The World Water Day

 International World Water Day is held annually on 22 March as a means of focusing attention on the importance of freshwater and advocating for the sustainable management of freshwater resources.


http://www.unwater.org/worldwaterday/about.html
 It's the official site of this  event.

Water is a great treasure of our life. It's impossible to live without it.

There are some activities offered for having the World Water Day.

It's the  video  telling about the importance of the water.

http://www.unwater.org/worldwaterday/allyoueat_en.html

 Class activities 

 The World Map of the events.

 The Rivers:

•   The E-pals forum about the rivers opf the region.
•  The Thames River ( London)
• Restoring rivers.
•  Rare animals of the rivers
• About rivers

Week 5 Task 2, 3

 Task 2
  Really, the plan of the lesson is amazing. it gives so many ideas  for using  wonderful tools for reading, showing the details of the novel( fairy-tale) story, poem... it is also interesting for text- analyzing and  expressing one's own attitude to the  piece of Literature.
 I would choose Robin Hood stories.
 Robin Hood and  the Silver Arrow
The Level of the students: Intermediate.

1.After reading  the story I would offer to  do a Drama Mapping.
 Charachter Map, Conflict Map, Resolution Map.

2. It will be useful to work with the Plot Diagram 
3. To make a poster that details the actions of the Shooting Match.
4. To record a commercial advertising this play.
5. To think about another story with these charachters.


Task 3.
My e-book.
http://www.epubbud.com/read.php?g=EA2FR52L

Week 5

Week 5 Task 1
 Working with the tool
http://interactives.mped.org/view_interactive.aspx?id=110&title=

The ideas of this article seem really interesting to me. Our school starts working in this field only this year, but we can see the advantages of digital classrooms.

The Virtual Classroom Redefines Education
 http://www.edutopia.org/highschool-com

 

Week 4 Task 5

TASK 5: Explore and create

There are various tools which allow students to record their voices. Click on the NUMBERS to explore the amazing sites we've selected for you. Then, devise a lesson plan where you include one of these tools for speaking practice. Publish your lesson plan in your e-portfolio and remember to share the post with the group in EDMODO.

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FOR FURTHER EXPLORATION

ASYNCHRONOUS TOOLS	SYNCHRONOUS TOOLS
http://mailvu.com/ (video mail)	http://wiziq.com (platform for online classes)
http://www.keek.com/ (post your status in video)	http://www.socialhangouts.me/ (online video chat)
http://www.aviary.com/tools/myna# (create podcasts)	http://trendtok.opentok.com/ (twitter video chat)
http://screenr.com (create screencasts)	http://www.slideshare.net/zipcast (turn a slideshare pres. into a webinar)
	http://skype.com
	http://www.hoot.me/ (study with a facebook contact)

Week 4

Week 4, Task 2
For TASK 2 we will be using http://recordr.tv/, a site which allows us to record videos with our webcams or with our microphones only.

1. Watch the video below for the two questions we'd like you to answer. 
2. Go to http://recordr.tv/ and click RECORD (top right) to make a video of yourself  answering the 2 questions.
3. Grab the embed code, go to our EDMODO GROUP, click on the message box, Type "Week 4:Task 2", click LINK below the message box, paste the embed code, click ATTACH, and send the message with your video response to the group.

Week 4 Task 2 recorded by guest

 TASK 3: A video questionnaire

For TASK 3, the tool chosen is http://intervue.me/. The site allows you to create questionnaires and then have students leave video replies.
The site" intervue" is really wonderful, it gives a nice opportunity to  make up a question and to organize a discussion of it.

I am really sorry that I failed to make up a video reply to the question about the Christmas celebration in Russia. I would like to make up the task in the form of the" educreation"

TASK 4 : Draw your family
For this task  I choose  " educreation"

Task 5
  
Speaking is a hard work for students at any stage of learning. It is necessary to use  digital tools for developing speaking skills for all the ages of the students. I think younger learners should use it only for some time and in a kind of a game, whereas elder students can spend more than half of the lesson for speaking tasks.
The necessary equipment: a computer laboratory with the Internet access, microphnes, earphones, computers.


 1.
 Sometimes it’s really hard for younger learners to train Grammar Rules.
It’s better to give them an opportunity to play and to learn at the same time.
  Studying Present Continuous tense is not so easy for Russian learners (as we do not have any analogy in our language).One of the ways is to organize some work for imagining and describing the current actions.
 I would like to invite my younger learners for a kind of a game.


2.
Studying the weather topic (11-12 years old students) I’d plan to use voxopop. Some time should be devoted to introducing the site and registration of the students.
During the lesson students are given new vocabulary, connected with the weather topic and some useful phrases should be trained.
The home task is to describe the weather. Some ideas of the students maybe similar, but it’s ok, as it helps to train the words and phrases and to check up the home task of the other learners.
http://www.voxopop.com/topic/bd557444-551e-48be-84ce-9e5d066ff96d
3.
For Intermediate students it will be interesting to check up the home task at the lesson by giving a short summary of the text at the specially created Voxopop group discussion.
 (The students should be given a step-by-step instruction, how to use voxopop).
 And the main condition is not to repeat the already mentioned information.
For example, students read and translated the text about the biography of Hans Christian Andersen.
At the classroom they should participate the group discussion, similar to this one.
http://www.voxopop.com/group/af773577-a898-44d8-9f7c-dae7081d7a04
 At the end of the lesson all the ideas should be listened to and discussed by the students.

Week 3 Task 3

Task 3. A lesson plan.

TOPIC OF THE LESSON
 The sights of  New York city

DIGITAL RESOURCES

1.   http://moviesegmentstoassessgrammargoals.blogspot.com/2009/12/night-at-museum-battle-of-smithsonian.html
2. http://woices.com/explore/map#coords=%2840.7541492563,%20-73.9817619324%29&z=14
3. http://www.amnyinteractive.com/project/2008/NYC-Accent/ 

A computer laboratory: computers, earphones.

CLASS LEVEL

Intermediate 

 TIME FRAME

 1.5 hours

LESSON GOALS
 To develop listening and speaking skills.
 To develop skills in searching the exact information and presenting it as a table.
STEPS

The teacher starts the lesson with a talk about  major sights of any city. Students create a  wordweb about sights of any city.

                                 

A teacher  says a few words about New York city and its  major sights and organize  the work with the video and the worksheet from the site

http://moviesegmentstoassessgrammargoals.blogspot.com/2009/12/night-at-museum-battle-of-smithsonian.html 

 Students create a  table:

                                                            Sights of New York (Manhattan)

                                      Central Park                                                  Times Square

                          -  park at the center of Manhattan           -"The Crossroads of the World"

                          -                                                             -

 The teacher offers the materials of the site "woices" to enhance the knowledge about these sights( The Central Park and Times Square) and to fill in the table.

http://woices.com/explore/map#coords=%2840.7541492563,%20-73.9817619324%29&z=14

These sites might be useful:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Times_square   
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Park

The teacher offers the site http://www.amnyinteractive.com/project/2008/NYC-Accent/ and  invited the children to find the stories told by people living in Manhattan.

At the end of the lesson students tell  short stories about these sites.

HOME-TASK

To describe any other sights of New York city, filling in a similar table.

Task 4 I would like to list the resources I will definetely use in teaching. http://moviesegmentstoassessgrammargoals.blogspot.com/
This site  is useful  for learning  some Grammar material. http://woices.com/
The site is wonderful for  feeling the atmosphere of the places. http://www.smories.com/
Little funny stories and poems performed by  children can be interesting for  young learners.
http://www.listen-and-write.com/audio/level

The leaners of any level will be interested by the site.

http://www.amnyinteractive.com/project/2008/NYC-Accent/
 The site  can be interesting for young researchers.

http://wordia.com/Young learners will be excited  to try such activities.

http://www.mediabistro.com/10000words/3-unique-ways-to-record-edit-and-publish-your-audio_b980It's a great site, helping not only to listen but also to record one's audio.

Week 3

Task 1 - Listening Treasure Hunt

a. Time is short. You're preparing for a class in which you want to enhance your students' listening skills. You've got exactly 30 minutes to find a hidden listening treasure. Click on any image below and start your exploration for the great listening hidden treasure. Take notes on what sites/resources you found interesting, their advantages and drawbacks.

b. Ready? Click on this alarm clock to set it up for 30 minutes and leave it there as you browse through the online possibilities.

c. Go!

 

Task 1,2

 I  have been  fascinated by the site http://moviesegmentstoassessgrammargoals.blogspot.com/

It contains the type of exercises I have been looking for a long time.  The main idea of this site is to show   short videos and to train some grammar material on the basis of the stories, shown in them. there are worksheets on most  grammar topics studied at school.

 I think,  I will use it with a great pleasure.

http://www.smories.com/

This site is really nice to work with as little children recite the poems  in  a cute  way! The resource is easy to use for young learners.

http://www.youtube.com/show/10questions  

This site  is good for advanced learners and it is interesting for teenagers as   famous peopls are interviewed.

http://daily-english-activities.blogspot.com/2008/10/listen-to-movie-script.html

 This site  contains quite a large number of the films with the scripts, it gives an opportunity to listen to the movie, or to watch the movie.The collection of the resources is really impressive.

http://www.listen-and-write.com/audio/level
 It's an amazing site!It allows to  choose  texts on many topics, to listen to them and to write a dictation. It is possible to choose different kinds of tasks( just typing, typing the first letter of the word or  filling in the blanks).



http://www.amnyinteractive.com/project/2008/NYC-Accent/

The site gives examples of different accents of English.

http://www.ted.com/  It's  a nice, easy to work with.It gives an opportunity to listen to different ideas of famous people on  many topics.


http://wordia.com/
 The site is created for the children and  it allows to find the resources connected with such subjects as Geography, Science, Humanity and some others. It allows to organize a game or to listen to the video. A fantastic site!

http://woices.com/

 It's a site  of  free geolocalized audioguides. It presents different places and their noise and talks there.