Week 5
Designing CALL Activities

This week, we talked about designing activities and two of the online tools we used were Grockit Answers and Socrative. These tools are good to create various activities. I have tried them both and found them to be useful tools.

With Grockit Answers, it is possible to make listening activities with comprehension or discussion questions. As students are watching a video, they answer the questions based on the video and can see other students' answers. These videos can be authentic and the teacher can choose any topic related to the subject of the lesson. Or teachers/students can make their own video and upload it on Youtube and comment on each others.

Another tool I tried was Socrative. It has a variety of activities to choose from and Space Race is definitely my favorite. IT is a good way to motivate the students, it will encourage them to participate and to try harder to win the race. It is also good for having pair or group work which will require the learners to negotiate meaning and interact with each other.Overall, this week, I have used these two different tools to create activities and found them to be very user-friendly and time-saving. I also liked how they encourage interaction among learners.

I have created an activity using Grockit Answers and the description and the link for this activity can be found on my blog.