{"id":659,"date":"2018-05-09T14:43:48","date_gmt":"2018-05-09T14:43:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/grahamnoble.com\/?p=659"},"modified":"2018-05-09T23:45:47","modified_gmt":"2018-05-09T23:45:47","slug":"how-my-ells-used-flipgrid-to-teach-their-languages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grahamnoble.com\/en\/2018\/05\/09\/how-my-ells-used-flipgrid-to-teach-their-languages\/","title":{"rendered":"How my ELLs used Flipgrid to teach their languages"},"content":{"rendered":"

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One of the coolest things I’ve done with Flipgrid is have my ELLs do 90 second mini-lessons for a phrase in their first languages.<\/p>\n

First, I told them what I wanted – a short video teaching some phrase from their own language. We then discussed what the qualities of a good video would be: pauses for the learner to practice, some kind of written prompt, simple English based spellings of difficult words, and time for repetition.<\/p>\n

The videos were great. Students made colour coded cue cards, offered explanations on how the gender of the speaker may affect the structure of a sentence, sternly admonished the learner to repeat after the teacher, and placed appropriate pauses for the viewer to practice. After watching all of them, I not only learned a lot more about their languages, I felt like I had things to learn from their own pedagogies!<\/p>\n

I had already made some connections to other teachers through Edmodo,<\/a> and so I created a password-protected grid for our classes to join. And then the students did it. My students practiced saying what the other schools’ students were teaching, and vice versa.<\/p>\n

Because it was the first time I had done an activity like this, I wasn’t at all sure how it would turn out. But it was great, and there were so many rich layers to the activity. Students were engaged in an authentic, meta-cognitive, performative task over which they had considerable creative control. They were able to celebrate their expertise and an important aspect of their identities was being publicly valued. Quintuple win!<\/p>\n

If you’re a teacher and looking for some kind of Flipgrid partnership, send me a message on Twitter or look for me on Edmodo. In a reply below, share how you have innovatively used Flipgrid or other technologies with your ELLs.<\/p>\n

For other ideas on how to use FL, check out this post.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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