However, not all the things left by the program are memories.. Thus, I want to share two events that have taken place in my high school this month, as they are directly related to having participated in the program. Not to mention the use of KAHOOT, which I use every 10 days with my students. They love playing it !! and I 've found that it's a great tool to revise content 😁.
EVENT 1- Students exchange between Uruguay and Kazakhstan classrooms😊
After the program all the teachers have been in touch through "whatsapp". Therefore, the idea of planning a class between teachers from different countries grew up.
Ainur (teacher from Kazakhstan) and I decided to plan a lesson together using the webpage www.padlet.com , which we learnt about at George Mason university.
The exchange was about connecting our classrooms at the same time, in order for our students to communicate in real time.
The students had to complete a chart by asking a student from the other country different questions. The level of the students is elementary but they did a great job, communicating in the only language they could... ENGLISH 😀
Padlet.com let the students create "dialogue bubbles" on a board, so they interact at the same time and can join other bubbles if they want to participate in other conversations.
sts used the cell phone and took notes in order to accomplish the task.
EVENT 2- Workshop with teachers about NEWSELA.
Newsela.com is a webpage that allows teachers to create virtual classrooms in order to send texts and activities related to the readings to the students.
But what makes newsela so great is that the students can change the level of difficulty of the reading texts, making it much more individualized.
There are academic texts related to the different school subjects, as well as newspaper articles about a variety of topics. And at the end of each text there is a quiz and a written task for the students to do. All the results are sent to the teacher's account, who is always notified about the level at which each student is viewing the texts and doing the activities.
At the beginning I had to register Pan de Azucat High school in Newsela (necessary to have a teacher's account). As I couldn't do it directly, I e-mailed the support team of the webpage and they immediately solved the problem, which was essential for other teachers in my high school to join as well.
The workshop took place on May 18th and now we (the teachers) are planning different projects which imply the use of Newsela.com.
This is how an article looks like when a student is reading it. At the bottom they can change the.level of the text or click on the "quiz" option to do the quiz.
This is the same article but with a lower difficulty level. As you can see even the title changes...
