Teaching+examples

by [|Liudmyla Klymenko] - Monday, 3 October 2011, 12:10 AM || [|Reply] || by [|Kseniia Rozdolska] - Tuesday, 4 October 2011, 04:17 PM || The disadvantage is that it is very often that there's a bad signal for Internet connection. [|Show parent] | [|Reply] || by [|Oksana Choban] - Sunday, 9 October 2011, 12:42 PM || [|Show parent] | [|Reply] || by [|Angela Moninets] - Wednesday, 5 October 2011, 11:30 PM || [|Show parent] | [|Reply] || by [|Angela Moninets] - Wednesday, 5 October 2011, 11:46 PM || Advantages - interesting, challanging, develops crosscurriculum problem solving skills. The task can be perormed a few times if the initial try failed. Utube video site example is amazing. [|Show parent] | [|Reply] || by [|Kseniia Rozdolska] - Thursday, 6 October 2011, 05:27 PM || [|Show parent] | [|Reply] || by [|Raisa Istomina] - Thursday, 6 October 2011, 05:30 PM || Also teachers can change the task using the same material to help students think, not just to memorize.
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 * || What do you think are the advantages and disadvantages of the teaching examples? Leave your comments in this thread.
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 * || The advantages are that every student can work at their own speed, the exercises are very entertaining (weather).
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 * || How I understand you, Kseniia. There is such a problem in my school But as for video it is not a big problem 'cause I mostly every time save video into my computer. But as for games, it often brake all my plans...
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 * || Cubeez-is a good thing to develop a child's attention span. It's fun. It boosts a child's self-esteem. The voice is very encouraging and friendly. However, it might be not challenging enough.
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 * || "The weather " example is both enthralling and of high educational value.
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 * || I think the problem is that in primary school it's rather difficult to use Wikipedia texts, but for secondary that's might be rather interesting. The Youtube video is very funny, so that every student can film the same, and with the help of it we can learn or revise the names of the counries [[image:http://courses.britishcouncil.org/pub/learningtechnologies/theme/britcounv3_nav/pix/s/approve.gif caption="approve"]].
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 * || As for advantages of using teaching examlpes they involve all the students at the same time, make the process both interesting and entertaining. These are learner-centred activities. Teacher can regulate the number of times to see, listen or read. Activities are relevant to the age and interests. Using of Wikipedia helps senior students to work with additional info necessary for researches.

Disadvantages: as some activities present integrated learning technologies, not all teachers are good at combining them. Motivation and progress of students' depends on their learning style. Teacher should be an expert in choosing adequate activities (=teaching examples of LTs). [|Show parent] | [|Reply] || by [|Helen Onyshchenko] - Friday, 7 October 2011, 09:57 AM || [|Show parent] | [|Reply] || by [|Tetyana Yarmysh] - Friday, 7 October 2011, 10:28 AM ||
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 * || I find all of the examples very interesting and useful. To my mind, learning should be fun, and our students will definitely remember such lessons.
 * Cubeez** - a great stirring activity for young learners (if used as the whole class with one projector). Of course, chances are low that they will be able to retell the story after they've left the classroom, but the thought that's going to be on their minds will be 'I really enjoy learning English!'
 * Youtube video** - very inspiring and motivating, great for learning country names. __But!__ If watched from Youtube site, here comes the problem of adult content - on the list of related videos on the right side of the page I could see an almost naked woman, and she appeared again right in the video window when it finished. No doubt, this picture will provoke chuckles and giggles among the students.
 * Wikipedia entry** - sounds like a great project idea! I can imagine the excitement of students contributing the information about their own school to the real world-wide known encyclopedia.
 * A photo dialogue in PP** - is a great opportunity to practise functional language. Of course it's more efficient if there are enough computers for each student/pair/mini-group to create their own dialogue. Students can act out their dialogues in front of the class afterwards.
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 * || I am sure any of these learning technologies will interest students even if used unappropriately.

Cubeez is great for elementary classes at least to learn vocabulary if not storytelling. It's eye-catching and a lot of fun.

YouTube is perfect for senior students, but I would rather download what I need than watch it from the net. One more disadvantage-in most cases a teacher needs to think of some additional activities to make this part of the lesson effective.

Using Word to edit a text adds both to devloping IT and writing skills but is time-consuming for a teacher. [|Show parent] | [|Reply] || by [|Natalia Kolotova] - Sunday, 9 October 2011, 09:10 PM || [|Show parent] | [|Reply] || by [|Vera Moiseenko] - Monday, 10 October 2011, 12:25 AM || [|Show parent] | [|Reply] || by [|Natalia Kolotova] - Friday, 7 October 2011, 10:39 PM || I accept it more or less for one-to -one teaching and find it perfect for self-preparation / reviewing... [|Show parent] | [|Reply] || by [|Myroslava Loboiko] - Saturday, 8 October 2011, 11:52 PM || So many good points of them were mentioned in this thread that I find it difficult to add anything new. I must say I use similar activities at my lessons and I agree that **Cubeez** is good for young learners as its funny, colourful characters and exercises will keep their attention. The **Weather** can be used in the class, why not?, but you’ll need a separate work station for each student or at least pairs. Both of these activities provide feedback and it’s great. The advantage of **YouTube** is the possibility to bring variety to the classroom. In addition, a video episode ensures lots of opportunities to start discussions. **Wikipedia,** in its turn, is motivating as it gives the place to publish your work. As for word processing programme for **editing texts**, I widely use it at my lessons. Actually, it was the activity I started to introduce learning technologies in the classroom with. It can be easily created, saved and updated. Finally, I think any activity has its strong and weak points, the matter is how we use it, how we integrate it in the teaching-learning process. [|Show parent] | [|Reply] || by [|Oksana Choban] - Sunday, 9 October 2011, 01:24 PM ||
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 * || Thank you, Helen! I adore this idea about a photo dialog in PP. I'd love to try it out [[image:http://courses.britishcouncil.org/pub/learningtechnologies/theme/britcounv3_nav/pix/s/approve.gif caption="approve"]]
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 * || Helen, you analysis is so thoughtful and accurate!
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 * || I don't quite understand how Weather forecast can be used in class[[image:http://courses.britishcouncil.org/pub/learningtechnologies/theme/britcounv3_nav/pix/s/sad.gif width="15" height="15" caption="sad"]]((
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 * || Having studied the teaching examples very carefully I must say they are all very interesting and useful.
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 * || I like your point, Myroslava. The advantage or disadvantage of a certain technology depends only on how do we use it in our lessons.

Also I'd like to thank all of you for new creative and useful ideas 'cause to tell the truth I didn't use any of these sources except of YouTube video. Thank you once more..... [|Show parent] | [|Reply] || by [|Vera Moiseenko] - Monday, 10 October 2011, 12:28 AM || [|Show parent] | [|Reply] || by [|Nataly Katsaran] - Sunday, 9 October 2011, 07:41 PM || I often use Utube examples for their variety and visibility, especially songs for YLs and BBC stories for secondary grades. The example we saw on the link isn't perfect for education as I'm not sure in its realibility and more information than we need at the classroom is presented. Therefore it can be used for relaxation or revision stages just to pick up additional data. Wikipedia is the large source of information as this site covers all life aspects. But again I've got doubts about its realibility as anyone has access to print their own believes or knowledge on the subject. Perhaps we can use it to look for the mismatches between the official sites and the readers' publications. Cubeez is a great fun for young learners but some may finish much quickier than others and the teacher should think how to keep them busy after the activity. There is a possibility that most of learners will get bored after the first time they've done it. Though you may think I've mentioned only disadvantages, all the teaching examples are quite interesting. But everything depends on teacher's ability to integrate them into the education syllabus. [|Show parent] | [|Reply] || by [|Natalia Kolotova] - Sunday, 9 October 2011, 09:19 PM || [|Show parent] | [|Reply] || by [|Angela Moninets] - Sunday, 9 October 2011, 10:26 PM || The "editing task" is a challenge! Its applicability is out of question. [|Show parent] | [|Reply] || by [|Vera Moiseenko] - Monday, 10 October 2011, 02:38 AM ||
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 * || Myroslava,such clear and clever explanation!.. Nothing to add!.. I really appreciate all your comments!
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 * || I agree with Miroslava's vision of i-net resorces appropriate to the classroom integration. Everything we do should meet the strict demand "why-do-we-use-it?". For English lessons I'd single out the "Weather" example because I know how to use it at the lessons (individually, at the computer lab, to practise listening and reading skills, vocabulary on topics "Weather, countries") It's got wonderful visibility, interesting task, clear determined motion. The only thing it's short of is the result stage, like "Well done, You are the superhero!", because the young learners do like to be praised!
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 * || I also use Youtube to find samples of recorded lessons (UC Berkeley is my favorite). sort of have a peep at the best college classrooms in the world [[image:http://courses.britishcouncil.org/pub/learningtechnologies/theme/britcounv3_nav/pix/s/cool.gif caption="cool"]]
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 * || One must be daring to use "Wikipedia task". That seems to be an immense responsibility, but if you are bold enough, you are the one who can teach your students to be responsible and reliable in addition to being ambitious.
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 * || Can't disagree with all your commets. It seems to me that after comments of Helen, Myroslava,Tetyana, Natalya and othes I have nothing to add.[[image:http://courses.britishcouncil.org/pub/learningtechnologies/theme/britcounv3_nav/pix/s/wink.gif caption="wink"]]

Most of us use YouTube for teaching English but I prefer to use videos which give more information. The given example - video about dancing I wouldn't choose because it's too long and it doesn't practise or teach English effectively. I could use it only as a kind of relaxation mixed with the hint given at the end of the lessoon - e.g. "How do you think - what theme we are going to study next? - "Around the world" and give this video as hometask - to write down the names of the countries while watching it at home and prepare a short report about interesting facts of the mentioned countries (choose one of them).

Using words to edit a text is a perfect task.

I haven't used Wikipedia at my school lessons, only as the source for Ss to find some information as hometask. I should think how I can use it with the group of Ss...

And telling the truth Using PowerPoint to create a photo dialogue is new for me. Hope to try it with my pupils this week. [|Show parent] | [|Reply] || by [|Irina Dygal] - Monday, 10 October 2011, 09:20 PM || __Cubeez.__ Advantages: it's a good way to remember the vocabylary, it's fun so it's very interesting Disadvantages: the Ss can get bored if you repeat the same activity many times. __The Weather.__ Advantages: the best way to practise ith impersonal sentences and vocabulary concerning the weather. Disadvantages: the only disadvantage can be the same as in the previous activity. __YouTube.__ Advantages: you can find videos on any topic you need. Disadvantages: not every school has computers linked to the Internet __Wikipedia.__ Advantages: easy to look for the information and there is much information on any topic Disadvantages: sometimes the mistakes can be found. __Word.__ Advantages: you can edit any text document downloaded from the Internet Disadvantages: sometimes it's not enough to reveil the information on the topic given __Power Point.__ Advantages: it's a wonderful way to give the information with visual support, make projects Disadvantages: not everybody can work with PPoint. [|Show parent] | [|Reply] || by [|Liudmila Ariutova] - Tuesday, 25 October 2011, 10:11 PM || [|Show parent] | [|Reply] ||
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 * || I must say that every activity conducted on the computer is a great fun for the learners. Of course there are advantages and disadvantages in every activity, but computer ones have mostly advantages.
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 * || Lots of advantages, but in practice it's very difficult to implement in our schools.There only disadvantage is that the school is not ready to be changed ( I mean to use learning technologies) despite the certain number of computers