I was very specific about what I expected at the end of the lesson, to avoid too much "playing" and not enough French.
At the end of the lesson they emailed their links to me - my school email addres, of course - and I was please to see what I received.
Once received, I put each one onto my Langwitch blog and then asked the class to go back to the blog and comment on one anothers' work using the "what went well" and "even better if" format. Some of the comments were really lovely, such as:
"c'est fantastique"
"that was great use of French, well done!"
"C'est fantashique! It was awesome, but the speach was very fast and you weren't able to catch all of it. Bien!:)"
"bien. I thought one thing you could of improved was to check the speech bubble cause one was english but I thought the rest was really good".
I find it interesting that they were more critical than I would have been, but find that, generally pupils are more critical of one anothers' work that I expect and often need to encourage them to find more positives!
I am now definitely a fan of Go Animate and have already used it again with my Year 8 class...they will appear shortly on the blog or wiki.
Thanks Mrs B,
ReplyDeleteLooking for another choice of activity with my 10V/D4 because we can't do xtranormal ALL the time.
I know what we're doing tomorrow now!
Merci
Thanks Mrs B,
ReplyDeleteLooking for another choice of activity with my 10V/D4 because we can't do xtranormal ALL the time.
I know what we're doing tomorrow now!
Merci
My kids love to use go-animate but you are right about what you expected them to achieve as otherwise they will just spend the time playing with the animation.
ReplyDeleteI was wondering how productive the task was linguistically given that we have a limited amount of time to teach so much.
ReplyDeleteHi Steve and thank you for your comment,
ReplyDeleteI completely agree with what you're saying about the amount of time to teach so much. As for how productive, linguistically this task was given that this was an impromptu lesson (I had actually planned a classroom-based lesson that had nothing to do with this work, but had to think in my feet) I felt it was good for consolidation and also to introduce that class to the idea of looking at one anothers's work and talking about the work that had been done so that in the future they are used to it when set more demanding tasks. In addition the class thoroughly enjoyed the activity and some even did some extra French work at home, which can never be a bad thing, linguistically, can it?
Helena :)
I was wondering how productive the task was linguistically given that we have a limited amount of time to teach so much.
ReplyDeleteHi Steve and thank you for your comment,
ReplyDeleteI completely agree with what you're saying about the amount of time to teach so much. As for how productive, linguistically this task was given that this was an impromptu lesson (I had actually planned a classroom-based lesson that had nothing to do with this work, but had to think in my feet) I felt it was good for consolidation and also to introduce that class to the idea of looking at one anothers's work and talking about the work that had been done so that in the future they are used to it when set more demanding tasks. In addition the class thoroughly enjoyed the activity and some even did some extra French work at home, which can never be a bad thing, linguistically, can it?
Helena :)
My kids love to use go-animate but you are right about what you expected them to achieve as otherwise they will just spend the time playing with the animation.
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