Wordle Activity

  Wordle Activity

LEVEL: Initial

AIM OF THE ACTIVITY: To reinforce adjectives, vocabulary of parts of the face and sentence formation.

You have to create an image with the description of a monster’s face then you will pass it to one of your partners and he/she will try to recreate your monster.

1.  In a paint document draw a monster’s face. Paint it as you wish and then save it with a secret name.

2.  In a word document, write a paragraph describing your monster’s face. Save it.

3.  Go to Wordle.com and click on “CREATE YOUR OWN”.

4.   Write your description in the box and then click on GO.

5.   You can do as many changes (typo of letter, colour, layout, etc) as you need.

6.  When you finish save your wordle.

7.  Once everyone has finished their wordle, the teacher will ask the student to exchange their work.

8.  Once you have your partner’s work, you will have to recreate his/her monster.

9.   When both of you have finished drawing, you will have to look at his/her picture and tell him/her if he/she have made the correct version of the monster.

10.      Remember that you are supposed to re-write your partner’s description on your notebook.

11.      You have three opportunities to draw the correct version of the monster’s face.

12.       You have to tell your partner the things that he/she has drawn correctly.

13.      If anyone draws the correct monster’s face, he/she will win a special price.

Here you have a tutorial of Wordle and one sample that you can use as a guide.

Wordle Tutorial

You will be tested on your writing and your vocabulary.

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PhotoPeach Activity

PhotoPeach Activity

LEVEL: Intermediate

AIM OF THE ACTIVITY: To learn how to search on the internet, how to select important information.

You will have to create a slideshow about your favourite band using images, music and information that you have to collect from the internet.

1.  Choose a music band that you like.

2.  Search for information about the band. Create a word document with the information and then send it to the teacher for corrections.

3.  Choose pictures about the band that you want to use in your video.

4.  Once you have collected all the information, go to Photopeach and star working on the video.

5.  Remember to give certain order to the photos, to choose the right music and to write only the most important information.

6.  Once you have created your video, save it.

7.  Remember that all the student have to show their videos.

8.  To finish with the activity, send it to your teacher so she/he can post it on the blog.

Here you have a tutorial of PhotoPeach and one sample that you can use as a guide.

PhotoPeach Toturial

You will be tested on your searching skills, on your ability to select important information and your writing skills.

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Glogster Activity

Glogster activity

LEVEL: Initial

AIM OF THE ACTIVITY: To practice the demonstratives (there is/ there are) and to reinforce vocabulary about animals.

 

You are going to create wallpaper in which you have to paste different pictures and describe them.

1.  Find pictures about animals you like.

2.  Ask your teacher for help to create an account on Glogster.

3.  When you have your account, choose one of the already made wallpapers and star editing it.

4.  Paste the pictures, write a short text and if you want add music and videos.

5.  When you finish your wallpaper, show it to your teacher before you save it.

6.  Once the teacher has corrected your work, you can save it.

7.  Remember to tell your teacher that you have finished so she/he can post your wallpaper on the wall.

Here you have a tutorial of Glogster and one sample that you can use as a guide.

Glogster Tutorial

You will be tested on your writing and vocabulary.

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Smilebox Activity

SmileBox Activity

LEVEL: Intermediate

AIM OF THE ACTIVITY: To practice writing and speaking skills.

You are supposed to create a smilebox album, using photos of a previous journey you have made and to write a little description of them. Once you have finished your album, you are supposed to show it to your partners and to explain them what is the album about. Then the teacher will post you album on her blog.

1.  Choose photos of a journey you had made.

2.  Create a smilebox album. Remember that you are supposed to write a little description in the boxes that are next to the photos.

3.  Once you have created your album show it to your teacher for correction.

4.  When you have corrected everything save the album following the steps.

5.  When all the students have finished their albums, they will have to show them to their partners and describe it to the rest of the class.

6.  Remember that you have a period of three classes to finish your album.

7.  Once all students had shown their work, you have to send your album to the teacher so he/she can post it on the blog.

Here you have a tutorial of Smilebox and one sample that you can use as a guide.

SmileBox Tutorial

 

You will be tested on your writing and speaking skills. Here you have the criteria.

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How to use Wordle

How to use Wordle

Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends.

I find it very useful to practice writing and to put some beauty in what you write. It is really useful to focus on vocabulary and grammar too.

In order to create a wordle you will have to:

       1. Go to **http://www.wordle.net/**

2.  Then choose the option CREATE your own.

3.  You will see a box where you have to write the text. Also you have the option to insert the text from your personal page.

4.  Once you have chosen the text you want to use, click on GO (if you had written the text) or SUBMIT (if you had insert the text).

5.  Remember that the page works with the latest JAVA program. So if you do not have it in your computer it is advisable for you to download it. You can do so from this page **http://www.java.com/es/download/**

6.  The next step is to modify the things that you do not like of the version that wordle offers you. You can change colours; you can change the prominence of the words; you can chance the font.

7.  Once you finish editing you wordle you have to click on SAVE TO PUBLIC GALLERY.

8.  You also have the option of printing it.

Here I leave you the one that I had made. Hope you enjoy it!

My Wordle

• Now that you know how to use Wordle,  create your own

How to use Photopeach

How to use Photopeach

Photopeach is a really interesting tool which is available on line. With this tool you can create a slideshow which is a video of photos in which you can add music and text. It is a useful way of improving your searching skills and of developing your creativity.

In order to create you slideshow to have to:

1.  Go to http://photopeach.com/

2.  First of all you have to create an account. You can choose between a free account and a pay account. The difference is that if you choose the free account you will only have a certain amount of slides (pictures) available and you are not allow to upload your music, you will have to use a YouTube video which will appear on the right side of the slideshow.

3.  After creating your account, you will have to select the option of upload photos.

4.  Choose the photos you want to use in the slideshow. Remember that if you created a free account you will be allow uploading only 30 photos.

5.  Once you have uploaded all the photos you will have to click on NEXT.

6.  First of all write a name for your slideshow. Remember to write a name that has to do with your slideshow.

7.  Then you will have to choose the music you want to you slide show. There are a lot of songs that you can choose that are already available on the page. But if you want to use a different one you will have to choose “Search YouTube”. There you can write the name of the song you want and then choose the video you like most.

8.  When you finish you have to click on FINISH.

9.  The page will show you the slide show that it has created. Of course you will have to put the images in order and write the text that you want. To do this you will have to click on EDIT and then choose the option EDIT CAPTION AND PHOTOS.

10.         There you can change the order by moving the pictures to the place you want them to be. And, at the same time, you can write the text that you want to accompany your photos.

11.          Once you have finish, you will have to click on OK.

12.     You will be able to change as many things as you wish.

13.          When you finish you have the option of downloading and sharing your slideshow.

Here I leave you the one that I had made. Hope you enjoy it!

"The Beatles" on PhotoPeach

• Now that you know how to use PhotoPeach, create your own