It has not been very easy for a person who is not an expert on ICT to deal with so many new tools.
Web poster wizard seems to be a very useful tool, we can creat interesting materials for our English lessons. I feel I need to use it again and again to achieve better results. This my first attempt using it. It must be a matter of working to improve.
I hope you can see what I did.
http://poster.4teachers.org/worksheet/view.php?id=161478
I believe my next worksheets will be better.
Thinking Tools
Saturday, April 7, 2012
Monday, April 2, 2012
Sharing my Web Poster Wizard experience
Hello,
everybody!
As Carla and
Rita said before, the Web Poster Wizard is a great tool that allows teachers to create engaging lesson plans, interactive
worksheets or even class pages. Moreover, this web tool enables
our students to engage in meaningful learning experiences while online and to
improve their English language proficiency level.
I decided to
create a worksheet on the topic Food and Drink for my 5th form
students. This worksheet includes interesting videos
from Youtube and Go Animate, a grammar game from British
Council and a quiz from My Studio.The main goal of this resource is to give my students the chance to enlarge their vocabulary on the topic Food and Drink, practise some grammar structures and to develop their reading, listening and writing skills. Here you can find the worksheet I created for my students. I hope you like it!
Teresa Coelho
Friday, March 30, 2012
Web Poster Wizard - my experience
Hi everyone!
After choosing the web tool we were going to work with, it was time to get to know it better and try to use it and discover how it could help me as a teacher and how it could be useful to my students.
As Rita said before, it can be a very useful tool for teachers, because we can create worksheets very quickly and with resources that can serve as guidelines to our students.
Since Rita aimed her work at her 8th and 9th graders, I decided to create some material for my 5th graders. Of course they don't have the same language proficiency as older students, so I had to create much simpler content.
Here are two examples of the worksheets I've created for them:
parts of the body and United Kingdom
The first one can be used as a homework (sometimes we don't have enough time to get everything done in class) and the second one is an example of a research work that students can accomplish in a more autonomous way.
In my opinion, this web tool can be very interesting, because teachers can produce materials and immedialty publish it online so that students can access. That way, work can be done outside the class, in a way that makes students more conscious of what they have to do to accomplish the tasks they are given.
These worksheets include links which are important guidelines and sources that students can use to solve the exercises/ tasks.
I also think that my 5th graders, because they are not as proficient and autonomous as older students, may find this tool a bit more difficult, but I think that can be solved if I explain them what they have to do very carefully and if the content of the worksheets is very simple. Not all of my students can access the Internet at home, so that could also be a difficulty, but overall I'm quite pleased with this tool. :)
Carla Silva
After choosing the web tool we were going to work with, it was time to get to know it better and try to use it and discover how it could help me as a teacher and how it could be useful to my students.
As Rita said before, it can be a very useful tool for teachers, because we can create worksheets very quickly and with resources that can serve as guidelines to our students.
Since Rita aimed her work at her 8th and 9th graders, I decided to create some material for my 5th graders. Of course they don't have the same language proficiency as older students, so I had to create much simpler content.
Here are two examples of the worksheets I've created for them:
parts of the body and United Kingdom
The first one can be used as a homework (sometimes we don't have enough time to get everything done in class) and the second one is an example of a research work that students can accomplish in a more autonomous way.
In my opinion, this web tool can be very interesting, because teachers can produce materials and immedialty publish it online so that students can access. That way, work can be done outside the class, in a way that makes students more conscious of what they have to do to accomplish the tasks they are given.
These worksheets include links which are important guidelines and sources that students can use to solve the exercises/ tasks.
I also think that my 5th graders, because they are not as proficient and autonomous as older students, may find this tool a bit more difficult, but I think that can be solved if I explain them what they have to do very carefully and if the content of the worksheets is very simple. Not all of my students can access the Internet at home, so that could also be a difficulty, but overall I'm quite pleased with this tool. :)
Carla Silva
Our tool... step by step
Before telling you about my experience with the web tool we have chosen, let me just tell you how easy it is to use it.
You just have to enter the site, log in (with you e-mail address and your password) and then you can manage your worksheets and your feature page.
It is also very easy to create new worksheets for your students. All the steps are very well explained and you just have to use your creativity.
Here are some pictures of the website. :)
Carla Silva
You just have to enter the site, log in (with you e-mail address and your password) and then you can manage your worksheets and your feature page.
It is also very easy to create new worksheets for your students. All the steps are very well explained and you just have to use your creativity.
Here are some pictures of the website. :)
Carla Silva
Thursday, March 29, 2012
Web Poster Wizard
4Teachers.org is a site that provides several tools: Arcademic Skill Builder; Persuade Star; Classroom Architect;
Equity; RubiStar; TrackStar; QuizStar; Assign-A-Day; Casa Notes; PBL Checklists; Teacher Tacklebox; NoteStar and Think Tank. We´ve decided to choose Web Poster Wizard because it's a quick and easy way of sharing information with our pupils.
Besides having interesting features, this tool allows teachers to organize their materials as well as to accomplish activities which are very important such as group works or even a simple homework.
As we all know, it's sometimes difficult to find time in the classroom to finish a research work or to correct some homework. That's the reason why I'll try to use this tool with two of my classes, one from the 8th form and the other from the 9th. I believe it can be useful mostly for the 7th, 8th and 9th forms and its main restriction may be the fact that some students don't feel comfortable creating their own online projects or reports.
Here you can find the two worksheets I've made for my students, the first as an homework and the second as a group work.
Wednesday, March 28, 2012
Our Web Tool
This free tool allows educators to create a lesson, worksheet, or class page and
immediately publish it online. Teachers can also set up classes and assign
projects to students. Students complete the assignments by creating their own
online projects or reports. Teachers and students can even add images and links
to their pages.
Carla Silva
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