Month: September 2024

The internship we had the opportunity to attend both last monday and the next one was full of different tools and activities. Ms. Jesse Gleason made sure we made the most of the time we had. The first thing I remember was being separated into break rooms of an estimate of 8 people each.

There we had to play a Bingo game to get to know each other, since the meeting had students from the 3 campuses that have the English Pedagogy program: Viña del Mar (The best), Concepción and Santiago. There were many questions, like “Do you love sports?” or “Do you love fruits?” for example, which we had to answer and mark on the bingo card.

Then we had to name our groups, for which I suggested the name “Los Robux”, as a reference to one of my favorite games “Roblox”, which one of the girls in the break room also plays. I exchanged Instagram users with the girl and we now follow each other on social media, she seems really nice! and she was also really funny.

Later, we started using some tools, like “Khanmingo” and “Mizou”, which are tools we can use to enrich or even create material for our classes and acquire information directly through the use of artificial intelligence. They were very useful, for example, Mizou was an AI which allowed you to “talk” to historical or famous figures and ask them questions about them in order to obtain information.

Lastly, I remember being separated into the same break rooms again, to organize a list of things AI can and can’t do collaboratively in a Jamboard, and then we all checked the activity together. At first, I thought we had to create the prompts, so I was a bit clueless about what to do, until the group started working on it, and we decided on which was which.

I think it was a great instance, a great opportunity to learn and I’m eager to see what we do in the workshop next Monday.

Looking back at last week’s assignments, I created a google doc with the instructions and space to complete the activity.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/19Vn1NhApUqU-xpUWvPnA9NScSb9lDOWWM4guMtJx8C4/edit

Here’s the link of the doc.

I made it so that students can work more easily on their speech.

I also have a Canva presentation as an example of the one students must do.

That’s an overview of the presentation

https://www.canva.com/design/DAGHUrpZMd0/_ty9Yd_7ktyoP9VusvzZtQ/edit?utm_content=DAGHUrpZMd0&utm_campaign=designshare&utm_medium=link2&utm_source=sharebutton

Here’s the link for everyone to see it.

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For this, I chose an activity we did in Speaking, which consisted in choosing a movie, and speaking of the important parts of it, such as actors, plot, characters, setting and premiere date for 2 minutes, while 3 classmates assessed you with a rubric.

I know Mr. James HATES this, but I think a Kahoot could be a good idea to ensure students payed attention to their classmates.
My activity would be the same, except with a Quiz with two questions per movie. Students like the competitive aspect of it, it kind of forces the ones not assessing to pay attention in order to be able to answer, and it’s very practical!

Another thing that can be done, is having a PPT or images to help us remember pivotal points we need to explain. I think an important part of speaking presentations is to have resources, because you can speak very well, but sometimes you can get confused with what you want to say and lose the order. For this, I think Canva or Genially are great tools.

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