Florencia's ICT PLE

Lesson 2 (Penzu) Age group:  14-15 year-old Language level:  Upper Intermediate level Objective:  to write about their diet  Communicative goal:  identifying groups of food Language areas:  Writing, Speaking Type of school:  Private school Duration:  one hour and a half Physical location:  school facilities Topic:  Healthy food Warmer In the classroom, the teacher will stick pictures of different meals in the blackboard. Students will have to discuss if these meals are healthy or not. They will discuss the following questions:  1. Are these meals healthy? 2. Do they contain all groups of food? 3. What picture resembles to your daily diet?   Web After the discussion, students will go to the computer lab and will be shown the following website:  https://www.choosemyplate.gov/ . They will be asked to focus on "My Plate" section They will be asked to discuss the following questions in groups: 1. Do...

Lesson 1 (Glogster) Age group:  14-15 year-old Language level:  Upper Intermediate level Objective:  to make a poster on healthy food Communicative goal:  identifying groups of food   Language areas: Speaking, Writing Type of school: Private school Duration: one hour and a half    Physical location: school facilities Topic: Healthy food Warmer Students will be asked to brainstorm in the classroom about food and its different categories (grains, proteins, vegetables, fruits, dairy and oils). They will go to the front in order to categorize food in the different groups. Web After brainstorming about the topic, students will be shown this webpage on the computer lab:  https://www.choosemyplate.gov/  and they will have to create a mind map with each group of food and include examples After exploring the webpage, students will be shown a tutorial on Glogster and they will be explained how to us...

Tutorial ( https://www.pixton.com ) Pixton  is a website that allows teachers and students to construct their own comic strips. There are a variety of comic strip layouts, numerous character and background choices, and a ton of creative options  This is a great learner-centered tool that allows students to construct their own knowledge and display it in a way that is meaningful to them by allowing them to create comics representing their concepts and ideas. First, we access the website  https://www.pixton.com Then, we will find the options Sign in and Log in. We can Log in with Facebook, Google, Edmodo or Office 365.  Once we Log in, we will find the following options: If we press the Create New... button, the following options will be displayed:  If we press on the Create a Comic Strip button, the following options will be displayed:  We choose one, and the following options will be displayed Once we ha...

Tutorial ( https://penzu.com/ ) Penzu offers an online  cloud-based  diary platform that is designed to be private by default. It is free to sign up for Penzu and to create entries, upload images, and share posts selectively.  The Penzu Pro plan offers several other features. First, we will access the website https://penzu.com/ .   Then, you can choose to Sign In or to Log In . You have to Sign up with an email account As soon as you sign in or log in, you will find different options: The first option is New Entry. We press that option in order to create a new page of our journal. The second one is View Entries. We can press that in order to find all the entries that we have created before.  Then, we find the button Journal Settings where we can choose the Cover, Font, Page theme and Pad theme.  The last option allows you to lock your journal. If we press New Entry, the following options will be displayed: W...

Tutorial ( https://edu.glogster.com )   Glogster  is a cloud-based platform for creating presentations and interactive learning. A platform that allows users, mostly students and educators to combine text, images, video, and audio to create an interactive, Web-based poster called glogs on a virtual canvas. Glogster facilitates the conveyance of social information in many different fields such as art, music, photography. Users also have access to a library of engaging educational content posters created by other students and educators worldwide. Glogster enables interactive, collaborative education and digital literacy First we will access the website  https://edu.glogster.com . We will find the options Log in or Get Started.  We can log in through an email account or through Facebook, Google or PRIVD Once we have accessed, we will press the botton that says "Create a new Glog" We can choose to create a Glog in Blank ...