out of petals!
This could be used as an introduction to a literature lesson or to a reading lesson on the topic of famous literary characters.
It can be continued with an exercise on imagining a day in the life of specific characters.
This could be used as an introduction to a literature lesson or to a reading lesson on the topic of famous literary characters.
It can be continued with an exercise on imagining a day in the life of specific characters.
Avatars
This is an embedded Voki avatar, using embed.ly for the purpose:
I just made a new Voki. See it here:
http://tinyurl.com/y2mblfxz
Ed Puzzle
Below you can see a couple of EdPuzzle activities, which allow your students to watch a video and respond to some questions outside of the classroom. Almost any video can be used, as EdPuzzle allows access to YouTube, Khan Academy, TedTalks, NatGeo and many other video libraries.
Malta Warmers
WordArt.com can be used to create images made up of words that you choose. This is an excellent warmer activity, or a way of exploring a text.
Another type of online-generated warmer can be a Word Grid, created with LearningApps.
And a Present Perfect tense warmer on Malta:
Malta experiences by Roberta Basarbolieva
Another type of online-generated warmer can be a Word Grid, created with LearningApps.
And a Present Perfect tense warmer on Malta:
Malta experiences by Roberta Basarbolieva
Collecting resources in one place
There are two main tools for creating little, easy-to-access databases of resources that you can share with students or other teachers. One is Blendspace, which you can see in action here.
The other, whose design and editing menus I like more, is Pearltrees, which I've embedded below. Pearltrees works in the same way, and has better design-related capabilities. However, it cannot be embedded by HTML into other pages and blogs.
Presentations, by robertabas
The other, whose design and editing menus I like more, is Pearltrees, which I've embedded below. Pearltrees works in the same way, and has better design-related capabilities. However, it cannot be embedded by HTML into other pages and blogs.
Presentations, by robertabas
Presentation tools online
There are a lot of available web services for creating presentations. Everyone seems to know about Google Slides, an example of which I have here, and which is an online version of Microsoft Powerpoint, which is faster, smoother and more exciting.
Fewer people seem to have heard of Spark Adobe, which I tested here, and Canva, both of which provide you with plenty of free images to choose from. Spark Adobe also has transition and sound effects.
Below is a presentation sample made using Canva:
Travel presentation (sample)
BONUS! A way of doing mind-maps, which can also be used for presentations of sorts, is Mindomo, seen below:
Make your own mind maps with Mindomo.
Fewer people seem to have heard of Spark Adobe, which I tested here, and Canva, both of which provide you with plenty of free images to choose from. Spark Adobe also has transition and sound effects.
Below is a presentation sample made using Canva:
Travel presentation (sample)
BONUS! A way of doing mind-maps, which can also be used for presentations of sorts, is Mindomo, seen below:
Make your own mind maps with Mindomo.
House plan
Drawing and describing house plans is a popular activity for lower level students. This lesson combines that with question structures in an interactive manner
Objectives: revision of furniture vocab; revision of question structures in the present tense.
Step 1: As an open-class activity, have students brainstorm the different rooms in a house and the furniture that goes in them. A spidergram/mind-map diagram is best for this.
Step 2: Give students the exercise below to match.
Step 2.5: While students are working on Step 2, write the basic question words on the board. If students are working together on the interactive whiteboard, then do that right after they are finished.
WHERE
WHAT
WHO
WHEN
HOW
WHY
Step 3: Ask students:
Where do you eat?
Some expected answers can be: kitchen, dining room, bedroom. There is no correct answer, as long as the given answer makes sense.
Next questions to students should be:
What do you eat?
Who do you eat with? / Who do you eat?
When do you eat?
How do you eat?
Why do you eat?
The point of the activity is to form grammatically-correct questions and give them corresponding answers.
E.g. Why do you eat? --> Because I'm hungry. / Because I'm bored.
You can then repeat step 3 with the following verbs and any other verbs you choose:
Read
Drink
Cook
Watch TV
Write
Sleep
Objectives: revision of furniture vocab; revision of question structures in the present tense.
Step 1: As an open-class activity, have students brainstorm the different rooms in a house and the furniture that goes in them. A spidergram/mind-map diagram is best for this.
Step 2: Give students the exercise below to match.
Step 2.5: While students are working on Step 2, write the basic question words on the board. If students are working together on the interactive whiteboard, then do that right after they are finished.
WHERE
WHAT
WHO
WHEN
HOW
WHY
Step 3: Ask students:
Where do you eat?
Some expected answers can be: kitchen, dining room, bedroom. There is no correct answer, as long as the given answer makes sense.
Next questions to students should be:
What do you eat?
Who do you eat with? / Who do you eat?
When do you eat?
How do you eat?
Why do you eat?
The point of the activity is to form grammatically-correct questions and give them corresponding answers.
E.g. Why do you eat? --> Because I'm hungry. / Because I'm bored.
You can then repeat step 3 with the following verbs and any other verbs you choose:
Read
Drink
Cook
Watch TV
Write
Sleep
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