This week we had the chance to explore
lots of sites to create our own exercises according to the goals of our class
or the needs of our students. There were different creative sites; the ones
where exercises were ready to go just print and give away. Others required more
teachers crafting. However, the one that caught my attention was ANVILL. This
one is a super tool. It is especially good for developing listening and speaking
skills. It also allows you to create classes and lessons with embedded audio
and videos plus make evaluations with multimedia. I will definitively explore
and use this platform in my future classes. It has everything a language
teacher can ask for in terms of enhancing aural abilities.
As part of our training we had
the great opportunity to have a live webinar from Oregon with the creator of
ANVILL, Jeff Magoto who “walked us through” the application and gave us a
general overview of the tool and how to set it for creating our classes. It was
nice to see and listen to other classmates and get to see our instructor Janine
on the screen.
On the other hand, we finally
gave in our first drafts of the projects. We are working based on peer
reviewing, so everyone is checking everyone´s work. It feels so nice that this revision
protocol has been laid out very well and we all know what to do next. At the
moment most of my classmates are engaged in the polishing phase of our writings
and joggling with other things like creating an interactive exercise; but we
enjoy it. I tried a Google Docs survey that I used for my project and I have
seen some other examples of my colleagues in Nicenet which are very creative.
Hello Julio
ReplyDeleteGood Morning!
I fully agree with you that this week was really enriching as far as knowing and using the Online Tools are concerned.
Our entry into ANVILL's depth-less world made us richer like anything.
I also feel that it is a useful tool for developing the Speaking skill by making the students to listen to different audio clips.
Our attempt to create our own test, or site or exercise was also a novelty for us.
Moreover the process of Peer Review gave us opportunity for better insights into Report Writing.
Rest is cheers....
Have a great week end!
Shirish More
Can read simple English labeling.
ReplyDeleteCan use the phonics method (phonics) to understand the corresponding relations of the English spelling and pronunciation rules, and try to see the word pronunciation, listening, spelling.
Able to identify stories, verse, songs of common words.
Can make a simple question, answer and narrative.
Enthusiastic about the extra-curricular English textbooks.
Be able to read simple sentences.
Singing songs, verse followed by the teacher or tapes.
Can understand and identify some of the commonly used in everyday life communication in English
Hello Julio ,
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately I missed the webnar Ill check the recording hopefully .
Well ,it IS an interesting experience to integrate such technology in our classes !
My mother tongue is Arabic Julio ,so I teach EFL .As you mentioned about the interference of the mother tongue when speaking English its the same case with my students.
In addition to problems preventing them from speaking out in the first place !I suppose ANVILL will help improve my students speaking ability in a recognized way.
Good luck with your project .
Batool
Hello Julio,
ReplyDeleteI agree with you. This week we hada great opportunity: we could expand our knowledge about developing students' speaking skills.
The site are great creative tools. The problem with some is the trial period or if we want to enlarge our possibilities with the tool, we have to pay like Easy Test Maker.
ANVILL also caught my eye not only because of the possibilities we have to develop activities with our students but also because of the support team.
regards
Fatima (I,m on a different computer, so I can't write my name correctly)
Hi Julio,
ReplyDeleteI think we all feel the same about this week and we have all fallen in love with ANVILL. It was very nice to actually see you and being able to hear your voice at the webinar.
Mari Carmen