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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.

My Prezi lesson about travelling, with an interesting MTR song! (must click to watch it!)

My Padlet to teach Quantifiers!

Session 10 reflection

       I cannot imagine how simple nowadays to produce some interesting videos with lots of websites.

       'Storybird' is simple and user-friendly for students to use. Primary kids can also master it to make a lot of interesting and wonderful videos. But we need to use the pictures it provided, maybe it is for fun for little kids.

        However, with 'mystorybook', we can make some personal stories with meaningful messages. It is not hard to use and even kids can add on their own pictures to tell their own stories. It is really very meaningful for children.

       How to move someone with the messages in you? Simple video with your memorable photos, background music and your touching message would do. "My 4B babies" by Ms Ani Chan is really a role model for me to show my students how powerful digital story-telling is. 

Also with 'ginger it' and 'eTutor',