Alas, even E-Learning has to come to an end.
But I've digressed.
These resources (this and this) may be useful in the following ways:
- Journal writing
- Comprehension passages
- Expository writing
Clearly a little dose of drama in the classroom does no harm. (There are numerous links attached to that website which will bring you to places the classroom has never seen before.)
And what is your English class without its bits and bobs of wordgames.
Now, I am all for the use of multimedia in the classroom. But I do think it is so easy to go wrong with YouTube. But I think what may be interesting would be a project which would involve students recording footage and posting it on YouTube. I can see myself doing this for narrative writing for instance. So I may divide the class into groups of five. Each student records a short clip of 30 seconds. This may be footage of her pet cat feeding, or of someone nibbling on his nails, or just of blue sky. Whatever is it, after the groups have consolidated their material, they will proceed to weave a story using these clips as sources of inspiration. Workable?
best regards
E Low
1 comment:
hello! Great resources indeed .. but probably to be used in small doses, very tiny ones. And good for JC GP? It would involve a lot of trawling though for use at secondary school level, you would really have to scan through all the things for something you know your students would be interested to read, because the style and tone of writing does appeal to a particular intellectual kind of reader. From the other site you suggested, the one with the games, I had this http://www.brainbashers.com/follow.asp> good find. Will definitely use it, if only to illustrate my point about exam skills. hurhur
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