Webquest

Here is the webquest I created to help my students explore the words attributed to Jonas, the protagonist in The Giver. Aside from my inability to modify the appearance of my webquest using the appearance editor function, creating this webquest was a fun and worthwhile process. I hope to use this webquest with future Level 4 Reading and Vocabulary classes.

The Words of The Giver

Prezi Presentations

This is a short Prezi tutorial on creating puzzles with the puzzle generator Puzzlemaker. I'd thought I'd practice using Prezi in a sort of useful way.  It's a free site that allows teachers to create challenging but fun puzzles in minutes. I just learned about this site from a colleague, so I thought I'd use the creation of this presentation as a chance to make a real puzzle for my class. It was also my first time using both Prezi to create a presentation and Snagit software to capture web page images (thanks Rebeccah!).  Despite the boring nature of this presentation, I really enjoyed using Prezi, and I plan to use Snagit again before my free 30 day trial expires. I recommend watching the presentation at full screen.

Prezi Puzzlemaker Presentation

Here is a presentation on whether technology and the "materials light" Dogme English Language Teaching (ELT) approach can be compatible.  I used Prezi again after doing the short presentation above and found it to be a fairly user-friendly presentation tool. It offers much more dynamism than MS Power point. I'm thinking about creating a technology enhanced Dogme lesson for my final "technofied" lesson; doing the research for this presentation gave me some ideas on how I might go about doing that.

Integrating Technology into a Dogme ELT Approach

Personal Tale Rubric and Personal Story 2

Here is my personal tale rubric:
Personal Tale Rubric


Personal Story 2

After hours of unsuccessfully trying to solve a complicated problem , the simple solution was to store my second digital tale in my box.com folder and post the link here. I apologize that this is so late.

The Alder Tree