Tag Archives: connectedclassroom

Digital Playtime – Skyping Brazil

Last week, I had the pleasure of talking to a group of teachers that Shelly Terrell was training in Brazil. I answered questions about using computer games in the classroom and introduced them to the Digital Play blog and book. Hope you enjoy the video!

An Interactive Story

Level: Intermediate+ Location: Connected Classroom Language Focus: 3rd Conditional Skills Focus: Reading, Speaking Game: An Interactive Story Can you help the girl get home through the woods before it gets dark? This is a nice little game presented as a moving story book.  That is, it looks like a book upon which the drawings of the characters move. [...]

Merry Quizmas

It’s the run up to Christmas and one way to have fun, learn a little about Christmas and get some reading practice in is to do a class Christmas Quiz.  Here is a selection of 10 Christmas Quiz ideas to try out with your learners.  Remember – if they think they can do better than [...]

Reward or Punishment: Gamification with Class Dojo

Class Dojo (http://www.classdojo.com) is a realtime behaviour management system for teachers who have an internet-enabled computer and a projector (connected classroom)or IWB. You start by creating an account and setting up a class by typing in the names of your students. Avatars for each student are automatically generated during this process. In class, you select [...]

Top Ten Halloween Dress Up Games

Here’s a brief description of ten Halloween themed dress up/ monster creator games and a few suggestions on how to use them.  All these games were chosen to tie in with the Halloween theme of trick or treat and dressing up in costumes.  You can access them by either following the links or clicking on [...]

Meet Moshi Monsters – the Primary Class Virtual Pets

Moshi Monsters is a virtual pet game and popular safe social network for young kids similar to Club Penguin. The game lets a child adopt a Moshi pet, which they have to look after, feed and play games with. Similar in concept to a Tamagotchi, but on the Web, it can be used in the [...]

The First Hero

Level:  Intermediate+ Location:  Connected Classroom Skills Focus:  Writing Language Focus:  Narrative Tenses Game:  The First Hero A game set in the times of ancient greek with a nice shadow puppet look and feel to it. Preparation Either play the game using a walkthrough to familiarise yourself with the game or print a copy of the [...]

Dot To Dot

Level: Lower Level Primary Location: Connected classroom Skills focus: Speaking. Game: Dot-to-dot This is a nice little warmer that practices numbers and vocabulary. Preparation Choose one of the dot to dots pictures and have it up on the board before your learners come into the class.  It’s a good idea to remember what the picture title is but [...]

The Magician

Level: Upper intermediate Location: Connected Classroom Language Focus: going to, modals of deduction (present & past). Game: The Magician A nice little game with plenty of language opportunities.  First you see the magician’s stage with the trick ready to go.  You can then watch the trick performed.  You then get the chance to see how the [...]

Gaming Soundtracks

Level: Intermediate/ upper intermediate Location: Connected classroom Skills focus: Writing Language Focus: Relative clauses This is a nice little activity to stimulate a little writing in class.  I have used it to practice relative clauses but there’s no reason that you can’t just forget a language focus and just get learners to write.  I’ve done [...]