Google Slides: vocabulary on a text at a click of a button

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Google Slides are a great way to do so many things!

Why use them (and not PowerPoint, for example…) ?

Because they provide consistency, they can be easily accessed and shared and are ideal for group work. There are some minor downsides (fewer template choices, a gmail account is required), but the possibilities are endless!

You can give free rein to your imagination and creativity and create virtual worlds. You can create classrooms, libraries, escape rooms … practically, any scene!

Here’s an example:

What about a ‘room’ which recreates a scene (here: ‘Goldilocks and the 3 bears’) with active links on some objects of the scene? Or a classroom (with a teacher showing various videos and/or resources on the Letter Aa?)

But this is not the case here!

In this case I used a Google Slide Presentation to present the vocabulary of a text by immediately connecting the word to its meaning (sometimes reinforced with pictures) and its pronunciation. Magical, right?

Here’s the how-to video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jywXOkP9PMA

And here’s the end product (4th grade, Unit 5, Lesson 2, Βιβλίο Μαθητή):

Christmas in Britain

and another one (6th grade, Unit 3, Lesson1, Pupil’s Book), containing the pronunciation of the words as well:

Unit 3, Old Creatures and new

GROUNDHOG-DAY-2019

Groundhog Day (Η μέρα της Μαρμότας)

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Groundhog Day is celebrated on February 2 in the United States and Canada (having originated in the town of Punxsatawney, Pennsylvania).

It is the day when people look to the groundhog (also known as woodchucks, or marmots) to predict the weather for the next six weeks. Folklore says that if the sun is shining when the ground hog comes out of his burrow(λαγούμι, φωλιά), then the groundhog will go back into its burrow and we will have winter for six more weeks. However, if it is cloudy, then spring will come early that year.

The origins of Groundhog Day can be traced to German settlers (άποικοι) in Pennsylvania. These settlers celebrated February 2nd as Candlemas Day. On this day if the sun came out then there would be six more weeks of wintry weather. In 1886 the Punxsutawney newspaper declared February 2nd as Groundhog Day and named the local groundhog as Punxsutawney Phil.

There are a number of celebrations throughout the United States. The largest celebration takes place in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania where the famous groundhog Punxsutawney Phil has predicted the weather each year since 1886. Large crowds of well over 10,000 people gather here to see Phil come out of his burrow at around 7:30am. Punxsutawney Phil normally lives in a nice climate controlled home in the local library throughout most of the year. He is moved up to Gobbler’s Knob on February 2nd, where he makes his annual (ετήσιος) weather prediction. Phil was named after King Phillip.

How accurate (ακριβείς)  the predictions of the groundhogs are is up for debate. People who organize the day say that they are very accurate. However, others say it’s just luck.

The 1993 movie Groundhog Day starring Bill Murray took place in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania and made the holiday even more popular.

adapted from: https://www.ducksters.com/holidays/groundhog_day.php

Have a look at this short video:

https://video.link/w/4fhPb

Let’s make these simple crafts:

CUPCAKE LINER GROUNDHOG DAY CRAFT

EASY GROUNDHOG PAPER PLATE KIDS CRAFT

 

The Famous Portaits Museum (feat. The Mona Lisa and others to follow)

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I created a speaking image of the painting The Mona Lisa (#monalisa) with #chatterpix. 

My plan is to have more talking portraits (of both men and women) in a virtual museum made by students (probably 6th graders) this time!

The tool I used to make the museum is emaze.

What is emaze?

emaze is an online, web-based presentation creator that can be used to easily build and edit visually compelling and engaging presentations on any personal computer. emaze presentations don’t look like the typical PowerPoint presentations you see every day. If you’re familiar with Prezi,some emaze presentations might seem similar (they can involve movement) but you can always create traditional presentations that are more akin to a PowerPoint. The plus feature in emaze is the ability to easily embed media of any kind, including HTML widgets. The ability to embed media of any kind is also an enormous benefit and allows students to integrate projects they’ve created on a wide variety of apps and sites.   

Once you’ve finished creating your presentation, you can download it in a variety of formats (in the Pro version), or share it out with a link, embed code, or through social media.

When you start using emaze you’ll be able to choose from one of their many predesigned templates.  Or if you’d rather start from PowerPoint, you can quickly import your pre-made PowerPoint presentation and convert it into any emaze template that you’d like.

Take a look at a short tutorial from the emaze team so you can see what the platform looks like in action:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DMcpXms_HU&feature=emb_logo

(adapted from http://www.edtechroundup.org/reviews/emaze-create-share-and-explore-online-presentations)

Here is my Famous Portraits Museum emaze:

https://www.emaze.com/@AOTOLWQLQ/famous-portraits

louvre

Art time: Mona Lisa

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La Gioconda, which is also called the Mona Lisa, is the most famous painting in the world. Each year, millions of visitors throng to see the painting in one of the Louvre Museum’s largest exhibition rooms. Her name and image have been reproduced on every continent on coffee cups and T-shirts, in adverts and films, on the Internet, and on the facades of restaurants and beauty salons. Wherever we are and whatever we are doing-whether we are on a street corner, opening a magazine, or turning on the television-, La Gioconda’s smile is omnipresent.

From the book What’s so special about Mona Lisa? By Delieuvin V. & Tallec O.

What would Mina Lisa tell us herself about her exciting life if we could just hear her famous painting in the Louvre Museum?

Well, come closer… listen…

(The script was written by Doulgeri Mary, and the image became a talking image with the help of Chatterpix!

What is ChatterPix?

ChatterPix is an app that converts pictures of inanimate objects into pictures that talk! All you do is snap a picture, draw a line to make it talk, and record your voice! ChatterPix can be used to make silly greetings, playful messages, and creative cards. In the classroom, ChatterPix can be used as a way for students to take pictures of their work and record information about it! A student’s ChatterPix can be emailed, sent to YouTube, or saved on a device. Teachers can have students save their ChatterPix creations in the camera roll on an iPad to review later.

Here is a guide of how to use it:

http://chatterpixworkshop.weebly.com/uploads/5/1/5/8/51581143/chatterpix_howto.pdf

If you want to have a look at or use the script of Mona Lisa, here it is:

Mona Lisa