#4 ELT acitivity with MIXBOOK

This is the link to the blog entry in which appears the sample creation using MIXBOOK: http://web20tools.blogspot.com/2010/11/sample4-mixbook.html

This is the link of the blog entry in which you will find a complete description of the tool, how to use it and some extra ideas: http://web20tools.blogspot.com/2010/11/4-mixbook-description.html

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ELT ACTIVITY


Skills to be worked on: Reading – Writing – Speaking

Objectives: FOR STUDENTS TO:
- Develop their creative skills while creating the book.
- Develop strategies and knowledge related to new technologies.
- Express themselves in a creative way.
- Develop their writing, reading and speaking skills.
- Express themselves while performing orally in front of other people.

You have worked on a class Project for a long time and you do not know how to present it… MIXBOOK is a fantastic tool that you can make use of to present your students’ work and make them participate as well.

1. Collect all the pictures, photos and information on the subtopics you have chosen for students to work on while taking part on the BIG PROJECT, try to get them sort all that content out.

2. Make them help you in designing the book and choosing its style.

3. You can then divide the whole class into groups and assign each of them a subtopic to present in not more than four pages of the online book.

4. First of all, you should ask them to prepare a kind of summary of all the work they have done on the particular subtopic they have to explain. You can ask them to present this summary orally and encourage the other students to suggest improvements or point out the good choices.

5. Once all the groups have presented their summaries, you can make them now use all that information to design four pages of the online book. They will be asked to add photos, pictures and some information to briefly explain the subtopic.

6. Once all the work is finished, you may need to add some extra details yourself or improve on the general style/design of the whole book.

7. Once the presentation of the Project is finished, you may assigned one page to each student to reflect upon the Project and the way it is presented (the use of MIXBOOK).

8. You and your students may now invite the headmistress, coordinators and parents to present the work of, probably, a whole year. The presentation of the project will be attractive and motivating using a tool such as MIXBOOK.


Evaluation criteria:

The mark for students’ participation in the making of the online book will be considered one more mark of all the ones collected during the making of the BIG PROJECT. But in this case, you will have to take into account different things.

- The first one will be students’ summary of the topic they have to present and students’ oral presentation of it.

- Then, you will have to evaluate learners’ participation and commitment to the creation and design of the four pages they will have to make that are part of the online book.

- Encourage your students to spot their mistakes when writing the information on the different pages. Make sure that they notice them and correct them. Otherwise, let them know and make the necessaries changes.

- Give another mark for the overall impression you get when reading students’ production of the book.