Today I gave my students the opportunity to choose how they wanted to accomplish showing me they mastered a certain learning target. I gave them a list of resources to use such as prezi.com, sliderocket.com, symbaloo.com, goanimate.com, glogster.com and myhistro.com. Nearly half of the boys in my class including both of my ESL students chose to make online animation cartoons. They used goanimate.com and xtranormal.com to create online cartoons to show they knew all the aspects of a certain region of the 13 colonies. They were totally engaged for two entire days and asked me if they could come in during their enrichment time to work on them. I was completely amazed at how fast they learned how to use the websites and the level of creativity they showed while managing to include the necessary information.
I think this is a great option for ESL students because their are several ways to make your characters speak. They can type in text, speak in microphone, call in with their cell phones and use their own voice. This format can boost the confidence of an ESL student and would be useful to use in a transition stage. Let your students give this a try, I think you will be amazed at what they come up with.
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