webtools in the efl classroom
DESCRIPTION
This is a presentation on 3 (three) different webtools that teachers can use in their lessons to enhance technology in the classroom: ProProfs, ZooBurst and Pixton.TRANSCRIPT
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Webtools for the EFL
classroom
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ProProfs
PIXTON
ZooBurst
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ProProfs
Quiz Maker
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Brief Description
ProProfs is a free web tool that you can use to create online quizzes and tests.
You can make an online quiz using existing templates or create your own from
scratch.
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Advantages
❏ Very user friendly
❏ Clear instructions
❏ You can constantly edit the content
❏ You can grade results
❏ You can also add videos, pictures, documents and
PowerPoints to Questions
❏ You can track who took the quiz
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Disadvantages
❏ You cannot upload photos in jpeg format
❏ You need an e-mail account to save your quiz
❏ There is only one fixed font
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Possible Classroom Ideas
❏ Treasure Hunt: in this activity you ask Ss to read a passage
in search of a particular concept, idea, or fact. Create up to 5
questions that focus on one passage. Using ProProfs Quiz
Maker, use the “Fill in the Blank” question type, then create
your list of possible answers.
❏ Teachers can make quizzes to evaluate Ss.
❏ Teams scores competition: Ss can create their own quizzes
to learn the material and evaluate their classmates as well.
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Example
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Link to the quiz: http://goo.gl/YNHJdR
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Links to Other Sources
❏ Tutorial on scored quizzes http://y2u.be/6oBmV4bG9VU
❏ How to configure quiz settings http://youtu.be/qO6lrd7Qp9Y
❏ How to share your quiz http://youtu.be/9uFpjKCS-PE
❏ How to analyze results http://youtu.be/V5X-EX6SV7o
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Pixton is a web tool that allows you to create fun, original
comics online
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Creating an account - Pixton for Schools
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Creating an account - Pixton for Fun
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Start creating!
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Recommendation...
Start with beginner mode,
select characters & setting,
and then go to advanced
mode.
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Advantages
● Great variety of backgrounds,
facial expressions, & body
postures
● Customization
● Boosts imagination
● Fun & original
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Disadvantages
● Internet connection needed
● Sign-up required
● No download option (only for
PRO version)
● Suitable for teens & adults only
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Classroom ideas
● Autobiography (students take you to different scenes of
their lives while narrating them)
● Genre transfer of literary texts (students transform a novel,
a short story, a play, or a poem into a comic)
● Comic jigsaw (students put the panels in the correct order)
● Fill in (students fill in the empty speech bubbles of a comic)
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For example...Genre transfer of literary texts
“The Way Up To Heaven” by Roald Dahl -
http://goo.gl/RBTeoy
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Other resources
Slideshare presentation (in Spanish) http://goo.gl/Osy7Rf
YouTube Tutorial http://goo.gl/3CHI0K
Pixton as classroom tool http://goo.gl/cblkUy
Teachers using Pixton http://goo.gl/DdZ4aT
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ZooBurstDigital Story telling to create your own 3D
book.
http://www.zooburst.com/
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Advantages
❏Many explanations
❏ Virtual Classroom
❏Make your book private
or public.
❏ Allows comments
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Disadvantages
❏Upgrade Features not free
❏Difficult to use
❏Many options and movements
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Classroom idea
First, divide your class in groups of 2 or 3
members. Let them make up a story.
Then, they will represent it in the digital story
telling. They practise specific vocabulary, the
use of Present or Past simple to narrate the
story.
Finally, they can share it!
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Other Resources
PDF Manual http://goo.gl/aWDWwm
The story http://goo.gl/UBXZxn
Youtube Tutorialhttp://goo.gl/Tyy4Qx
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A presentation by
Lucía Poce,
Sofía Redondo
& Florencia Valdés