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looking forward to my final certificate...

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looking forward to my final certificate...

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06/05/2017

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Finally! Eppur si muove...ecco la mia quinta stella

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Finally! Eppur si muove...ecco la mia quinta stella

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A piece of cake? Not really! this course has been really challenging  for me, but now that it has come to an end, I can't wait for the next technoclil course to start! In the meantime, I'll have a clil-licious cupcake. See you soon! 

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A piece of cake? Not really! this course has been really challenging  for me, but now that it has come to an end, I can't wait for the next technoclil course to start! In the meantime, I'll have a clil-licious cupcake. See you soon! 

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My infographic made with venngage (26 Feb 2017)

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the link to my video, I can't believe I succeeded in doing this!

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<iframe id="vp1zwsTh" title="Video Player" width="432" height="243" frameborder="0" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/embed.animoto.com/play.html?w=swf/production/vp1&e=1487830390&f=zwsThD7HREChAaF1F6swDA&d=0&m=p&r=360p&volume=100&start_res=360p&i=m&asset_domain=s3-p.animoto.com&animoto_domain=animoto.com&options=" allowfullscreen></iframe>

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https://www.powtoon.com/online-presentation/dqDWLjnhjcv/technoclil/?utm_source=transactional&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Transactional-Publish-success&mode=movie#/

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THANK YOU! :D

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FROM A COLLEAGUE'S FB PAGE "Oggi ennesima lezione dai miei alunni: 22 di loro erano seduti, in attesa di un conferenziere, nelle prime due file di un'aula universitaria. Composti, silenziosi. Tutti concentrati sui loro smartphone. Gli ho chiesto "ma cosa facevate prima di avere gli smartphone?". Una bionda con i boccoli che sembrava uscita da un quadro di Botticelli mi ha guardata stupita: "noi non c'eravamo prima degli smartphone". Ecco. Loro non c'erano. E siamo noi a dover capire il loro mondo evitando domande sceme."

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FROM A COLLEAGUE'S FB PAGE "Oggi ennesima lezione dai miei alunni: 22 di loro erano seduti, in attesa di un conferenziere, nelle prime due file di un'aula universitaria. Composti, silenziosi. Tutti concentrati sui loro smartphone. Gli ho chiesto "ma cosa facevate prima di avere gli smartphone?". Una bionda con i boccoli che sembrava uscita da un quadro di Botticelli mi ha guardata stupita: "noi non c'eravamo prima degli smartphone". Ecco. Loro non c'erano. E siamo noi a dover capire il loro mondo evitando domande sceme."

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  19/02/2017                     It's has been a long week. I wonder if Daniela and Letizia are still validating week 4 ER tasks...I am hoping mine is ok and I can get my  little  twinkling fourth Star. 

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  19/02/2017                     It's has been a long week. I wonder if Daniela and Letizia are still validating week 4 ER tasks...I am hoping mine is ok and I can get my  little  twinkling fourth Star. 

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In the meanwhile, I am going to work on creating a video for week 5. Let's see what happens ...first time here.

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"Change is only another word for growth, another synonim for learning"
Charles Handy

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Week 4 Assignment part 2.                                                                      Traditionally,  reading is one of the skills we usually teach by giving the students a short passage from a  famous book and then making them work on it through a comprehension questionnaire, and several exercises on vocabulary, style, meaning…That’s what we call intensive reading” .Extensive reading instead is “an alternative approach” (British Council). It is reading for reading’s sake because it is an activity which is purposeful in itself. Students should read longer texts and large quantities for a gist or general meaning, enjoying the pleasure of reading. They should choose the books they want to read at their level,  depending on their interests and not necessarily for studying.The role of the teacher here is to motivate learners, encourage them to read for pleasure, inspire the pupils to open  a book when they get home and in class too.  It is difficult in an era where  teens get distracted by their smartphones and the  internet but we have learned here during week 4 that it is possible to use webtools to direct students towards the right pathway. As for my extensive reading lesson plan, I've haven't tried with my students yet, but I’ve tought of a  book I read myself  a few years ago: “Toast” by Nigel Slater. By choosing this title,  I   tried to capture the students interest as they study to become chefs or work in the catering industry.  I am very passionate about this kind of writing and I am convinced that students may learn a lot of new words and collocations through reading.  For the focus on language, I worked mainly on vocabulary and collocations, and the use of English.The students, together with the cooking teacher and possibly in the school kitchen lab,   will revise words connected with food and cooking tools and methods. The webtools we could use for this lesson are Rewordify.com and writeandimprove.com, with a writing task proposed by the teachers, together with Prezi.com  or Padlet if the students wants to take pictures of their childhood favourite meal.  

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Week 4 Assignment part 2.                                                                      Traditionally,  reading is one of the skills we usually teach by giving the students a short passage from a  famous book and then making them work on it through a comprehension questionnaire, and several exercises on vocabulary, style, meaning…That’s what we call intensive reading” .Extensive reading instead is “an alternative approach” (British Council). It is reading for reading’s sake because it is an activity which is purposeful in itself. Students should read longer texts and large quantities for a gist or general meaning, enjoying the pleasure of reading. They should choose the books they want to read at their level,  depending on their interests and not necessarily for studying.The role of the teacher here is to motivate learners, encourage them to read for pleasure, inspire the pupils to open  a book when they get home and in class too.  It is difficult in an era where  teens get distracted by their smartphones and the  internet but we have learned here during week 4 that it is possible to use webtools to direct students towards the right pathway. As for my extensive reading lesson plan, I've haven't tried with my students yet, but I’ve tought of a  book I read myself  a few years ago: “Toast” by Nigel Slater. By choosing this title,  I   tried to capture the students interest as they study to become chefs or work in the catering industry.  I am very passionate about this kind of writing and I am convinced that students may learn a lot of new words and collocations through reading.  For the focus on language, I worked mainly on vocabulary and collocations, and the use of English.The students, together with the cooking teacher and possibly in the school kitchen lab,   will revise words connected with food and cooking tools and methods. The webtools we could use for this lesson are Rewordify.com and writeandimprove.com, with a writing task proposed by the teachers, together with Prezi.com  or Padlet if the students wants to take pictures of their childhood favourite meal.  

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Each week, many interesting  links and resources... 

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Each week, many interesting  links and resources... 

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www.instagrok.com

a tool for creating interactive concept maps you can download and share.

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I finally succeeded in creating my Lesson Plan using Learning Designer.
I really hope it's ok!  : )
What I really liked of this tool is the fact you can  visually, immediately see through a graphic (pie chart) how much time it is planned for  each skill. That helps a lot!

https://v.gd/F0f6L2

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"...I'm not studying... I'm reading extensively!"

Students: Read quickly and
Enjoyably with
Adequate comprehension so  they
Don’t need a dictionary

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I'm a bit behind... and the learning designer site is still down ...so I'm reading for week 4

" Extensive reading: An alternative approach
Another model for teaching reading exists. This is an 'extensive reading approach' and involves students reading long texts or large quantities for general understanding, with the intention of enjoying the texts.
Students are allowed to choose the books they read depending on their interests, and there is not always a follow-up discussion or work in class. In this way students are encouraged to read for pleasure and should become better readers."

http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/article/extensive-reading

Extensive reading is the opposite of the obligatory ‘intensive reading’ we practice in school, crawling like snails over texts and leaving inky slime trails of annotation over every page. Reading extensively is about consuming large amounts of texts greedily to know the end of the story, not to dissect the author’s style. It is about choice, freedom and pleasure.
https://oupeltglobalblog.com/2012/11/01/whats-the-point-of-extensive-reading/

The teacher is a role model…a reader, who participates along with the students.
Alan Maley

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I believe that the use of technology  in the teaching/learning process is crucial as our students are digital natives.  Technology motivates the learners into something really natural to them.

One problem is that Italian schools are often short of funds for the implementation of technology  and tech innovation remains a sporadic phenomenon mostly limited to some schools.

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My favourite webtool for Techno-CLIL 2017 compilato

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"As teachers, we need to develop young people who can take responsibility for their own work,  who can collaborate with other people, and who can think for themselves"

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"As teachers, we need to develop young people who can take responsibility for their own work,  who can collaborate with other people, and who can think for themselves"

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this is one of the tools I've recently discovered thanks to a member of the technoclil facebook group

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Developed by the University of Cambridge, Write & Improve is a FREE tool that helps every learner to improve their English writing.

Choose from hundreds of tasks at all levels and start writing, or create your own tasks

Submit your writing and get a result linked to the international standard, the CEFR

Get automatic feedback on where your writing may need improvement

Make changes and check again to improve your writing

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Write & Improve is a free service for learners of English to practise their written English. Submit your written work and receive feedback in seconds, covering spelling, vocabulary, grammar and general style.