It's time to speak!

Classdigitools - Week 4

Exploring online tools to enhance learners' speaking skills

This week we have been asked to explore many digital tools which allow people to create audio recordings, some of them associated with pictures, and video recordings.

As I usually work with young learners, I tend not to use video recordings or photographs unless they are shared in a private secure learning environment. That's why I particularly appreciated Educreations which is a sort of whiteboard on which you can draw, insert a picture and record your voice.

For our task 4 with Educreations or Sketchcast, we were supposed to draw our family. Here's what I managed to produce:

Task 5 - Explore and create - Lesson plan

We have been asked to explore over 10 tools provided by our helpful moderators and choose one of them to devise a lesson plan to practise speaking skills.

I usually have my teenage students practise speaking in class with the activities I used for the lesson plans, so I adapted these simple tasks and added the digital element which could boost the students' motivation to speak.

EVO 2012 - Classdigitools - Speaking skills