Google Form Ideas

In May, we learned how to create a Google Form in Teacher Tech Friday Training. If you go to the Teacher Website you will find a form we all made as an "End of the Year Survey" for our students, to help us learn what they enjoyed learning and doing in their class. There is also a link on the Teacher Website post under the How To's May training to Google's help to create a new form.

I used the form idea with my students in Beginning High to make a report about what food they ate over one week. First they tracked their foods in a report I printed off from MyPlate.gov.

Here's the link to the report MyPlate Menu Plan Report  I asked the students to put it on their refrigerator to help them remember to fill in the foods they ate.

After a week, the students brought in their reports. I created this Google form for them to input the information, as in a survey. I gave them the link to the form in an email, using ASAP email. I asked them to get out their phones and go to the email I sent them. The students clicked on the link and started inputting the food they ate each day. Then they pressed submit when finished. It took them about 20 minutes. Then we looked at the results, which was quite fun! The students really enjoyed seeing all their answers on the big screen in bright colors.

The last question asked what they would change to eat more healthy. Here's their answers:

I will try eat more healthy food.

Eating less

l will not eat too much sweets, l will decrease smoking as l can and l will eat too much vegetables.

Maybe I need to prepare my food with less oil and salt.

I will make my list of meals every month

I want to drink more water

I eat more fruits.

I don’t need change my eating habits.

I don't need change

I will ate mor healthy

We need eat more vegetables

Ask me if you need some help with Google Forms. --Linda Laymon

Quizlet is a Fun Vocabulary Learning Tool!

In April we learned how to create flashcards in Quizlet. This is a good tool for students to practice vocabulary. Here is a set I made to teach my Beginning High students pharmacy vocabulary.
Pharmacy Vocabulary in Quizlet
My students practiced the words on computers during classtime. They were also able to practice the words on their phones. I added pictures for most of the words and I clicked on the pronunciation, so the students could hear the words, too. I have also used this tool with the spelling/academic vocabulary words I give the students, when we are studying a new unit.
Go to the website under the How to's Tab to find a link to easy instructions.

Ask me if you need some more help with Quizlet. --Linda Laymon

Hello all, I want to run this past you for your consideration.

I've found it's a good mixer that even reluctant speakers enjoy, since it's all written out for them to say, they don't have to search for words.  They interview each other (there are two levels, one for beginners and one for a bit more advanced). Pictures for popular pass times are provided. They can exchange simple words in their languages, which they often get  kick out of.

After they finish the interview, they can give a report to the class about whom they spoke to and what they learned of another language.  It's fun and they get into it enthusiastically.  If the teacher speaks a language a particular unpaired student doesn't know, no one is left out.

Hope you find it useful. Page examples are from A Conversation Book 1:  English in Everyday Life, 3rd Edition, by Tina Kasloff Turner.

John
 

Teacher Tech Training held Friday, March 15

Teacher Tech Training was held last Friday at Sunrise Tech Center, room 14, after the Home Group meeting. We did a really fun activity that could be used in your classroom. We used Google Slides to make an interactive slideshow for each person to create their own simple slide about their favorite things to do. (You could use any topic in your classroom:  foods and nutrition, countries, cultural traditions, the sky is the limit!)

Here's the link to what we did in the training. Click on the link and then you can run the slideshow by clicking "Present" at the top right next to "Share"   Click on:  Teachers Favorite Things to Do

Here's the link to:  How to Make an Interactive Slideshow so you can try this with your students. Let us know how it worked out. If you need help, let me know (linda.laymon@sanjuan.edu).

We also learned about:  Quizlet.com and how to make fun flashcards for our students to further their vocabulary practice. They can use Quizlet on their phones too with the free Quizlet app.

See Jody Barker's post below for a slideshow about "How to make a slideshow." This could be used with your students to help them make a simple slideshow about their country. You can click on her student examples, too.

Preparing for Heritage Day

Before Heritage Day, I had my students create simple Google slideshows and present them to class. The making of them took 2 class periods and presenting a few more. I have included the instructions I use to give my students for making the slideshow (However, I present it step-by-step on the presentation station and create it with them and include the slideshow instruction demo on my class website, in case they are absent or need to review the instructions). I require that they create at least 5 slides. Examples of content:

• name, city, and country
• favorite food
• celebrations or traditions
• favorite places
• hobbies
• a famous person
• future goals

Click on this for Instructions for making a Google slideshow

Examples of student work:

Beginning:

Saeda --Syria

Maria -- Mexico

Alex - Ukraine

Intermediate:

Mei Ni-- Indonesia

Elena-- Romania

Fabricio -- El Salvador

TDLS 2019 Conference March 1-2, 2019

Angela Rodriguez, our Vice Principal, Marisol Richmond, and Linda Laymon represented the San Juan Adult Ed ESL teachers at the TDLS 2019 Conference at Hacienda La Puente Adult Education (near West Covina in the greater Los Angeles area). TDLS=Technology and Distance Learning Symposium. This is the birthplace of OTAN and its 30th anniversary.

Besides the apps and websites previously posted, there was so much more for us to learn. The three of us did not get to everything. We were the presenters for "Google Blog to Keep Your Teachers in the Loop" on Saturday. The attendees were very interested. They came away with ideas for their schools and they had the chance to create a blog.

• Ask us how to sign out of Google Gmail and apps remotely.
• Ask us how to use Google's new feature to create a Google account using any email account such as a Yahoo username and password.
• Ask us about using the apps Adobe Spark or FlipGrid to allow students to create short video presentations on their phones to present in class.
• Ask us about Augmented Reality.

Some new phone apps and websites we learned about in the TDLS Conference.

wordhippo.com  website to help students practice vocabulary

sockpuppets.com  website help students make puppet shows to practice their pronunciation

Quizlet.com  website is a fun way to help students learn and practice vocabulary

Flipgrid app helps students make videos

Jobpro app series:  Get Hired!  Get Prepared!  Get Dressed!