I am excited to get to know you this year. You can learn a little about me by viewing my presentation at https://prezi.com/secure/43a9642200813ed62b933e5dd0ac9e7df6cff91e/
1) Click on the link, and use the
to move from screen to screen.
2) When you have the entire show, work with your share partner to ask and answer the questions below in a complete sentence. You can go back to the presentation to find the answers.
a. Where was Ms. Boumgarden born?
b. How many people are in Ms. Boumgarden’s family?
c. In which state is Naperville?
d. What did Ms. Boumgarden study in college?
e. How long did Ms. Boumgarden live in Spain?
f. When did Ms. Boumgarden move to the Dominican Republic?
g. Why is Ms. Boumgarden wearing a coat in the picture about Minnesota?
h. What is one thing Ms. Boumgarden likes?
i. How does Ms. Boumgarden feel about golf?
j. What does Ms. Boumgarden want to be when she grows up?
3) Using your question words, write down ten questions that you could answer in your own presentation.
1. How will you use this resource to meet the needs of your instructional purposes?
We are working on how to ask and answer questions correctly and appropriately. The focus of this lesson is on viewing and using models of questions and then writing their own. It would follow classroom work on how to answer those questions in a complete format.
2. Why is this topic, information or content appropriate for the lesson you plan to create (e.g., level of authenticity, relevance to target language, register, accuracy, interest level, and motivation)?
Because my students know who I am, the interest level and motivation are high and applicable. Also, I would eventually like them to make their own prezi.com presentations to share with the class. The sentence formats can be as simple or elaborate as students are able, so there is some flexibility in the lesson itself.
3. What handouts or directions will you provide students to focus learning and adapt this resource for your instructional purposes?
We have been working in class on how to look at a question to form a sentence starter to answer the question. They will bring their notes from class to help them with that formatting. I might put the online questions onto a worksheet to allow them to gather their thoughts before they have to orally share their answers.
4. What are the potential problems, either language based or technical that you may need to troubleshoot for?
I don’t foresee many problems for this particular activity, but I would like to extend it so that each student can make their own prezi.com presentation. For that, I will need to look into making bulk email accounts for my students to sign up for an account and putting the directions for the activity in language appropriate to their level.
Wow, how fun. This is a great language activity. I love the sample you had, it was very simple, enabling them to not be intimidated. It would be great to do this, then after students get further acquainted with it do it with a deeper level of language. Great lesson and I want to thank you for the resources and lesson ideas you have given me this summer.
ReplyDeleteLindsey,
ReplyDeleteWhat an excellent lesson idea! I love the top 10 list with all of the visual scaffolds and interesting facts about you. This lesson is sure to keep students motivated and on task. I am sure they will be excited to answer questions about you, and to start to think about creating their own questions and top 10 lists. I had never heard of prezi.com, but think the self-paced format is very student friendly. It seems like a great way to communicate a lot of information without overwhelming amounts of reading. Great beginning of the year activity-- thanks for sharing-- I'd really like to try it out!
Have a great rest of the summer, and thanks for sharing your great ideas and comments.
Andrea
Lindsey,
ReplyDeleteNow I know 10 things about you!! This is great. I like how you put yourself at the center of the discussion. The students already know somethings about you and I think it really draws their focus on someone who is a leader whereas if they were doing it on each other first they might be shy. You really did well in developing the lesson to meet all your goals. This really does well for the development of the students in being able to ask questions in the manner that you are showing them. The only thing I would add is just some kind of assessment (informal) as the students are working in their groups.
Excellent work!
Nigel
Hi Lindsay,
ReplyDeleteThis is great. The prezi.com format works well for this activity. The relationship between the question form and using that as a starter for the answer should really help the students to write complete answers. Even native speakers tend to want the teacher to read their minds! I need to remind them that I can't read their minds and neither can the people looking at constructed responses on standardized tests. They must be complete and specific. Thanks for an inspiring lesson. I'll need to check out this tool some more.