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Digital Storytelling : Putting Students’ Passion for Technology to Good Use.

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Digital technology in education enables us to find new answers not only to what people learn but also to how they learn, where and when they learn. On top of that, digital technology can help boost the role of teachers, rather than just communicating knowledge, they can become co-creators of knowledge, coaches, mentors and evaluators. Digital storytelling: is a multimedia approach to sharing a narrative. Creators can combine video, photography, sound, text, music and often a narrative voice to share their stories in a digital-media format. In the classroom or even through distant learning ,students can create digital stories in collaborative groups, taking on different roles such as the writer, director, editor and narrator.  In my previous posts, I shared a sample lesson in English Language to enhance reading and comprehension skills, and I thought that the best way to use students' passion for technology is by using digital storytelling where it help students in i dentifying voc

Christmas Podcast

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  Following the previous post (sample lesson ), I recorded a podcast about a girl sending a voice letter to Santa Claus explaining what is happening in her country due to Corona Virus. This Podcast aims to teach students Christmas vocabs, in addition to drawing attention for the students how to keep safe in this pandemic situation.  Click on the following link to listen to it. 

Sample Lesson

I designed a sample English lesson to target reading and comprehension skills for third graders.  Most of students struggle to memorize vocab words that are essential for their writing skills. This lesson  will help students learn and use Christmas vocabulary words by  completing practice drills. playing cooperative games. writing an original Christmas story experience. The Learning objectives of this lesson are: Ø   Students will be able to Use Christmas vocabulary when speaking, reading, listening or writing.        Specific Objectives : Students will be able to:       Recall what they have learned about Christmas vocabs.         Differentiate each word if it belongs to the picture.         Develop new vocabulary word.         Write using Christmas vocabulary words.  The following power point ( prepared by me) aims to introduce you to an instructional design lesson for English  Language ( reading and comprehension ) for Grade three.   Christmas vocabs from Dima Ha