Liveworksheets.com video tutorials: The interactive commands

In his section, I will cover the drag and drop, drop-down menu and the match up functions in Liveworksheets.

These three interactive features are really useful, as I demonstrate here with a worksheet on time made with a template from Canva.com (I edited it for the purpose of this video.)

Video #3: interactive commands

First I demonstrate the drop-down menu (choose) as briefly demonstrated in the last video of the previous blog post on the simple commands. See blog here.

Then I quickly show the command for the match up (join) and the command for drag and drop. 

To find the quick glance infographic I use in this video click on this link 😃

Liveworksheet tutorial simple commands

I have really loved working with Liveworksheet. 

I am posting multiple video links on my blog this summer on how to digitalize your worksheets depending on what you are looking to do with it. I am using worksheets from Canva to show you the various tools available. 

I am breaking up the infographic available on my TPT in these videos. 

I hope these help!

*these videos will show you how to create our worksheet after you have created your Liveworksheet account.

This post encompasses the simple commands section of the infographic.

Video 1: Uploading a document to digitalize, drawing a box, including answers for autocorrect and saving the document for private use. 

ALL videos will also show how it will look to your students once they click on the link.

Video 2: creating check boxes ( a tick mark/checkmark will appear in the correct boxes ), self correct multiple choice boxes and a drop down menu ( in this example a simple yes/no answer).

More tutorials to come soon!

3 top Distance Learning resources and some thoughts for next year

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.

 

Edpuzzle and quizizz- how I use these two resources

Good morning,
Today I will tell you about how I use Edpuzzle and Quizizz.
First a bit of background info, before Distance Learning  -I shall call it DL after this- I never used Edpuzzle, I now do maybe on a bi-weekly basis.
Now, I have been using it for all levels 5th, 6th and 7th grade.
I used to present the vocab and get the kids going with songs and short videos in my classes, so after a quick search in the Youtube content, I found those videos already edited by other teachers. It is worth checking that the questions meet your kids' needs, and you can save and edit questions add more, delete or change the MCQ.

Edpuzzle

For the 6th grade, I mainly include the videos for reinforcement of what has been said in class or pre-teaching  (flip class) or even for listening skills. 

Quizizz

For the 7th grade,  I found some supplementing material for students to work on celebrations and also so explanatory videos on grammar topics that we may not have had time to go over in-depth during the class. 
I use Edpuzzzle for homework since we have 35 mn slots with our classes and I am lucky enough to have maximum of 16 students in my classes I try to continue teaching the way we used to in class. 

Quizizz on the other hand, I have been using way before DL. It is my 'Kahoot', I liked the old version I like the new version the kids like the new redemption questions and glitch bonuses etc.
All levels play with Quizizz, I have used premade ones, I have saved and edited ones and I have made my own ones too. It is very versatile and when you think your classes are lacking the umph then go fo a Quizizz and the quiz with brighten right up.
How often to I do Quizizz, with the 7th grade I have done it once a week during DL and with the 6th grade when needed. 
I like how we can go over the questions at the end, I tend to do this more with 6 and 7th grade than with the 5th grade. I do like how it gives the kids a temperature check on how they are doing, I need to play with the new gap-fill features to stretch the ability of the kids. 
It feels it really only tests them on reading and vocabulary or grammar mechanics if you only use the multiple choice options.

More to come this week or next the top 3 DL online resources.

Quick post before another Distance Learning day starts- top 5 Distance learning tools

Well I guess this will be a special Covid-19 edition.If you are a teacher reading this post, you will recognize many tools and resources I was previously using and if you are following @laclassedemademoisele on Instagram, you will definitely have heard of these resources. 
Anyway, here is my top 5 so far of online resources that I recenter my students on. We do 35 mn classes on zoom and I somewhat manage to include these throughout the week, either for homework or practice. I'll be coming back tomorrow to details these a little more!



5. Edpuzzle
4. Quizizz

3. Lingt

3. Lingt
2. Learning Apps
1. Liveworksheets

Some thoughts after ACTFL and II Jornadas de ELEINTERNACIONAL- Let's talk professional development

Hello,
Long-time no see I know, I am sorry this is taking so long.
Instagram posts are just so snappy and easy that this blog is not getting as much feed. If you want to stay updated more often make sure you either check into my Pinterest blog page
 Blog Laclassedemademoisele or my Instagram @laclassedemademoisele where you will see more posts and ideas that may not appear here.

Now, my November was full of professional development. It so happens that both took place in the same time frame. First, if you have not yet understood, I am hooked on the professional development offered by ELEInternacional for ELE teachers. The Jornadas offered 5 days of online conferences by some of their best teacher-mentors. I did the free versions and because of the overlap with the ACTFL 19 conference, I  only managed 4 days out of the 5. The offering was varied as per usual and some of my favorites bloggers also offered insights on how to modify classic games such as Bingo for example. Ana Gomez is amazing in the way she approaches her teaching a=with emotional learning as well and in the designing creative activity course she gives you a few examples as well. I also discovered Jardin de idiomas, where, Ana Marín Tabuenca explained how to use the software pages to create new activities. Enara Villán offered a thorough insight into how to use music in the classroom in 20 creative ways. This got me thinking and I was able to create my own bingo sheets and Clue game for my French classes.
Remember my focus this year is to develop my new French 6th-grade curriculum. 
I did all that while on the train to Washington and headed to ACTFL 2019.  I will be honest and will say that I Have a hard time totally adhering to ACFL's approach. It is possibly because I was trained in Europe in two various systems, the English GCSE/ A LEVEL  and the CEFR European model which was the one we looked at during my FLE Masters. So my teaching approach is a mix of what works best for the kids. My goal this year was to come to ACTFL ready to learn more about Comprehensible input, group work and authentic material use in the classroom. I enjoyed listening to how some teachers 'do it' I still have a hard time seeing myself completely buying into that. Why you ask?
because of the pace. I do do a lot of repetition, there is no problem with that but the fact that what I saw looked very teacher-focused and not so much student-centered is making me skeptical. So I have started implementing more ways to use only TL, but I am not ready to move to TPRS yet and I want to continue seeing my kids having fun and speaking a lot in the class and understanding the grammar, yes, the grammar as I don't think you can have solid students without explaining grammar as you go along. I am in awe of the teachers who are successful such as La maestra loca and I will be using many of her ideas and I also was very interested in Martina Bex's talk on Planning for proficiency who took time during her presentation to show us how it is done.
I added links to all these great teacher's pages so check them out if you don't know them yet!

Below I am adding some pictures of what I have created pre- and post conferences a little catch up :)

October post on latest creations.- Qu'est-ce qu'il y a dans ton sac à dos?

Good afternoon,
This year has been very full already. My schedule is packed and with more classes at different levels I have more level meetings. I do love this system, we have an incredible knowledge of our kids. The only downside is that I have not been able to post as much, let alone creating.
Finally, this week I have been able to create new resources.
This year, posts will be mainly oriented on French 6th grade since that is my new course, and I am creating a new curriculum for it.

My first unit so far has included greetings, introductions, and a short unit on objects of the classroom to start grasping the concept of singular, plural, masculine, and feminine.
I am learning so much, and I am so grateful my two classes are made of an incredible bunch of kids.
My smartboard has also had a lot of issues, and they have displayed a fantastic level of patience.

So this week and the fact that we started doing more concrete vocabulary, I was able to create a few new resources.

The first one was actually pretty quick to create and is a backpack with 4 items. Students are paired up and must ask the question, 'do you have a ...?' to find out if their friends have various items pictured on their list.
The only vocabulary they have is the question.

To cater to students with various levels of handwriting and processing speed. I created an interactive vocabulary sheet where students have to cut and paste the vocabulary to the picture but also write the correct definite article.

 After many years, teaching at the next level, I realize that my students in the 6th grade will need about 3 lessons to process the new vocabulary in various ways to 'anchor' it. So I created a tic tac toe game which will allow students to review the vocabulary but also to add the numbers 1-60  in the process. And since I was already in the template I decided to create one for my 7th grade Spanish class about breakfast foods.

This last picture only shows a little bit of the fortune-tellers my students created to practice salutations and instructions. I hope to use this creative review game in future units at the end of the chapter since they can ask each other questions about anything.