Valentina's ICT PLE

  Lesson Plan   using Animoto  Age group: 14 - 15  year olds (Pre-Intermediate) Communicative goal: Describing holiday places Grammar focus: - Vocabulary focus: holiday places and leisure activities Duration: 80 minutes This will be a revision class. In order to practice vocabulary on holiday places and leisure activities, students will be expected to create a video on Animoto  about a specific place and the activities that can be done there. Activation: 10 minutes   The teacher will show their students a short video she created on Animoto about a place she has been to. The video will look like a tourism advertisement and it will include vocabulary items on leisure activities which can be done in that place. The teacher will carry out a brief brainstorming session to revise recycled language.  Application: 70 minutes  Activity #1: 25 minutes After watching the video, students in groups will have to look up information on the Internet about popul...

 Animoto Animoto  is a video slideshow platform that allows users to express their creativity in an easy and appealing way. " It is web-based and intuitive, with video creation capabilities that make it a reliable choice among students, photographers, teachers, business professionals, and video marketers" (Zuckerman, 2019) .   Users of this app do not need to have previous knowledge of video-editing softwares since it has features that are basic to every slideshow video creation program. Benefits It is easy and intuitive. It has a wide library of music tracks to add to the videos. Online editor, no download is required. Drawbacks Choices are limited, thus teaching potential too. Users can interact with untrusted users, including strangers and/or adults.  Watermark appears on free version. How-to Guide Animoto   1. Start from scratch  Once you have created a free account using your e-mail or your Facebook account, click on "Templates" and then on "Start from...

                       Quizizz Quizizz is a game show-style quiz tool in which teachers can create their own quizzes or choose one from the hundreds available in the website database. Students can take the quizzes all together competitively in the classroom and see classmates' progress, or the teacher can assign the quiz as homework and let them complete it on their own time. It also o ffers students’ reports, making assessment and error correction easier. An interesting fact about this website is that f un memes are added to questions once they are answered, which is highly appealing for learners in this era. Quizizz is a great resource to gamify the classroom by integrating game mechanics into learning to stimulate engagement from students.  Activity: In order to practice vocabulary on leisure activities, students will play a quiz game on Quizizz . They will have to look at pictures and choose the correct answers. Wi...

Hi! I'm Valentina Fernandez and I'm 28 years old. I live in Florida, Vicente López with two friends and a dog. In my free time, I enjoy listening to music, cooking, going out with my friends and taking long walks around my neighborhood with my dog. I've started studying at the UTN in 2017 and I hope to finish this year; this is the reason why I'm attending nine 4th year subjects.  Regarding my teaching experience, I've been teaching for more than 3 years now. I started giving one-to-one private lessons to adults at the end of my 1st year at UTN. Then, I spent one year giving both one-to-one and group lessons to all ages at a private institute. In 2019, I started working at a bilingual primary school in Olivos, where I'm currently teaching 4th graders. Nowadays, I'm giving hibrid lessons at school: half of the students are in the classroom and the other half are attending the class via Zoom. So, I can say that I'm partly teaching online right now.  Last y...