In Synch: March BP by Ms. Gaul

March

cjgaul — 2015-03-27 18:54:58 UTC

March 5

cjgaul — 2015-03-27 18:54:59 UTC

Animal Olympics!

Animal Race with Homophones

March 5

cjgaul — 2015-03-27 19:14:03 UTC

Several different games to earn points. This was one of five questions based off of a movie emailed with the synchronous session information.

March 5

cjgaul — 2015-03-27 19:16:02 UTC

Each student picked a mascot

Advertised on News Items

cjgaul — 2015-03-27 19:16:07 UTC

Students got points based on answering questions correctly.

March 12 - What was planned

cjgaul — 2015-03-27 19:27:20 UTC

Thinglink embedded in an email.

March 19

cjgaul — 2015-03-27 19:30:28 UTC

This focused on Shaw's Pygmalion Act 1: Setting and Characters.

The warm-up showed a map of London and students circled the central locations in the play.

March 12 - What really happened

cjgaul — 2015-03-27 19:49:00 UTC

Only one student showed, so instead of playing Jeopardy, we worked on an assignment, and discussed word origins and Dictionary.com.

March 5

cjgaul — 2015-03-28 08:51:08 UTC

Another game to earn points. Students were divided into two teams.

March 5

cjgaul — 2015-03-28 08:51:11 UTC

Another game from the Animal Olympics that focused on changing the passive voice sentence into active by dragging the words into the correct order.

March 5

cjgaul — 2015-03-28 08:51:12 UTC

Student interactions during the synch session

March 19

cjgaul — 2015-03-28 09:04:02 UTC

We ended the session with simple vocabulary matching. You'll notice the discreptency between the directions ("use different colors") and what the students did. Alas. But after the Flash fiasco, I let it slide.

March 19

cjgaul — 2015-03-28 09:04:15 UTC

Character Building; no literally!

The assignment was to use a mini-mizer .swf to create either Eliza or Henry based on the character description.

March 19 - Google Tour Builder

cjgaul — 2015-03-28 09:04:23 UTC

After the warm-up, I took them on a brief tour of the area. I used Google Tour Builder to build it:

https://tourbuilder.withgoogle.com/builder#play/ahJzfmd3ZWItdG91cmJ1aWxkZXJyEQsSBFRvdXIYgICAovrm6AgM/ahJzfmd3ZWItdG91cmJ1aWxkZXJyJwsSBFRvdXIYgICAovrm6AgMCxIJUGxhY2VtYXJrGICAgIDAiJ0JDA

March 19

cjgaul — 2015-03-28 09:09:14 UTC

But this is what really happened:

The breakout rooms worked well, but again, I had issues with the Flash program. Student could use the .swf on their own screen, but updates weren't shared. None of the other students could see changes made on the screen. Then students had issues saving it on their individual computers and then using the "Share Document" ability (given to participants in the breakout rooms).

My students were troopers considering how frustrating it was.

March 19

cjgaul — 2015-03-28 09:20:17 UTC

Despite so many issues, one student was able to use the mini-mizer and email me a screenshot of her work.

March 19

cjgaul — 2015-03-28 09:38:26 UTC

Students were able to discuss how the images matched the text:

"The text says he is a gentleman so he would need to have fancier clothes. It also says that he was taking notes so he needs a book and pencil "

March 2

cjgaul — 2015-03-28 09:43:32 UTC

The core of the lesson build on some of the successes from last week. I gave pairs of students breakout rooms so they could work and chat in pairs.

The assignment was to choose a theme from the Google Doc. Each theme link led to Shmoop's Pygmalion page.

Students reviewed the information and then recorded three things:

1 - Evidence of the theme in the text.

2 - How the theme connects to Eliza.

3 - How the theme connects to Henry.

The Google Doc is public and available on the homepage. I encouraged students to "Make a Copy," complete the chart, and then turn it in to the ELO Dropbox.

Students seemed to enjoy seeing each other work in real time. Since Google Docs is browser-based, I think it runs a bit more smoothly than programs run within Adobe Connect. There's less lag, and documents are saved every few seconds.

Plus, you can look up revision history on Google Docs, so if a student were to delete another's work, you can recover an earlier version (and know who deleted the work).

March 26

cjgaul — 2015-03-28 09:43:34 UTC

This lesson focused on Pygmalion Act 2. The topics were conflict and theme.

But since money is tied with class, and there are many references to British Currency, students warmed-up by labeling the currency from least to greatest value.

It was no accident that I picked "Price Tag" to play during this activity.

March 26

cjgaul — 2015-03-28 09:43:42 UTC

Students were sent a link to a video over the different types of conflict before the session. After the warm-up, I gave them this assessment to match conflict scenarios with external vs. internal. You'll see that they finally managed to change the color of their tool.