#7- Doodle English/Voxopop
You just don’t have to Kill Trees to get your point across.
I have decided to enlarge Environmental English a little to get more bang for the buck. Wait… It’s Free. All you have to remember is do or investigate all the ideas and you can start loading up on Gold Stars.
In this edition:
o Doodle English
o Believe It or Not (Writing Explanation)
o Voxopop.com
o Noodlers Delight- Aardvark Stroganoff
o Teachergary.com has hits from nine different countries
Let’s get started….
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Doodle English
Here is a guy from China that gives online classes/sessions on using Doodles to teach English. It’s quite interesting how he does it. His students are a lower level than ours but the concept is still valid. Watch one of his session recordings.
I know you are asking yourself, “Gee whiz Betty Lou. How can we do this?” It’s very simple and here’s how.
o Get about 12 Erasers and cut them in half. Now you have 24. Fuzzy math
o Have the students draw a box around the best doodle on their desks
o They then have to erase the rest of the desk
o Have each row pick out the best doodle on their row
o And so on and so on until you have the best one in the class
o Each time you go up a level the students have to erase the boxed doodle
o Finally you have the class winner of the best doodle in the class
o The students then have to write a story about the best doodle
It’s too late. The desks are clean of all writing. Tom Sawyer strikes again.
Of course this may lower final exam grades by a few points but remember The Desks are Clean. I’m not sure why the desk on the Girls side of the class is not cleaner. I guess it’s their natural artistic nature.
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Believe It or Not (Writing Explanation)
This certainly explains a lot of things.
Try this. . .
Believe it or not you can read it.
I cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer inwaht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Amzanig huh? yaeh and I awlyas thought slpeling was ipmorantt..
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Voxopop-Online Speaking Exercise
I know you are thinking, “Gee whiz, Bobby Joe. How am I going to get my students to talk online?”
Voxopop is one answer. More later…..
Here is a site that allows you to make a recording and allow members to react or whatever to that recording by making a voice recording on the Internet. Yes, they do have to actually go to the website and do something in English. And no they, don’t get to get their friends to fill in the blanks on 23 pages of photocopies, do their part in killing Trees and releasing Bleach into the water table. They just have to plan their answer and make the recording.
Here is the page I have set up for www.teachergary.com for the 16 weekly lessons where the students have to make a recording for some conversation questions.
http://www.voxopop.com/group/9445488f-acb3-4c0a-9b90-fe430e587da7
It does work better if your students have evolved beyond the photocopy and understand that simply having the right answers is not learning. The problem with the “Right Answer” method of learning is students Graduate and have no actual knowledge. But, they do have the right answers and that all that is important to them. This cannot be allowed to happen anywhere. It is our job as teachers to wean them off of antiquated and destructive learning methods.
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Noodlers Delight-
Aardvark Stroganoff Recipe
Serve this tuna stroganoff recipe over rice or noodles.
Ingredients:
- 1/4 cup butter
- 1/4 cup chopped onion
- 1 can cream of mushroom soup
- 1/2 cup sour cream
- dash pepper
- 1 can (7 ounces) Aardvark Meat, strained and fluffed
- 1 can (4 ounces) mushrooms, drained
- Hot cooked noodles or rice
Preparation:
Melt butter in skillet; sauté onion until tender. Combine soup, sour cream and pepper; add to onion. Add Aardvark and mushrooms; heat through. Serve Aardvark stroganoff over hot cooked noodles or rice.
Makes 4 servings.
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Teachergary.com has hits from nine countries and some change (other)
o US
o Oman
o Brazil
o Germany
o Italy
o Russia
o Mexico
o Maldives
o Others
Go ahead. Get your site up. It’s not Rocket Science. Heck, it’s not even as complicated and complex as Long Division. Get involved with the rest of the world. They are out there waiting for you.
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