How to create gnomio with hot potatoes, storybirds and quizlet to arouse the charm of learning englishfor grade5

Teachers can create more to help facilitate class discussions, as an anticipatory set for a new topic, or to help students gain a better understanding of more abstract concepts.. In the

PART I: STATING THE SITUATION

"How to create gnomio.com web" is not a relatively new term which describes the new practice of ordinary people who use the own web to prepare the 'as many

of exercises' as possible Gnomio.com often present in compelling and emotionally engaging formats, and can be interactive

Inside the Gnomio, it always contains some kinds of uses such as Hot potatoes, Story bird, Quizlet, Audacity, Google docs & Google drives and so on…

Simply put, Gnomio is multimedia tool that contains photographs, video,

animation, sound, music, text, and is often uploaded in the web Gnomio may be used as an expressive medium within the classroom to integrate subject matter with extant knowledge and skills from across the curriculum without being lost or

anything happens accidentally

For primary grades the focus is related to what is being taught, an easy way that will relate to the students interestingly For primary grades the exercise, story or … are all kept in a web not to waste time with an access to the internet Vibrant

pictures, age-appropriate music and narration are needed Narration accompanied

by subtitles can also help build vocabulary Content-related stories bird can help upper-elementary and middle-school students understand abstract or layered

concepts

These aspects of having a site in the internet with pictures, music, and narration reinforce ideas and appeal to different learning types Teachers can use it to

introduce projects, themes, or any content area, and can also let their students make their own digital stories, activities, exercises, songs and then share them Teachers can create more to help facilitate class discussions, as an anticipatory set for a new topic, or to help students gain a better understanding of more abstract concepts These stories can become an integral part of any lesson in many subject areas The educational goals for teachers using the Gnomio are to generate interest, attention and motivation for students of the "digital generation" with different activities in classrooms The use of it as a presentation tool also appeals to the diverse learning styles of students

In the school year of 2015 - 2016, being assigned to teach English in the Grade 5

at Ba Dinh primary school, with such thoughts and concerns, I have tried on creating and using the own web with some applications to help students in grade 5 practice the vocabulary and sentence patterns better in “We love English” club

PART II: THE SOLUTIONS TO THE PROBLEM

1 Literature Review & Theoretical background

Gnomio is a kind of website which helps the internet users create their own webs

to use for their own aims

Gnomio in English teaching for primary students may help:

- Create product that can be save and shared

- Contain a variety of activities at the same time and everywhere

- Motivate students

- Promote collaboration

- Promote creativity

- Improve communication skills

- Improve reading comprehension

- Improve listening comprehension

- Improves writing skills

Digital storytelling consists some of following elements:

- Point of view: This involves the followings: Who is your audience? What aim do you want to convey to them? What perspective are you representing? Are you a participant or an observer?

- Your voice: This involves the followings: Will you or someone else provide a narration? Will there be unscripted interviews? Will there be monologues and/or dialogues?

- Soundtrack: This involves the followings: Will there be music in the background? Will the music have lyrics? Will there be sound effects? How will the soundtrack enhance the visuals?

- Economy: This involves the followings: Do you have images, video, etc for each

key point? Are they just the right length to get the point across? Do they have too little or too much information? Is the info sufficient to hold the audience’s

attention?

- Pacing: This involves the followings: What is the rhythm or pace of the

activities?

Create an Online Course Using LMS

CREATE YOUR WEBSITE AND ONLINE COURSE (Assignment 1)

SIGN IN FOR A FREE ONLINE WEBSITE AND COURSES

1 Open Firefox or Google Chrome Type in the address: http://gnomio.com

2 Create your site / Name (type in a name you like e.g

“https://trangclaire.gnomio.com/course/view.php?id=4”) /

Email: huyentrangclaire@gmail.com” / Create)

3 Check your email for information to log in your website from gnomio.com (You may wait from 2 minutes to 4 hours; Note down the name of your website and the password in your notebook)

EXAMPLE GNOMIO

https://trangclaire.gnomio.com

AFTER YOU HAVE RECEIVED EMAIL FROM GNOMIO

1 Use Firefox or Google Chrome Type in the given website address: e.g

2 Click Login button Type in the given username and password

3 Click “Add a new course”

4 Type in “Name of the course” (e.g Tiếng Anh 6; Writing 2; Phiên dịch 1 ”

5 Design and Create Courses

* Log on your course

* Click “Turn editing on” (See Administration on your left)

* Tạo Tiêu đề e.g “Welcome to English 12 Course” (Add an activity or resource /

“Label” /

Add / Gõ Tiêu đề / Save changes and return to course)

Tạo Giới thiệu / Mục đích khóa học e.g “Course Introduction (Add an activity or resource /”Page” or “Label”) / Gõ thông tin ngắn gọn vào “Name / Description”) Tạo mục: Thông báo e.g “Course Announcements”) (Add an activity or resource /

“Forum”/ Add )

Tải lên file bài giảng (ppt) và file tham khảo (pdf / word / exel ) (Add an activity

or resource/ “File” / Gõ thông tin ngắn gọn vào “Name / Description”) / Content / Add / Browse (tìm đến file bạn muốn tải lên khóa học) / “Chọn file / Open” /

Upload file / Save changes and return to course

Lưu ý: Luôn luôn “Save changes” trước khi chuyển sang trang khác hoặc tắt máy COMPLETE AND REVIEW YOUR ONLINE COURSE (MOODLE)

How to enroll your students and partners?

Turn editing on

* Site Administration / Users / Accounts / Add a new user / “Fill in the required information”

e.g Usename; Password; First name; Surname; City; Country/ Create user

Note:

Username: (No capital letters / No Vietnamese character / No numbers)

Eg: Username: ictelt

Password: Dean 2020

On the homepage

Administration / Users / Enrolled users / “Select the user” e.g ictelt / Enroll / Finish enrolling Users

3 How to allow guest access?

* Log on your course

* Administration (on your left) / Edit settings

* Allow guest access / “Yes” / Save changes

4 Important configuration for your course

* Log on your course

* Edit settings

- Configure Files and Upload / should set more than 10MB”

- Configure Course Format / should set 15 weeks or topics”

2 The situation of the problem

There are numerous ways that Gnomio can be used in education One of

the first decisions to be made when deciding to use this tool in the curriculum is whether an instructor will create the Gnomio or have their students do it Some educators may decide to create their own admin and show them to their students as

a way to present new material An engaging, the sites in the web can sever as an anticipatory set or hook to capture the attention of students and increasing their interest in exploring new ideas

Teacher-created different kind of uses of stories may also be used to enhance

current lessons within a larger unit, as a way to facilitate discussion about the topics presented a story and as a way of making abstract or conceptual content

more understandable While many educators still lack a cohesive plan for

integrating multimedia into their instruction, a growing number of teachers are interested in exploring ways to engage their students by including images, audio and video elements in their instruction Research has shown that the use of

multimedia in teaching helps students retain new information as well as aids in the comprehension of difficult material And Gnomio can provide educators with a powerful tool to use in their classrooms

It can’t be denied the advantages of Gnomio for teaching English for primary students However, in Viet Nam in general and in Thanh Hoa city in particular, it is not still a comparatively popular practice for teachers of English, especially

primary teachers

3 The solutions implemented

Here are some tools which are easy and simply to use for creating in Gnomio:

3.1 Hot potatoes

What are Hot Potatoes? Created by the University of Victoria in Canada

The Hot Potatoes software = a set of six programs, used to create interactive Web based exercises

The six programs are:

• JBC - Creates multiple choice exercises

• JQUIZ - Creates short answer exercises

• JMIX - Creates jumbled sentence exercises

• JCross - Creates crosswords

• JMatch - Creates a matching exercise

• JCloze - Creates a fill in the blanks exercise

The Masher – Bundle all the exercises

The first use of it – Jmatch exercise

The second type of it – Jcloze exercise

The third type – Jcross exercise

The fourth type - Jmix exercise

And here is the last – Jquiz exercise

3.2 Quizlet

What is Quizlet? a free website providing learning tools, including flashcards, study and game modes It was created by high school sophomore Andrew

Sutherland in 2005 It has over 400 million study sets user-generated materials

CREATING

start by creating your own study sets with terms and definitions It add images, copy and paste from another source / use Quizlet's built-in auto-define feature to speed up the creating process

STUDYING

Track your progress with 6 powerful study and game modes!

Flashcards—Review your material, shuffle/randomize, or listen with audio

Speller—Type what you hear in this audio-powered study mode

Learn—Track your correct/incorrect answers and retest the ones you've missed Test—Randomly generate tests based on your flashcard set

Scatter—Race against the clock to drag and match

AUDIO

available in 18 languages It is perfect for language study, practicing

pronunciation, and learning vocabulary

MOBILE

Studying your materials anywhere with mobile apps for iphone, Android, windows and more

REQUIREMENTS/PREREQUISITES

A computer connected to the internet, an email address and a free account

Students should be 13 years or older to create an account

WHY QUIZLET?

are study materials online with your classes Create photocopy-ready flashcards or tests for class Host a group where students can create study materials for each other Quizlet is great at school, for individual or group study You can create your own flashcards for using in your classroom By clicking onto: http://community

GETTING STARTED

1 Go to quizlet.com

2 Create an account

3 Click on "Make Flashcard"

• Add a Title

• Tag your stack by adding a subject

Example: FCPSESS, fifth grade

• Visible to = Everyone

Editors = Just Me

• You can add a description if you wish

• Click off of set discussion

4 Add Terms and Definitions

5 Add Images if you wish ( With a free account you can only add images from Flickr)

6 Click on "Create Set"

(Links for video tutorials and Quizlet demo:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7QgCZAkIk8 )

E.g: Teaching jobs in English with Quizlet

3.3 Story bird

Storybird is a tool that uses collaborative storytelling and unique artwork to connect teachers, students, and families Storybird’s free teacher accounts allow teachers to create and manage student accounts and classes It also

provides specialized features such as the ability to sign students up without

email addresses and review Storybirds The best part? It’s forever free!

Registering

Go to www.storybird.com and click Sign Up.

When prompted to Choose an account type, select Teacher/Class

Provide any addition information requested Click on Create Account Check for a

confirmation email A link to your account should be provided in the confirmation email If not go to www.storybird.com and click on Sign in.

Navigating the Website

You

The You tab directs you to your dashboard From here you can make changes to

your account access any Storybirds you are in the process of creating or have published, or open your reading list

The Classes tab will appear once you have created a class in your teacher account

From here you can create and manage student accounts, fashion assignments, view your class’ library or start a discussion!

Create

Select the Create tab to begin a new Storybird.

Read

Selecting the Read tab will allow you to read Storybirds written and published by

others Browse featured, recent, or notable Storybirds You can also search for Storybirds or specific authors by using the search field in the upper right corner of your screen

Creating Your First Storybird

To create a Storybird, first select the Create tab

Selecting Artwork

From here you can select artwork based on a specific piece of art or artist you like

or by choosing a theme

If you do not see any artwork that inspires you,

choose See more art

If you select a single piece of artwork to start your Storybird, you will be prompted

to start a Storybird with that artist’s artwork

If you choose a theme, make sure you select to start a Storybird with art tagged with that theme If you choose a piece of artwork under that theme, you will

instead be starting your Storybird with art by that artist

The Storywriter

Layout

There are seven different layout types available in Storybird, six of which include text Your layout is determined by where you position your artwork on the page

Adding Text

To add text to your pages, simply click in the white space adjacent to the artwork and begin typing

Adding and Deleting Pages

To add a new page, simply click on the Add Page button To delete a page, click

on the page you wish to remove in the page organizer at the bottom of the page and

select Remove Page.

Rearranging Your Pages

To reorder your pages, click and drag any page in the page organizer to the desired location

Customizing the Cover

When you create a new Storybird, a cover will be created by default To change the cover art, simply drag a new piece of artwork onto your cover Be sure to change your title and name, if you want something other than your username to appear on the cover You can also change the color block on the cover of your Storybird by selecting one of the color options next to the cover on the Storywriter Your color

choices will change depending on the artwork you select for your cover.

Save & Menu

Storybird autosaves your work If you would like to manually save your Storybird, simply click on the save button in the upper right hand corner of the Storywriter The Menu button offer several options:

If you are done working on your Storybird but would like to continue working on it

later, select Menu > Save and close You will be able to access all of your

unfinished Storybirds under the You tab on your dashboard in the Unpublished Storybirds section.

 If you would like to continue working on your Storybird, but would like to

collaborate with others, select Menu > Invite someone You will have the

option to choose someone from your class list (if applicable) or provide the name and email of the person with whom you wish to collaborate You can also do this for any of your unpublished Storybirds saved on your

dashboard

 If you are completely finished with your Storybird and ready to share it with

the world, select Menu > Publish this Storybird This will allow others to

read your Storybird

Creating and Managing Your Classes

Create a Class

Select Create a class and you will be prompted to provide information about your

class Once you have created a class you will be able to add students You can also create two additional classes at any time, for a total of three To do so, click the

Classes tab on your dashboard On the right-hand side you should see the name of