[ola] Re: Fun Activities that came about organically
- From: Kate FriendlyJones <kate.friendlyjones@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: ola@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2012 09:28:06 -0700
Ashley,
I would love the photos you created! This is a great activity and I would
love to try it!
Thanks,
Kate
On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 8:22 AM, Carrie Duff <cduff@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Ashley - When I do those types of activities, I have two kids move
> clockwise and one person stays with the picture to be the "host" for the
> new group. I find this helps students build beyond their initial contact
> with the picture because not everyone in the group is starting from ground
> zero with vocabulary. It's based on the "World Cafe" model.
>
> www.theworldcafe.com
>
> Adelante!
> Carrie
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>
> On Jun 1, 2012, at 11:19 AM, Lin, Yu L wrote:
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> Dear Ashley,
> Thank you so much for sharing this activity. I like the way you pass the
> pictures clock wise to reuse them. You could collect some of these
> student-centered activity ideas and present a workshop at MaFLA. ****
>
> Yu-Lan****
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> Behalf Of *Ashley Uyaguari
> *Sent:* Friday, June 01, 2012 11:13 AM
> *To:* **ola@xxxxxxxxxxxxx**
> *Subject:* [ola] Fun Activities that came about organically****
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> I was going to share this at the meeting but didn't get to...****
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> ****
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> This is very simple and you've probably done something similar but just an
> idea if you're stuck. I can forward the pictures I used if you don't want
> to find your own random ones... ****
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> ****
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> I printed some random pictures (of people talking to eachother) out and
> used them as coversation/story starters. The first part I had "planned" and
> then the extention of the activities was students wanting to do it. These
> are 7th graders.****
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> Students got into groups of three and each group received a picture. They
> talked about it (I wasn't specific as to what to do. Some people just
> listed vocab or phrases to describe, others started telling stories, others
> asked questions). Then I had the groups pass pictures clock wise and they
> did the same thing for all pictures. I didn't "time" it but made sure I
> gave them time to talk but not too much time to get bored. ****
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> ****
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> At the end students shared out some stories or interesting things that
> came up and each class had different vocab that was generated. ****
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> Student driven:****
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> Then students chose a picture and wrote a conversation between two people
> in the pictures in their journals. They shared out their convos in pairs.
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> Also student suggestion:****
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> Students practiced their conversations as dialogues with a partner and
> then presented them to the class. The "audience" asked questions and gave
> comments after so that it was very cooperative/communicative (compared to
> how I used to do presentation type activities). Everyone had a lot of fun
> and stayed in Spanish! ****
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> Random Fotos: one of Gayle and Katniss, one of two people talking while
> one was on a cell phone too, the attached photo got a lot of good stories,
> one of a man in a car with a police officer writing a ticket, one with
> obama leaning over and a boy touching his hair, a sister pulling her
> younger brothers' hair etc. ****
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> Ashley Uyaguari
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