Presentations for every content area: teachers' models and students' presentations

In our last seminar session, we were talking about assessing students in our CLIL contexts and many of you commented that your students are delivering oral presentations on a specific topic using ppt or prezzi. Therefore, I am writing to let all of you know about www.worldofteaching.com. You can download a huge number of Powerpoint presentations for free on a variety of subjects. If you wish, you can also upload your own presentations so as to share thenm with teachers from around the world. ANother good site to search for presentations on different subject is this one.

A similar website that is specific for History and Global Studies is Power Point Palooza.

All these  sites can be very useful when you have not  got enough time to build your own slideshow orto look through for ideas for creating your own slideshows. 

For History teachers, Tom Richey has wonderful PowerPoint presentations and hundreds of useful videos in his youtube channel.

If you need a tool to assess students' Powerpoint presentations, I would like to share this one with you.

If you are interested in a rubric to assess students' oral presentations following a different format from ppt, this one can help you.

ART AND MUSIC

Encourage your pupils to develop their creativity by listening to music they like and creating a work of art to represent how it makes them feel with this activity from Tate Kids.


The Idea:

Different types of music can create different responses. Responses to music can be made through drawing, painting, 3D sculpture, movement, dance, story, poetry, photography, slide projection and video. You can probably think of others, too. The idea here is to show how the music inspires you. Your work will show how music makes you feel, what it makes you think of and what you can create from what you hear.
 The Plan:
You are going to respond to your chosen piece of music by creating a sculpture known as a 3D kinetic (that means movement) sculpture-drawing. This means you will respond by creating a sculpture that represents the way the music makes you feel.
  You Need:
  • A selection of any bits and pieces you can find, including lolly sticks and different sized and coloured pieces of paper.
  • String, wool or ribbon, so you can make a music sculpture mobile if you wish.
  • Scissors, sticky tape, glue.
  • A hook - if you want to hang your mobile up.
  • Your chosen piece of music or sounds.
  

Do it!

  • Listen carefully to your music and think about how the music moves.
  • Does it make big swooshing shapes? Does it make small, quiet movements or is it jerky and repetitive? Perhaps it sounds like it is creeping along the floor? Or is it more like it is flying and swirling through the air.
  • You might find yourself moving to the music. That’s good – dance if you want to.
  • Now you are ready to make your 3D sculpture by choosing bits and pieces that represent the feel of your music. For example a curled waving piece of paper might move in a whirly, swirling way or a collection of lolly sticks might clink against each other in a jerky, clicky way.
  • Hang your sculpture up like a mobile so it can rotate and move freely.
 Top Tips:
  • Think about how the sounds fit together and move. Then try to make your 3D sculpture move in a similar way.
  • Try different ways of responding to other pieces of music or sounds.
  • You might enjoy just working with a sound effects CD.
  • You could make a response to the natural sounds around you – go into the country, into the city or by the sea if that is possible.

See it: 


Recycle, Reduce, Reuse through TrashedWorld



I would like to congratulate Keith Kelly, Clive Oxenden and  Keith Halstead   because their project TrashedWorld is among the finalists for the ELTons 2017. TrashedWorld is a global schools' platform for curriculum exchange work on the topic of waste. Its aim is to help develop English language skills in secondary schools while developing awareness among young people of the worldwide problem of waste and its impact on the environment.

To celebrate their  nomination, they are offering free subscription to TrashedWorld till the finals on June 14th. This means access to resources from over 300 schools from all over Europe for free!

Listen to  Keith below these lines to see how to take part in this  wonderful project which is so necessary for our beloved  planet:


 


You can also read the  TrashedWorld Bulletin 04 , which is  dedicated to this announcement and includes simple steps for finding and working with partners for exchanging student work. You can find it here

Once again, congratulations to Keith Kelly and his team   on the superb work they have done and thank you very much for offering our CLIL teachers  this great opportunity. Taking part in TrashedWorld  will sure  contribute to making our students aware of the impact of waste and  change habits so  as to prevent damage to our environment.