Hero Machine

Here's a character portrait creation tool. Great for students who are into anime and comics. They get to create their own action super hero. You can use this to create character sketches and even learn about characterisation through physical features and behavioural traits.

http://www.heromachine.com/

ESL Website

Great website to practice English Grammar. This is highly interactive with Flash features, complete with colour, graphics, music and animation!

ESL Classroom Games

Padlet

Here's how I used Padlet, formerly known as Wallwisher, as a post-camp reflection tool. The Sec 3s just went on their adventure camp. What better way to find out AFIs, strengths, weaknesses and after-thoughts of the camp than through this tool?

Padlet allows the embedding of text, pictures, videos and hyperlinks.

Hopefully, it is more stable than Primary Wall and less susceptible to lagging and crashing. I have yet to check the shelf life of the posts. I do hope they last beyond 2 weeks online.

There are also privacy settings that allow you to switch to private view than public.

http://padlet.com/wall/3i6camp

TED-Ed

The difference between dramatic and situational irony as featured on Ted-Ed.

Dramatic Irony
http://ed.ted.com/lessons/in-on-a-secret-that-s-dramatic-irony-christopher-warner

 

Situational Irony

http://ed.ted.com/lessons/situational-irony-the-opposite-of-what-you-think-christopher-warner

 

Primary Wall

Mr Jeff Mak shared this idea of using Primary Wall as a brainstorming tool and ideas bank during one of our weekly meetings. 

Primary Wall is an informal and fun way for students to post their thoughts on a topic. Recently, I got students to decide on a stand for a topic and to post 1-2 reasons to support their stand. This was a pre-lesson activity to check their prior knowledge of the topic, which allowed me to decide on how to angle subsequent lessons. It is also a way for students to check if they have the same arguments as their peers or whether they have come up with a more unique line of reasoning.

Class: 3I6 - Majority agreed with the motion.

Class: 3I7 - Majority disagreed with the motion.