tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-78829385888584360812024-03-14T03:09:16.135+03:00Adopt and Adapt ICT-in-ELTAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13910226053073453593noreply@blogger.comBlogger128125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7882938588858436081.post-39266133519977023732015-09-02T08:44:00.003+03:002015-09-02T08:55:43.984+03:00LIFE LESSON: Why are people so prejudiced?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;">The above clips have been chosen as prompts for your students to look at how prejudice and racism happen everywhere, and have done all throughout history. For American teachers and students who may be reading this blog, for which I thank you :-) if you are, you could use these clips to highlight a rather dark part of your own 20th Century history and the internment of thousands of Japanese American citizens in the 1940s.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;">On December 8th, 1941, the United States of America declared war on Japan, and by the end of 1942 over 100,000 Japanese-American people were put into internment camps away from the populated areas of the country. They were rounded up like criminals and sent to these camps. Many of them were held there until the war ended. However, some were released earlier, but their daily lives were filled with race hatred and fear from the other American people. In fact, in 1988, Ronal Reagan entered an apology into legislation to those Japanese-American families for all the suffering they had incurred at the hands of the US government. The apology stated that the reason they were interred was based on <i>racial prejudice </i>and<i> war hysteria. </i>He also apologised for the government stating they had f<i>ailed in political leadership</i>. Each family was awarded $20,000 compensation.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Show me any teenager, no matter their nationality, who doesn't know the Simpsons. That is why, when I started my summer remedial support program, I thought of using their comics as a way to outreach students and make them see the brilliance of reading through comedy and quality life lessons. So, having found some nice pdf versions of some comics I shared them on the students' Edmodo classroom and assigned them to read the first story, which is only 14 pages long. It had an instant effect and the students responded favourably instead of the normal moans and groans associated with summer reading.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The easiness of producing questions for such stories cannot be understated. You can type up fifteen to twenty questions in no time at all. That is becasue I suggest producing surface comprehension questions. You should focus on the surface nature of the narrative, and that way, at the very least, you can undwerstand if the students have read the stories or not. The students don't want to be bogged down with seriously thought-provoking teasers during their summer holidays down by the pool. Getting the to read in the target language at all means you have succeeded somewhat.</span></div>
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I went into the comic first and looked for the words I thought the students might not have seen before. This way I can check once they all respond on Edmodo with their sentences or mini paragraphs to see they have found them all. The list is below</div>
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I always keep an answer key on my google drive so that I have instant access to the information for either feedback day or when we return to class. Since the advent of google drive I have made this a must-do thing for myself, and it has meant a lot leass time spent faffing around looking for answers to questions you maybe made three months earlier. I thank my colleague Brentson for convincing me of overly planning each unit we prepare, and providing ourselves with these real time answer keys.</div>
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The final part of the activity is to make a quiz based on the questions you found when you were reading through the comic. As I wrote earlier the majority of the questions are surface from the narrative just to keep the students aware they are being monitored for their summer school work. I will throw in perhaps a teaser that also gets them to think more about the theme or storyline, but it is just to vary the question type. Nothing too heavy. In this quiz that question was basically testing whether the students could work out that the Simpsons creators like to have a wee social commentary going on in the sub text.</div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Unlike most teenagers, who are dragged back early (in their view) from sun-drenched summer holidays and forced back into formal education, every teacher I have ever met loves the first day of school. It is not in any way a masochisitic appreciation, but, indeed, it is the pleasure of getting to meet your new group of students that you will work with for the upcoming academic year. However, it can be quite daunting for students to stand up and give some personal background to their peers; especially in a foreign language. So, I would like to share some ideas for you to try in your classes, should you not have any of your own, or you just would like to try something new and different.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">First of all, I do not think it necessary to have the students introduce themselves at the outset. Instead, we showed our promotional video posted below...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The video lets the students see something of what they are to expect in the following year. Now, that they are all smiling and feeling a little more relaxed we then introduce them to some activities that take almost no effort, but end up being extremely effective.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I particularly like this to start the ball rolling, since as you will notice, there is no language transfer going on. It is all about eye-balling and movement through various signals and visual prompts.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">With this activity the students have their first opportunity to communicate verbally, albeit the idea behind the activity is for recognition of an unknown person, and memory of the students names that have gone before them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">We wrapped with this today, and I felt it was the appropriate time to have them write a little sentence so that they could develop it should they want to. We had several attempt to expand on their choices, which was very refreshing. In fact, we were pleasantly surprised by some of the ideas the youngsters produced on a nervous scary first day.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">For more than two years now, I have been an avid user of <b>Google Drive</b> in and out of the classroom. Both my colleague and I have written several posts on the blog describing the various ways that we use <b>Google Drive</b>, from doing group presentations to giving students feedback, both done in real time. We have enjoyed using it so much that, lucky for us, our school agreed to get us more storage space in <b>Google Drive</b> to put all of our resources there for instant access wherever we are. We now have over 100 GB of space to use as we please.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The amazing part, for me at least, is that the more I use <b>Google Drive</b>, the more I discover new tools and tricks it has to offer. My most recent discovery was how to publish a <b>Google Doc</b> to the web. This came about as my colleague and I were asked by our principal about how we could put our <b>UbD</b> (Understanding by Design) curriculum unit plans onto <b>Drive</b> to make it more accessible for her to keep track of what is being taught at school. After coming up with a basic <b>UbD</b> template on <b>Drive</b> (which you are more the welcome to use by clicking on the image below), we spent the next several days copying and pasting our exisiting <b>UbD</b> unit plans on <b>Microsoft</b> <b>Word</b> to <b>Drive</b>. </span><br>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If there's already an option to make your <b>Doc</b> public on the web, then what's the advantage of publishing it to the web? I considered this myself before I actually tried out the publishing option. However, what I discovered is a huge difference in speed when accessing the document. When you share a document on the web, as opposed to publishing it, you have to wait a few seconds for the <b>Google Drive</b> to open up, and then the document appears. On the other hand, when you publish a <b>Doc</b>, <b>Google Drive</b> actually turns your document into a web page, meaning you get instant access to it.</span><br>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What do you think? For my colleague and I, it was a no-brainer. For documents that we want to share publicly from now on, we will certainly publish them to the web. That is what we did, getting back to my earlier story, with our <b>UbD</b> plans. We published them all to the web, and then linked them all together into one <b>Google Doc</b> (pictured below) for the principal to access whenever she wants.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Being a long time advocate of using video in the classroom, I am constantly looking for ways to include it in almost all of my lessons with my young teenage student demographic. They love visuals for lessons, and if they are presented with quality, thought-provoking ones, they tend to respond most favourably. Therefore, it makes sense to use visuals and video to stimulate the creative process in L2-students. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I know this is nothing new for you, but I wanted to share how it is possible to use clips from films that can hopefully lead to students writing more freely in English L2. If we personalize the task, and get them to be creative for a character (probably) none of them will ever be, it could make for some quality writing practice and allow them to see how their creativity is an integral part to the learning of any language.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Apart from ICT the reason for posting this is I believe by giving numerous listening <b><span style="color: #93c47d;">formative assessments</span></b> like these, the students can train their ears for better listening. I noticed this by observing how many students, who may have been having lessons for up to eight years, yet still come to the English-preparatory-for-high-school-program with less than 20% in the final exams and after very poor returns on year-long projects in year eight, still have better listening comprehension compared to the students with little or no English. Even those more successful student types who surpass those 'eight-years-in-English' students for reading and writing after a couple of months, tend to be no better in listening than those students with more years exposure to the sounds. This has perplexed and frustrated me for years, so when I saw this tool I jumped at the chance of using it with a focus on making and ensuring the students with less exposure have more focused listening comprehension activities through this approach and platform. The initial responses were extremely promising with the students saying how much they had loved it. It appears that since they can go back 'n forth and listen to it at their own pace with headphones on, then there is zero embarrassment or self-consciousness with peers. </span><br />
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students may not like Reading and Writing while they are at high school, there
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should they wish to go on to tertiary education. That means, for me as a
prep. teacher or <i>hazırlık oğretmenı</i> (in Turkish), I have the opportunity to try
and convince my students that if they have the fundemental building blocks for
a well-organized academic essay, it will go a long way to support them throughout their high school and university life. Many of you might comment that this way is too restrictive for the creative process, and I would respond that I know it is very prescriptive, and controlling. However, it gives EFL-students the basic blocks for building on their own creative process once they have mastered the organizational model of this framework. That would be why I believe it is a worthy model to use while teaching the writing process in the early years of high school academic writing.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So, how does this work in practice? I will post snips of a student's work where you can see how she used her online journal, penzuclassroom, to write up a response based on the frmaework described above. She then received color-coded feedback:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The drafts were done using teacher feedback and academic organizational models set up and checked by me. However, what makes it exciting is how this students has managed to transfer the information, and done her own process by producing a superb draft for her final portfolio. Here it is below, and remember this girl is fifteen, Turkish and had no feedback for this submitted essay.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">What makes me very pleased is that Gözde, the student who produced this great work, has taken to the system very comfortably; the system and framework that she can now hone and develop, so as to identify her own academic writing style for the future. If teachers have any doubt that the Writing Process doesn't work, they should just have a wee read of Gözde's essays. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">My long time EFL teaching colleague (different school) and Scots freen (different region), Gordon Dobie (A West Coaster, but he canny help thon), shared with me an activity for the practice and production of <b><span style="color: magenta;">REPORTED SPEECH</span></b> with my students. He uses it himself, and his students claim it is the best thing they do all year. I immediately wanted some of the action and he explained how it worked. So, I informed Brentson, my colleague, and we made a <b><span style="color: magenta;">BLENDSPACE</span></b> tutorial for the students and also we wanted to share with you all. Of course, the tutorial is self explanatory, but I would like to break it down a bit more on this platform so that you can see it at a glance without moving away from here.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>Tell them to open their computers and go to <a href="http://www.amazon.com/MP3-Music-Download/b/ref=sa_menu_dmusic/177-8005123-1902052?ie=UTF8&node=163856011"><span style="font-size: large;">www.amazon.com</span></a> or <span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/MP3-Music-Download/b/ref=sa_menu_dm/279-2256431-7077766?ie=UTF8&node=77197031">www.amazon.co.uk</a> </span> to find their song or album they wish to read the reviews about. There they will see on the left (as above pic shows) 1 - 5 star ratings from which the students can choose. <u>They should read the 5-Star review first </u>so that they feel good about their own favorite matching someone else's opinion.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>The considerations of EFL are part and parcel of our extensive planning, so vocabulary is tantemount to success and growth for the students. Monsieur Dobie is a huge (I don't mean his belly) proponent of extensive vocabulary instruction, and I strongly support him in this. So, you will ask them to identify as many song/artist/album new examples of language about music itself. It is surprising how many terms we take as granted being native speakers of the language. Those items are highlighted in yellow above.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>BTW, this is where ICT really comes in handy. The students take a snip of the review from the website then convert the snip to a pdf or ebook page or insert it into a word document so they can highlight the text.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>After the students have practised the single reported statements, and shared new-found "music" vocabulary with their friends, you will now have them write in paragraph form what they thought of their 1 & 5 star reviews/ers (like above). I believe this is better than single response reported statements at this time, as they have done plenty during the rules and drilling stages. So, it makes it much more authentic to use the reported speech in a wee report/opinion piece for presenting to the class. Point of note: there is absolutely no question that when you get students to write in paragraph length chunks there are far less grammar and syntax issues, compared to single statemenst out of context (but you knew that of course:-)</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">"To the <u><b><span style="color: red;">amazement</span></b></u> of many an <b><u><span style="color: red;">ageing</span></u></b> foreign language teacher, the <b><span style="color: red;"><u>development</u></span> </b>of language is often very much <b><u><span style="color: red;">misguided</span></u></b> through <u><b><span style="color: red;">careless</span></b></u> and <u><b><span style="color: red;">uninspiring</span></b></u> teachers, syllabuses and <u><b><span style="color: red;">methodologies</span></b></u>." (Mearns. D., 2014 www.davidmearns.blogspot.com)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This sentence is an example of how easy it is for us as English speakers, writers and teachers to make the necessary changes to word roots when we are putting together sentences, paragraphs and essays. In those seven examples highlighted we can see the roots as:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">However, it is quite normal for us, as teachers, to forget this essential part of vocabulary building and language development. We not only want to have the students practise using roots and their suffixes (also some prefixes), but even more importantly, we want them to identify that these components exist. Here is an example from our student today commenting on a News Video Monday she presented this morning, and she clearly was not aware that changes have to be made when using different word forms:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So our student, Selin, inadvertently wrote down the noun forms of the root words instead of the necessary adjectives: SAD, SECURE & SAFE. This is after months of reminding her of the verb "to be " + adjective rule and the "More + comparative" rule of adjectives. However, there is no guarantee of when any individual will respond to rules naturally, right? So, no worries, we then reminded her of the fact and did this activity...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>In groups the students will be distributed cards. These cards are laminated for longevity, and then cut for use in class. They are given a mixture of ROOTS, SUFFIXES AND END-WORDS. The students will distribute the cards evenly between the group members and then they will negotiate for the correct root + suffix + end-word. Once they have tried their own piles, they then go to other groups for more negotiation.</b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">We tried this activity out and it was a success. In particular the students walked away knowing that it is not just a case of translating any word they come across as a verb (a very bad habit in Turkish). </span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">As all of us are aware, being English language teachers, reported speech is one of the, if not the most, difficult skills for students to understand and master. From changing the verb tense using the 'one-back' rule, the subject, as well as the expressions of time all in one sentence, it is a language structure that takes L2 learners years to use properly. In fact, it typically requires learners to live in a native English speaking country to truly master reported speech.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">For these reasons, my colleague and I try to teach reported speech to our 14 and 15 year old students in the most engaging way possible. Instead of going through pages and pages of gap-fill worksheets in class (something which can be used as homework), we do lots of activities that either require students working together, or listening to short videos and reporting what has been said. Recently, we used <b>Blendspace</b> and <b>Google Drive</b>, two of my favorite <b>ICT-tools</b>, to make a personalized listening activity that our students really got a kick out of. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The basic idea of the activity was to find short clips on <b>Youtube</b>, one for each student, and have them listen and report the most important quotes in the clip. The difference, though, is that we tried to make it more personal for the students by selecting clips based on what they like, be it films, television programs, or celebrity interviews. Here is how we did it...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: cyan;"><b>Step One</b></span>: Create a new <b>Blendspace</b> tutorial, and in the first box provide the instructions for the activity. Next, we provided an example, and did this together with the students. We chose a scene from <b>Fawlty Towers: Communication Problems</b> because we had recently completed several lessons on it (<a href="http://davidmearns.blogspot.com.tr/2014/04/fawlty-towers-for-funny-elt.html">which you are always welcome to use by clicking here</a>), so the students were quite familiar with scene with Basil being incredibly sarcastic with the ever-complaining guest, Mrs. Richards. While watching the scene, we had the students write down a few of the spoken lines in their notebooks, and then report them back to us, as pictured below...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">All in all, the activity was just as successful as it was fun. The students enjoyed working autonomously with their computers and headphones, while watching video clips that they were interested in. For us, these types of interactive activities are much more engaging the students, than working through a grammar or course book. Of course, classic grammar practice is certainly useful and necessary, but it is something that the students can do as a review for homework. If you do adopt a more visual environment none of your students will complain that the lesson is boting. Try that with A4 drills, gap fills or prescribed corporate ELT materials set in publishers stone as the way to teach...bah bah blacksheep have you any wool...?</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09206992174654076966noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7882938588858436081.post-19000450557820798132014-05-14T13:08:00.000+03:002014-05-16T06:15:59.552+03:00How a Flipped Classroom can connect Teachers as well as Students...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Coming down with a common cold, then immediately being followed with the flu that then turns into a chronic viral chest infection would make any teacher feel rather low, right? Well it has just happened to me, and I have been out of class for almost two weeks. Thankfully, now on the mend, I return tomorrow. The reason for this post, however, is not to garner sympathy, but to tell you about how a flipped classroom can not only help stay-at-home students, but absentee-teachers too.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">My colleague Brentson gave grammar instruction this morning on Reported Speech questions. He then called me and asked if I'd like to do a Skype call where I would ask questions to the students, they would record the questions, and then convert them into reported ones. I gladly agreed since I have been really missing the students. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Once we got over the usual familiarities of we missed each other etc, the students got ready for some questions. I went via skype round the class and asked each student something class-personal to make a stronger connect. It was a great laugh, and everyone managed to do the task well (almost). Of course, the 'one-tense-back response' rule and removal of 'did' for past tense was an issue for three students. But the rest managed well. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I have to say the inception of Skype to the classroom really works well. The idea the teacher can become part of the class when s/he is stuck at home adds another quality dimension to the service. Not only did I have fun interacting with the students, but it also meant I felt part of the students' learning process, even though I was recovering at home. Is it an authentic activity? Well, not for everyday stuff I suppose, but it felt very authentic to me. I really recommend trying this use of ICT out with your own students.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">On top of what David has written above, I would also like add a few of my own thoughts on this impromptu ICT lesson from the perspective of the teacher, who was physically in the classroom observing this all unfold. That morning, I had been teaching the students the grammar rules for reporting questions, and had gone through some of my own activities to practice it. Then, when David called me in my break lesson to see how the morning was going, I came up with the idea to get him involved via Skype because: one, the students, to be honest, were getting tired of me, and listening to my voice, so a little change-up would be certainly welcomed; and second, I wanted to give the students' a chance to show if they truly understood the grammar point by having David ask them questions in real time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Once class time began, and I got the students settled down from the excitement of seeing David live on the smartboard, I couldn't believe how the following 20 minutes just flew by. All of the students were totally engaged in the activity, and it was amazing to stand back and watch it all happen, apart from when Skype went out and someone couldn't hear what David had said. It was like having a another teacher, literally, in the classroom. To top it all off, the majority of the students responded to his questions well, showing that they had understood the basics of the grammar point that morning, which made me feel great, of course. Again, as David mentioned above, this is not something that could be done very often, but it is certainly worth a try. It is something that your students will never see again. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>Since my teaching responsibilities include giving a wide array of LIFE SKILLS to young teenagers throughout the year, I believe this verb constitutes quite a bit of self-reflective mileage for my students at any time of the year; however, I have chosen to use it towards the end of my time with the class, so they can carry on into high school with this timely reminder cemented firmly in their psyche.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>I was surfing on my ipad last week when I came across a wonderful tweet from an</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b> American website, www.tickld.com. The site reported how a couple of parents had implemented a list of chores to their offspring should they wish to reduce their time being grounded for a misdemeanor. I was so taken (tickld) by the list that I decided to make a lesson this morning on Blendspace: </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>For a quirky insight to the idea behind it, here is a jpeg of the list of chores your child or your students' parents need to learn from you (and this tutorial) about a great way to make those troubled and lets say, outlandish/boorish kids make a difference.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>The list covers quite a few chores that the original tweet had, and I added a few of my own. However, I am sure you as a parent and/or experienced teacher of angsty teenagers can find a few more. Certainly, what surprised me, when I started asking questions of parental structured disciplining and the likes to my group of 15 year olds, was that every single child said they wanted it more than anything. The group-affirmative was given almost in chorus. In fact, they admitted thta only two of them had ever been grounded in their lives, but they all believed that it was an effective and worthwhile deterrent for their own inappropriate and outlandish behavior.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>I am sure the students' responses have surprised you in this day and age? I know a lot of comments from teens can be considered lip-service, but even when we factor that in, we can see some pretty strong views in the affirmative for discipline at home. This gives me hope for teaching young teens because at times they certainly don't follow their own advice. This is great, and I urge you to try this tutorial with your teenage students.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">To begin with, many schools around the world have restricted teachers and students from using <b>Youtube</b> to prohibit watching videos with inappropriate content while on campus. Even worse, in Turkey, where my colleague and I work, the government has recently taken more control of internet access to control information it deems provocative, so <b>Youtube</b> is constantly being blocked. And although <b>Youtube</b> is undoubtedly an amazing resource for education, the problem we face constantly is the copyright infringement policies on the site. For example, as mentioned above, we no longer have to show entire films to our students. With <b>ICT</b> trimming tools, we can cut the best scenes from any film or television program to make an engaging resource to use in class for listening, discussions, or prompts for writing. The problem, of course, is that <b>Youtube</b> won't allow you to upload these trimmed scenes due to copyright, even though we are only using it for educational purposes.</span><br />
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<span style="color: lime; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Is it remotely possible that any British person born in the 2oth century has not heard of this iconic comedy series? I also reckon millions of Americans, Indians, Australians, Canadians and South Africans have all had the joy of watching this wonderful "televisual feast" (<i>Bernard Cribbins in Hotel Inspectors</i>). </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">So, I thought to myself it only fair that my Turkish students get to watch this also at 14 (it is when I first saw it), and do some scaffolded work that I have prepared through making edited clips and word/phrases lists for them to thoroughly enjoy. But before I share that particular avenue of happiness and joy (<i>John Cleese in Hotel Inspectors</i>) enjoy Cleese talking about his legendary show in this short video interview.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large; text-align: justify;">First of all, when I thought about how to balance out our very heavy 6 week unit on <u>The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas</u> and Auschwitz, I wanted to give the students a sense of light relief, while at the same time get a handle on more cultural comedy, language and the happiness they will feel once they can get into the style of sarcasm Cleese et al utilize and display with an impressive mastery. So, first I started surfing for the episodes. THAT was really easy, since everything is now available in this medium on the net (it wasn't when I first had the idea of making comedy Fawlty ELT units). Next I had to find the srt or subtitles for each episode. There would be little or no chance in keeping the students interested by listening and viewing alone. That did take a little longer, but I found them courtesy of a Canadian site which had each one in place. Next I wanted to edit the episodes so I could scaffold the experience for the students. However, that would be really tricky, difficult and boring to then re add subtitles with all the mixing I'd have to do. It meant I had to first hardcode each episode with the subtitles. Once that was done, the editing just meant watching each episdoe again and deciding on the chunks of comedy. In fact, when you do this you get to see how each hilarious part of the Fawlty Towers shows were written and directed. The result is a sizeable number of comedic vignettes you and your EFL/ESL students can work on and ultimately enjoy. (btw the whole process took over twenty hours, but I believe well worth it). </span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Search and locate the srt subtitle-files for each one</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f1c232; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Watch each episode again and decide on parts to cut</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Watch the edited pieces again and pull language out</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>The richness and intelligence of Cleese's writing is therefore shared in someway with the youth of today in Turkey; a mere 40 years after the magnificent <span style="color: orange;">Comedy Gold</span> that is FAWLTY TOWERS was brought to our UK tv-screens.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Now the students have just completed their first ever Fawlty Towers comedic experience, we asked them to write a response on our PLN, Edmodo. Here are the prompts with snips of students feelings below (unedited).</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Remember, the Dodo was an animal that we wiped off the face of the Earth 375 years ago. It seems like we want all species to go extinct in the same way. We MUST stop the insatiable desire for "progress" at the expense of the animal kingdom. Showing your students such videos may not directly help save the animals, but it might start to make our youth more aware of the faults our ancestors began, and we still continue today.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Being an EFL Educator means you always have to be aware of including new vocabulary for almost every lesson. It means you cannot be complacent when preparing what the students are hopefully going to enjoy and participate in with enthusiasm. Unfortunately, for most EFL students, the boring drilling and memorizing nature of vocabulary building is an irritation, even though they know deep down that is an integral part of their learning curve if they hope to be genuinely proficient in L2,3 or 4. Flip over to us, the educators, and our conundrum is knowing which lexical items to include for activity-focus. That is why it is never easy. However, with the inception of thousands of ICT-APPS in the past four years, the task can be made easier for us, and even a bit more interesting for our students. Here is one way to approach lexical-items inclusion for a research project.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">By using the website, <b><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.visualthesaurus.com/vocabgrabber/">VISUALTHESAURUS</a></span></b> for making wordlists, you can have a very quick list(s) for the benefit of your students. The book the students have been reading, <b><a href="http://davidmearns.blogspot.com.tr/2014/03/how-can-fiction-lead-to-non-fiction.html" style="font-size: x-large;">MUD CITY (previous post on the research activity)</a>, </b>is the background to getting students both to read a novel in English, quickly, and to enter into serious research on subjects ranging from the Taliban to child-kidnapping and refugee camps. So, I took the e-book version and opened it up in <a href="http://calibre-ebook.com/" style="font-size: x-large; font-weight: bold;">CALIBRE</a><b style="font-size: x-large;"> </b>on my PC. I then cut-n-paste each chapter into the Visual Thesaurus Vocabulary Grabber. The results are excellent and the site provides you with the following visuals. Here is chapter three in graphic form.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Although much of the novel does center around the personal growth and change in Bradley, my colleague and I decided that our core target while teaching this unit would be bullying. As educators, we have become all very aware of the prevalence of bullying in schools all around the world, and the terrible consequences it has on those affected. Even in our own private high school in an outer suburb of Istanbul, though physical bullying is rare, mental, verbal and cyber-bullying all do occur on a regular basis. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">After spending around two weeks discussing the various aspects of bullying and what we can do about it, we assigned our students a group project that they would work on autonomously in and outside of school time for the following two weeks. Their task was to create and promote their own <b>Anti-Bullying Campaign</b> which they would not only present to us, but also, in conjunction with our counseling department, present to the middle school students. The only requirement that we gave them was that they had to use one or more <b>ICT</b> tools to create their projects. For example, they could create their own bullying scenarios and record them on <b>IMovie</b>; they could create their own <b>Stop Motion</b> videos; or they could make promotional posters on <b>Glogster</b>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">To be quite honest, I was definitely worried a few days before the deadline of the project. When asking the students where they were in terms of getting their presentations ready, many admitted that they still had lots of work to do. I was thinking at that point that leaving them to their own devices was probably not the best idea. In the end, however, they had all proved me wrong.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I chose the topic above since there was a really great thing that happened on the first week of the activity. One of our really inquisitive boys, Rüzgar, had chosen this topic since he really wants to study science in high school. So, this physics type of question was perfect for him. So, he went away and did all the that was asked of him, and he came back excited about what he had learned. While he was presenting our Deputy Principal looked in to make an announcement. But, when he saw what Rüzgar was telling the class he took a seat. <b>Mahir, the DP, is also a physics teacher. </b>So, now Rüzgar was presenting to his future physics teacher, and he had many facts to impress him. It was brilliant to watch both the excited student, and the willing science teacher engaging in the subject. It was also great for me tıo take a back seat and see another teacher at work on my lesson. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Basically, Navin (Martin), has grown up in an African-American family thinking he was born Black. He has no rythym, his favorite meal is a Twinky and a can of Tab, but he has no sense of purpose for his future. That is until one night while listening to the radio his toes start to keep beat to the music. Then his whole body and mind find 'it' as he realizes his purpose; in fact, his <b>SPECIAL PURPOSE.</b> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This is the reason I wanted to show my students the idea of having a <b>PURPOSE</b> for doing anything in life, and the lesson went like that. I am sharing it with you along with the clipped vidos I prepared, then you can read some student responses after the clips.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Nowadays, there are tons of apps out there that enable you to make short videos from your <b>IPAD</b>, but I have yet to see one as cool and quirky as <b>Touchcast</b>. This app allows the user to make up to five-minute videos with the effects that make it look and feel like a real news cast. You can add a title frame, which has a running news banner across the bottom, not to mention you can import pictures and websites onto your video in real time. These, of course, are just the tip of the iceberg. There are so many more features in the app, one of which is the focus of this blog post. However, before we get to that, if you aren't too familiar with the app, I strongly suggest that you take a couple of minutes to watch the following introductory video of <b>Touchcast</b> by its founder...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">For us, the <b>Peek at the Week</b> project was a huge success. The students had never seen a video like it before, and all of the feedback from other teachers and parents was all extremely positive. The problem, however, is that we teach 14 and 15 year-old students who seem to get bored of just about everything. Just the other day, for example, a student wanted to play a song that he really liked on his phone for me. After about 20 seconds of listening to it, and again this is a song that he really liked, he changed to the next song. When I inquired as to why he had changed it, he said that it was because it was the best part, and he usually only listens to songs for his favorite parts. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The debate these days in many ELT departments is whether it is feasible, justifiable or even worth the effort to continue with literature as the primary resource for teaching English to Turkish teenagers. I, being an opponent of such curriculums, at least as the main resource, have been at loggerheads for years trying to make foreign national teachers realise that most Turkish students do not have to learn English in this way. Although there may be data out there to justify its inclusion, and how it gives a deeper understanding of English and love for reading to the masses, I believe the conclusion of researchers has never been made by asking Turkish students whether they feel the same way about our classic literature base, especially if they are expected to wade through dense prose as young teenagers. In fact, the vast majority of Turkish students that I have met don't want to read in their mother tongue, let alone in English. So, it is necessary that we start a paradigm shift with regard to this, and try to make English a much more interesting and enjoyable experience by using the English novel as the <i>support-tool</i> for learning our language, not the <i>only tool</i> as a means to helping Turkish teenagers develop their skills in English. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I came across Mud City, written by Deborah Ellis, a children's novel based on a young Afghani teenage girl who, after running away from her family in Kabul, dreams of travelling to France, where she will find her ultimate happiness. So. we are taken on a road trip with Shauzia, the protagonist, and her trusty canine friend, Jasper. Throughout the narrative the audience is exposed to the horrors and experiences far too many children from that region have to live day in day out. The author has included 37 different issues, problems and attrocious situations that the people of Afghanistan and Pakistan have suffered since the 1980s.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Teaching 14-15 year olds for 24hrs a week is not only exhausting, draining and, at times annoying, but also it offers one, (so old now), the chance to really connect with how their minds work; which is, I must admit, rather surprising at times. Because of the 24hrs, it simply cannot be a copy of the old teacher-student dichotomy of, "US & THEM". Those days are gone for me, and we, as English teachers, also have to get down to their level so that we can make that connect. Of course, we must set the boundaries with structured frameworks, so that things can run smoothly, but on the whole we manage to get results (for most, not all!).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">In consideration of that we are expected to be interested parties for the students as <i>PASTORAL CARERS</i> as well as the teachers who give them the mechanics and inspiration to motivate them into reaching B2 after one year of instruction. So, along the way you are faced with bored teenagers. What do you do?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Teenagers are well reknowned for their petulance, indifference, dissent, anger, frustration, irrational desires and hot flushes, right? These are the emotions we all have, of course, but they are particularly accentuated during adolescence. So, they also feel depressed, manic and scunnered with their humdrum existence. They really do live in the teenage rat-race, and feel like they are bereft of any way out. That is why I felt that a good way to show those (genuine) feelings was to record a week in their lives through quirky pictures. They have to take one photograph, each day for one week, then present</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> it to their peers. The quirky part comes from following Andrew Whyte's model of using a toy figure to show parallels to their own lives. This way, psychologically, it masks their own bearing-of-their-souls-to-the-world by using that inanimate plastic character to represent themselves. In addition, it gets them using English as the means of recording the activities when they present. It also introduces <i>perspective</i>, a valid reason for taking photographs and shows their creative snap-taking skills.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Since we have found that BLENDSPACE is a fabulous ICT-ELT support platform to use with teenagers, the old days of powerpoint or keynote and prezi have been resigned to the bin. Therefore, our student-presentations are now done using this effective means of getting their message over to their peers. Here is our introductory presentation...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The proof of the pudding is certainly in the eating, so here we have a selection of our students images for you to see how they roll, and to prove it is possible to get into their minds, and under their skin for positive outcomes. We believe you'll be impressed... </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">As our blog suggests, we are totally into ICT-Supported EFL teaching. So, last weekend I messaged Brentson and suggested we do some Stop-Motion activity. He loved the idea, so we went to work on our creative process. We felt that a message or messages from the students about their year in prep-for-high school would make a great start. We wanted to help them out by honing in on what is passionate for them and in that respect we chose: ICT, Learning English & Education in general.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Download to your iphone or ipad the free (incredibly so) app: <b><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://itunes.apple.com/tr/app/imotion-hd/id421365625?mt=8">iMotion HD</a></span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Get accustomed to the very simple interface. Press <i>"New Movie"</i>, give the movie a name, press <i>"Manual"</i> and start shotting your stop-motion short</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">We decided to have the students consider the </span><b style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">THREE</b><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> categories: </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;">ICT-Education</span>; <span style="color: purple;">EDUCATION in general</span>; <span style="color: #b45f06;">LEARNING English</span>. </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">In order to get the students properly excited about the content as well as the quirky tech and possible outcome with the Stop-Motion videos, we felt it best to come up with the statements for two of the categories, and let them do the third. Since Learning English is the primary objective this year, Brentson and I thought this would be the easiest for them to come up with a statement.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Our students are reading Louis Sachar's highly acclaimed bestselling children's novel, "There is a boy in the girls' bathroom." Although many, if not most, students detest reading at school, we have found this title to be one that taps into the adolsecent-psyche. We can only put it down to its subject matter: sibling rivalry & bullying. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Bradley, the protagonist, is a young teenage boy going through his indifferent and beligerent behavioural stage, where he hates everything and everybody; especially authority figures - like, e.g., teachers. As he experiences the consequences of his actions he utters this epic retort to Carla Davis, the new school counselor: <b><span style="color: red;">"Nobody can hurt me, not even myself..."</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">We have found that one way of getting students to read on their own <span style="color: red;">(WE HATE any classroom situation where a teacher would think it is ok to read pages and pages of a novel to their teenage students!!) </span>is to instill in them the power of the inner-reading voice in the library. By using an adapted style of <span style="color: blue; font-size: large; font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://davidmearns.blogspot.com.tr/2013/10/bill-ted-help-to-launch-students-into_23.html">S.S.R.</a> </span><span style="color: #351c75;">(a previous post showing another example of S.S.R.)</span>, a stipulated number of pages in 30 minute chunks, and carefully prepared worksheets that relate the characters to the students and their own environment, it opens up the possibility of getting the majority of your students willingly into the novel. Furthermore, it leads to healthy class discussions, written responses and group work. </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">However, we feel that variety is essential with young minds. So, in order to alleviate the boredom that inevitably creeps in, we have come up with this ICT-Supported activity.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">We have reached half way through the book. It seemed like a good time for our students to reflect on certain parts of the book; in order to see which enduring understandings they had garnered and acquired as thematic considerations.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Therefore, we looked to see the SIX most important parts of our protagonist, Bradley's, demise through bullying. This we felt was better identified by us, since it was to be the first time any teacher had asked our students to do up till this year. The resultant table is below, and this was past on to the students via the <b><span style="color: blue; font-size: large;"><a href="http://blnds.co/MX1FEh">BLENDSPACE</a></span></b> of the activity.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">We arranged the students into SIX groups (5x3 & 1x2), and directed them to the <span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://blnds.co/MX1FEh">BLENDSPACE</a></b></span>, so they could make this reflective activity totally intrinsic. We reminded them we would not offer up any support, at this time, since we wanted to see how they could cope doing group work alone. Below are the steps as a jpeg:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">We gave the students 50 mins to complete ONE page of a comic. Even though they managed to submit their group-efforts in that time, the standard was well below what we expected for this time of the year. However, we took it as an opportunity to give feedback to each group on how they could improve their comic strips. Here are the tips and feedback we gave them to make their first efforts better:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">When I was giving the feedback in class there were visible signs from the majority that they were not pleased at the constructive criticism. I soldiered on, and convinced them to engage. They then got a further thirty minutes to redo their comic life pages. You will see the difference...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Now, I know theye are not up there with the quality of <b><a href="http://davidmearns.blogspot.com.tr/2013/04/the-avengers-retold-comprehensive-elt.html">Marvel Comics</a> <span style="color: blue;">(a previous post about another comic book ELT activity)</span>, </b>but at least they tell a message, and it is their own doing. They got creative, eventually, and that was rewarding for us all. I think the most important aspect of this activity is the reflective recall of the excerpts of bullying from Bradley in the book. It gives students a more interesting and productive way for going back to the narrative, rather than simply looking at notes, highlights and annotations. We hope you can try it out, and let us know...</span></div>
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