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Wow! This is a post I wrote before Christmas last year, but never got round to posting as I completely forgot about it. Oh well, better late than never!
made on Wondersay - Animate text with style
If you've got an interactive whiteboard, or even just a computer and data-projector the text could be shown to the learners for them to read. I often find myself attempting to make reading texts 'come alive' for younger learners and also have difficulty in stopping them trying to understand every word, using wondersaid could help lower levels gain confidence in reading through being helped to understand short texts that they are forced to read quickly.
The limit on the size of each 'wondersaying' appears to be 2068 characters, which is a limit not imposed by the site itself, but by Internet Explorer, due to the fact that IE urls are limited to this number and any wondersaying that you create includes the message as part of the url. For other web browsers there is no information, so just see what you can squeeze in!
Phrases that the students create can easily be embedded in a blog or wiki and would make a writing task just that bit more interesting. In my experience, when YLs have to display their work they tend to take greater care to make sure that it's correct, so using this could help them to focus on writing accuracy as well.
I'm sure there are plenty of uses for this tool. Please share any ideas here if you feel like it!
Other mentions of this tool:
Leahn at earlyefl
Eduardo at eltbakery
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Wow! This is a post I wrote before Christmas last year, but never got round to posting as I completely forgot about it. Oh well, better late than never!
made on Wondersay - Animate text with style
If you've got an interactive whiteboard, or even just a computer and data-projector the text could be shown to the learners for them to read. I often find myself attempting to make reading texts 'come alive' for younger learners and also have difficulty in stopping them trying to understand every word, using wondersaid could help lower levels gain confidence in reading through being helped to understand short texts that they are forced to read quickly.
The limit on the size of each 'wondersaying' appears to be 2068 characters, which is a limit not imposed by the site itself, but by Internet Explorer, due to the fact that IE urls are limited to this number and any wondersaying that you create includes the message as part of the url. For other web browsers there is no information, so just see what you can squeeze in!
Phrases that the students create can easily be embedded in a blog or wiki and would make a writing task just that bit more interesting. In my experience, when YLs have to display their work they tend to take greater care to make sure that it's correct, so using this could help them to focus on writing accuracy as well.
I'm sure there are plenty of uses for this tool. Please share any ideas here if you feel like it!
Other mentions of this tool:
Leahn at earlyefl
Eduardo at eltbakery
- Improve Your Intermediate Level Of English Through Reading
In the blog we want to help everyone who may be learning English, whatever their level. That's why, after writing some guides for learning English from scratch, we present a guide for those people who have an intermediate level of English. Do you...
- Letterpop - Simple Newsletter Creator
Here's one I made earlier. I have found a simple, free tool for creating newsletters - basically a magazine-style page with a background theme and space for text and pictures to be included. I think it could offer a creative option for a writing...
- Dictation #2
Well, it's taken me a while, but here's the second part of my mini-series on dictation activities. Here are a few activities for sentence length texts: How many words I first saw this demonstrated at an IH workshop day in Poland, by a teacher...
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While we are all in thrall to the wonderful technological advances of web 2.0 ? the social media, the tools for this, that and the other, the IWBs etc, it's important to remember the stuff that doesn't necessarily need technology. In fact, most...
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