Friday, December 3, 2021

Claw Crane Machine

Encouraged by the "Use of New Technologies in English Language Teaching III" class, I looked for a tool in which I could play bingo with my students online and I found the Claw Crane Machine.

With this tool, bingo can be of numbers or words! You can configure the claw crane machine with the words the students are learning (animals, colors or fruits, for example) and thus make fixing vocabulary more fun!

My students loved it :)

Check it out: Claw Crane Machine





Quizlet

 Another important tool that I learned in the "Use of New Technologies in English Language Teaching III" class is Quizlet.

With this tool I could teach vocabulary during the online class in a fun way as it provides several games that encourage learning.

If you want to check it out: Quizlet - Vegetables




Padlet

Padlet was a really cool and important tool that I learned from the "Using New Technologies in English Language Teaching III" class. With this tool I could practice writing and reading with my students online.

In one class I taught my students about actions in a daily routine and then I asked them to write their own routine on Pedlet using the learned vocabulary. I could follow in real time what they wrote and when they finished they could read about their friends' routine. It was amazing.

If you want to chek it out: Padlet - My daily routine




About the module and what I have learned!

This module has changed my practice as an English Language teacher in the right moment. As we are living the COVID-19 pandemic, the classes had to be adapted to the online format and this module helped me a lot because I Iearned some resources to teach my student through the computer and turn it fun.

With the resources that I have learned I could teach and practice a lot of my students’ abilities. To exemplify, Quizlet enabled me to teach vocabulary and Padlet enabled me to practice writing and reading in a more interesting way.

In my point of view, the classes will take place again at school, but online classes will not be extinct. Therefore, I intend to continue reading, studying, participating in lectures about new technologies and always being attentive to present to my students the best teaching skills.

Talking about my self-assessment, I would give me grade 6. This grade is because I couldn’t participate to the online meeting with the teacher so I had to watch the recording class later. And with the amount of work I was doing, I missed the exam date.


Claw Crane Machine