Punctuation..? A review
11 years ago
Why Use Wikis in Classroom
Wikis are a good tool for teachers to use in the classroom it is easy to create documents that need to grow and change. Documents in a wiki are not tied to time, so they can be continually modified.
You can use a wiki just as a blog in that you can use it to put course information, links to resources students are studying, embed videos. You can also use it as a portfolio of students work.
There are a couple of features that wikis have that can´t be beat.
Group Projects
They are the best for collaboration. Collaborate with other classes at a local or a global scale. Excellent for group projects. For example you can do a team project to write about features of their city, with 4 students in each team. Assign each team a task for example one team can research and write about good restaurants in their city. Another team can write about monuments and so on. Each team can divide the task among the members. The restaurant team can each write about one restaurant. They can put it on the wiki and each team member can revise and edit each others entry. You can assign another team to be the designers and final editors and they can go into each file and make it look better playing with layout, fonts and adding pictures and videos. Then you as the final editor can go in and review.
Global Classroom Projects
If you are interested in doing a collaborative project with a classroom in another country here are some links that can help you get started. Global Classroom Project has a directory of participating classrooms that you can contact and samples of some of the projects that classrooms have worked on. Flat Classroom is another collaborative group that can give you access to global projects. Another one is IEARN a non profit organization that has over 30,000 schools participating in 130 countries. They have been around for over 25 years. You can also check this website which has a list of more ways of finding global partners to collaborate with.
History Revert Back
One of the best features of a wiki is this ability to go back in time to an earlier version. Suppose that you are almost done with you group project and one student makes a mistake and deletes a major part of what has been written, no problem you can go back to the previous version before he made the mistake and recover the information. Suppose another students overwrites what another student or you wrote, same thing, just go back to the earlier version before the overwrite and recover the information.
Book Report Guideline
This is the outline for your book report. Be ready to discuss it with your classmates.
Paragraph 1 -The Characters
First sentence should get the reader’s attention
Use character traits and adjectives to specifically describe the main character
Describe the character(s) with events from the book
Paragraph 2 - The Plot
You explain the main problem (conflict) clearly
Describe two or three events related to trying to solve the problem
Don’t tell the solution
Paragraph 3 – Book Recommendation
A strong introduction sentence and a strong conclusion sentence
Explain why someone should or should not read the book
Include what you did or didn’t like about the book
Note: Each paragraph should have at least 5 sentences and no more than 7 sentences.
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ELENA
Sunset Park by Paul Auster
Miles Heller is a young talented student with an ordinary life until a twist of fate happens. All the hopes and wishes for his future seem to vanish in just a few seconds. Now, everything is empty, until he meets Pilar, a beautiful young girl who will be the main reason to start from scratch again.
Probably, the most important event related in the book is how to figure out the beginning of his new life. He decides to get away from his family trying to forget the past, while he lives in different places, surviving to his own loneliness. But he knows that sooner or later, he will need to face his past to begin a new future with his beloved partner.
If you don’t like the complexity of people’s relationships or with yourself, this is not your book. But, if you like feelings like love, hate, guilt or fear, which affect us daily, there’s no better choice. They are perfectly described in this novel and you get deeply involved in the private life of these wonderful characters.
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ELENA
Sunset Park by Paul Auster
Miles Heller is a young talented student with an ordinary life until a twist of fate happens. All the hopes and wishes for his future seem to vanish in just a few seconds. Now, everything is empty, until he meets Pilar, a beautiful young girl who will be the main reason to start from scratch again.
Probably, the most important event related in the book is how to figure out the beginning of his new life. He decides to get away from his family trying to forget the past, while he lives in different places, surviving to his own loneliness. But he knows that sooner or later, he will need to face his past to begin a new future with his beloved partner.
If you don’t like the complexity of people’s relationships or with yourself, this is not your book. But, if you like feelings like love, hate, guilt or fear, which affect us daily, there’s no better choice. They are perfectly described in this novel and you get deeply involved in the private life of these wonderful characters.
More Phrasal Verbs Review
Here are some exercises with phrasal verbs if you want to practice more. It is a list of some of the most common Phrasal verbs with exercises to help you test what you know.
Phrasal Verbs
This animated video has some more examples of Phrasal Verbs
Phrasal Verbs
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| Source: English Channel Teacher Jocelyn |
Click on picture for larger image and exercises with Look.
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| Source: English Channel Teacher Jocelyn |
This animated video has some more examples of Phrasal Verbs
