3. Glogster EDU
• Aide in demonstrating a concept, skill, or strategy:
Both teachers and students can create
Interactive presentations to share that include video, audio,
text, pictures, and graphics
• Provide feedback for student development:
Interactive capabilities allow both teachers and students to
provide feedback in audio or text form
Glogs (presentation) embedded in a class webpage or wikipage
• Help students build their vocabulary:
Students view vocabulary words in a glog
See and hear the words used in context, watch a video that
represents the word, or include a note to remember the
meaning of the word
(GlogsterEDU, 2014)
4. Book Report Scenario
• Grade level 4 (ELL Domain III)
• Language Arts- Reading, Writing, Comprehension
Create a Book Report
Elements of Fiction
• Student-Created Glog
Interactive Book Report for comments, ideas, critiques
5. Edmodo
• Aide in demonstrating
concept, skill, or strategy:
Assign digital projects and manage progress instantly
• Provide feedback for student development
Snapshot Assessment Tool
Used at home or at school
Immediate date and feedback
• Help students build their vocabulary
Digital classroom for language links, videos, quizzes
Collaboration and discussion forums
(Edmodo, 2014)
6. Flipped Classroom Scenario
• Grade level 4 (ELL Domain III)
• Mathematics
Fractions & Common Denominators
• Video Link Prior to Lesson
Higher-order questions & activities in classroom
7. Mango Languages
• Aide in demonstrating a concept, skill, or strategy
ELL Students can speak, write, and create through online
tutorials
• Provide feedback for student development
Admin portal to track progress and usage at home or school
• Help students build their vocabulary:
Grammar, vocabulary, pronunciation, and culture
English courses at all levels in 17 languages
(Mango languages, n.d.)
8. Scenario: Ice Cream!
• Grade level 4 (ELL Domain III)
• Building Vocabulary
Using Social Context
• Mango lesson on restaurant conversation
Develop social skills and interaction
10. REFERENCES
Edmodo. (2014). Snapshot for teachers. Retrieved from https://snapshot.
edmodo.com/
GlogsterEDU. (2014). One Glog, full story. Retrieved from http://edu.
glogster.com/?ref=com
Mango languages. (n.d.) Make the world their classroom. Retrieved from
https://www.mangolanguages.com/k-12/
Editor's Notes
Students, especially ELL students, can benefit from technology use in a Sheltered Instruction Plan. Appropriately used, technology tools can provide visual graphics for deeper comprehension, allow for instant feedback to assess and modify lessons, and help improve students’ vocabulary acquisition. Some examples for integrated technology to implement include GlogsterEDU, Edmodo, and Mango. After reviewing specifics for each technology, we’ll look at how to use each technology in a fourth grade classroom scenario.
Teachers and students can create interactive presentations to share that include video, audio, text, pictures, and graphics.
The interactive capabilities allow both teachers and students to provide feedback in audio or text form.
Glogs (presentation) can then be embedded in a class webpage or wikipage.
Students can view vocabulary words in a glog, see and hear the words used in context, watch a video that represents the word and include his or her own note to remember the meaning of the word. Teachers can create a separate vocabulary word of the week glog that students can access on an ipad, at school, or at any computer (GlosterEDU, 2014).
Writing book reports is one of the most tedious tasks for fourth grade students to accomplish and usually means little to no enthusiasm. Instead of the ‘boring’ book report, teachers can implement GlosterEDU in a classroom scenario where students create an illustrated, engaging book report poster that covers all the key elements of fiction- plot, characters, theme, conflict, and setting. Classmates can then view peer book reports, make comments, give ideas, and critique work. This task works on reading, writing, and comprehension skills and can be easily adapted for all ELL students.
Edmodo is free and creates a safe, connected environment for teachers and students at school and home. Students can create projects or complete assignments and teachers can manage individual student progress immediately.
With the new snapshot assessment tool in Edmodo, teachers can create assessments based on standards, research questions or pre-existing assessments, get immediate student feedback, and give students access to the assessment at home or at school (Edmodo, 2014).
To help ELL students build their vocabulary, this digital classroom provides language links (free lesson and class ideas), videos in multiple languages, and can provide visual quizzes to early ELL students. Students can collaborate with each other from home, collaborate with the teacher, and participate in discussion forums to build vocabulary concepts (Edmodo, 2014).
Many students have difficulty with advanced fraction concepts in mathematics. This can be even more difficult for students who simply cannot understand what the teacher is lecturing about. So instead of lecturing, students in a fourth grade class can watch the ‘homework’ portion the night prior, then attend class the next day ready to practice what they’ve observed in the video. Students simply log on to Edmodo at home, view the video on the assignment tab for that day and can replay/pause as many times as they like. The video shows both the fraction components and terminology so ELL students can become familiar with both the vocabulary and their meaning through visual and auditory learning. Instead of hearing the terms for the first time in class and then trying to apply this knowledge, students have had an opportunity to ‘digest’ this information and come to class able to practice the lesson concepts using hands-on manipulatives for kinesthetic and visual learning. Group discussions can focus on higher-order questions instead of just trying to establish understanding of the basic terms.
Mango languages has a program designed specifically for K-12 and ELL students. Accounts can be may for ELL students’ parents so they may learn along with their child. ELL students can practice reading and comprehension exercises that requiring speaking, writing, and creating in an online environment accessible at home or at school.
Teachers get an administrative portal to track individual student progress, see usage, and can view this both at school or at home.
Students learn vocabulary through both words, grammar, pronunciation and culture. There are English courses for all levels of ELL students provided in over 17 languages (Mango languages, ).
One of the easiest ways for ELL students to acquire new language skills is to use social situations in connection to their needs. In a fourth grade class of diverse ELL students, a teacher can implement the use of Mango languages to build vocabulary common to social situations for this age group. ELL students can complete an interactive Mango language lesson that teaches how to order ice cream at the ice cream parlor. Students will then practice with play money and an ice cream parlor set run by the students. They get turns running the shop and being the customer. The ELL students will practice social language, build confidence and have fun (for extra fun, teachers can choose to have actual ice cream in conjunction with a end of unit class party (this can be altered with a candy shop, fruit/snack shop, etc).
When teachers effectively integrate technology in the classroom, ELL students gain confidence using a variety of manipulatives to learn and understand the intricacies of a new language. GlogsterEDU, Edmodo, and Mango are three simple technology devices any teacher can implement in a fourth grade classroom of diverse language learners. From book reports to social language support, technology integration use is unlimited in a Sheltered Instruction Plan- all that’s required is imagination and creativity to learn and explore.
