real time... moodle on the wall

How to use a teachers page on moodle in a real time classroom... quick and dirty.
How to add a bit of techno-snap to a lesson in 15 minutes.

Imagine I am teaching from Straight Forward Advanced – Chapter 5

I need some supplementary material and I know I have a room with a projector (maybe even an IWB)

What do I do?

Step 1 - Create a warmer.

• The teachers book suggests writing 4 names on the boar... YAWN!
• I copy and paste 4 pictures into a moodle page an Bob's your uncle... you have 4 pictures on the wall of you classroom!
  
  
  
  
  

Step 2  - The next activity in the book is a snarly reading activity with some fairly tricky words in it, even for me, so I can create a glossary in Moodle which can have many functions.

1. Acts as a vocabulary box but without the need for cutting up little pieces of paper. Teachers after all should not be allowed to use scissors unsupervised.
2. Students can be involved in making the definitions – they learn while making life much easier for you. 
3. Words can be added to throughout the week so by your review session on Friday you have an awesome bank of words and you can....
4. ...create a hangman game with. Then sit back and watch your students play happily while you take a na... mark their home work. 
5. You can also share the glossaries with your colleagues (making you very popular) so you get the benefit of several classes worth of extra vocab feeding into one dynamic beast. Multiply this by every chapter of every course book and Moodle glossaries may take over the world. Use with caution.
   
   
   

Step 3 is the grammar... no one likes it but there it is!

1. Instead of copying 12 pages from murphy – come on everyone does it – you can add a link to a page from the British Council. Stick it on the wall, explain it, write over it and then do the nice little exercise at the end.
2. It is embedded in Moodle so even the British council site is all nice and branded – suits you sir!
3. You could also find some more links to on-line activities which students can do on the board or you can write your own worksheet to hand out and then put it on Moodle for next time.

Because yes there will always be a next time!