Let´s enjoy ICT in our class!

ICT in our class today! 👍 Take a look at my Issuu presentation about ICT in our class today https://issuu.com/luciana66/docs/ictinourclasstoday

Webquest: Slides.com   Slides.com allows us to create, present and share slide decks in a flexible and easy way.  Follow this link to my Slide presentation about "Children´s Rights"   "Children´s Rights" 👧👦

The Power Of Smiling 😊😊 Children laughing despite difficulties. This is my short presentation on Issue. I really loved working with this online tool!  https://issuu.com/luciana66/docs/thepowerofsmiling

Infographics : VisMe Take a look at this presentation I made entitled "Homelessness". I highly recommend this online tool called VisMe. We can create any type of visual content.  As we can download the presentation as an image, here there is a picture of my presentation. There is also a link for public access .  homelessness 

Learning Objects : Bubbl.us  This is my mind mapping about "Doctors Without Borders." Bubbl.us is an interesting online tool to make thematic webs.  My experience in class with this kind of website was very useful. I implemented this tool during a pre-task activity at Colegio de la UNLPam with students belonging to 5° Year (A) As the task that students have to accomplish is the writing of a letter to the editor, during the pre-task stage I showed them a Piktochart presentation about “How to do a letter to the editor.” I explained to them what is a letter to the editor, the purpose of writing a letter to the editor, and the way in which they could arrange ideas, opinions and factual information. As I have made my own letter to the editor I showed them the process of my writing, and it was at this moment that I presented them a brainstorming I designed using Bubbl.us presentations. While the students were working in their own brainstormings, some ...

Short videos in ELT Here there are two wonderful videos to work with students in our ELT lessons. I think they may be a motivating way to deal with topics such as preconceptions, prejudices and addiction.  They do not only provide stimulus for classroom activities but also foster critical thinking. Let´s take advantage of them!😉 The 1st is called FAREWELL WITH THE LAST KNIT and the 2nd one is called THE BALCONY GIRL I´ve also found some interesting videos to work with students. Indeed, I´ve used some of them to talk with my students about gender, discrimination, education, etc. Nevertheless, beyond the topics we may suggest, the most important and rewarding of working with videos in ELT classes are the topics students may propose from watching them.  From this video we can suggest topics such as: * gender  * education * food * toys From this 2nd video we can suggest topics such as :  * Discrimination * Self-Resp...

Wordcloud: Wordle It may be an engaging online tool to make graphical representations of word frequency. Let´s engage students in making eye-catching brainstormings ! 😄 This is my own graphical representation about Edgar Morin´s book.  

Seven Complex Lessons in Education for the Future by Edgar Morin (2002)  It is a useful book for us to think about different perspectives of a lesson and the participation of students in it. I really liked chapter VI about “Understanding each other” in which the author argues about egocentrism, ethnocentrism, sociocentrism, and the teaching obstacles to understanding. This is a video in which the French philosopher and sociologist internationally recognised for his work on complexity and "complex thought" argues about the education in the future. Now, take a look at this mind map about Edgar Morin´s book we´ve done during our ICT lessons. It was created on Cacoo , an online diagramming tool for creating sitemaps, flowcharts, and mind maps.

"Patch Adams y payamédicos en Iquitos, Amazonas peruano" This video may be a wonderful tool for teachers to encourage  students´cultural awareness, values, solidarity, respect for one another, and most important of all: the power of smiling 😊