Digital Communication ProjectWeb2.0 and EFL young learners

Cleide Nascimento and Dani Lyra

“I'm not a fan of technology. I'm a fan of pedagogy,

of understanding how people learn and the most effective

learning methods. But technology enables some

exciting changes.”

(Donald A. Norman)

Plan lessons;Invest in professional development;Supplement material;Create content;Personalize content;Review content;Extend content;Establish authentic audience;Assess content.

Technology allows exciting changes

It’s never been so easy to:

This project is about personalizing student’s production by using web applications systematically. Students work is shared with families and friends promoting school/family connection.

Digital Communication Project What is it?

Learning comes to a higher level as students start to care about what they are saying and writing, improving their language output. Students might learn how to use some tools and sharpen their digital skills.

Why implement the project

Nowadays a teacher is exposed to many resourceson the web to enhance learning opportunities.

The Networked Teacher

How to make the most of the tools available, and not get stressed out!

The Overwhelmed Teacher

Plan final task (to be carried out at the end of the unit) and how to deliver it to the families.

Choose and test a web tool.

Plan the process: Determine communication and enabling tasks that will lead to the final outcome. Select/adapt/produce appropriate material and sequence them.

Working with a course book:(study the unit - theme and linguistic content).

A Framework for Task-based Learning. Jane Willis.

How to plan a lesson

Some of the webtools available

Child friendly Safe Downloadable Adds value to your plan Easy to use

Choosing a webtoolChecklist

Start a class blog or wiki. (Choose an url that can be used with other groups).Send parents an invitation to follow the blog.Start posting students’ work.Send e-mails to parents regularly, letting them know there is a new post.Put a counter on your blog.Show students the blog and post links to extra class learning opportunities that appeal to students.

Establishing school/family connection

 Lesson overviewStudents have just finished unit 1, which deals with there to be (affirmative, negative, singular and plural forms) to talk about objects and where they are in a room.

Final outcomeStudents write a visual quiz about their bedrooms. The teacher uses Photo Peach to publish the students´ work and sends it to the students´ families.

Unit 1

Resources

Students´ Work

Unit 2

 Lesson overviewThe second unit provides students with the opportunity for using the language learned (the present tense) and describing animals to play a digital guessing game.

Final outcomeEach student uses the language learned in the unit to write their own page for the game. The teacher uses Issuu to publish the game the students made and sends it to their families.

Resources

Students´work

Our Favorite Animals

Written by Elementary 3 class C5 studentsIllustrated by Elementary 3 class C5 students

Lesson overviewIn unit 3, students have the opportunity to use this, that, these and those. They illustrate a gift for their moms and write a sentence expanding on the language pattern.

This is a _______.It´s a good gift for mom because she´s_______.These are _______. They´re a good gift for mom because she´s _______.

Final outcomeEach student uses the language learned in the unit to write about their own gift for mom. The teacher uses Kizoa to publish their work and sends it to their families.

Unit 3

Resources

Students´work

Unit 4

Lesson overviewThe language learned in this unit is the present tense to describe people and write about someone you love.

Final outcomeStudents write about a person/people they love (members of the family).The teacher uses Voicethread to record the students and sends it to their families.

Resources

It’s just Great to Be Different!

Written by Dani LyraIllustrated by Cleide Frazão

Students´ work

“Querida Daniela, gostaria de parabenizá-la e a Casa Thomas

Jefferson pela brilhante iniciativa de agregar escola e família na caminhada de nossos filhos no

aprendizado do Inglês.Sua diligência, dedicação,

  gentileza e companheirismo foram decisivos neste processo

inovador. Muito obrigada!”

(Márcia Nabut) 

A Parent

Feedback

“It was a pleasure to observe such well-planned and conducted class. The students had a fun, profitable time, since the teacher’s lesson

plan allowed them to optimize their participation during the whole period. I must add that all the

visual aids were great support for the plan and made the class

dynamic and appealing to everyone.”

(Claudio Azevedo)

An Observer

Feedback

A Student

“Eu amei o blog, cheio de jogos e atividades super legais. Com todos os desenhos e atividades da gente

é muito bom.”

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