What comes to your mind when thinking about Web 2.0? It refers to blogs, interaction, collaboration, social networks, authorship, sharing. All this provides innovative forms of approaching English Teaching in more creative and pleasurable ways. It means a number of advantages for the English classroom in which teachers now are able to innovate and present content and topics in a more attractive way, catching up with the students current knowledge and interests concerning the use of internet resources. At the same time, students are given more opportunities to become authors and create their own learning.
We want to share with you two useful teaching tools, one of them is www.storybird.com and here students have the possibility to read many lovely stories and poems and also to create their own story with their favourite characters. It helps us as teachers to enhance reading and writing, and since we are using technology tools, students are more motivated and interested. Here you can see an example: http://storybird.com/books/a-hero-44/?token=45ufhsb42y .
The other one is www.buildyourwildself.com and we think it is especially for children who love creating their favourite creature. Not only do they play with their imagination but also they learn how to make descriptions and expand their vocabulary.
Here is an example:
To conclude, Web 2.0 offers a wide variety of tools that you can apply to the English classroom so as to incorporate something different to our lessons. We can assert that working with these two tools is simple and entertaining. We just need to give the students some rules for using them and then is their time to experience and have fun with these websites. They are useful when working with children mainly since they are attractive and and motivating. We highly recommend them for teaching purposes and for giving our students the possibility to use their imagination while learning English.
We want to share with you two useful teaching tools, one of them is www.storybird.com and here students have the possibility to read many lovely stories and poems and also to create their own story with their favourite characters. It helps us as teachers to enhance reading and writing, and since we are using technology tools, students are more motivated and interested. Here you can see an example: http://storybird.com/books/a-hero-44/?token=45ufhsb42y .The other one is www.buildyourwildself.com and we think it is especially for children who love creating their favourite creature. Not only do they play with their imagination but also they learn how to make descriptions and expand their vocabulary.
Here is an example:
To conclude, Web 2.0 offers a wide variety of tools that you can apply to the English classroom so as to incorporate something different to our lessons. We can assert that working with these two tools is simple and entertaining. We just need to give the students some rules for using them and then is their time to experience and have fun with these websites. They are useful when working with children mainly since they are attractive and and motivating. We highly recommend them for teaching purposes and for giving our students the possibility to use their imagination while learning English.
We agree that Storybird is an excellent tool for the EFL classroom, in fact, we recommended it in our last entry as well. We also think that both tools that you suggest could be used together in an activity: you might write a story and create crazy unique characters with www.buildyourwildself.com.
ResponderEliminarNice job girls!
Thanks for your comment girls!! and the idea that you proposed!
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ResponderEliminarHi girls! It seems we all like storybird, because we also proposed the same website to use it with students! we believe it's a great way to motivate students and at the same time integrate art and English! Nice entry!
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