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QR Code readers

use integrated phone or laptop camera

or apps: e.g. QR Scanner (Android)

creating QR codes

•search for QR Code Generator online

•www.qrcode-monkey.de

•https://www.qr-code-generator.com

Using QR codes:

•linking to videos, audio materials on worksheets

•differentiation: QR code links to audio recording of the text or of instructions or to extra tips and help

•sharing of multimedia student products (e.g. on posters)

•station work, workshops

•multimedia treasure hunts or escape rooms

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Ideal tool for multimedia-portfolios oder digital materials collections

register here: https://padlet.com/referrals/lispolzleitner

Beispiele:

•Grammar practice

•Brainstorming

•sharing links to videos

•Audio and video recording

Example

Magic Camera

Think of an important little event in your life. Draw a "photo" of this moment and upload it to our padlet.

Be prepared to describe the event in detail: What happenend? Where were you? Describe the place and the situation. What was going on around you? How did you feel about it? What had happened before? How did you get into this situation?

TASK: Speaking activity
•In your group, share your pictures and ask your colleagues to guess the story behind your picture.

•Then share your story with them.

Variation: Go back to our padlet and record your story (1 minute). In this variation the students would listen to their classmates‘ stories and find the matching pictures.

Try more features on padlet by clicking on the + and the three dots ...

Register on Padlet: https://padlet.com/referrals/lispolzleitner

plan and design a padlet for your students:

add some resources (textfile, audio, video)

add 1 or 2 tasks for the learners.

share your padlet with others.

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For creating multimedia online books. They can include text, pictures, voice, video, links and more.

Examples

Superheroes Storybooks: https://read.bookcreator.com/library/-MYtzjG50X9E-Zcxdw4k

Spooky Stories: https://epep.at/?page_id=6010

Moods and Feelings: https://epep.at/?page_id=5716

Steirer des Tages: https://read.bookcreator.com/3qyZ6z3ut7bUCF11UBibJClvMLF2/qzMxgh8eTu-2rObMWEC7_Q

Weitere Ideen:

https://app.bookcreator.com/discover

First steps:

Register on https://bookcreator.com/ and create a teacher account

How to use Book Creator: https://europea.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Book-Creator_guidline.pdf

copyright: https://datenschutz-schule.info/datenschutz-check/bookcreator-online-buecher-erstellen/

It's your turn

- register on the website

- browse examples

- create a "library" for your class

- invite learners (check out different ways of doing this)

-create a first digital book and try out all the different features: text, formatting, images, audio, video ...

- how could you use bookcreator with your learners?

- create a specific task or project for one of your groups

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Digital storytelling using different tools

https://epep.at/?page_id=4161

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Digital Storytelling (DS) has become a popular methodology for teaching and learning as it provides the opportunity of giving students a voice in the learning process. DS involves the narrating of a story in the form of a short multimedia piece which includes pictures, spoken and/or written text and sometimes sound or music.

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Writing for a real audience is soooo much more satisfying and motivating that writing for the teacher.

Example:
https://readingiscool.xyz/rc/

https://gibsters.com

Simple blogging with Microsoft SWAY

Example: https://sway.office.com/Q7mjhB672YYwCIVK

Sway tutorials: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/create-in-sway-db30c63b-6548-456d-b0e2-9fcd68bfa7a0?ui=en-us&rs=en-us&ad=us

It's your turn:
- you can register a free blog on https://wordpress.com/de/free/
- First steps: What can you do on this blog?
- Publishing articles, short videos, stories...
- leaving comments

or use the free Microsoft app SWAY and create your first blog. This blog can be shared with the class --it does not need to be public.
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The Invention of Wings

I came to read this amazingly well-written book in the last few days and I want you to know that I was overwhelmed! I totally recommend it to you and trust me you won't be disappointed.

The first thing that I think makes the book so amazing, is the way the story of two girls with a completely different background, is presented. Well, you have to consider that the story is set in the 19th century, so that's the second thing that I think is so well described. I perfectly could imagine and understand how the people lived back then, it was like travelling back in the past. Apparently, this book is written in the view of two girls so the book has two main characters. Another aspect I want to mention, that I found very appealing, is that throughout the book the whole life story of these two girls is described. It feels like you can almost watch them grow up from a young age on. Continue reading

Theodor Finch thinks about death a lot. Suicidal thoughts are a dime a dozen in his life. He doesn't have an easy life because he has a very bad relationship with his family. It's hard for him to control his feelings and actions but he is very talented in calming down others. However, in school he is seen as a freak and he is far from popular.

Violet is equally important in the book. Finch and Violet are the main characters and the only ones you get to know better. Violet had a normal life until her sister has passed away in a car accident Since her sister's death she doesn't like to talk about her past but not only that. She is not able to ride in a car anymore, nor write entries for the blog she and her sister created and she generally takes her sister's death as an excuse for everything.

When Violet and Finch meet at the ledge of the school's belltower and they are both about to jump it's unclear who saves whom from jumping off...The two of them team up for a class project about "natural wonders" in their state of Indiana. They start to "wonder", as they like to call it. They visit a few places and enjoy to spend time with each other. You can then read how their relationship builds up...

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Harry Potter. A series consisting of seven books everyone of you has already heard of at least once in your life. The review you will be reading now is about the first novel: Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone...

I already read all the books once, but only in German. However, I convinced myself to start reading them in the original language and after finishing the first one I was amazed, that in English the book is even better!

The main character in this book is called Harry Potter. A boy whose wizard parents were killed by the darkest and most dangerous of them all: Voldemort. After the loss of his parents, baby Harry was given to the Dursleys, is relatives, where his real identity was held a secret. Until one day Hagrid (a half-giant wizard) came and dragged him out of his miserable life and told him everything. In addition to that Harry is sent to Hogwarts, a school for wizards, where he will get in a lot of trouble (very often), get to now lots of people, including his two best friends and get to learn everything about the wizard world. Long story in short: read the book. Continue reading

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This amazing novel is about the 18-year-old Mare Barrow. She lives in a society that is split by the colour of your blood. Red and silver. Reds are doomed to serve a life of oppression, death and misery. Silvers are born to rule over the ones that do not have ...

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A little while ago, I read the book „ The Minds of Billy Milligan ", written by Daniel Keyes. It's the shocking, non-fictional story of Billy, a young man suffering from multiple personality disorder. 24 different personalities find their origin in Billy's mind. Each and every one of them individual ...

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crime

It has only been one day since I finished reading this book. Misery might be one of the very best books ever. Just the title itself sends shivers down my spine. It isn't the language that Stephen King uses in this novel that makes it so realistic and riveting; it ...

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Cell, this book is an apocalyptic horror story written by the great author Stephen King in 2006.

It's about Clayton Riddell, the protagonist, who visits Boston, to make an important step for his not so good-looking career. But on this special day, hell breaks loose and nothing will be as it was before. The 'Pulse' that is emanated from cell phones, turns normal people into zombie-like creatures, which will soon attack everything alive viciously. Boston is destroyed now, explosions, fires and savagely attacking creatures make it almost impossible to survive. Luckily... Continue reading

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The curious incident of the dog in the night-time is an outstanding murder mystery novel, which is like no other. The detective and narrator, Christopher Boone, is fifteen years old and has Asperger's Syndrom. He knows a great deal about maths, but very little about human beings. (You'll find out what I mean with not knowing human beings well, in my video. And as soon as he finds a neighbor's dog murdered he sets out an terrifying journey which will turn his whole life upside down...

I hope you'll enjoy watching my video, have fun reading!

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Watch these instructions to embed your Knovio video into our blog.

Summary: open your Knovio account, select the video, click SHARE, click EMBED, on the right side select the IFRAME embed code, copy the iframe embed code into your blog post. (Make sure you are in the TEXT format - not in VISUAL.)

click SAVE DRAFT

Write a short description and click PREVIEW.

When you are happy with your post click SUBMIT FOR REVIEW. Be careful, as soon as you have submitted your blog you cannot edit it any more.

Help

The book, the sommer I turned pretty is an amazing book.
If you want to know a little bite more about the content,
then you can watch my video where I will tell you more about
this fantastic book.

Wonder is a great and fascinating book, so if you want to find out more about this book,
then watch my video!!!!! 🙂

"Ask me no questions" is a great book that I really recomend to you if you like to read sad and true stories.You can really sympathize with the main character Nadira and you always want to know how her tragic story goes on. Just read it, you wont regret it!

Stolen - an incredibly amazing. It is about the 16 year old girl Gemma, who gets kidnapped by a guy called Ty. He brings her to a house in the middle of nowhere in the Australian dessert, which he built just to keep her in. A story full of emotions...

"The Killing" is one of Robert Muchamore`s bestselling novels. It is really great and I can really recommend it.

The story is about a teenage boy called James Adams. His mom died, so he was sent to an organisation called CHERUB where kids and teenagers are tought to be agents. All those children live on campus (the headquaters of CHERUB). One day James freaks out and beats up another child. As a consequence he gets punished by the teachers and has to clean the staffrooms for at least a month. But a very generous mission controller sends him on a mission to London. And that`s where the action starts...

A story; about Kings and Bastards, Traitors and dwarfs

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Creating exercises for basic language practice

https://learningapps.org/

https://h5p.org/

Examples:

https://learningapps.org/user/lispolzleitner

H5P

https://h5p.org/content-types-and-applications

Examples

It's your turn:

- sign up on learningapps.org

- find at least 1 exercise that you want to use with one of your classes

- design one exercise for your learners

-share the exercise on our padlet

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LearningApps - interactive and multimedia learning blocks

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create worksheets with autocorrection

example 1: passive voice

https://www.liveworksheets.com/

another example: conditional 2:

https://www.liveworksheets.com/c?a=s&t=lb6yc5un3d&sr=n&l=ii&i=uzuczx&r=hy&f=dzdtuuzx&ms=uz&cd=paf1ik8xl0nlooxgxkgmwingnzxxgmxg&mw=hs

It's your turn:

- sign up at liveworksheets.org

- find an example for your learners

- design a worksheet for your learners (you can adapt a task that you used to do on paper)

-share your worksheet on our padlet

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Liveworksheets transforms your traditional printable worksheets into self-correcting interactive exercises that the students can do online and send to the teacher.

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An interactive digital treasure hunt. A fun tool for class-trips abroad or for exploring your town or area in and around the school.

https://actionbound.com/

Example: Summer challenge: https://en.actionbound.com/bound/summer-challenge-86683

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Example: Dictogloss activity: A zoo keeper in Japan...

For this activity the teacher reads a short passage that contains several typical examples of the targeted grammar or vocabulary. The reading is done at normal speed. The learners are instructed to take notes -- keywords, or even just beginnings of words. Then they work in small groups (3-4) and try to reconstruct the text exactly as it has been read.

This activity will force the learners to look very closely at the language forms (tenses, aspect, word order, idioms used...).

I like to use a zumpad for each group. That way I can watch the writing process and we can quickly and easily share and discuss the groups' versions afterwards. Zumpads are perfect for quick and dirty jobs where layouting is irrelevant.

•https://zumpad.zum.de/p/zoo-keeper-1

•https://zumpad.zum.de/p/zoo-keeper-2

•https://zumpad.zum.de/p/zoo-keeper-3

•https://zumpad.zum.de/p/zoo-keeper-4

•https://zumpad.zum.de/p/zoo-keeper-5

•https://zumpad.zum.de/p/zoo-keeper-6

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ZUM-Pad Formular

Nutzungsbedingungen

Jede Person, die das ZUM-Pad nutzt, ist für die Inhalte einer angelegten Seite verantwortlich. Die ZUM kann für einen Missbrauch des ZUM-Pads keine Haftung übernehmen.
Sollte es zu einem Missbrauch einer ZUM-Pad-Seite kommen, der nicht von selbst behoben werden kann, so bitten wir um eine Mitteilung an die ZUM (siehe Impressum), damit wir die Seite löschen können.

Die ZUM-Pad-Seiten werden jeweils nach einiger Zeit gelöscht werden. Im Moment gehen wir von einem halben Jahr Aufbewahrungszeit aus, was sich aber noch ändern kann; wir werden Änderungen hier mitteilen.

Eine kurze und hilfreiche Anleitung für das Arbeiten im ZUM-Pad findet man auch auf dem Lehrerfortbildungsserver Ba-Wü.

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Jede Person, die das ZUM-Pad nutzt, ist für die Inhalte einer angelegten Seite verantwortlich. Die ZUM kann für einen Missbrauch des ZUM-Pads keine Haftung übernehmen. Sollte es zu einem Missbrauch einer ZUM-Pad-Seite kommen, der nicht von selbst behoben werden kann, so bitten wir um eine Mitteilung an die ZUM (siehe Impressum), damit wir die Seite löschen können.

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(English) Books and Young Adult Literature

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(English) Books and Young Adult Literature

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Year 5-12

Get Epic: https://www.getepic.com/

Oxford Owl: https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/
How to create class logins in Oxford Owl: https://bit.ly/3Ea7VEd

Young Adult Literature Collection: https://yal.narrativedidactics.org/

More story collections: https://yal.narrativedidactics.org/more-story-collections/

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Vocaroo is a very quick and basic audio recorder that saves the recording online. It is completely anonymous, no accounts need to be created. The recordings can be shared very conveniently via link, QR code, e-mail or social media.

Other recording options are available on OneNote and Moodle. It is important that students do not need to send large audiofiles (often in different formats that you cannot use).

Examples:

•The Roaring Twenties in 1 minute
Students had 30 min to collect information about the 20s and 30s, then they recorded their “20s and 30s for dummies” on their phones using clyp.
•Global citicenship

•Technology

•Vocaroo recordings can also be used for audio instructions (rather than written instructions)

It's your turn:

design a simple audio task for one of your classes

record the instructions for your learners and share the link on our padlet. (Please add topic and level information to your padlet post)

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Vocabulary.com is an excellent site for vocabulary expansion of upper intermediate and advanced learners.

https://www.vocabulary.com/

You can look up words and find excellent explanations and sample usage in recent publications.

If you create a free account you can upload and share vocab lists with your learners. The tool will automatically add excellent example sentences and detailed information about word usage.

Vocabulary.com offers gamified activities for practicing the new words.

The paid accounts can do a lot more -- like following your learners' individual progress, but try out the free version -- it can go a long way.

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Vocabulary.com helps you learn new words, play games that improve your vocabulary, and explore language.

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an awesome new AI tool that will help you create texts at different levesl, including summaries, vocab lists and all kinds of questions.

Just try it!

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https://chat.openai.com/

Example 1:

1) learners write a text in Word.

2) teacher uploads the text to ChatGPT and prompts it to "correct and improve this text".

3) teacher prints the improved texts, learnes are asked to compare the 2 versions, highlight differences and decide which of the changes they want to include in their version.

Weaker learners need step-by-step instructions and help.

Example 2:

1) students use chatGPT and upload their text, prompting the tool to correct and improve the text.

2) students prompt chatGPT to list all changes and explain them in simple English.

If the ss do not understand the explanations, they call the teacher to help.

3) Ss decide which of the changes they want to use in their final version.

"Magazin writing":

Ss work in groups and write their own magazines or fake news books (see https://epep.at/?page_id=2452)

When the magazines are finished and printed, the ss are asked to prompt chatGPT to write the same articles based on their content prompts.

Each group creates a second AI version of their magazine.

The learners then compare the two versions and do the same for the other groups' magazines.

In-class discussion: which of the texts do you like better? Why?

Find both the original magazines and the AI versions here: https://read.bookcreator.com/library/-NXeyhk7xV3qqGOTbpJk

More use cases of ChatGPT:

brainstorming

creating differentiated (easier, harder, more or less complex versions of a text)

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ChatGPT is your AI chatbot for everyday use. Chat with the most advanced AI to explore ideas, solve problems, and learn faster.

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epep.at (Web Tools) - https://epep.at/?page_id=2575

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epep - Elisabeth Pölzleitner's English Pool

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Web-tools have become so user-friendly that even young children can use them. If they can - us teachers can do it as well. 😀

The ICT-project ideas shown on this page fit perfectly into creative, communicative language classrooms and can be done without any specialist technical knowledge or skills.

All the software and web-tools used in these projects can be downloaded for free.
The projects are all

based on the principles of communicative language teaching and show the learners even at A1 level that the foreign language is a tool for real life communication.

They foster social interaction, group learning and learning from one another.

They help develop skills for self- and peer evaluation and feedback.

They motivate learners to do their best and produce high quality products that they proudly present online.

They provide extra oral practice outside the classroom and thus help improve oral skills (fluency, intonation, pronunciation)

They teach learners to focus on their target audience and use language to convey a clear message.

You'll find more examples on my pages on WRITING and SPEAKING.

Before looking at some examples of tasks and activities in detail, check out my favorite tools here:

Let's start with the most basic idea that can be done after about two weeks of English at A1 level:

Speaking and listening: Getting to know your new classmates

In their first week of learning English learners produce a collage showing what is important to them. Depending on the learners' age these collages will include pictures of pets, hobbies, sports, family members, games, places etc. In class the learners label their collages with the help of the teacher. The teacher then scans all the collages and displays them on a Moodle database or on a padlet. It is important that the collages are visible for the whole class.

Asking questions: The learners practice asking simple questions to find out more about their new classmates: What is your name? Where do you come from? Do you have any brothers and sisters? Do you have a pet? ()

Interviews: The learners work in pairs and interview each other using the questions they have learned. They practice these interviews a few times until they feel confident to record their interviews on the teacher's mobile phone. The learners record their interviews and post the sound-files online together with the scanned collages. Listen to a few of the interviews recorded in the second week of the school-year. Click on the phones to start the interviews.

The most convenient tools for this activity are padlets. There the learners can easily upload a photo of their collage and record the interview directly into the tool.

Step 3: Listening comprehension and grammar: I play - he/she plays:

After raising the learners' awareness for the use of the 3rd person s the learners are asked to listen to all the interviews online and find one thing they have in common with each of their new classmates. This is their first listening comprehension exercise. In contrast to the listening exercises in textbooks, which deal with fictitious characters, learners are here listening to each other and really want to find out new things about their new classmates.

Step 4: Writing

After listening the learners are asked to write a text about all the things they share with their new friends. Have a look at my example here. Remind the learners not to forget to use the third person s whenever they write about their friends. (I like pizza. -- Peter pizza.)

Technical requirements: Set up a Moodle database or a padlet to share all these entries. The learners use their mobile phone to record the interviews and upload them.

In this activity the students learn from the start that the new language is used for communication. Young learners love to see their work displayed online and find it quite magic to see and listen to their work on the internet. This activity also helps them to get to know one another and to focus on the things they share rather than on the differences between them. Even boys and girls have to find something they have in common - and it always works! 😉

Speaking Homework and Video Presentations

In most classrooms it is fairly difficult to give students enough speaking time. While pairwork and group speaking tasks are useful for improving fluency, these activities are not very helpful for expanding vocabulary and grammar. For this reason, I ask my learners to record one speaking task after each topic that we have worked on. In this task the learners should show the new language (vocabulary and/or grammar) in a meaningful, communicative task. When recording their own voice learners tend to be quite critical with themselves and therefore plan their presentations well and often record the presentations several times before sharing them online. This leads to higher quality and to a heightened awareness of pronunciation, intonation, grammar and word choice. Students listen to one another's presentations and copy good phrases or good ideas from their classmates.

I use flip for this purpose. Flip is owned by Microsoft and is completely free. It has been designed for schools and meets all the requirements of the data protection act. It is suuuuper easy to use and share the videos all in one grid. Have a look at the teacher's instructions here.

I have used flip for all levels: A1 to C2: Introduce yourself to your new classmates - A1 to A2: Talk about your favorite day in the year - C2: Convince your colleagues that notional grammar is more efficient than traditional grammar.

Any topic will work.

If your students prefer to produce presentations where they are not seen, but hide behind powerpoint slides, use KNOVIO.com or powerpoint with sound recording instead. You will find my instructions on my HELP page.

Examples of year 1 students: My favorite day...

After learning to talk about their daily routines students produce little online videos where they talk about their favorite day in the year. They are asked to prepare a few drawings showing events on this day and show them in their video. This "trick" helps the children structure their little talks without reading a prepared text.

Examples of year 1 students: My favorite day in the year...

More examples of year one video-messages:

My Room, our Flat and my Neighborhood

My dream house

Writing your own online audio-video-books

The following examples of audio-video-books can be used at all levels as soon as learners can write simple texts in English. The format can be used for any topic. When writing their texts the learners are aware of a real audience. This usually motivates them to put in some extra effort and produce high quality work that they are proud of. In addition to the writing practice the learners then read their own texts or stories and record their voice. This way they get extra speaking practice. Speaking and listening to themselves will also help them to remember the new vocabulary that they have used in their texts.

First have a look at the examples. Then read the instructions below.

These examples were produced in a double period in year 1. The students worked in pairs. After a short instruction phase where they were shown how to use the programs they chose a topic of their interest and produced these video-books.

Originally, we used the online tool "bookr" for these books. This tool is no longer available. Since the 2016 version of Powerpoint, I have used this program to create all kinds of short video presentations. The learners can upload their own pictures and use page-flip transitions. Powerpoint allows you to record your voice and save the whole presentation as a video. Find my student-friendly instructions here:

Bookcreator: A great tool for creative writing, speaking, reading and more

More recently, we have used the tool bookcreator.com for all kinds of online writing activities. It offers an all-in-one solution where the learners can design cool online books by adding text, images, voice and even video. You will find examples of such online multimedia books in the section WRITING. We have used the bookcreator for the " superheroes project" and for the " moods and feelings " project, for example.

The same idea has been used to create the following spooky story books in a year 2 or 3. This project actually started as a

For a detailed description and instructions for this project go to

To get started, you can use bookcreator for free. The free version gives you 1 library - so you can work with one class. Each student can work on their own book - but cooperation within the books is only possible in the paid version. In the paid version you can create up to 1000 books and as many libraries as you need (e.g. for each group, class, subject). In my school we share the basic subscription and any teacher can use it. Maybe your parents association can pay for it or refund you? It's one of the most versatile tools for all subjects.

For quick online books without audio I like to use fliphtml5. This tool allows you to upload a pdf file and turn it into an online flipbook that can be shared via link or QR code. We sometimes use it to produce our group magazines.

In some cases we have added voicover to these flipbooks with the help of a simple screen recorder (screencast-o-matic or jing). Find instructions for both on my HELP page. This works very well and produces very nice results.

Video Presentations with KNOVIO.com

Knovio is a good tool for online presentations. Learners upload pictures or a simple power-point presentation and then record their voice for each slide. I have used this tool many times for very different purposes. In each case the students have produced very interesting, creative presentations with a clear focus on their target audience.

Have a look at the following examples and don't worry about the little mistakes the kids might have made. Some of the examples below were produced by a tool called "mybrainshark". This tool is no longer available, but Knovio does the same things even better.

Let's cook our favorite foods

The following presentations have been produced by year 2 students in the course of a little "". The learners produced their own cookbooks and tried out one of their favorite recipes at home. For their cookbooks they collected recipes and food vocabulary from online sources and used it in their presentations.They took photos of all the steps and then presented their recipes online. Have a look at some delicious, mouth-watering dishes prepared by 2b and 2c 😀

Book Presentations

Book presentations can be very motivating, but they take a lot of time if you do them in the classroom. Therefore, we often do book presentations online. The following examples have been produced by a year 4 (age 14) after a book project on "Being Different". The students were asked to "walk in the main character's shoes" and try to show the world from their character's perspective. For more info about this reading project go to: and scroll down the page to the project "Being Different".

In this project the students also produced "reading booklets" that we shared online. Have a look at these examples:

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For more online bookpresentations visit our blog readingiscool.xyz or click on the following image.

Radio programs or interviews with the book characters

Presenting a Topic

Important Steps in the Civil Rights Movement

In the course of our Civil Rights Project students of year 5 produced short online presentations. The learners were given a timeline of important steps in the Civil Rights movement. They were asked to choose 3 important events, find additional information about them and briefly explain their importance in the Civil Rights movement to their classmates. This task combines reading comprehension (finding information) and speaking skills and helps the learners to distinguish between important, relevant information and useless details.

Civil Rights Activists: Mini Biographies

In the second example the students had to choose an important Civil Rights leader and present this person to the class.

Sometimes we do not need pictures and videos but want to concentrate on listening only. In this case we use a program called or clyp.it . These programs records sound only and, just like Knovio , provide the students with a link to the file.
Schwarzlmonster Strange Crop Circles The Mystery Tomato
Producing radio shows can be a very interesting project. Radio shows are not easy to produce because the speakers must explain everything in detail and cannot refer to any pictures or visuals. Thus, these radio shows are often more demanding than video messages.

In the following examples the learners (age 12-13) had worked on mysteries and produced short radio programs about mysterious events happening in our area. See the instructions here.

Elevator Speeches: a great way to present your message convincingly

These "elevator speeches" have been produced in a "research project" of year 4 students. The students worked in groups on a topic of their choice and presented their results orally and in writing.

for the research project

What is an elevator speech?

Click on the headphones to listen to the speeches.

A few examples of "research booklets" produced in this project.

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ICT and Webtools for Language Teaching and Learning Web-tools have become so user-friendly that even young children can use them. If they can -- us teachers can do it as well.