We were enjoying our lesson with 'Nearpod'. They wrote and drew for their balanced diet.

 Mr Wong is coming, please wait.

 You ate a lot of vegetables last night, great!

 You wrote a lot for it, a good try!

 Look! He is very excited to be no. 1 answering this question.

 I see, you are no. 2, right?

 I love English so much, yeah!

 What a great comparison you have made, good job!

 I think you ate macaroni last night, right?

 I think your writing is too short.

 Nice hand writing!

 You have done a great job, kid!

Are they noodles, peas and meat?

Worksheet for writing balanced diet before making a video

Nearpod I used in class 4B for teaching balanced diet

Adobe Spark Video by Thomas about balanced diet, my student in 4B

Adobe Spark Video about balanced diet by Michelle, my student in 4B

Session 13 reflection, thanks to our dearest teacher, Paul

    Tonight would be our last lesson in e-learning for English teaching course. It was only the end of a module but a brand new start of our teaching life. Thanks to our adorable, smart, trendy, remarkable and dearest teacher, Paul. He is so creative and hard-working that we were taught with lots of latest apps to teach English. That’s our most treasurable teaching resources, and the most important thing is that, he has enlightened us with never-ending learning heart in English teaching. Thanks a lot, Paul!

     We first made use of Google Form to make a questionnaire with students to find out their preference in leisure activities. I made a form to ask specifically about their interest in water sports. I think that would arouse students’ interest in getting information of what their friends are thinking. That would be a very good pre-writing task for students to gather enough writing ideas.

     The most unforgettable moment tonight would be the ‘kahoot’ games battling our classmates. No matter we would get a prize or not, the feeling of winning would ever touch our heart with the sense of satisfactory, happy and successfulness. That would be an exciting game in class and very welcomed by students, but we need to consider the discipline problem because they would be over-excited for sure.

     Last but not least, GoFormative quiz sheet is very user-friendly for us to make comprehension questions. We can even upload ‘PDF’ files and no limitations for the file types for manipulating! That is very convenience as we cannot always get ‘DOC’ file for Worksheets making! With this kind of quiz making tools, we can have more choices for students!

My 'GoFormative quiz sheet' about a fairy tale, Rapunzel.

Google form

Please come and fill in this form about your favourite water sports ^_^

Session 12 reflection

We met a very special guest tonight, Ms Zoe Chan. She is very experienced in manipulating IT skills with teaching English. All I learnt from her tonight was amazing! Not only because of her wonderful teaching strategies, but also how her students were enjoying learning English with all these latest skills. The smiles of her students were the motivation for me to improve, to excel with my teaching habits. I must learn from her! Quizlet, Nearpod, Adobe Spark video and padlet, all are keys to success in latest teaching trend!

       Then we started to make our own ‘Nearpod’ live lesson. I can’t imagine that just one software could apply many purposes. We can manage voting with ‘Poll’, we can teach vocabulary with embedded ‘Quizlet’, we can ask them to do instant MC questions……….Wow! So powerful for multi-teaching purpose! Even for writing, students won’t refuse to write anymore when they can share their writings in front of the class using ‘Nearpod’! Since they can draw, and race for the fastest writer! That is the first priority I need to use in my class for sure!

My interactive Nearpod lesson about good habits (adverbs of frequency)

  Nearpod about good habits for children.
Learn how to use 'once, twice, three times'. 

Session 11 reflection

     Tonight, the first thing I learnt was 'powtoon', it is a wonderful idea to get students’ attention. They would be engaged in the coming learning activities. However, Paul reminded us that it could not be overused as the effect would be vanished.


  ‘Pinterest’ is a powerful source for finding teaching ideas. From now on, I won’t worry about ‘how to teach’, ideas would always be here.


    ‘Padlet’ is very interesting to gather ideas from the class! It is amazing that watching tones of wonderful ideas popping up in front of you at the same time. I can also make use of it to put all my teaching materials here. It would be very handy when I want to get back something in a short period of time.
     
     How to make a difference in using PowerPoint to teach? Here comes a solution: Prezi. It is like a PowerPoint but with some animated issue which would make my presentation lively. Just like stepping up to reach a goal, the atmosphere would be boosted up with using Prezi.