Learning&Visiting Malta 2018

On Monday we began to learn about WebQuests.  A WebQuest is a lesson format in which all the information comes from the web. It can be created through several programs. What we want is that our pupils independently solve a central problem. The WebQuest is a task where pupils know exactly what the structure are and then they should follow tasks as well as what is expected related to evaluation. It is a project work in smaller groups and it is clearly defined what the final product should be. To finish the work we have chosen a topic to make our own WebQuest. We made our WebQuest it with an app called TES. This is what we made with my friend Edda for our final project called Let's go abroad.   The goal of the project was that pupils get useful in interesting information on Malta, if we take them abroad for one week for learn English.  We showed our project to the class on Friday our last day of class. While I watched the other presentations, I realized that we have learnt qu

Story bird is a free platform for everyone. It is a platform for writers, readers and artist. It lets anyone make visual stories very quickly.   You can easily do something like this.  In the evening we made a tour to city Marsaxlokk, a small fishing Village. There you can see many beautiful colorful boats in the peaceful harbor. We walked round the area and then we have a late dinner in typical Maltese restaurant where we try local fresh seafood. I really liked the  colorful doors and balconies on the buildings. 

Canva is an app tool for design images, for photography, design invitations for celebrations or thanks giving cards.. Is nice to users, it is really easy and simple to use.. For example I made this. Pictures are from my trips to Malta's islands Gozo and Camino. CAMINO by maja mejac Thank you my dear friend by maja mejac

We learned how to make Word clouds. We were using an app   WORDART . It is easy, fun and customizable.  It is easy, fun and customizable. This is an example that I made for a practice. For my beginner class of English I use different words for fruit. You put words that you want to show and pick a shape from the list. You can choose colors, shape, and customize the text... This is a second example for Word Clouds. You can use articles and chose your own picture for a shape. I used an article about Malta and a picture (from DuckDuckGo) for a shape. On Thursday we had a school trip to Mdina. It is amazing city, like all the places on Malta that I have seen and it is the highest point on Malta. Like the city Victoria on Gozo, it was built and created out of a need for protection against invaders. We could see the main landmarks and we also got a beautiful night view round Mdina. I am looking forward to visiting this city in the sun light and seeing all this amazing archi

Teacher showed use many ways of how we can use a smart board in the class. He showed us practical examples which he had used in his class.  Here are some options. -hiding pictures, text and objects - for a starting motivation -drag and drop - gap fill (put right/correct words in text) -drag and drop - matching (pictures and words) -drag and drop in shapes -magic papers -Venn diagrams -for classroom presentations -integrate portals (GoogleEarth, GoogleMaps, GoogleStreetView,...) -for classroom cinema -for using Skype (to have an interview with famous writer, actor, actor,...) 

We were making a WIKI page. What we learned you can see here   My Wiki page . DICTIONARIES dictionary.com Google Dictionary YIPPY good for academic documents, PDF BING  everything you can not find on google, you can find here :) GOOGLE SCHOLAR  like yippy, for academic documents DUCKDUCKGO  images for a word, mobile friendly, good for MAC users YOUTUBE  songs, videos SNAPPY WORDS free visual online dictionary On Wednesday, when we had a short day of class,so we went to Comino Island; it is between Malta and Gozo islands. The island is really famous for the Blue Lagoon and is the most famous tourist attraction because of the beautiful colors that you can see there. The place is amazing, but really crowded. We decided to go away from crowds, so we walked to the other side of the island and find some nice place called Santa Maria caves. There was a sandy beach and many caves to explore where you could snorkel, dive, swim or just walk round. On the way back we waited for t