gamifying revision with technology - a real timesaver

Gamifying revision with technology

Olya SergeevaEPAM Systems

DonELTA Winter School8 February 2016

A real timesaver

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Slides, templates, links: https://eltgeek.wordpress.com/conferences/donelta-2016/

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Outline

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gamifying & personalizing revision at practically no extra preparation cost

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Your approach to games & funin class. How often do you use games? Your favourite game(s) & materials with games?

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Excel questions & answers template

1. Create/load a list of questions/answers (cards generated automatically)Tip: Use Quizlet to find question/answer sets for your coursebook / topic.

2. Print out the cards (First Questions, then insert paper back into the printer and print the answers) and cut them up. Tip: If you only have up to 20 questions, use the 20 question template; if you have a long list of question, use the Randomizer template. Pressing F9 will generate a new set of cards. Tip: also, use the randomizer template to record key language points and to give delayed feedback, so that they could be revised throughout the course

3. Use one of the game boards with your cards. Rules: In order to take their turn, a student needs to answer a question correctly. If they answer the question incorrectly, the card goes back into the stack.

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gamifying & personalizing revision at practically no extra preparation cost

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QUESTION/ANSWER SETS: SOURCES

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What online tools and apps do you use in your teaching? How do you blend offline tools with the rest of the course?

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Quizlet & the lexical approach

Webinar summary: https://adirajan.wordpress.com/2015/01/25/leo-selivans-webinar-on-quizlet-a-quick-summary/

Sample translation-free Quizlet sets: https://quizlet.com/leosel/folders/iatefl-webinar

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Quizlet & the lexical approach

https://quizlet.com/28463205/learnhttps://quizlet.com/28258225/scatterhttps://quizlet.com/21305735/gravity (definitions)

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gamifying & personalizing revision at practically no extra preparation cost

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TAILOR-MADE CONTENT

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Your approach to revisionWhat? When? How often? What materials?

Your approach to mistake correctionWhat mistakes do you correct? When?

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When are 1, 2 and 4?

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Tips

• Context!

• Translation to avoid ambiguity • Codes

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Tips

• Meta-cognitive

3-5 things you’d like to remember from today’s lesson

• Google docs & quizlet

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Tips

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• Test-teach-test

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• Test-teach-test

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• Target language revision

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• Target language revision

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• File sharing: https://www.dropbox.com/, https://docs.google.com/

• Touch typing: http://nabiraem.ru/

Links

Slides, templates, boards: https://eltgeek.wordpress.com/conferences/donelta-2016/

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WHAT ARE YOUR TAKEAWAYS?

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olyaelt@gmail.com

https://eltgeek.wordpress.com/conferences/donelta-2016