Sunday, 19 October 2014

Resources - including multimedia and visual organizers (multimodality)

Day 6              : Wednesday, 15th October 2014
Session 1      : 9.00 am to 10.30 am
Slot                 : Resources - including multimedia and visual organizers (multimodality)
Tutor               : Katie


Classroom Learning Outcome: 

By the end of the lesson, lecturers will be able to:
● know about visual organizers and their uses in the classroom and in CLIL contexts.
● match visual organizers with their purposes.
● understand some reasons for using multimedia in the classroom.


Suggested Activities:

Pre task warm-up

      Teacher asks students how many senses a human has.

           Teacher asks students to identify the senses.
Senses:
  • Sight (eyes)
  • Hearing (ears)
  • Touch (skin)
  • Smell (nose)
  • Taste (mouth/nose)
  • Equilibrioception (balance and acceleration)
  • Thermoception (temperature)
  • Proprioception (kinaesthetic/spatial awareness)
  • Nociception (pain)
  • Chronoception (time)

Learning styles
       Students discuss with their partner and check what their learning style is.
Learning styles:
  • Visual
  • Auditory
  • Physical/ Tactile/ Kinesthetic
  •  Individual 
  • Group
  •  Impulsive
  • Reflective

Venn Diagrams
      Teacher asks students to draw a Venn diagram.
     
           Teacher asks students to think of two things to compare. For example, two types of retailers – KFC and RFC (local).
      
      Teacher asks students to make sentences based on the comparison. For example:
      KFC is more expensive than RFC.
      RFC is cheaper than KFC.
     
            Students share their Venn diagrams with their partner.
Venn Diagram:
                                                     

 

Teaching Tips:

1.    Teacher could check students’ pronunciation by asking students to repeat the word as a group to make sure everyone is able to pronounce the word correctly.
2.     Teacher could prepare language frames to guide students in making sentences for the Venn diagram. For example, “They are both …”, “Both are …”
3.    When identifying the visual organisers, teacher could ask students to highlight or underline the key words to help learners understand the visual organisers better. E.g. Cycle – to show a series of events which happen again and again.

4.    Some multimedia / ICT ideas:
·         Webquests: http://webquest.org/
·         A different way to make presentations: www.prezi.com
·         Concordance outputs from language corpora: http://view.byu.edu/
·         Podcasts
·         Portable apps: www.portableapps.com
·         Excellent talks with audio, video, subtitles, translations and interactive scripts: www.ted.com

Reflection:

During the lesson, we discussed some of the resources which can be used in the classroom and in CLIL contexts. Visual organisers such as cycle, cause effect diagram, grid, pie chart, table, T-chart, Caroll diagram, bar graph or bar chart, time line, binary key, flow chart, mind map, line graph, quadrants and story board can be used especially in teaching comparison, classification, show locations of places, sort yes/no information and many more. By using the visual organisers, it could help students to understand information better rather than reading a long explanation about the visual organisers while teacher will find it easier to explain any information related. 

By incorporating ICT (Information and communications technology) in the classroom, teachers could encourage student talking time (STT), exchange and share information, present and revisit subject vocabulary, encourage learner autonomy, provide learning support, handle data, develop enquiry skills, be creative and motivate learners. Besides that, ICT could always make lessons fun and interactive. Among the types of ICT that we usually use in the classroom are presentations (PowerPoint), word processing (Word), databases (Excel), graphics/images, visual organisers (graphs, charts, etc.), audio/music, video, paint software, web searches and interactive whiteboards.

In planning a lesson, it is always good to incorporate the use of visual organisers and ICT to ensure that students are able to understand the lesson better as well as making the lesson fun and interactive. When teaching in a second language, the use of visual organisers and ICT could help teachers to develop a range of ways to present or record the information which can be adapted for use in many contexts. In short, the use of visual organisers can help convey language and content in a friendly and meaningful way to students.

Prepared by,

Katherine Livan Kehing binti Abdullah
Politeknik Mukah

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