Week 5: Playing
Overview: February 11th - February 17th
These next two weeks will be slow time, open space for reading, fun and play, creativity and food for thought. We we will be creating narratives and stories bringing together the different resources and using VoiceThread and Community Walk. You have time to finish your assignments /go over the tools, content and comments you have posted. We will connect through the hipbone game, reflect, create and bring together the collective knowledge of participants of this session to build open resources for learners/professional development.
Guest Speaker: Charles Cameron
Theme: Hipbone Game
Venue: SMiELT Forum
Activities
- Go over your posts, check your comments and impressions and those of other participants.
- Reflect on the possibilities these tools offer you and how you could use them in language learning. Jot down any inspirational ideas in your group’s collaborative area.
- Look at the discussion questions below, peruse the material in the extended links, watch the videos and read the articles suggested.
- Join the game at the SMiELT forum.
- Check your benchmarks for this week.
Reflection
- What do all the tools we have used allow you and your learners to do?
- Which teaching style, teaching routine and teaching rhythm would be best adapted to this kind of learning?
- How can I extend, open my classroom to the Web and to the world?
- How can we help learners to improve on their language skills through experiential learning , and networking in these socially and linguistically rich environments ?
- How can I help my learners participate with their own voices?
- How do you imagine learning ecologies in ESL/EFL ?
Benchmarks
I have
- written my own list of what I have done during this session/understood/accomplished by now and what my short term and long goals are.
- posted them on 43Things (what I have done and what I want to do).
- configured 43things so that the post comes out directly in my blog.