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• 26 Jun 08
  

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  I set out to plan a series of three lessons, lasting forty minutes each, in which my pupils would acquire and revise the necessary vocabulary, visit the ICT centre and, finally review the outcome in class as a group. In the early planning for this series of lessons, I decided that pupils would make corrections and learn how to use Voki’s website under my supervision at school, but the bulk of their work, both written and spoken, would take place as homework, in order to capitalise on the fact that all my pupils, without exception, had a computer and internet access at home.
  

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  • I set out to plan a series of three lessons, lasting forty minutes each, in which my pupils would acquire and revise the necessary vocabulary, visit the ICT centre and, finally review the outcome in class as a group. In the early planning for this series of lessons, I decided that pupils would make corrections and learn how to use Voki’s website under my supervision at school, but the bulk of their work, both written and spoken, would take place as homework, in order to capitalise on the fact that all my pupils, without exception, had a computer and internet access at home.

    
    

  • revising the appropriate vocabulary and grammatical structures using an interactive whiteboard and introducing Voki to my pupils
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    •  At the end of the lesson, I set a homework task of writing between 80 and 100 words in which they had to describe their city, town, or village so as to base their Voki speaking task upon it
    • take in the homework and highlight corrections before moving on to the recording stage for two reasons mainly: a) to increase my pupils’ confidence in their own work and b) to ensure that the language that is committed to recording is the best language each pupil can produce according to their ability.
    • make corrections to their homework using a word processor
    • I then asked my pupils to open their web browser, navigate to the Voki website and register as users
    • play around

    • Finally I set my pupils the task of producing a Spanish speaking Voki for homework on the topic of My Town following these instructions:

      
      
      • Create or add the final touches to your Voki.
      • Speak clearly, in Spanish, into the microphone.
      • Make a concerted effort to pronounce each word with your best Spanish accent.
      • Remember to include a variety of vocabulary and sentence structures, including conjunctions.
    • Once I received all the finished Vokis electronically, I was able to embed them into our subject blog, creating individual post entries for each boy’s Voki.
    • I explained to my pupils that the objective of the lesson was to watch as many Vokis as possible in the given time, with the aid of the interactive whiteboard, and to evaluate each other’s work by means of taking notes and then share their findings with the other boys in English.
    • After teacher-guided feedback for the first two Vokis, highlighting and agreeing on what had been good and not so good about them, we continued by listening to the other Vokis for the remainder of the lesson (around 25 minutes) but, this time, I only intervened occasionally, mainly as as moderator and when there was confusion as to how a word was pronounced or, in a couple of occasions, if a boy’s Voki was criticised too harshly by a fellow pupil.
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