Teaching vocabulary and doing pictographics 😀

In the morning...
Dr Mattix's classes are becoming a great source of ideas to apply in the classroom. Today we worked on some "vocabulary" games to reinforce the sts learning. We focused on how such games are appropriate or not depending on the type of words we are dealing with (more concrete or abstract). Such games imply the sts moving and asking questions or working in groups in order to represent concepts to the rest of the class; then the teacher can take photos of the students posing and stick them on the classroom wall. It's fun, engaging and effective!.

In the afternoon...
Our first computing assignment with Dr Norton  was finished today. It was an activity we can do with our students using their computers in class-time. The idea is to create an infographic  (presentation of information in the form of a chart). First we have to show the students an infographic  on the topic we want them to present ( festivals, a cultural fair, typical food, etc...). Then we tell them that  before using the computer they will actually have to design the infographic on paper. Once they did so we guide them through the process of encoding and assembling all the necessary parts of their presentations. Below you can see the infographic I did, using the platform "piktochart.com". Though it looks simple, it requires certain knowledge that most of us didn't have 🙈.