Educreations

Con esta aplicación el docente puede crear una clase y publicarla a toda la clase. También nos da la oportunidad de grabarnos o de pedir a nuestros alumnos que se graben.

http://www.educreations.com/lesson/view/cala-del-naufragio-en-la-isla-de-zakynthos/2611211/?s=ZLiAtx&ref=link

Termina la historia

Bubblr Pimpampum

Bubblr is a community where people can create comic-strips (photo novels) using photos from flickr, just taking a sequence of pictures where you can add bubbles and create a story. All stories are saved in the archive.

- Free and easy to use, there is not need to sign-up.

- Photos are from flick, there is not problem with copyright.

- The comic strip can be embedded in a blog, or e-mail.

- It is available in Catalan, Spanish and English.

- Promotes creativity, and offers a great potential for language learning by reusing story trips, rated them or simply creating new ones.


Examples of activities can be viewed in the following links.


Finish the story


http://www.pimpampum.net/bubblr/?id=39910

http://www.pimpampum.net/bubblr/?id=39927

Wallwisher

Free resource and extremely simple to use. There are not requirements to set up, only an e-mail address and a user name.

Students can post sound, images or words. There is a maximum of 160 words for each post.

This is the activity created for "El día del español"

http://wallwisher.com/wall/palabraES

Type of activities suggested:

Brainstorming

Students can post sound, images or words.

“Cualidades de un buen jefe/emprendedor”.

Vocabulary practice.

To introduce new vocabulary

To give a set of words and write sentences by using them. 

To give a set of words and post pictures that relate to those words. "Estados de ánimo" "Feelings".

Accuracy

Look for an image that express the following feelings.

Grammar; Solo renunciaría a mi nacionalidad si ...

Task based activities, create an album for the class, review it, vote it;

My favorite song in Spanish

My favorite painting, film. book.

Reviews; life in Campus, food in the cantine (price, quality, favorite dish).

Speaking activities

Introduce each other by using pictures of objects.

Which is the most useful, useless, expensive, cheap, loving objet that you have? Tell us briefly the story of it.

Open Educational Resources

In order to create and e-tivity, I am going to use OER from the web.

The criteria I have applied to select the resources is as follow:

• They should be free of access.
• They should be faithful to the principles of the web 2.0 promoting; collaboration, participation and sharing.
• The task should enhance learning outside the classroom.
• The applications should promote task-based activities, students will create a product however the focus will be not only in the final product but as well in the process.
• This product should be chosen according to the student interest and experiences directed to a public outside the classroom. Authentik task.
• It should promote creativity.

All these principles are truly on line with the communicative approach for language learning.

Characteristics of an E-tivity

E-tivity is a term coined by Professor Gilly Salmon (2002) to describe a framework for facilitating active learning in a online environment.

• E-tivity involves learners interacting with one another in order to complete a particular task.
•  An e-tivity is an online learning activity or task that:
• Stimulates the learner.
• Clearly presents all instructions.
• Has a clear title and a call to action.
• Involves the learners posting a contribution and replying to one another.
• Provokes discussion and knowledge construction.
• Provide an authentic task for the learners.