eChatBox - swapshop (Harrogate IATEFL conference April 2006)
Valentina Dodge and Sheila Vine
Our swapshop and exchange mechanism focuses on the versatility and utility of pooling our creativity and strengths ;-) and we hope you will hop on board the exchange with your valued contributions anytime, anywhere! The Learning Technologies SIG website have kindly provided us with a submit form so you can also simply submit your idea here!
To submit an idea, you can type your suggestion in the box below and click on SUBMIT button.
Or you can access our Moodle from http://www.echatbox.com
enrol key:24echbx06
any username, any password
Chat task 1 - Ice-breakers
- Name three items of clothing beginning with "S"
- Name three things you can buy at hardware store begging with "S"
- Name three thing you can find on a restaurant table beginning with "S"
Now think up some similar activities suitable to your teaching contextsSubmit here:
Chat task 2 - Finish this.
The second chat room task involved finishing idiomatic expressions. Can you pick my...?Many brainy (!!) suggestions relevant to participants' own contexts were received. These have been uploaded but let us share some of the other language areas that were also touched upon which can adapted and used in similar ways:
- areas of collocation (e.g. take a...break/shower/taxi)
- specific collocations (e.g. fish and chips)
- reordering jumbled sentence
- serial stories
- antonyms/synonyms
Now think up some similar activities suitable to your teaching contextsSubmit here:
Chat task 3 - Describe
Thirdly, the use of the shared application features such as a virtual whiteboards was demonstrated with a quick 'can you see what it is yet?' guessing game activity which led on to the concept of real-time brainstorming, discussing and describing the stages in a process, for example, what are the steps in the making of an omelette. The swapshop audience posted lots of interesting ideas for the describe task. Here are a sample, check the Moodle for the others!
Describe how to:
- manage time
- make an appointment
- create a newsletter
- milk cows
- fall in love
- maintain a relationship
- clean a toilet (sic)
Add your ideas here:
