Add so me spice to your reading and writing classes Presented by Aysegul Liman Kaban Do your students find reading and writing activities boring? Have you ever wished practicing reading and writing could be more fun for you and your students? If you say yes, this session is for you. As we already know it is not easy to motivate the students who are easily distracted and only think about surfing on the Internet. In this workshop we will look at ways to use technology to make your classes more fun. 27 May 2012 Yeditepe University THE IATEFL LT & TD SIG Joint Conference Yeditepe University, istanbul Turkey THE IATEFL LT & TD SIG Joint Conference 27 May 2012

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We live in a Digital
World.
Digital Literacy is
important &
necessary.
We need to
provide students
with the tools to
assist them with
reading, writing,
research,
organization and
numeracy.

3. More than 75 percent of teens own cell
phones
 73 percent use online social networking
sites
 38 percent share something online that
they created, such as artwork, photos,
stories, or videos.
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5. “My challenge to teachers is to create
assignments, projects and techniques to
capture your students„ attention.
Projects should be technology-rich, highly
engaging, and fun learning experiences
that reflect real-world skills.”

8.  Engaging
 Affective
& Effective
 It‟s New & Exciting for Many
 Current Teen-Trend
 Accessible anywhere
 Teacher – Student NonCommunication Dichotomy
Reversed
 A Plethora of Apps that liven
up lessons

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Teachers not ready yet
Administrators overly „READY‟
Needs highly qualified support
staff
Needs a proper infrastructure
Students ignore objectives
Teachers can forget the
objectives, learning intentions
& understandings
A serious shift and focus on
content and standards
needed

12. Prezi
 Use blogs and share their works
 Use facebook / Edmodo
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14. Create polls,
alerts,
library
 Give assignments
 Leave notes
 Prepare quizzes
 Share links
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19. fun
 free
 sharing beyond the
classroom
 online resources
convenient
 absent students
 daily learning
activities
 extra assignments
 review material
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reaching students
saving paper
shy students
dissemination of
media- learning names
polling students
feedback
lot of learning apps
collaborative learning

26. Taboo
• Hot seat
• Creating a story
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29. Baby tossing
 Woman, 93, is world's oldest yoga
teacher
 Strange but True
 Identical Twins' Genes Are Not Identical
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Orange News (formerly known as Ananova), as well as having some
great quirky news stories, which are great for class, also has a "News in
pictures" section with some fun things in its quirky photo gallery.
http://web.orange.co.uk/article/quirkies/Woman_tried_to_post_live_puppy
At Yahoo, you have a similar source of bizarre news stories, in its "Oddly
Enough" section. I find that they are particularly good for dictogloss, and
both the stories and images work great on the interactive whiteboard.
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/oddlyenough.html
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On the IWB, it's so easy to import things, for a start, and separating
pictures from captions gives you and easy-to-create drag-and-drop,
matching exercise.
http://www.iwb.org.uk/

32. http://dreamdoze.com/
 This task is based around a website called
DreamDoze, where people share their
dreams and help each other understand
them.
 The site enables your students to write down
their dreams, share them with other people
and get their interpretation of their dream.
 They can also read about other people's
dreams and help them to understand them.
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34. This activity will show you how to get
simple quick writing practice and how to
give and receive feedback and criticism
of your written work.
 The activity is based around a site called
Five Card Stories and will help you to
create a story based on 5 images.
 http://5card.cogdogblog.com/
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35. First you are going to read some very
short stories based on images.
 Look at the five images that go with it,
read each story and then vote how
good you think the story is.
 If you think the story is really good, give it
10 stars. If you think it's really bad, give it
just one.
 http://5card.cogdogblog.com/show.php
?suit=5card
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http://5card.cogdogblog.com/photos.p
hp?tag=5cardflickr

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Students often expect their teacher to
correct their written errors, but students can
also learn a lot from looking for and
correcting errors in written work.

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http://www.spellchecker.net/spellcheck/

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http://ed.grammarly.com/editor/view?f=1

44. http://issuu.com/
 One of the great things about being
able to speak and understand English is
that it gives you access to a huge
amount of varied reading materials in all
kinds of different forms and on all kinds of
topics.
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46. Why Penzu?
 You do not need to carry papers any
more!
 It is green!
 No limitation of location!
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50. I think penzu and
edmodo are awesome
because I can
communicate to my
classmates with my
Blackberry. Gizem
We can look at our
feedback easily on
penzu classroom. So it
helps us to improve our
paragraph skills.
Oğuzcan
Penzu classroom is my
favourite website for school.
You can write when and what
you want, even negative
things. Gamze

51. http://transl8it.com/
It is simple to use.
 Just type in your SMS, text, emoticon, smiley,
slang or chat room lingo and let transL8it!
 Convert it to plain english -- OR -- type in your
phrase in english and convert it to SMS TXT
lingo slang!
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53. I hav eaten
d plums
Dat wer n
d icebox
& whch
U wer problE
saving
4 breakfast
4giv me
dey wer delicious
so swEt
& so cold

54. I have eaten
the plums
that were in
the icebox
and which
you were probably
saving
for breakfast
Forgive me
they were delicious
so sweet
and so cold

55. 12. Use of dictionaries
http://www.onelook.com/reversedictionary.shtml
 http://daily-englishactivities.blogspot.com/2009/06/findwords-that-express-your-thoughts.html
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58. Improve critical skills
 Students read more to be successful
 They have a motivation to read and
speak.
 After debates they can write reflection
letters.
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Firstly Ss look at the photographs, select at least 8-10 of them, and
decide how the people are related (relatives? work? living in the
same block? friends? married?)
Ss decide what "the story" is going to be (someone gets/doesn't
get the job, win lottery, consequences, etc., etc…)
Ss make brief "character notes" on the people selected (name,
age, background, job , character…)
Ss decide what written texts there could be that would "tell" the
story (job applications, emails, memos, reports, post-it notes…)
Ss agree on and make any alterations necessary for the story to
be coherent
Ss then write the texts (in pairs, not individually), and post them on
a blog
Ss write comments on the blog (both on the content, and to
provide feedback on the project)
T (=teacher) provides feedback, correction, etc.

63. Playing with words, creating interactive
writing games. You can choose the plot,
the setting, the character…
 After you finish, you can print and e-mail
your writings : http://writingfix.com
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Firstly, you need to find at least three compare and contrast
essays (you can change the essay type of course:)).
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Secondly, paste them to the word and organize it like the
sample below. Add outer border to the pieces.
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Thirdly, print the essays and cut them into pieces and mix.
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Divide the class into groups and call the first group and set the
timer.
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Each group need to form one essay correctly of course in the
fastest time.
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Don't let the other groups look at the cards before the game
started. (Because they may memorize the organization of the
essays.)
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Finally, choose the fastest group.

69. Mixed-up paragraph exercise
 Migration
 Parents
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