It is the end of the year for me, I have stopped by school to collect the 3 month old dirty cups, cleaned up my desk that was left in a hurry in March, and now I am ready to chill for a bit. I am not sure about your schools but here, we are not quite ready with a plan for Fall and understandably it is hard to tell what the situation will be in September so, we continue on the Distance Learning series and the top 3 resources I planned my lessons around during the Spring term.
At # 3: Lingt.com. I must have posted about Lingt before, if not here on my IG @laclassedemademoisele. Lingt is free, if you have small classes, you need to pay to have a larger amount of student accounts. I use the free version and delete some content as I go along. The students get URL a bit like Edpuzzle or Flipgrid and that is all you need to tell them apart from the class name.
On your end it is very easy to create content, you can record yourself and have then repeat, like atailored language lab, you can write and they can write also, I am attaching two examples of tasks I created by adding text, then pictures, and asking the kids either to write or to speak and often both. I then log in to the system and I can see the kids work and give them feedback so long as they provide an email address.
At #2 Learning Apps. www.learningapps.org
This website allows you to create a variety of games for grammar or vocabulary, there is also a search engine and for example, on one day my kids played a game on routines that I created and loved it so much I told them to look up Rutina in the search engine and they found a bunch more tasks to do.
You can record yourself as well which allows you to create listening games in any language. The folder system allows you to organize your resources and you can embed the links to your made games in your website or online platform. Here is an example of the recap task I gave my 6th graders on questions and answers on school. They just had to drag the question and answers, these are not timed so kids can also take notes as they do the task.
At #1, liveworksheets.com. A real lifesaver during these dire times. If you want to go green and skip printing worksheets this is the way to go. Let me be clear, it is a little time consuming digitalizing your worksheets but totally worth it. Plus there is a ton of resources already available, you just don't know how the autocorrect will work if you don't try the worksheet yourself at first.
Liveworksheets has it's own code which you will learn two ways:1. watching the how-to videos on their website or youtube. ( I am hoping to sit down this summer and write a little code key to share before the fall, 2. you can find various worksheet switch different types of exercises and click on how did they make it and you will see the codes they used.
I have reservations with the pre recorded voices, I did a task with my nephew who is learning English, we are both French ( this reminds me, I should probably do an introduction post), anyway, the voice was barely recognizable, but I do believe you can upload your own Mp3 files into the worksheet.
I used Liveworksheets to create quizzes, homework tasks, checking for understanding in class and just for fun.
what you can do: gapfills, match ups, true or false, you can enter the answers and also leave open answers spaces.
I have not used the workbook or entered students but I am definitely thinking I will next year.
Now for the next post, I will try to share the resources I plan on using next fall, if we are int he classroom and I cannot get the kids around a boardgame I must find another option and this seems to be Genial.ly. So the next post will be about how I can move a powerpoint board game to Genial.ly.
