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Fun with WordMagnets
WordMagnets: color them, size them, add more, drag and drop them… One that comes from Nik Peachey's excellent Learning Technology Blog…
Nik suggests that you could use WordMagnets as a tool for Revising Short Texts and Syntax, on a computer and/or on an interactive whiteboard.
WordMagnets is free, doesn't require installation and enables you to copy and paste (or type in your own) short texts — which are then converted into drag-and-drop "fridge magnets".
Apart from Nik's great ideas, the variety of simple "backgrounds" [...]
Project #3 Self-study multimedia exercises
Level: 3 levels, Upper-Intermediate, First Certificate (FC), Post-FC
Circumstances: Business English students at University
Classroom time required: None; material to be accessed in self-access centre
Brief outline: Teacher to create multiple-choice comprehension questions on business texts taken from Internet, to provide extra reading practice
Equipment required: Computer; HotPotatoes (free download, but 25 user licence is over $1,000)
To find out more about HotPotatoes:http://web.uvic.ca/hrd/hotpot/
All posts by Tom Walton, teacher trainer at IH Barcelona
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