The overall aim of this lesson in a lower secondary classroom was to discover new vocabulary in the wild animals field. After repeating animal vocabulary they already knew and talking about habitats;the leaners now discover new animals with the help of the magic ink tool;revealing the image underneath a black layer of ink on the … Continued
This lower secondary classroom is working on a unit about animals. After discovering the pictures of the new animals and hearing the new words;the learners are now supposed to bring the jumbled words into the right order and match them to the correct picture. The dragging and dropping of the letters helps them with the … Continued
These young learners of English (6th grade secondary school) were introduced to new vocabulary in the field of wild animals. After being introduced to the sound of the new words;the written form and a picture of it;the learners are now supposed to use the new words in a context and form sentences – I can … Continued
These lower secodary learners were already introduced to comparatives. The teacher uses the IWB for scaffolding;showing three different pictures;while hiding the adjectives behind a box. The IWB drag and drop feature helps the teacher to randomly choose a word.
This lesson was recorded in a university linguistics session. The trainer is preparing the learners for a linguistics exam. Since the learners are also pre-service primary and secondary school teachers;the trainer also wants to expose them to learning technologies like the IWB. In this exerpt;the learners were practising and repeating the differnt word formation processes. … Continued
In this task, two remote secondary classrooms, one in Germany and one in France engage in a video-conferencing session, using the IWB, camera and microphones. The teachers of both classes, after an in-class discussion, decided that the topic of the videoconferencing sessions would be ‘phubbing,’ . This is a relatively new concept in the English … Continued
In this task, two remote classrooms engage in an online communication using Skype as a platform to enable real-time exchange. The learners in the German class are 7-8 years old and it is their first year of learning English as a foreign language. In the pre-task, the teacher used the IWB to set the context … Continued
In this task, the learners created a short animated scene using the Puppet Pals App to describe a funny monster. In the pre-task phase, the teacher played a series of games with the learners, helping them recall the vocabulary related to numbers, colours and body parts (Heads Down, Simon Says, What’s Missing, and so on). … Continued
In this task, learners created short video clips describing the content of their school bags. The primary motivation was to share these videos later on with a remote class in France. With the help of their teacher, the learners decided to use the iMovie app since it is easy to use and it enables the … Continued
In this task, a group of primary school learners in Germany create ebooks and share them with primary school learners in Wales. In the pre-task phase, the teacher set the context by giving more information about the geographical position of Wales and some information about the school. Additionally, a model ebook was shared with the … Continued